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16 Apr 2012, 20:23 | Slough Jets win English Premier League

Slough Jets won their third EPL Playoff title in five years with a comprehensive 4-1 victory over Manchester Phoenix. A double from Darius Pliskauskas and four assists from Dan Davies handed them a deserved crown.

16 Apr 2012, 19:32 | Italy cuts roster after first two games

Italy headcoach Rick Cornacchia decided the first roster reduction after the two exhibition games against France. Defenders Fabian Hackhofer (Vipiteno Broncos)and Enrico Miglioranzi (Asiago) and forwards Mirko Presti(Asiago), Simon Kostner (JYP Akatemia FIN), Diego Kostner (HC Lugano SUI) and Patrick Mair (Vipiteno Broncos) won't travel to Sweden for IHWC. Also Valpellice forward Luca Frigo won't be in Sweden due to injury. Italy will now face Kazakhstan three times in Asiago (April 24 and 27) and alba di Canazei (April 26)

16 Apr 2012, 16:21 | Fasel: "The 2014 IHWC will be in Belarus"

IIHF President Rene Fasel has assured that the IHWC in 2014, as originally planned, will be held in Belarus.
"I think the tournament will be played in Belarus. I'm sure we'll be there. The issue would be discussed at the congress IIHF in May, if the federation will make it on the agenda." - Fasel said to the agency R-Sport.

16 Apr 2012, 16:12 | Metalurgs Liepaja 2 confirmed title in Latvia but club can terminate cooperation with Dinamo Riga

By hammering 8-2 regular season winner Ozolnieki/Monarch in game #5 of finals, Liepaja Metalurgs 2 confirmed its title in Latvian League. Mārtiņš Gipters scored an hattrick. This is the fourth title in last five years for Metalurgs, two as senior team and the last two as "B" team.

During the celebrations for the title Metalurgs' Director Mikhail Vasilenok said is still unsure if club will continue to serve as Dinamo Riga farm club: ""Co-operation in this season was not as favorable as in the first season, so do not know whether we will continue to cooperate and will remain a farm club Dinamo. We had the impression Dinamo prioritised HK Riga in the MHL, assigning to them some key players when we are also fighting for access to the playoffs in Belarus League"

16 Apr 2012, 16:01 | Kazzinc-Torpedo changes coach

Oleg Bolyakin won't be on Kazzinc-Torpedo Ust Kamenogorsk bench next season. Team decided not to extend 47-years-old coach for next season and is searching for a replacement. Bolyakin arrived at Torpedo in 2010-2011 season

16 Apr 2012, 15:53 | Musatov and Zubarev left national team

Forward Igor Musatov and defender Andrei Zubarev, both from Atlant, left the Russian national team.
"Players know that unfortunately not all will go to Sweden. We wanna express our gratitude for the professional attitude of Musatov and Zubarev" commented coach Valeri Belov"

15 Apr 2012, 23:14 | Conacher voted AHL MVP

Cory Conacher of the Norfolk Admirals has been named the winner of the Les Cunningham Award as the AHL's most valuable player for the 2011-12 season, as voted by AHL coaches, players and media in each of the league's 30 member cities.

15 Apr 2012, 19:38 | World Cup; Division 1A

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Game Nr.2

Ukraine : Austria 4:5 (1:1, 2:4, 1:0)
Attedance: 1415
Scorers: 0:1 Geier M. (Herburger, Geier S., 4., PP1), 1:1 Tymonchenko (Kasyanchuk, Materukhin, 14., PP1), 1:2 Raffl (Trattnig, Ulmer, 21., PP1), 1:3 Kirisits (Herburger, Geier M., 22.), 1:4 Welser (Ulmer, Grabner, 23.), 1:5 Koch (Welser, 30.), 2:5 Pobyedonostsev (Lyutkevich, Materukhin, 33., PP1), 3:5 Tymonchenko (Pobyedonostsev , Shafarenko, 35.), 4:5 Tymochenko (Materukhin, 58., PP1)
Sthots on goal: 27:25 (8:7, 9:12, 10:6)
Penalty minutes: 20:10 (16:4, 4:2, 0:4)

The best players of the game: Daniel Welser (AUT), Oleg Tymonchenko (UKR)

15 Apr 2012, 19:30 | World Cup; Division 1A

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Game Nr.1

Japan : Hungary 1:5 (0:2, 0:2, 1:1)
Attendance: 1692
Scorers: 0:1 Magosi (Sikorcin, 6.), 0:2 Horvath A. (13.), 0:3 Sofron (Ladanyi, 34./PP1), 0:4 Kovacs (Pozsgai, 40./PP1), 0:5 Mihaly (Vas J., 56.), 1:5 Yanadori (Yamashita, 58.)
Shots on goal: 34:25 (12:11, 7:9, 15:5)
Penalty minutes: 33:12 (2:4, 29:2, 2:6)
The best players of the game: KUJI Shuhei (JPN), BALIZS Bence (HUN)

15 Apr 2012, 00:09 | First ever medal for Switzerland

For the first time ever Switzerland won a medal in the World Women's Championship when they beat Finland 6-2 in tonight's Bronze Medal Game.

14 Apr 2012, 22:58 | Mulhouse back in Ligue Magnus

Mulhouse defeats Nice tonight 4:3 to sweep the series 2-0 in the Division 1 Championship. The Scorpions complete their comeback to Ligue Magnus since 2005, the year the won the Championship and then were relegated due to bankruptcy.

14 Apr 2012, 10:21 | USA-Canada in the women’s final

As expected both USA and Canada made it to the final of the World Women's Championship in Burlington, Vermont. Canada beat Finland 5-1 in the first semi final and then USA beat Switzerland 10-0. Sweden won the 5th place game against Russia 2-1 in overtime. In the relegation round Germany beat Slovakia 3-1 to stay in the top division.

14 Apr 2012, 05:06 | Barry Brust gets 8 game suspension

Straubing Tigers goalie Barry Brust was punished with an 8 game suspension for hitting Florian Busch of the Eisbären Berlin into the face when Busch scored the decisive goal in the last minute of match 4 of the DEL semifinals between the two teams. The Canadian also has to pay €2400.

13 Apr 2012, 18:53 | 14 matches for Morant

SC Bern defender Johann Morant has been suspended for 14 matches for repeadtly hitting/punching Cyrill Bühler in the head and for shoving an oficial. On top of the suspension, Morant was fined 1,000CHF.

12 Apr 2012, 21:34 | Russian roster lost two players

SKA St.Petersburgh forward Fedor Fedorov and Neftekhimik defenseman Nikolai Belov left the training camp of the Russian national team due to injuries