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29 Aug 2012, 17:02 | Jan Marek honoured in Magnitogorsk and Prague

Czech forward Jan Marek, died in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's plane crash, had his jersey #15 retired by Metallurg Magnitogorsk during a ceremony at Romazan Tournament, currently helding at Metallurg Arena. Marek played in Magnitogorsk from 2006 to 2010.
In Prague, the City Council decided to dedicate a street to the three Czech players died in the crash: along with Marek, also Karel Rachunek and Josef Vasicek will have a street with their name

29 Aug 2012, 16:56 | Yunost signs farm agreement with Dinamo

Yunost Minsk, recently admitted in VHL, signed a partnership with KHL Dinamo Minsk for the 2012-13 season to act as farm team. Yunost can receive a maximum of six players from the head club.

29 Aug 2012, 09:40 | DEL Winter Game and DEB cooperate

The organizers of the first ever DEL outdoor match, the DEL Winter Game, which is going to be held in Nürnberg, 5 Januar 2013, and the German ice hockey federation DEB agreed to cooperate during the event. 50 cents of every ticket go to the DEB for youth development. In return DEB is going to promote the game during national team games and online.

28 Aug 2012, 20:39 | Georgia will have a training camp in Turkey

Genclik Spor Club announces that club and Georgia National Ice Hockey Team will do a joint training camp from September 15 to October 10.
"I think this is a great opportunity for both clubs" said Genclik coach Keith McAdams. "We will practice separately and play scrimmage or game each night"

28 Aug 2012, 17:46 | Sweden-Denmark games canceled

Sweden and Denmark had planned to play two games in September but Swedish Head Coach Pär Mårts has cancelled the games because the Elitserien clubs did not want to give the players a break reports Swedish newspaper Expressen.

27 Aug 2012, 19:57 | Innsbruck retires Rem Murray’s number

HC Innsbruck announces team decides to retire the jersey #17 to pay homage to Rem Murray, retired this summer. Canadian forward played three season with Innsbruck. Murray is the third player to have his number retired by the club, after # 14 Greg Holst and #31 Claus Dalpiaz.

27 Aug 2012, 19:44 | Vinnyts’ki Haydamaky opts out Ukranian League

According to the channel "Hockey", during the meeting of Ukranian Professional League Executive Committee, Vinnyts'ki Haydamaky Vinnytsya announced team won't play in upcoming League due to lack of funds. Thus PHL will allign seven clubs: Donbas Donets'k 2, Sokil Kyiv, Berkut Kyiv, Companion Kyiv, Levy L'viv, Dynamo Kharkiv and Bilyỹ Bars Brovary.

27 Aug 2012, 19:35 | HK Mogilev out of Belarus League?

HC Mogilev sent a request to Federation to postpone the date of payment of the entry fee for partecipating in 2012/13 Belarussian open League
The club stressed that at the moment do not have the required amount. The Federation Executive Committee agreed to wait until October 1.

27 Aug 2012, 12:32 | Kölner Haie win Amsterdam tournament

DEL team Kölner Haie won the final of the ERU Prestige Amsterdam Icehockey Cup in the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam against their league competitors Krefeld Pinguine with 6-0 (3-0, 2-0, 1-0). A selection of Canadians playing in Europe beat the Dutch national team 6-3 in the game for the third place.

26 Aug 2012, 02:52 | Poland appointed another Russian coach

After having named Igor Zakharkin as National Team coach, Polish Federation announces the hiring of 41-year-old Andrei Parfyonov as head coach of Under 20 team. He will also be involved in working with Under 18 squad.
Parfyonov coached CSKA Moscow Juniors teams, SKA Novopolotsk in Belarussian League and more recently VMF St. Petersburg in VHL. The Russian coach will lead Poland at WJC Division Ib in Donets'k, Ukraine from 10 to 16 december

26 Aug 2012, 02:44 | Amur Khabarovsk wins twice against Japan

KHL Amur Khabarovsk win today 3:1 (1:1, 1:0, 1:0) Japan National Team in the second friendly match between teams. Dmitri Shitkov scored 2 goals and Igor Ozhiganov completed the score. In the first match, Amur won 4-0 (2:0, 2:0, 0:0)

25 Aug 2012, 17:24 | Set for World Junior Club Cup final

Both the North American teams qualified for the finals of the World Junior Club Cup in Omsk. Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL) was down 4-3 win one second to go of the semi final against Linköping of Sweden but tied it and won the game 5-4 in shoot-out. Sudbury Wolves (OHL) won the other semi final 5-2 against Dinamo-Shinnik Bobruisk of Belarus.

25 Aug 2012, 01:32 | Spengler Cup program unveiled

The program of the 2012 edition of the Spengler Cup, which takes place from December 26 to 31 in Davos, was releaved. Like in last edition, the six teams were divided into two groups, named Torriani and Cattini.

Invited as special guest for its 75th anniversary, HC Fribourg-Gotteron will have the honor of playing the opening match against Russian Salavat Yulaev Ufa on December 26 afternoon. At night Team Canada and Adler Mannheim will open the Cattini group.
Czech HC Vitkovice Steel completes the group Torriani while host HC Davos is the third team of Cattini Group. Here the complete fixture

25 Aug 2012, 00:48 | Polesie Cup cancelled

Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation reported the traditional international tournament Polesie Cup this year won't be played
"In connection with the participation of the national teams of Austria, Belarus, Denmark, Latvia, Norway, Ukraine, Slovenia, France and several other countries in the qualifying tournament for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the international calendar of the season 2012/2013 was extremely rich, and a tournament "Polesie Cup" this year is not possible" reported the press release

25 Aug 2012, 00:43 | Belarus Cup final moved from Minsk Arena to Bobruisk

Due to many requests from Gomel fans, Federation decided to move Belarus Cup Final from Minsk to Bobruisk. Game will be played on September, 1 and entrance will be free