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13 Jan 2012, 22:12 | Košice keeps first place in Slovak Extraliga

The hard fight for the first spot in the standings continues. Slovan Bratislava crushed Žilina 7-0 and currently the club has 49 points. But Košice won its game in Zvolen as well (3-1), so they keep the top spot. There is a six-point gap behind Košice and Bratislava. For more info have a look at the league's details.

13 Jan 2012, 21:30 | Dresdner Eislöwen become fraud victim

German 2. Bundesliga club Dresdner Eislöwen has been repeatedly the victim of one or more persons this season who have used the bank account details of third persons to buy a large amount of tickets to damage the club's reputation and its finances. According to the club the amount of money used for illegal ticket purchases is higher than €50.000. The case has been handed to the police while the club has cancelled all the illegal purchases and gave the money back to all people whose bank details had been used.

13 Jan 2012, 18:18 | HC LEV ownership moves to Prague

KHL club HC LEV has officially changed the company´s residence. The club was moved to the Czech Republic because of the change in its ownership structure. In addition, since Jan 13 the official name of the company is Hockey Club Lev Prague. According to HC LEV Director of Communication Jan Rachota, the club is going to stay in Poprad, Slovakia, for the rest of the 2011-12 and for the whole 2012-13 season.

12 Jan 2012, 09:35 | Adam Dennis becomes Italian

Thanks to his mother born in Italy, Canadian born Alleghe goalie Adam Dennis, one of star player in Serie A, has now Italian citizenship and can be called by coach Rick Cornacchia for National team. Dennis, 27, drafted by Sabres in 2005 when he won Memorial Cup with London Knight, commented: "My mother born in Catanzaro, South Italy, and there I have relatives always asking me about National team, so now dress Blue jersey will be an honour for me and all my family"

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.

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