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01 Nov 2012, 05:09 | Andrei Pyatanov fired by Kuban

Kuban Krasnodar fired head coach Andrei Pyatanov. Interim coaches will be former assitants Anatoly Stepanischev and Petr Malkov.

31 Oct 2012, 12:27 | Chomutov Pirati fined for racist acts

The Czech Extraliga fined this Tuesday Chomutov club in 30,000 crowns (1500 dollars) for racists acts against Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds. The Canadian player just signed a contract last week with Liberec during the lockout. On Sunday during his third game after a fight between the Canadian player and the Chomutov Miroslav Zalesak some home team fans begin to chanting "opice" a Czech word for "Monkey". After the game both clubs released statement condemning those acts. Because the way that Chomutov reacted to the situation the fine was lower than normal.

31 Oct 2012, 00:59 | Tom Coolen and Aigars Cipruss named Latvian National Team Assistant Coaches

Latvian Federation anounces Tom Coolen and Aigars Cipruss were named National Team head coach Ted Nolan assistants
58-year-old Canadian Tom Coolen coached in North America and Europe, included teams in DEL (Kaufbeuren), NLA (Ambri-Piotta and Lausanne), SM-Liiga (HIFK Helsinki) and EBEL (Feldkirch). "Coolen is in the world of hockey from more then 30-years, he will be a good assistant to Nolan and certainly strengthen the Latvian hockey staff" said LHF President Kirovs Lipmans.
40-year-old Aigars Cipruss was Latvian U20 team assistant coach in the last two years after having played for 17 years for Latvia, closing his international career with. 172 caps and 112 (50 +62) points. He is still active in domestic League with HK Ozolnieki/Monarch

Both newly appointed coaches will debut on November 9th when Latvia will play against russia at Arena Riga.

30 Oct 2012, 22:49 | Yannick Blaser suspended for seven games

Swiss Ice Hockey Federation Discipline Commission suspended EV Zug defender Yannick Blaser for seven games after his violent charge on ZSC Lions' Andres Ambühl during 23 octobre game.

30 Oct 2012, 19:27 | More NHL players to HockeyAllsvenskan

Two more NHL lockout players signed with teams in the Swedish second league HockeyAllsvenskan. Brendan Mikkelson will play for Västerås and Marcus Johansson for Karlskoga.

Viktor Fasth, Mikael Backlund, Gabriel Landeskog, Jonathan Ericsson, Mike Santorelli, Anze Kopitar, Carl Hagelin, Matt Read, Douglas Murray and Patrik Berglund already play in the league.

30 Oct 2012, 19:12 | Rönnberg’s last year with Sweden’s U20

Roger Rönnberg who lead Sweden to gold at last year's WJC will quit as head coach for Team Sweden Juniors after this season. He will be replaced by Rikard Grönborg who is head coach for the Swedish U18 team and also worked as assistant coach at last year's WJC.

30 Oct 2012, 16:52 | Kristall Saratov changes coach staff

Head coach Vladimir Kuplinov and his assistants Igor Stepanov and Dmitry Chiki resigned from Kristall Saratov, last in VHL. Alexei Isakov will be the new coach, assisted by Oleg Leontiev. Both worked in Kristall last season. Kristall won only four games out of 17.

30 Oct 2012, 16:30 | Kulikov out, Denisov in

CSKA Moscow defender Denis Denisov will replace injured Dmitri Kulikov (lokomotiv Yaroslavl) in Russian team partecipating in next Karjala Cup.

30 Oct 2012, 16:19 | Five games suspension for Khomitsky

Ak Bars Kazan defender Vadim Khomitsky was punished with five-games suspension for hit on the head of Atlant Moscow Oblast forward Igor Ignatushkin

29 Oct 2012, 16:12 | Belarus Open League records the worst attendance in last four years

This season the interest of the public for Open League in Belarus has fallen markedly. At the moment, the average attendance is 928 people, the worst in the last four years.
Last season, the attendance was 1.111. In the 2010-2011 season attendance was 956, in the 2009-2010 season 941, and in the 2008-2009 season 1.069.

29 Oct 2012, 15:42 | EV Zug extends coaches’ contract

EV Zug announces the extension until 2014-15 of contract for Canadian head coach Doug Shedden and Finnish assistant Waltteri Immonen.

29 Oct 2012, 09:12 | Paul Di Pietro with Lugano

Paul Di Pietro is back to LNA. The Swiss-Canadian player played before for HC Seewen in 1. league. Di Pietro sign a try-out contract until November 24 with Lugano with a clause until Christmas. At the moment Lugano have 10 injuries in the the team and that was the main reason to give an opportunity to the Swiss-Canadian legend. Di Pietro had already play with Lugano in 2004-2005 for five games during the lock-out.

29 Oct 2012, 01:14 | Radulov marks career point n° 500

Scoring an empty net goal in 4-2 CSKA Moscow victory against Sibir, forward Aleksandr Radulov marks the point n° 500 in his career. With 25 points in 20 games Radulov is currently the top scorer of the regular season.

28 Oct 2012, 16:09 | Avtomobilist fires coach Shayanov

Another KHL team decides to change coach. Last-standing Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg fires headcoach Andrei Shayanov after just four victories in 20 games. Officially the club has not commented the information on its website, but the same Shayanov confirmed it in a press release

28 Oct 2012, 02:12 | Txuri Urdin fired coach for lack of money

In a deep economic crisis, Spanish club Txuri Urdin decided to fire French coach Jean-Michel Lutaud to save on the budget and replace him with former player Alain Iturralde, currently working in junior teams. Club will also release some imports in next days