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28 Jan 2012, 10:56 | Jean Perron backs on Israel bench

Montreal Canadiens' 1998 Stanley Cup winning coach Jean Perron has agreed to return on Israel national team bench for upcoming IHWC Division II.
Perron, 66, led Israel in 2005 and 2006 when team won II Division and was promoted in Division I, the best ever result for Israeli hockey.
Perron will be at National Team training camp scheduled for February 3-4.

28 Jan 2012, 10:34 | New problems for Serbian League

With just one game played and start postponed from November to January, Serbian League continues to face difficulties: game number 2 between Crvena Zvedza and Vitez, scheduled for yesterday, was cancelled. It seems Crvena Zvezda wants to withdraw from the league

27 Jan 2012, 18:20 | Lausanne takes a 0-5 by forfeit

Swiss Nationalliga B disciplinary commission decided to assign a 5-0 loss to Lausanne in the last January 24 game against HC Thurgau, originally won 3-0 by Lausanne. Team alligned defender Tim Bucher despite he received a major penalty, and so an automatic one-game suspension, in January 21 game against EHC Visp

26 Jan 2012, 14:49 | After 213 consecutive games played Lidström wasn’t on ice

A flu stopped the Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidström after 213 consecutive games. The Swedish defender missed the last Red Wings game against Montreal. His last game watched from the stands was on April 2009 against Chicago.
Lidström also leads the team with 23:43 of ice time per game.

25 Jan 2012, 17:42 | Jan Latvala makes Finnish ice hockey history

Jan Latvala, Pelicans Lahti, will play his 1000th SM-liiga game on Saturday, Feb 4th at home against TPS. Latvala, 39, is only the 2nd player in Finnish SM-liiga who reaches this milestone. Current record holder is Rauma native Erik Hämäläinen who played 1001 games for Lukko, KalPa and Jokerit during seasons 1982-2008. Latvala is going to break also this record couple of games later. Besides Pelicans Latvala has played for JYP and Jokerit.

When Latvala some day retires his record will most likely stand for years. At the moment next active player with most played games is HPK's Marko Tuulola, soon 41 years, with 826 games (by the 24th of Jan).

25 Jan 2012, 10:17 | Ovechkin won’t play All Star Game

Upcoming January 29 All-Star Game won't count with Aleksandr Ovechkin. After the three games suspension taken for a charging incident with Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Zbynek Michalek last Sunday, Ovechkin said he dosn't deserve to partecipate in All-Star Game as a suspended player. In a statement NHL said it had "no intention of pursuing this matter further."

24 Jan 2012, 17:47 | Game number 1000 for Vitaly Proshkin

Salavat Yulayev Ufa defender Vitaly Proshkin played career game n° 1.000 in Russian elite leagues today in Salavat 3-0 victory against Vityaz. He debuted in 1994-95 season with Kristall Elektrostal, playing also for Dynamo moscow and Ak Bars Kazan where he spent most of his career (407 games. Proshkin, 36, played also in six World Championship with Russian national team. He celebrated the milestone serving one assist in Salavat 2nd goal scored by Igor Grigorenko

24 Jan 2012, 16:38 | Sokol Krasnoyarsk changes coach

Six consecutive defeats cost the job for Aleksandr Glazkov, replaced on Sokol Krasnoyarsk (VHL) bench by Byelorussian Vyacheslav Dolishnya

24 Jan 2012, 15:10 | Jesenice fulfills EBEL conditions

HK Acroni Jesenice has fulfilled all conditions set up by the management of EBEL and is therefore allowed to complete the ongoing season. The financially troubled Slovenian club had to guarantee its ability to provide basic services, such as transport to away games, medical service etc. The guarantee has been confirmed by the Slovenian Ice Hockey Federation, Mayor of Jesenice and representatives of coaching and playing staff.

23 Jan 2012, 17:38 | Ukranian shine in All Star Game

Ukranian Stars beat 14-12 Foreign Stars in first ever All Star Game played yesterday in Kyiv in front of 6.500 spectators. Sokil Kyiv's Konstantyn Kasyanchuk was the star of the game with four goals and two assists while Lithuanian forward Arturas Katulis (Berkut Kyiv) was elected best player of imports team

23 Jan 2012, 17:33 | 2012 KHL draft in Chelyabinsk

Kontinental League board announced next KHL draft will be from 25 to 26 May 2012 in Chelyabinsk.

23 Jan 2012, 16:34 | Helvetics Sports AG officially registered

The KHL project of the Swiss Helvetics has gone a step further as the Helvetics Sports AG has been officially registered at the Commercial Register of the Canton Bern. Part of the shareholders are German-Latvian coach Igor Pavlov and former Swiss national goalie Lars Weibel. Goal of Helvetcs Sports AG is to establish an ice hockey team in the Canton Bern and the creation of a stadium - both to play in KHL.

23 Jan 2012, 16:31 | KooKoo fires coach too

Sunday was a pretty busy day in Finland regarding coach firing. After HPK from SM-liiga also Mestis club Kookoo fired coach Ismo Lehkonen. Kookoo is currently in the 2nd place in table only 2 points behind league leaders Jukurit and firing was a little bit suprising at least for the people who look at the team from distance. Assistant coach Jarno Kultanen will take care of the coaching for now but KooKoo will inform later about coming trainer decisions.

23 Jan 2012, 16:27 | SM-liiga club HPK fires coach

Finnish SM-liiga's team HPK from Hämeenlinna has fired coach Harri Rindell on Sunday. HPK has played the whole season very poor and it is currently at the last place of the table (14th) and is fighting against the relegation games which the last team will face at the end of the season. Rindell is replaced by Timo Lehkonen who has earlier been assistant coach for HPK but was currently working with the juniors of the team.

23 Jan 2012, 12:48 | Servette cuts distance

In Sunday`s two NLA games Genève-Servette HC used the chance to come even closer to EHC Biel which is on the last playoff spot. While Biel lost 2-4 at home against top team EV Zug, Genève won its away game against record champion HC Davos 3-2 after shootout. Now Genève is only three points behind Biel.

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