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05 Apr 2012, 21:38 | Sweden wins in Jordal Amfi

Sweden beat Norway 5-0 in Oslo tonight. Robin Figren scored two goals. Dick Axelsson, Nicklas Danielsson and Mattias Karlsson a goal each.

04 Apr 2012, 22:25 | Swiss win against Finland

Switzerland beat Finland 3-0 in Rapperswil in the first of 36 games in Euro Hockey Challenge. Euro Hockey Challenge is the name of the World Championship preparation games of the European top nations played April 4-22.

04 Apr 2012, 22:04 | Ertis Pavlodar joins Beybarys in Kazakhstan League finals

Ertis completes today an amazing comeback winning 3-0 game six of semifinals against Sary Arka Karaganda, closing the series 4-2 (recovering from 0-2) and reaching Kazakhstan League finals for the first time in its history. Ertis decided game in the first period, scoring two goals - with Vadim Rifel and Ilya Solarev - in less then two minutes.
Team from North Kazakhstan will face current champion Beybarys Atyrau, having swept Arystan Temirtau in four games, without two key players: captain Evgeny Ushkov and Andrei Troshchinsky, both injured. Game #1 of the finals will be on April 13

04 Apr 2012, 18:34 | Big win for Swiss youngsters

Switzerland U16 beat Italy U16 28-0 in a 5-nation tournament in Norway.

04 Apr 2012, 16:22 | Igor Zhilinsky named new Lada Togliatti GM

Former player Igor Zhilinsky was named new General Manager at Lada Togliatti. Zhilinsky, 49, worked as assistant coach at Avangard Omsk and Sibir Novosibirsk and recently as Omsk Hawks headcoach in MHL
"We will give to Zhilinsky full powers for interacting with the coaching staff as well as the hockey club's management." said General Director Andrei Galayda
In same press conference, coach Gennady Tsygurov reveals Lada won't sign a farm agreement for next season: "I am totally against this system. We had an offer from Severstal. They would send us the players paying their wages, but they could "pull off" at any time. We aren't an appendage, Lada is Lada!"

04 Apr 2012, 00:54 | Kazakhstan adds Sokolov in the staff

Former national team captain Andrei Sokolov was called by Kazakhstan Federation to complete the coaching staff for the upcoming World Championship as assistant coach. Soikolov is currently assistant coach at Metallurg Magnitogorsk, where he spent almost all career as player

03 Apr 2012, 23:20 | Lauris Darzins will miss World Championship

Latvian AK Bars Kazan forward Lauris Darzins will miss upcoming World Championship due to a shoulder injury

02 Apr 2012, 23:23 | Singapore gets first Olympic-size ice rink

The Rink, Singapore's first Olympic-size ice rink located at the mall JCube, was inagurated on April 2nd.
The 60x30 rink is designed to host activities such as recreational skating, figure skating, speed skating and ice hockey. Together with its 460-seat gallery, spectators will be treated to rink-side action during ice hockey matches and skating performances.
"The Olympic-size rink, which meets international standards, allows the community to experience playing winter sports such as ice hockey on our tropical island. It also represents a very important step towards Singapore's participation in the Winter Olympics in the future," said Mr James Kodrowski, President of Singapore Ice Hockey Association

02 Apr 2012, 23:07 | Balkan Junior League repealed

Few days before the start of the tournament, scheduled for April 3rd, due to organization problems in Novi Sad, Serbia, venue of tournament, the whole U16 Balkan League is repealed for the coming months. Before the cancellation, the tournament recorded the forfeit of Croatia, Greece, Macedonia and Turkey, remaining just with five countries: Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Balkan Junior League is part of an agreement between Balkan countries for the developing of icehockey at junior level....not a great start

02 Apr 2012, 19:02 | HK Kalev-Välk Tartu confirms title in Estonia

By beating Viru Sputnik Kohtla-Järve 5-3 in finals game #4, Kalev-Välk wins the series 3-1 and keeps Estonian Meistriliiga title. In the last game Kalev-Valk recovers from 1-3 winning the third period 4-0. Captain Ilja Iljin, scoring an hattrick, was the key player for Kalev recover. This is the 8th title for Kohtla-Järve club
In the bronze medal final Viiking Sport Tallinn captures third place winning 2-0 over Panter/Purikad

02 Apr 2012, 17:02 | CH Jaca completes another dominant season capturing Copa del Rey

CH Jaca completed another season dominating domestic hockey. Besides the league they also won Copa del Rey in last weekend winning 5-3 Puigcerdà in the finals after a battled semifinal against Barcelona

This season Jaca won Spanish League, Copa del Rey, Copa del Principe (U18 National Cup) and U15 League
Txuri Urdin, winner of U18 league, was the only team able to break Jaca dominance

01 Apr 2012, 19:46 | Sport Club Csikszereda takes all titles in Romania

Team HSC Csikszereda won another Romanian championship title after winning 4:1 the finals against ASC Corona Braşov.
In the last match HSC Csikszereda won with the score of 3-2 (1-1, 2-1, 0-0)
This title is the 14th in the history of the club, the sixth consecutive.
Besides senior team, HSC Csikszereda also won title in every junior category: U12, U14, U16 and U18

01 Apr 2012, 00:09 | LIepaja Metalurgs join Ozolnieki in Latvian League finals

Six games were enough for current champion Liepaja Metalurgs-2 to sweep out SMS Credit and advance to finals against regular season winner Ozolnieki. In last game Metalurgs, alligning some of first team top players, win 5-3 against SMS Credits. As last year the Latvian title will be decided between Ozolnieki and Liepaja Metalurgs-2

30 Mar 2012, 00:12 | Val Pusteria closes the series

By winning Alleghe 6-2 in playoffs semifinals game 5, Val Pusteria reaches Bolzano in Serie A finals beginning April 5

29 Mar 2012, 18:24 | SC Csikszereda makes another step towards the title

HSC Csikszereda won away 3-0 (0-0, 1-0, 2-0) playoffs finals game #3 against ASC Corona Braşov and it is now leading 3-1 the finals series of the Romanian National Hockey League. Sport Club can close the series next Friday at home