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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.

23 Jan 2012, 00:01 | Iceland wins U20 WJC Div. III in NZ

In Dunedin, New Zealand, the Icelandic U20 junior national team had no problems to win all its four games to get the promotion to Div. IIB. In the decisive game Iceland won 5-1 against China on Sunday when both teams had nine points each. Host New Zealand finished on the third position with six points in front of Bulgaria (3 pts) and Turkey (0 pts).

21 Jan 2012, 11:40 | Serbian League finally starts

Originally scheduled for mid-November and postponed due to lack of agreement between clubs and federation, Serbian League finally started yesterday with Spartak Subotica's 6-4 away victory against Vojvodina Novi Sad. The Serbian League is consisting of four teams, besides Vojvodina and Spartak, Crvena Zvedza Beograd and Vitez Beograd. The winner of the regular season will play a final against Slohokej Partizan Beograd.

21 Jan 2012, 10:20 | Team Fetisov wins the Legends Game

Yesterday, just a day before the 2012 KHL All-Star Game, a special event took place at Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. A Legends Game between the legends of Russia led by Vyacheslav Fetisov and legends of Latvia captained by Helmuts Balderis took place. The game ended 11:7 in favour of the Russians. Such legends as Vladimir Myshkin, Valery Kamensky, Andrei Kovalenko, Vyacheslav Anisin as well as Aleksandrs Kercs, Olegs Znaroks and Harijs Vitolins were out there proving their never-fading hockey skill.

21 Jan 2012, 00:37 | Levy L’viv has a new coaching staff

Ukranian team Levy L'viv fires head coach Denis Bulgakov and replaces him with 51 years old Vladislav Yershov. Yuri Makrensky will be the assistant coach along with same Bulgakov

20 Jan 2012, 16:44 | Game 1,100 in NHL for Sergei Gonchar

The Ottawa Senators 4-1 victory against the San José Sharks marked NHL game number 1,100 for Russian defenceman Sergei Gonchar. He debuted in the 1994-95 season with the Washington Capitals, playing also for the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins. "The thing is, time is just flying by," Gonchar said. "It seems like just a little while ago I was starting in the NHL, then all of a sudden it's 1,100 games. Time just flies by, season after season." The only Russians to play more NHL games are Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Fedorov and Slava Kozlov.

In the same game, another Senators defenceman, Czech Filip Kuba, celebrated his 100th point in the league.

20 Jan 2012, 11:49 | Radek Martinek is out for rest of season

Columbus Blue Jackets Czech defenseman Radek Martinek will miss the remainder of the season due to post-concussion symptoms. Martinek, 35, suffered a concussion in a game at Detroit on October 21.
"After consulting with our medical team it was determined that it would be in Radek's best interest not to play again this season," said GM Scott Howson "Radek is very disappointed, as are we, that he will not return to the ice this year but his health moving forward is the most important factor in this decision."

20 Jan 2012, 00:08 | Cortina wins Italian National Cup

SG Cortina surprisingly wins Coppa Italia beating Bolzano 4-3 at shoot-outs in Final Four played at Bolzano's Palaonda. In semifinal Cortina won 2-1 in overtime against favorite and Cup holder Val Pusteria
This is 3rd National Cup for Cortina after the victories in 1973-74 and 1974-75

19 Jan 2012, 20:06 | Peter Åslin passed away

Former Swedish national team goalie Peter Åslin passed away on Thursday morning at the age of 49.

19 Jan 2012, 16:31 | Andorra Federation elected new president

The Andorran Ice Sports Federation has elected a new President in Mònica López, the former General Secretary of Andorra's national body for ice hockey and other ice sports.

López succeeds David Palmitjavila. Raquel Puigcernal was named new General Secretary.