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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.

12 Sep 2012, 17:32 | VMF will play in Karelia

Next October 14, the VHL game between VMF St. Petersburg and Sokol Krasnoyarsk will be played in the city of Kondopoga, Karelia.
"Karelia is waiting for arrival oh VMF. In 2001 in Kondopoga was built one of the best ice rinks in the North-West region, but hockey in the country was only at junior level. The Arrival of a such high-level team will be the best promotion of sport. I am sure that the number of children who want to play hockey to increase significantly. Karelia is a hockey region. Is building an ice arena in Petrozavodsk" said the Minister for Sports and Tourism of Karelia Alexander Voronov. Last season MHL team Silver Lion St.Petersburg played twice in Kondopoga. Both games was sold out.

12 Sep 2012, 17:21 | Vorsin confirmed as Belarusian Federation President

Evgeny Vorsin remained the President of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation.
According to the vice-president of the National Olympic Committee Sergei Teterin, Vorsin position was discussed with the head of the Olympic Committee, who supported the candidacy.
All the members of the Board approved
Vorsin announced his intention to leave his charge after the poor performance of the Belarusian team at the World Championship

12 Sep 2012, 16:32 | First Winter Game already gets new DEL attendance record

DEL today announced that the first ever outdoor event in the league's history, which is going to be a match between home side Nürnberg Ice Tigers and Eisbären Berlin on 5 January 2013, already set a new attendance record. With 20,000 tickets sold in the first two weaks of advanced sales the old record of 18,700 spectators in the match Kölner Haie vs Adler Mannheim on 19 April 2002 has been surpassed with almost 4 months left till the match is scheduled.

11 Sep 2012, 16:59 | KTH Krynica won´t play this season

Polish Ice Hockey Federation announces to have received a letter from the President of KTH Krynica Henryk Czarny, which informs the club won´t partecipate in Polaish Second Division this season

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