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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02 Apr 2012, 23:07 | Balkan Junior League repealed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for April 3rd, due to organization problems in Novi Sad, Serbia, venue of tournament, the whole U16 Balkan League is repealed for the coming months.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

29 Mar 2012, 18:15 | Pierre Gauthier fired by Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens have fired general manager Pierre Gauthier
The club says in a release the search for a new general manager "is underway."
Gauthier started working at Canadiens in 2003 as director of professional scouting, becoming GM and executive vice president in February 2010

29 Mar 2012, 15:44 | Jakub Horak new Sport Director at EV Zug

Former defender Jakub Horak, 38, is the new EV Zug's Sport Director replacing Patrick Lengwiler, named team's GM

29 Mar 2012, 00:53 | Acroni Jesenice ties the series

Two goals by Anze Kuralt and the decisive one by Jaka Ankerst after 01:50 in the overtime give Jesenice the final 3-2 in game #2 of Slovenian League finals against Olimpija Ljubljana. The series is now 1-1. Game #3 will be on Thursday in Ljubljana's Tivoli Arena

28 Mar 2012, 21:06 | Salming Trophy to Ekholm

Mattias Ekholm, Brynäs has been awarded the Salming Trophy as the best defender in Elitserien. "Ekholm is a modern defenseman, strong in his own zone and with a large offensive capacity. I like his courage, he never doubts to go forward when there is a chance", Börje Salming said about the winner.

28 Mar 2012, 16:54 | Ozolnieki waits for opponent

Ozolnieki Monarch sweeps out HK Juniors Riga in four games, closing the series with 5-3 victory in game four after been recovered from a 3-1 gap after second period. A 4-0 half points in last period gives Ozolnieki the third consecutive finals in Latvian League. In other pairs Liepaja Metalurgs-2 ties 2-2 the series beating 4-2 SMS-Credit

28 Mar 2012, 16:48 | Maribor wins bronze in Slovenia

By beating twice 4-1 Triglav Kranj, HDK Maribor clinches bronze medal in Slovenian National League. Today Olimpija Ljubljana and Acroni Jesenice play final game #2. Olimpija leads the series 1-0

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