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11 Jan 2012, 10:54 | Žďár nad Sázavou hires Cihal as coach

Czech Second League team SKLH Žďár nad Sázavou has fired coach Petr Kuchyňa and hired former Kometa Brno, Varese (ITA), and Ambri Piotta (SUI) head coach Svatopluk Cihal.

Cihal, 64, was an assistant coach with Kometa Brno, his former club as player, last season.

10 Jan 2012, 19:14 | Nedorost out for the season

HC LEV Poprad will miss their top scorer Vaclav Nedorost for the remainder of the season after the Czech forward suffered a shoulder injury in KHL game against Sibir Novosibirsk. Nedorost has already underwent surgery. His recovery is expected to take at least two months.

09 Jan 2012, 17:30 | New coach in Linköping

Linköpings HC is 11th of the 12 teams of Elitserien. A result far below the expected. Now coach Hans Särkijärvi has to go. Harald Lückner was today named new head coach.

09 Jan 2012, 16:41 | Columbus Blue Jackets fire coach

Columbus Blue Jackets, the worst NHL team, have fired coach Scott Arniel, after one season and half, replacing him with assistant coach Todd Richards until the end of the season.
Columbus was the first Arniel's experience as head coach in NHL
We have two wins in our last 11 games' general manager Scott Howson told ESPN.com. 'I just wanted to move the team in a new direction with a different head coach. Scott tried everything and he was running out of answers. I didn't see much hope in moving forward with him. I just felt this needed to be done.'

09 Jan 2012, 11:03 | Fasel: IHWC 2014 will be in Belarus

During the post-tournament press conference in Calgary, IIHF president Rene Fasel responded to the US Congress request to move the 2014 World Championship from Minsk, Belarus:
"We discussed this issue at a meeting of the Board and during the Congress," said Fasel. "Congress decided to hold the tournament in Belarus in 2014. So the Championship will be held in Belarus."

09 Jan 2012, 10:38 | New cooperation for Magnitogorsk

Metallurg Magnitogorsk has signed an agreement on sports cooperation with Titan Klin of VHL
Previously existing agreement with Yuzhny Ural Orsk was terminated by mutual agreement.

09 Jan 2012, 10:24 | Lehterä out for injury

Sibir Novosibirsk Finnish forward Jori Lehterä broke his leg during yesterday 5-2 victory against Dinamo Minsk. He flies today to Finland for a surgery but it's still unclear how long he will be out

09 Jan 2012, 10:05 | Daniel Mitterdorfer voted young star of December

Daniel Mitterdorfer from Black Wings Linz won "The Young Star Of The Month"award for December in Austrain based international EBEL league. He is actually the second BW Linz player awarded with this title this season as Patrick Spannring won it for October. Second on voting list was Jan Bercic of HK Acroni Jesenice, third was Adam Havlik (Orli Znojmo). Daniel Mitterdorfer played in 35 this season's games for leaders BW Linz and contributed two goals and two assits. Mitterdorfer joined previous months winners of the Trophy: Patrick Spannring, Gal Koren and Anze Ropret.

07 Jan 2012, 20:49 | Werner Augsburger quits Sochi committee

Swiss Werner Augsburger quits his job as Sochi 2014 Olympic Games sports director after only four months. According Swiss Neue Zuercher Zeitung reason was a language barrier in Russia as well as the distance between Moscow and his family back home in Switzerland, even if Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said later there were no language problems between Augsburger and committee.
Before joining Sochi 2014, Augsburger had been the chief executive of the Swiss Ice Hockey League for two seasons.

07 Jan 2012, 20:40 | AHL sets new attendance record

A record crowd of 45,653 watched the Adirondack Phantoms - Hershey Bears AHL outdoor game last Friday at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park.

The crowd was more than twice as big as the previous record of 21,673, set last year in the outdoor event between the Connecticut Whale and Providence Bruins in East Hartford.

06 Jan 2012, 16:51 | Adler Mannheim fined for incidents against Ingolstadt

DEL record champion Adler Mannheim has been fined by the league to pay €3000 for incidents in their home game against ERC Ingolstadt where fans threw coins on the ice. In addition to this assistant coach Mike Schmidt has to pay €500 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

05 Jan 2012, 22:02 | Xaver Unsinn passes away

German hockey mourns the death of Xaver Unsinn who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82. Unsinn played 72 international games for Germany and also did 107 international games as coach for the national team. As coach he lead Germany to its last olympic ice hockey medal in 1976 - bronze in Innsbruck.

05 Jan 2012, 19:06 | Polish Federation cancels All Star Game

Due to a lack of sponsors, the Polish Hockey Federation has announced that this year's All-Star Game won't be played. The game was scheduled for January 21

05 Jan 2012, 15:31 | Italian Cup final four in Bolzano (again)

Italian Hockey Federation decided the venue for 14-15 january National Cup final four: Bolzano's Palaonda for the fourth consecutive year.
Title holder Val Pusteria will face SG Cortina in semifinals,while host Bolzano will play against Alleghe.

Saturday 14 January
Val Pusteria - SG Cortina 17.00 hrs
HC Bolzano Foxes - HC Alleghe 20:30 hrs

Sunday 15 January
Final 20:30 hr

05 Jan 2012, 15:19 | HC LEV releases 4 players, Nagy threatens legal action

The last day of the year 2011 was the last with HC LEV Poprad(KHL) for four players. Tomáš Klouček, Stanislav Balán, Peter Ölvecký and Ladislav Nagy were released from the team. Because the club terninated their contracts in December, it does not have  to pay them for the whole season, but only half of it. Nagy is disputing the legality of it because he was on the injured list. He wants to be paid for the full season and is prepared to sue HC LEV if needed.

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