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18 Mar 2012, 14:39 | Victor Andrushchenko suspended for five games

Shakhtar Soligorsk's Ukranian forward Victor Andrushchenko received five games suspension for his "extremely rude" charge on Metallurg Zhlobin's Andrei Spiridonov during game #2 of playoffs semifinals

17 Mar 2012, 15:39 | Belfast Giants win Elite Ice Hockey League

By beating defending champion Sheffield Steelers 5-1 in fron of 7.000 spectators, Belfast Giants win their third EIHL title, the first from 2005-06

17 Mar 2012, 15:19 | Estonia will play against Dinamo Riga

Estonian Federation announces preparation games for IHWC Div. II in Iceland. National team will play against Dinamo Riga on April 6 and then will face teams from Finalnd and Sweden, still unknown, on April 8 and 9.
All matches will take place in Tallinn

17 Mar 2012, 13:18 | MHL send AllStar team to IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

The "Red Stars", an Allstar team from Russian MHL, will partecipate in IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, in Seul, Korea, from May 27 to June 2. Host Korea, China, Japan and Taipei are the other partecipants.
The partecipation of Red Star is directly connected with the promotion of hockey in the Far East and a possible future establishment of a Pacific Division in KHL.

17 Mar 2012, 02:54 | Wenatchee Wild will return to NAHL next season

Wenatchee Wild signed a promissory note guaranteeing their return to the North American Hockey League (NAHL) for the 2012-13 season.
The Wild had sought entrance into the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), but the league denied the Wild's request earlier this week for the 2012-13 season because it had already set its divisional alignment and rules pertaining to rosters and on-ice play in January.
The Wild were the NAHL's Organization of the Year in 2009 and 2010 and dominated league attendance during its first three years in the league

16 Mar 2012, 22:06 | Junior Minsk wins Vysshaya Liga

Junior Minsk won three straight games against Mogilev-2 to win the finals of the Belarusian second league Vysshaya Liga. After 6-2 and 4-2 at home Junior won 9-0 away in the last game.

16 Mar 2012, 16:51 | Andrei Nazarov fired from Russia coaching staff

Vityaz Chekov head coach Andrei Nazarov said he no longer works in the coaching staff of the Russian national team.
"There is nothing to hide, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov called me and informed of the decision. The conversation was pretty short but I want to thank Bilyaletdinov because of the opportunity he gave me."

15 Mar 2012, 16:23 | Martin Steinegger named new Sport Director at Biel

Few days after announced his retirement as active player at 40 years, former defender Martin Steinegger was named new EHC Biel Sport Director.

14 Mar 2012, 23:15 | Sanok Polish champion

Ciarko PBS Bank Sanok won today the Polish championship for the first time. Comarch Cracovia was beaten 5-1 in tonight's game and 4-1 in the final series.

14 Mar 2012, 17:28 | No new contract for Håkanson

Mikael "Musse" Håkanson won't be offered a contract extension by Linköpings HC. He has played more than 500 games during 10 seasons for Linköping. Håkanson is the player with most games played ever in Elitserien. He has played 808 games (940 including playoffs) for Linköping, Djurgården and Modo.

14 Mar 2012, 00:54 | Fribourg gets past Lugano

Fribourg beat Lugano 5-4 (OT) in the sixth game to win the NLA quarter final series 4-2. Benny Plüss scored the winning goal at 66:52.

Fribourg will play SC Bern in the semis. In the other semi final series EV Zug will face ZSC Lions.

14 Mar 2012, 00:08 | Ten points in one game

When Bulgaria beat South Africa 13-1 in the World Juniors U18 Division 3 Ivan Hodulov scored 10 points, 7 goals and 3 assists.

13 Mar 2012, 23:40 | Yugra extends coaches’ contract

Happy with the team campaign, Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk board decides to extend contract of head coach Sergei Shepelev and his assistants Nikolai Solovyov and Sergei Kotov.
All the staff signed a new agreement with the club for two years.

13 Mar 2012, 12:51 | Karlis Skrastins number retired

The Latvian Hockey Federation has decided to permanently retire Karlis Skrastins' number 7. The Latvian defenceman died in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash last September. Only one other Latvian player, Helmuts Balderis, has had his number 19 retired.

13 Mar 2012, 12:40 | Selanne becomes the #1 Finnish scorer in NHL

By scoring a power-play goal in the third period of a 3-2 overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche, Anaheim Ducks' Teemu Selanne collected his 1,399th career point (659 goals and 740 assists), becoming the NHL's all-time leading scorer from Finland, passing Jari Kurri.

Only two European-born players, the Czech Republic's Jaromir Jagr (1,645 points) and Slovakia's Stan Mikita (1,467), have scored more points than Selanne.

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