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07 Jun 2012, 00:45 | MHL awards

MHL announces the winners of annual awards:

Top Scorer: Artyom Gareyev (Tolpar Ufa) (59 games, 82 points, 28 goals, 54 assists)

Best Forward: Denis Davydov (Silver Lions St. Petersburg) (55 games, 37 goals)

Best Defender and Best +/- : Sergei Tereshchenko (Steel Fox Magnitogorsk) (35+/-)

Best Goalkeeper: Eduard Reyzvikh (Hawks Omsk) (35 games, 1.69 GAA, 7 SO)

MVP of the playoffs: Nikita Gusev (Red Army Moscow) (19 games, 33 points, 16 goals, 17 assists)

Best coach: Evgeny Kornoukhov (Hawks Omsk)

05 Jun 2012, 22:45 | Michel Therrien named Montreal Canadiens new head coach

Montreal Canadiens announced the appointment of Michel Therrien as the club's new head coach. Michel Therrien spent seven seasons as head coach in the Montreal Canadiens organization from 1997 to 2003. He also coached Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL, reaching Stanley Cup finals in 2007-08.

05 Jun 2012, 22:17 | Evgeny Vorsin resigned as Belarus Federation President

Evgeny Vorsin presented his resignation during the Belarusian Federation Executive Committee. "We have made mistakes - said Vorsin - I ask to the Executive committee to arrange an extraordinary meeting to accept the resignation of the chairman and select a new President. Possibly at the end of June, early July. My successor must be an expert or a person who could raise funds"
Vorsin was in charge from March 2010. Also national team GM Vladimir Safonov resigned.

05 Jun 2012, 21:44 | Vladimir Vujtek extends his contract

After the brillian campaign at World Championship, Slovakian Federation extended coach Vladimir Vujtek contract until Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Original contract was signed until 2013 with a clause of automatic extension if Slovakia automatically qualified for Sochi

05 Jun 2012, 21:39 | Barys fires coach and GM

A day after having been dismissed from Kazakhstan national team, coach Andrei Shayanov and GM Nurlan Orazbayev were fired also by their club Barys Astana.
Kazakh club also named a new President, Askhat Akchurin, the former Vice President of Human Resources and Social Affairs of Barys sponsor NK KTZ

05 Jun 2012, 21:32 | SKA names minor teams coaches

SKA St. Petersburg announces the coaches of its controlled teams: in VHL' VMF St. Petersburg the new coach is Anatoli Semyonov, last two seasons at MHL Silver Lions. Assisatent coach will be Andrei Andreyev, also coming from Silver Lions. Ilya Gorbushin will coach MHL's SKA 1946

04 Jun 2012, 22:12 | Kazakhstan Federation releases dates for Cup and League

Kazakhstan Federation announces dates for upcoming season. Kazakhstan Cup will be played from 22 to 28 Agust in Astana, as last season. Kazakhstan league will start on September 08 and will finish on March 31. As last season it will be played in a triple round robin plus playoffs. Teams not qualified for playoffs and the ones eliminated at first round will play a round robin playout.
Every team must allign at least 10 Kazakh players (last season limit was eight), included one under 20 years. Finally, after the move of Sary Arka Karaganda to VHL, a new created team called Sary Arka-2 will play Kazakhstan League

04 Jun 2012, 17:21 | Vladimir Krutov hospitalized in serious conditions

The legendary Soviet hockey player Vladimir Krutov was hospitalized in serious condition according to Dmitry Shaposhnikov, General Director of the team "Legends of Hockey" where Krutov plays
After an amazing career as player, Krutov worked as CSKA Moscow assistant coach from 1995 to 2000 and head coach in 2000-2001 season. In 2002 he was appointed as Director of the State Higher School of Sports. In recent years, Krutov played in veterans' team "Legends of hockey."

04 Jun 2012, 16:49 | Andrei Shayanov resigned from Kazakhstan National team

The Kazakhstan Hockey Federation Executive Committee currently helding in Astana accepted the resignation of National team General Manager Nurlan Orazbayev and head coach Andrei Shayanov after the relegation of Kazakhstan at IHWC in Sweden/Finland

04 Jun 2012, 16:43 | Lukas Riha suspended two years for doping

Unia Oświęcim Czech forward Lukáš Říha was disqualified for two years due to positive result in doping control. He was tested after game Unia-JKH on March, 14th. Test confirmed four prohibited substances: amphetamine, methamphetamine (D-), levmethamfetamine and pholedrine. Suspension is valid for all competitions organized by the IIHF.

03 Jun 2012, 15:19 | AIHL game abandoned

Sunday night's Australian AIHL game Gold Coast Blue Tongues - Melbourne Ice was abandoned due to unsafe ice conditions. A decision is yet to be made as to what the outcome of this may be.

03 Jun 2012, 14:59 | Four new teams in VHL

The General Meeting of members of the VHL helding in Sochi discussed the admission of new members to the VHL.
After the voting, the new members officially admitted are: Buran Voronezh, THK Tver, Kuban Krasnodar and Kazakh Sary-Arka Karaganda.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, as a separate team from the main one, was confirmed in the League and Chelmet Chelyabinsk enters as successor of folded Mechel.

03 Jun 2012, 14:55 | Hilli new goalies’ coach at Dinamo Minsk

Dinamo Minsk announces Finnish Ari Hilli is the new goalies' coach. Hilli, 44, worked last season at Metallurg Magnitogorsk

03 Jun 2012, 04:41 | LIepaja Metalurgs applies to join MHL

Liepajas Metalurgs sent a formal application for membership at the MHL.
The final decision will be taken at a general meeting of the League after the club's infrastructure inspection and verification of its compliance with the rules of the MHL.

03 Jun 2012, 04:34 | Belarus Cup Final will be at Minsk Arena

Belarusian Federation announces the Belarus Cup 2012 will be played from 13 to 22 August, and the final match will be played at the Minsk-Arena on September 1. The composition of the preliminary groups and the schedule will be announced later.