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13 Feb 2012, 13:21 | New record for Nicklas Lidström

In the night Detroit Red Wings, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3, equaled an NHL mark with its 20th straight win at home, captain Nicklas Lidström celebrates another personal record playing his 1,550th game, the most by an NHL player who spent his entire career with one team surpassing previous record, set by Red Wings' Alex Delvecchio, 1549 games with Detroit from 1950-51 season to 1973-74.

12 Feb 2012, 22:46 | Russia triumphs in U16 tournament in Sweden

Winning 4-3 (1-1,2-2,1-0) last game against host Sweden, Russia captured U16 Four Nations Tournament played last weekend in Sundsvall. Russia won 4-3 at shoot-outs against Finland in opening game, then destroyed 8-1 Czech Republic. Sweden finished second, Finland captures bronze with a 2-0 victory over last placed Czech Republic

12 Feb 2012, 18:13 | New arena in Zurich in 2017

The municipality of Zurich has approved the construction of a new arena in the Alstetten area for 2017. An architectural competition will be published in mid-February to build a 12 000-capacity hockey arena for the ZSC Lions and a 3000-capacity volley arena for team Volero Zurich. Each club will invest 44 million Swiss francs and the municipality will put in 149 million. The ZSC Lions currently play at Hallenstadion, a 10 700-capacity arena, originally built in 1939 and completely rebuilt in 2005.

12 Feb 2012, 14:32 | U16 friendlies

The U16 teams of Norway and Denmark played three games in the newly built Idda Arena in Kristiansand. The first game ended with a 4-4 tie. Denmark won game 2 3-2 and today Norway won the third game 10-1.

11 Feb 2012, 15:01 | West Team won MHL Challenge Cup

Beating 4-2 (0-1,2-1,2-0) East Team, West won MHL Vyzova Cup, the League All Star Game, played in a sold out Magnitogorsk Arena in front of 7.700 spectators. Krasnaya Armiya forward Roman Lyubimov was the game MVP scoring two goals

11 Feb 2012, 00:26 | Another game postponed in Serbia

Unlucky season for Serbian domestic hockey continues: league game between Vojvodina and Vitez wasn't played due to lack of electricity in the Novi Sad arena  due to rationing of electricity because of the extreme weather conditions in all Vojvodina region. Isn't clear if the game was cancelled or just postponed. At now only two games were played in Serbian League

10 Feb 2012, 23:20 | Kloten Flyers have new GM and majority shareholder

Swiss team Kloten Flyers is making changes on its board: starting next May, 37-year-old Adrian Fetscherin will be the new GM. He currently is the director of sport editorial office at Teleclub. In the 2013-14 season, he will buy a majority stake from current board chairman Jürg Bircher and will be the new majority shareholder.

10 Feb 2012, 21:07 | USHL Expands Schedule for 2012-13

The United States Hockey League today announced that the USHL Board of Directors has approved an increase in the League’s regular season schedule from 60 to 64 games beginning with the 2012-13 season.

Each USHL Member Club will play 32 home games and 32 road games in 2012-13, an increase of two home and two away contests over the 30 home, 30 road game schedule each team is playing this season.  The announcement marks the first time the USHL has changed the number of games each team plays in the regular season since it was first designated by USA Hockey as the only Tier 1 junior hockey league in the United States in August 2002

10 Feb 2012, 18:15 | Björn and Salming in Swedish Hall of fame

Before the game against the Czech Republic on Thursday. Lars Björn and Börje Salming was announced as member number 2 and 3 of the Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame

10 Feb 2012, 15:21 | Valeri Evstifeev passes away

Former Russian player Valery Evstifeev passed away yesterday at 55. He played for Spartak Moscow and Krylia Sovetov during the '80s, representing Soviet Union at WJC U20 in 1976.

09 Feb 2012, 17:40 | Referee suspended in Kazakhstan

Referee Vladimir Malienko was suspended until end of season by Kazakhstan Federation for his mistake during regular season game Beybarys Atyrau - Arlan Kokshetau, played last February 3. At minute 17 in the first period Malienko didn't allow a regular goal scored by Arlan defender Samvel Mnatsyan alleging that cage was moved, but video replay didn't confirm. Arlan lost game 2-1

09 Feb 2012, 15:33 | Lithuanian League Final Four in Siauliai

Lithuanian National League Final Four will be played in Siauliai on 24-25 March. Second division Final Four will be in Klaipeda on 28-29 April

09 Feb 2012, 15:26 | Colin Muller quits Swiss National Team

Swiss-Canadian Colin Muller won't be on Switzerland bench at next IHWC as Sean Simpson assistant coach. Swiss Federation will soon announce the name of new coach

09 Feb 2012, 14:44 | Asiago fires coach

Despite two consecutive titles, Italian champion Asiago fires Canadian coach John Tucker due to poor results in current season. Asiago is playing relegation round in Serie A. The new coach will be current Tucker's assistant and former Asiago player John Parco

09 Feb 2012, 14:35 | Ilya Nikulin named Russia captain

Ak Bars Kazan defender Ilya Nikulin was named Russia captain for next Oddset Hockey Games in Sweden. SKA Evgeny Artyukhin ans Metallurg Magnitogorsk Evgeny Biryukov will serve as assistants

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