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05 Dec 2011, 20:11 | Spengler Cup referees nominated

Veteran Swiss Danny Kurmann will officiate his 10th Spengler Cup after been nominated today among the referees for traditional Davos' tournament from 26 to 31 december. Others officials are: Didier Massy and Daniel Stricker (NLA), Jean Herbert (NHL) and Georg Jablukov (DEL).

05 Dec 2011, 20:00 | Sierre scores four in less then two minutes

HC Sierre managed to score four goals in 138 seconds in the NLB game against GCK Lions last sunday when the score was 0-5 for the visitors. Lee Jinman ties games with 10 seconds remaining in the last period and Sierre won at SO.
Team almost equalize Ajoie record set last season: on 29 janvier 2010 Ajoie scored four goals in 77 seconds to come back from 0-3 in 5-4 victory against Olten

05 Dec 2011, 10:14 | Preliminary round of Slovak 1.liga ended

From now 1.liga will be divided into 2 groups, qualification for play off group and play out group. In the qualification group there will be the first 10 teams including also Slovakian team U20 playing with each other twice. The first eight teams will qualify for the playoffs. In the play-out group there will be 3 teams playing each other 6 times. The last team will relegate to 2.liga and last but one team will play in relegation battle with the winner of the 2.liga.

05 Dec 2011, 07:52 | Hungary and Great Britain on top

Hungary finished first with a perfect 5-0 record and Great Britain captured the second place in the World Women's U18 Championship Div. I Qualification in Asiago, Italy. Both teams qualify for the World Women's U18 Championship Div. I that will be played in Norway December 29-January 4.

03 Dec 2011, 04:18 | Perron returns on ice

After almost 13 months out with a concussion, St. Louis Blues forward David Perron will return on ice Saturday for Blues' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Perron missed 97 games since being injured on a high check from Joe Thornton in the game against S. Jose Sharks on Nov. 4, 2010. 'It's been a long road, obviously," Perron said at Associated Press. 'I didn't expect it to be that long, obviously, in a short career so far. I'm just glad to be back to 100 percent healthy now and ready to go.'

02 Dec 2011, 22:51 | Sary Arka recalled Sergei Voykin

After the last weekend games against Arlan Kokshetau, despite two victories, Sary Arka player-coach Ramil Saifullin resigned from the charge. "After 26 league games I realize my lack of experience as coach at this level" said Saifullin in an official statement.
Club recalled Sergei Voykin, dismissed in september after Kazakhstan Cup and currently coach of Sary Arka MHL B team Kazakhmys.
Dmitri Glavyuk, last season coach of defunct Kazakhmys Satpaev, replaces Voykin

01 Dec 2011, 21:54 | Four goals by Baranov

Konstantin Baranov scored four goals when Metallurg Zhlobin beat Neman Grodno 5-2 in the Belarus league. He scored 1-0 at 2:46 on the powerplay, 2-0 at 8:43, 3-0 at 12:06 shorthanded and 4-1 at 22:18.

29 Nov 2011, 17:55 | Two injury blows for Timrå

Last place in Elitserien and now more bad news for Timrå as both Pierre Hedin and Johan "Bagarn" Andersson probably will not able to play any more games this season. Pierre Hedin is out with a knee injury and Johan Andersson has a clot in his lung.

28 Nov 2011, 17:30 | New record of penalties set in SM-Liiga

A 465 penalties minutes record was set in SM-Liiga's Pelicans Lahti - HIFK Helsinki game last saturday. After an initial fight between HIFK's Siim Liivik and Pelicans' Arttu Luttinen, another big brawl resulted in 14 players and the two coaches sent off. The news had a notable repercussion all over the country and even Finnish president Tarja Halonen made a statement about it blaming the event
The SM-Liiga disciplinary board has not yet decided about suspensions.

28 Nov 2011, 16:56 | Hurricanes fire coach Paul Maurice

After having lost 11 of their past 15 games the Carolina Hurricanes have fired coach Paul Maurice. Current AHL's Milwaukee Admirals coach Kirk Muller will be the new head coach.
Maurice was on Hurricanes bench from 2008, when he replaced Peter Laviolette and previously coached Carolina franchise from 1995 to 2003 reaching Stanley Cup finals in 2001-02 season, when the Hurricanes lost to the Detroit Red Wings

28 Nov 2011, 16:19 | Dmitri Yakushin is the new Kharkiv coach

33-year-old Dmitri Yakushin is the new Kharkivs'ki Akuly head coach. A native of Kharkiv, Yakushin closed his active career last season in Belarussian Metallurg Zhlobin. In 1999-2000 season he played two games in NHL with Toronto Maple Leafs.
Yakushin assistant will be former defunct HK Kharkiv coach Aleksandr Kobikov

28 Nov 2011, 15:40 | Capitals named new coach

Washington Capitals fired head coach Bruce Boudreau on Monday after a disappointing league start and a 5-1 loss to the Sabres on Saturday. Former team captain Dale Hunter was named new team's head coach. Hunter, 51, is one of just four players to have their numbers retired by the Washington Capitals. He captained the Capitals from the 1994-95 season until the 1998-99 and was named to the NHL All-Star Team in 1997. He played in 872 games for the Capitals from 1987-99 with 556 points (181 goals, 375 goals). As coach Hunter had spent the past 11 seasons in the Ontario Hockey League as coach of the London Knights.

25 Nov 2011, 15:25 | Ilya Byakin resigns from Avtomobilist

Soviet Hall of Famer Ilya Byakin resigned as Avtomobilist Ekaterinburg head coach. Also Sergei Mylnikov and Aleksandr Bezrodnov left their positions. Interim coach will be former head coach Andrei Martemiyanov, currently serving as one of Byakin's assistants, while the club is looking for a new coach.

25 Nov 2011, 09:16 | 25 out of 26 penalty shots saved

When Lukko beat Blues 5-4 in SM-Liiga yesterday, the game was decided in the 13th round of the shootout when one of the goalies finally was beaten after 12 scoreless rounds. Kris Beech got the winner when he beat Lars Volden in the Blues net. Mika Noronen guarded the net for the winners.

23 Nov 2011, 11:56 | Two Slovak clubs want to play Czech Extraliga

Slovan Bratislava and HC Košice want to join Czech Extraliga. That's the reason why the leading organ of the Czech top-level hockey competition(APK LH) schedules an exceptional meeting with the clubs' directors. Eurohockey.com is trying to contact the head-representatives of APK LH to reach their statement, so stay tuned.

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