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19 Jan 2013, 09:50 | France lost Guttig

Team France won't count on Anthony Guttig on Olympic Qualifications tournament in Riga. Tranas forward suffered a knee ligament injury and will be out for about four weeks

18 Jan 2013, 22:46 | Islanders suspend Lubomir Visnovsky

New York Islanders announced that club has officially suspended defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky after he has not arrived for training camp. Visnovsky has tried to remain with his European club, Slovan Bratislava, despite a rule prohibiting that. The NHL and KHL have an agreement that any player with an NHL contract must return to his club once the lockout is lifted. The KHL is complying and won't let Visnovsky play in Russia now that the lockout has ended.

18 Jan 2013, 19:47 | Czech Extraliga shows up two hattricks

Lukáš Klimek scored three goals during today's game of the 35th Czech Extraliga round between Zlín and Vítkovice. Thanks to its 26-year forward HC Vítkovice Steel fed its tie hopes until the game's very ending. However in time 59.05 Čajánek scored an empty net goal to make the final score a 5-3 victory for Zlín. In another game of the day Lukáš Krenželok scored three Slavia's goals to win surprisingly 2-4 at home of the fearless Czech Extraliga standings leader Plzeň. Accidentaly both hattrick scorers of the round grew up in the team of Vítkovice.

18 Jan 2013, 19:07 | Slipčenko to share a net with recent rival

Robert Slipčenko moves across Slovak Extraliga clubs. A former goalie of Bánská Bystrica goes to play for Poprad. Now Slipčenko is about to share a net with Dušan Sidor with whom he had a fight during recent Poprad game at Bánská Bystrica. The incident cost Slipčenko a 6-games long disciplinary penalty for starting the fight and a €340 fare from his former club.

17 Jan 2013, 23:54 | Belarusian Federation bans Brest Ice Palace

HK Brest lost the right to play in the Brest ice palace and was fined by Belarusian Federation due the poor quality of ice with a rough surface, the insufficient marking of the lines on ice - in some cases non-existent - the levels of air pollution by exhaust gases. Furthermore, referees and staff of visiting teams have repeatedly drawn attention to the leaders of the Ice Palace on the above drawbacks.
However, despite assurances from the leaders of HK Brest to eliminate the drawbacks to January 10, the further games show the failure to properly prepare the ice arena for the championship matches.
Thus, the Disciplinary Committee decided to fine the club and to postpone the next two home games of Open League and to transfer the following ones to other arenas.

16 Jan 2013, 23:37 | SAry Arka record ends

Loosing 4-3 at SO against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, VHL leader Sary Arka Karaganda stops a record of 23 winning streak games

16 Jan 2013, 18:44 | Geleen Eaters averted bankruptcy

Geleen Eaters has a victory on the road to a financially stable future.
The attempt by the Tax Foundation to file for insolvency by was rejected by the court.
As reported in a press release, the club itself calls it "a first small success" in the fight against the tax and for survival. "The board is behind the scenes working on finding a permanent solution and, supported by this success, confident that they come out of this situation." said the release

16 Jan 2013, 16:12 | Paul Gardner on Clan bench

Braehead Clan announces Canadian Paul Gardner as new head coach. He replaced resigned Jordan Krestanovich. Gardner, 56, was assistant coach at the Nashville Predators, as well as being head coach in the AHL, CHL, Hamburg Freezers in the DEL and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in KHL.

16 Jan 2013, 11:53 | Roger Rönnberg - Robert Ohlsson will coach Frölunda next season

Sweden U20 coaching duo Roger Rönnberg and Robert Ohlsson will lead Frolunda in next Elitserien as headcoach and assistant respectively
Current assistant coach Christian Lechtaler will be the new Sport Director. Rönnberg and Ohlsson worked in Sweden U20 in last three season winning a gold and a silver medal at WJC

15 Jan 2013, 21:22 | KHL cancels Višňovský’s contract with Slovan Bratislava

As a new NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement has been ratified by both the clubs and NHLPA, all the players with a valid NHL contract are obliged to join their teams in pre-season training camps. A Slovak defender Ľubomír Višňovský did not like the idea at all and stated he wish to finish the 2012/13 season in the KHL team of Slovan Bratislava due to personal reasons. But his NHL employer, the New York Islanders, do not want to accept that and called Višňovský to arm repeatedly. As the 36-year old player was not willing to travel across the Atlantic Ocean anyway, the Islanders asked the KHL Board to cancel Višňovský's contract with Slovan and they succeeded. KHL commented the decision the league wants to follow the NHL - KHL Memorandum about respecting of players' contracts, but will keep negotiating with the Islanders about possible compromise.

14 Jan 2013, 12:42 | No UAE in Sofia

The United Arab Emirates  team wasn't able to bring enough U20 players to the World U20 Championship Div III in Sofia. Their games will be counted as 5-0 wins for the opponents.

13 Jan 2013, 21:38 | Valpellice wins Coppa Italia

Italy National team forward Robert Sirianni was the star in Coppa Italia final, played in a sold out Pala Tazzoli in Turin. He scored 4 goals and served one assist in Valpellice's 7-3 victory against Alleghe.
This is the first ever trophy for the Bulldogs

13 Jan 2013, 10:58 | Plan to build a 20.000 seats arena in Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk Region Governor Mikhail Yurevich approved the construction of a new ice arena for 20,000 spectators in Chelyabinsk. The construction of the sports complex has been agreed with the federal government. Other details of the project are not yet known.
Nearly four years ago in Chelyabinsk was inaugurated the Arena-Traktor, with capacity of 7,500 spectators. Average attendance at the Traktor games is 98% of maximum capacity. This is the second attendance in KHL, after Khabarovsk, where the Platinum Arena is filled 100%.

12 Jan 2013, 19:55 | Chaos continues in Ukrainian League

Problems continue to strike Professional Hockey League in Ukraine: Bilyỹ Bars is given 5:0 technical victory for match against Berkut Kyiv scheduled today as Berkut fails to show up for the game. Berkut club didn't explain the reason of forfeit.

12 Jan 2013, 17:37 | New head coach in Rögle

Rögle, the last team of the Swedish Elitserien standings, signed a new head coach today. Jan Karlsson who was fired from Atlant of KHL in October will try to keep Rögle in Elitserien.

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