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18 Sep 2012, 22:46 | Pat Cortina named head coach and sports director of German national team

Canadian Pat Cortina has signed a three-year contract as head coach and sports director of the German ice hockey national team on Monday. In his first year he will continue as head coach of EHC München of DEL but after this he will concentrate on his work for the national team. He is the substitute for Swiss Jakob Koelliker whose contract wasn't extended after a dissapointing World Championship this year. Still without Cortina Germany defeated Austria 4-3 (1-1, 0-2, 3-0) today when their southern neighbours celebrated their 100th anniversary.

18 Sep 2012, 22:03 | Marc Furrer named Swiss Hockey President

During its General Assembly held in Luzern, the Swiss Ice Hockey voted Marc Furrer as the new President for the next three years, replacing Philip Gaydoul.

In addition, the General Assembly elected Pius David Kuonen as Director of Sport Competition, the charge previously occupied by Furrer.

After the confirmation of the General Assembly, Marc Furrer expressed his thanks to the body: "Thank you for this election and the confidence that you have given me. I take the direction of an association structurally and financially healthy."

18 Sep 2012, 17:13 | Halla gets three players back from Finland

Three players that went to Finland have returned to Anyang Halla. Tuesday night they announced that Donku Lee (D), Woosang Park (F), and Minho Cho (F) would be rejoining the team. After attending try-outs in Finland the three players return to Halla having only missed the first 2 games of the season.

17 Sep 2012, 22:46 | Linköping beats Rögle

In the only Elitserien game of the day Linköping beat Rögle 2-1. Goals for Linköping: Eric Himelfarb and Robin Figren. För Rögle: Fredrik Warg

17 Sep 2012, 19:41 | Latgale withdraws from Latvian League

After asking to postponed the first two games of Latvian League, DHK Latgale decided to withdraw its application, thus club won't participate in the Latvian league.
The penalty by withdrawing the team from the championship will be decided LHF disciplinary committee.

17 Sep 2012, 17:54 | Ordinary procedure against Andrei Bykov

The Judge of the elite sports' Disciplinary Court, Reto Steinmann, opened an ordinary procedure against Fribourg-Gotteron forward Andrei Bykov following a breach of Rule 540 IIHF b (charge against the head and neck) suffered by SC Bern Plüss Martin at the 19th minute of last Saturday's game.

17 Sep 2012, 17:32 | Boris Kolesnikov: "We’ll build the largest arena in Europe"

The President of Donbas Donets'k Boris Kolesnikov says that in Donetsk will be built a new arena for 20.000 spectators.
"We have a budget of more than $20 million. We'll build the biggest arena in Europe. In autumn the engineering plan will be completed - explains Kolesnikov.
Currently the Ukrainian club playing in the Ice Palace Druzhba, with capacitty for 4.135 spectators.

17 Sep 2012, 15:32 | High1 shut out at home, besieged with 73 shots

Masahito was perfect for the Eagles as he turned away 48 shots for the Eagles. Inoue did his best, but couldn't withstand the 73 shot barrage from the Eagles but got away with only letting in three. Swift was kept off the scoreboard despite making eight shots, but still received two 2-minute minor penalties and a 10-minute misconducta at the end of the game for roughing. Domeki had nine shots for the Eagles but failed to find the back of the net.

16 Sep 2012, 23:44 | Färjestad beats AIK

In today's only Elitserien game Färjestad beat AIK 2-1 in Hovet. Ville Lajunen scored the winner in overtime.

16 Sep 2012, 23:41 | Four teams perfect in Extraliga

Six games were played in Czech Extraliga today. When two rounds are played Trinec, Vitkovice, Plzen and Brno all have six points.

15 Sep 2012, 17:25 | Landshut Cannibals get unusual sponsor

German 2. Bundesliga team Landshut Cannibals signed a sponsoring deal with a local brothel. In the future the players will wear warm-up jerseys with the name of the brothel "Lustra" and its logo - a kissing mouth. This gets the Cannibals 5,000€ per season. As unusual as this seems at first view, there is already some connection between the club and the brothel as it is owned by the mother of former Landshut Cannibals player Peter Baumgartner who in 2010 became DEL champion with the Hannover Scorpions.

14 Sep 2012, 11:51 | Ueno suspended for 10 games

Hiroki Ueno of the Nikko Ice Bucks has been suspended for 10 games as a result of a match penalty he recieved on Saturday night against China Dragon. Ueno received the penalty for 550-f, abuse of officials and unsportsmanlike conduct by players.

13 Sep 2012, 22:39 | Czech and Slovak leagues started

The season opener in Czech Extraliga between Pirati Chomutov and HC Kometa Brno ended 2-4 (1-0, 1-2, 0-2) while the first match of the Slovak Extraliga was won by HK Nitra 7-1 (1-0, 3-0, 3-1) against HK Orange 20, which is the Extraliga name for the Slovak U20 national team. While the Czechs continue tomorrow, Slovak fans have to wait for further game action until Sunday.

12 Sep 2012, 23:54 | DHK Latgale asked for postponement

DHK Latgale asked to Lavian Federation to postpone the first two games of the league due to the fact that the club has been unable to prepare for the championship. September 12th game against the HS Riga/Prizma and 15. September game versus HK Ozolnieki-MONARCH will be postponed

12 Sep 2012, 20:04 | Tre Kronor hires Mats Sundin as advisor

Mats Sundin and the Swedish Ice Hockey Association have agreed that during the season 2012/2013 Sundin will act as advisors for the national team (known as Tre Kronor) and the junior national teams.

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