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10 Dec 2012, 21:08 | Carl Söderberg candidate for Guldpucken

Linköping's Carl Söderberg is the second canditate for Guldpucken, the award to the best hockey player in Sweden. Söderberg is one of the best players and scorers so far in Elitserien and in Tre Kronor. Gustaf Wesslau was the first candidate. Ten candidates will be nominated during the season.

09 Dec 2012, 21:32 | SCL Tigers release head coach

The Swiss team SCL Tigers, last in National League A, with only 16 points in 28 matches and thus a 29-point deficit towards the playoff spots, decided to release their head coach John Fust. Only one win in the last 13 matches was by far not enough for the Swiss-Canadian. He is not fired though and the club is looking for another task for him. His assistant Alex Reinhard was promoted to the position as head coach while Konstantin Kurashev, by now responsable for youth development, becomes the new assistant.

09 Dec 2012, 17:47 | Minsk wins battle of the Dinamos

Home team Dinamo Minsk defeated their namesakes from Riga with the score of 2-1 (1-1, 1-0, 0-0) to stay in touch with the playoff spots. This was also the last KHL match before an international break that lasts until 19 December 2012. Minsk is now at 41 points while Riga stays at just 32.

08 Dec 2012, 21:53 | Slovan earns derby win against Lev

In Saturday's only KHL game, hosts Slovan Bratislava have defeated Czech rivals Lev Prague 2-1 (1-0, 1-1, 0-0). Now the Slovakians (50 pts) are three points ahead of Lev Prague. In their first ever meeting in November Slovan had won the derby with the same result in Prague.

07 Dec 2012, 15:18 | Changes in the Swedish Channel One Cup roster

The defensemen Sebastian Erixon, Timrå IK, and Carl Gunnarsson, Örebro HK are injured and removed from the Swedish roster.

Mattias Bäckman, Linköpings HC and Jonas Frögren, Atlant Mytischi replace them.

Pär Mårts also added two more forwards to the team: Patric Hörnqvist, Djurgårdens IF and Linus Omark, EV Zug.

03 Dec 2012, 23:18 | AIK second team in Elitserien to change coach

AIK has sacked their head coach Per-Erik Johnson and replaced him with Anders Eldebrink. AIK is currently in 11th place in Elitserien.

03 Dec 2012, 22:41 | Timrå won the only Elitserien game today

Timrå came back from 0-1 to win 3-1 away to Rögle. Try-out defender Richard Demen-Willaume scored was the big hero of the day when he scored the two last goals.

03 Dec 2012, 17:11 | Nürnberg without two for the rest of the regular season

DEL team Nürnberg Ice Tigers has to wait at least until the end of the regular season before forwards Patrick Buzas (surgery of his left shoulder) and Evan Kaufmann (wrist surgery) can start again with training on the ice.

02 Dec 2012, 03:16 | Aleksei Zhamnov is new Atlant GM

After five season Aleksei Zhamnov left the charge of GM at Vityaz to assume same function at Atlant Moscow Oblast

30 Nov 2012, 23:37 | With trombosis Pavel Brendl may miss the rest of the season

The biggest Pardubice summer reinforcements, Czech forward Pavel Brendl, may be sidelined for the rest of the season after medical exames revealed a blood clot in an artery. "We are conducting all the tests, the final conclusion until fall, but the latest reports are that at least he can't play for three months" said sports manager Petr Hemsky "Theoretically, he could be back in late February, then start training and gradually recovering, but isn't a simple matter" said Hemsky.

30 Nov 2012, 13:40 | Neftekhimik ends farm agreement with Dizel Penza

Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk announces VHL Dizel Penza is no longer the club farm team: "We have worked more than one season with Dizel and the collaboration was mutually beneficial: our young players gained experience playing in VHL and Dizel had at its disposal some players can really help the team. In November, we had some disagreements, and we decide to terminate the agreement on sports cooperation by mutual consent. Currently we are negotiating with the Izhstal Izhevsk to sending our players there. Geographically is the close, so we will pay more attention to our players" said Neftekhimik Director Vladimir Storonkin

30 Nov 2012, 13:30 | Vitebsk suffered the biggest defeat of its history

Loosing 16-1 against Gomel in Belarus Open League last round, Vitebsk suffered the worst defeat of its history, while the result wasn't Gomel's best victory: Andrei Skabelka team won 17-1 against Yunost Sdyushor in 2001

30 Nov 2012, 02:18 | Goalie Josh Harding diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

As reported by associated Press, Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Harding has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The goalie is undergoing treatment for the disease. The 28-year-old Harding told the Star Tribune he plans to keep playing.

30 Nov 2012, 01:00 | Further Delays in Asia League Schedule

Earlier in the season, the League delayed several games involving the Chinese and Japanese teams due to rising political tensions. While some of those games have been played already, further games have been delayed. Two games scheduled December 29 and 30 are being pushed back to February 2 and 3.

29 Nov 2012, 14:49 | High1 pound China

It started just 9 seconds into the game and never stopped. High1 relentlessly out-shot China Dragon 51 to 32 and scored 9 goals. Inoue stopped all 32 shots he faced. Barney had a hat trick and an assist for 4 points. Yu-won Lee had 2 goals and an assist, and Swift had 4 assists. Mid-game Dragon defense Kumagai received a 5 minute major for hi-sticking and a game misconduct. This is one of the Dragon's worst losses of the season, the other being a 10-1 loss to the Blades.

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