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14 Sep 2019, 11:05 | SV Renon won Supercoppa

Third consecutive Supercoppa for SV Renon: Italian champion easily won 7-2 against Coppa Italia holder SV Caldaro in the first official trophy in Italy. With 5 victories Renon is the major winner of the trophy

31 Aug 2019, 20:23 | Fehervar win Hungarian Super Cup

EBEL team Fehervar AV19 Szekesfehervar win the first edition of Hungarian Super Cup by beating Erste Liga champion Ferencvarosi 4-3 at Tüskecsarnok Arena in Budapest

Gamesheet here

25 Aug 2019, 17:36 | Altai Torpedo retains Kazakhstan Cup

A goal by Maxim Khudyakov at minute 56 gives the second consecutive Kazakhstan Cup to Altai Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, in the final, played in Almaty, against Kulager Petropavlovsk. The Torpedo farm club won the qualifying Group A despite a loss 1-0 SO in a dramatic match agaist national champion Beybarys Atyrau, the bronze winner in the consolation final against home team HK Almaty, unexpectedly lost the qualification, beaten 2-1 in the last game of the group against already eliminated HK Temirtau.

The best players of the competition are:

Best goalkeeper - Andrei Yankov, Kulager
Best defender - Adil Beketaev, Altai Torpedo
Best striker - Ilya Akhmetov, Kulager
Best young player - Demid Eremeev , HK Temirtau

16 Aug 2019, 17:09 | Southern Stampede win the New Zealand IHL finals

Souuthern Stampede took revenge, and their 6th championship, when they defeated last years winners West Auckland Admirals in the finals of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League.

They got the better of their opponents twice to win the best of three series, their goals coming from Liam Stewart and Colin McIntosh who finished top of the play off standings.

Round Robin standings here

11 Aug 2019, 22:25 | U17 National team games

Finland and Russia U17 played three games this weekend with the results 3-4 (OT), 3-2 (SO) and 2-6.

Next week an U17 tournament will be played in Füssen with Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and USA.

More U17 games here.

09 Aug 2019, 23:08 | U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 4 - Russia and Canada to play the final

Alexander Pashin scored three goals when Russia beat Finland 4-1 in one of today's semi finals of the prestigeous U18 tournament in Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the other semi final Canada beat Sweden 3-2 in a shootout game. Cole Perfetti scored all Canadian goals.

Czech Republic beat USA 4-3 for place five while Slovakia beat Switzerland 7-5 in the 7th place game.

09 Aug 2019, 16:27 | Omsk will have a new arena in 2022

A new ice palace for Avangard Omsk will be built by 2022, after the current Omsk Arena was declared unfit and set for demolition just 12 years after it opened, due to safety concerns. In September 2018, an evaluation of Omsk Arena's structure determined the building was in emergency condition, with specialists finding structural defects in 90 percent of surveyed areas, including large cracks in its columns.

"The deadline for completion of the build is 2022, the arena will have a capacity of about 12 thousand spectators and five floors" said Vadim Marygin, Minister of Energy and Public Utilities of the Omsk Region.

09 Aug 2019, 09:25 | Tampere will host IHWC 2022

The city of Tampere will be the main venue for IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2022, with Helsinki as secondary place.
The under-construction 15.000 places "Tampere Deck Arena" will be the rink for the preliminary rounds, two quarter finals, the semi finals and the final.

08 Aug 2019, 11:34 | U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 3

Results of the third day from Breclav/Piestany: USA - Sweden 4-5 (SO), Switzerland - Finland 0-6, Czech Republic - Canada 1-7 and Slovakia - Russia 1-2 (OT).

Friday's semi finals: Canada - Sweden, Russia - Finland.

06 Aug 2019, 22:41 | U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 2

On the second day of the U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup Roni Hirvonen scored three goals when Finland beat Czech Republic 5-1. Other games today: Canada - Switzerland 8-0, Sweden - Russia 0-3 and Slovakia - USA 3-4 (OT).

05 Aug 2019, 23:32 | U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 1

The U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup started today in Breclav and Piestany. Results: Russia - USA 6-2, Finland - Canada 0-6, Czech Republic - Switzerland 4-3 (SO) and Slovakia - Sweden 2-3.

30 Jul 2019, 21:35 | Metallurg Zhlobin was not admitted to Belarus Cup

In a short note, Belarus Federation announced Metallurg Zhlobin won't allowed to participate in next Belarus Cup, that starts on August 1.
The reason is the non-compliance with the competition regulations, including the club's many years of growing indebtedness to the Federation and hockey players, who were forced to appeal to the Federation Appeal Committee.

If the club does not eliminate problems until August 15, Metallurg will not be allowed to start the Belarus Extraliga 2019/20.

17 Jul 2019, 13:16 | Newly created Sherdor Samarkand replaces Binokor in Kazakhstan League

A turn of events about the partecipation of Uzbek team in the Kazakhstan League: originally, following the enter of Humo Tashkent into VHL, another Uzbek team - Binokor Tashkent, should have entered the Kazakhstan League as Humo farm team. Binokor already announced 47-year-old Russian Alexander Ageev as head coach. But apparently the club management did not provide official confirmation of their intentions. So today the Kazakh Federation announced the newly created Hockey Club Sherdor from Samarkand will take part in the championship of Kazakhstan in the next season. Team is already training in Glazov, Russia, with same Ageev as coach and should debut in the new Samarkand Arena,  started building in 2017 and about to be completed in September according to Uzbek Federation

16 Jul 2019, 16:15 | Two more teams accepted in VHL

After the inclusion of four new teams at the beginning of June - Dynamo Tver, Torpedo-Gorky Nizhny Novgorod, Nomad Nur-Sultan (KAZ) and Humo Tashkent (UZB) - VHL announced the addition of two more clubs for the upcoming season: HC Rostov, competing since 2013 in VHL-B, the Russian third division, and Shougang Beijing, a new club acting as Red Star Kunlun farm club. With a record of 34 teams, VHL will be organized into 2 conferences and 4 divisions

15 Jul 2019, 07:21 | Geoff Platt named Player of the Year in Belarus

Forward Geoff Platt, recently signed with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg from Jokerit, was named Player of the Year by Belarusian journalists. The Canadian born Platt, who had Belarusian citizenship since 2013, received 367 votes, finishing ahead of Dinamo Minsk defender Kristian Khenkel (190) and Yunost Minsk forward Mikhail Stefanovich (115)

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