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02 Nov 2011, 19:18 | Anatoli Khomenko is new Ukraine coach

Russian Anatoli Khomenko, 50, is new head coach of Ukraine national team. He will be assisted by Sergei Lubnin and Vadim Kulabuhov, both previously in Ukrtaine U20 team staff.
Khomenko was player-coach in defuncted Berkut Kyiv from 1998 to 2002 before to move to Russia where he worked as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl second team head coach. From 2005 to last season, he was KHL team assistant coach. Recently he worked in Lokomotiv junior department

02 Nov 2011, 05:07 | Znojmo - KAC replayed on December 28th, 2011

The game between HC Orli Znojmo and EC KAC last friday which was postponed after first period (score 2-2) due to problems with ice will be played again on December 28th, 2011. Referees decided after that that ice wasn't in proper state for skating as there was a big hole in it.

01 Nov 2011, 20:08 | Phil Kessel is NHL player of the month

Toronto forward Phil Kessel was named October's Player of the Month in the NHL due his amazing start: he finished October leading the League with 10 goals and 18 points in 11 games. Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen coming in second and Edmonton goalie Nikolai Khabibulin finished third.

01 Nov 2011, 19:06 | Sevc suspended two games

Färjestad's Martin Sevc has been suspended two games and has been fined 20 000 SEK for saying "you fucking gypsy" to an opponent.

31 Oct 2011, 17:03 | Kronwall 7 years more in Detroit

Detroit Red Wings announced Swedish defenseman Niklas Kronwall signed a seven-year contract extension avoiding he become an unrestricted free agent July 1. The contact contains a full no-trade clause for the first five years.

31 Oct 2011, 14:16 | Toni Koivisto left Frölunda

Finnish striker Toni Koivisto left Frölunda despite one year left on his contract, after the parts terminated the contract by mutual agreement.
"We found this solution in complete agreement. This is hockey life - declared Koivisto at club website - sometimes there are no "feelings". But I really want to thank the fans for all the support." Koivisto played two season at Frölunda, scoring 15 goals and serving 11 assists in 71 games

31 Oct 2011, 13:14 | Finnish traditional club Ilves fires coach

Finnish elite league club Ilves has fired its coach Juha Pajuoja. Ilves is the third club in this years SM-liiga to change coach (after JYP and Tappara). New coach is Seppo Hiitelä, 57 years, who worked as a sport manager of Ilves. Hiitelä has trained Ilves also during seasons 1982-86 and 1990-91 and he was a trainer when Ilves won it's last Finnish championship 1985. Assistant coaches Raimo Helminen and Pekka Kangasalusta remain at their jobs.

There were also speculations that Finnish hockey legend Raimo Helminen will replace Pajuoja but since Helminen is also coach of the Finnish U20 national team Hiitelä took the job.

31 Oct 2011, 10:34 | Henrik Petre comes on try out to Jesenice

The 32 year old Swede comes to Jesenice. He was currently with no team, but played previously 303 games in Elitserien and 133 games in SM-liiga. He played in Alsvenskan as well. Petre already cooperated with Jesenice's finnish coach Heikki Mälkiä during the 2006/07 season playing for SaiPa. He'll probably introduce himself on ice Friday's Jesenice game against Znojmo in Czech Republic.

30 Oct 2011, 08:00 | Smith makes two hockey-themed movies

A producer, actor, director and writer in-one-person Kevin Smith announced he is working on the screenplays for two hockey-themed movies. Actually, "Hit Somebody: Home" and "Hit Somebody: Away" should be a two-parts movie telling the fictional story of Buddy McCracken and they both shall be filmed in the summer 2012 in and around Detroit, Michingan, USA. The happening in the first part's script takes place from 1950 to 1972, the second part's from 1972 to 1980 and Smith wants to publish the script online: ""We're still talking about that. I want to make sure the people that are sniffing around about financing, it doesn't make them squeamish," Smith said to nhl.com.

29 Oct 2011, 20:35 | Ice Rink in Teplice loses the roof

The ice rink "Na Stínadlech" in Teplice, Czech republic, is partly without the roof. It is uncertain how did it happened, but regarding to the witness words the roof crashed down on Friday, Oct 28. The ice rink where grew-up Robert Lang is not in use from January 2011 when local club Stadion Teplice moved to Bílina. The owner of the arena Jiří Prokůpek announced he prepared the reconstruction plans, but the City of Teplice did not agree with them. Later Prokůpek unsuccessfully tried to sell the rink for app. €1.2mil., later he decided to tear it down and sell the lands under the arena.

29 Oct 2011, 19:26 | Two Czechs score hat-trick

Petr Vrána, 26, helped Khabarovsk to earn 2 points in an KHL game in Ekaterinburg(4-5 SO) with scoring three goals on Saturday. One day earlier Jakub Svoboda needed only 4 minutes and 41 seconds of the second period to score a hat-trick in an Czech Extraliga game of Kometa Brno in Plzeň(1-6).

29 Oct 2011, 09:18 | St. Louis win 1,500th game in team history

The St. Louis Blues became the 9th NHL franchise in history to win 1,500 games with 3-0 victory over the Canucks in Vancouver. The organization joined the prestigious club of the Boston Bruins, the Buffalo Sabres, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Detroit Red Wings, the Montréal Canadiens, the New York Rangers, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Together with Philadelphia, the Blues are the second youngest team with 1,500 victories(est. 1967). The youngest club is the Buffalo Sabres(est. 1970).

28 Oct 2011, 12:38 | USA Hockey and NHL honours 4 men with L. Patrick Award

Tony Rossi, Mark Johnson, Bob Pulford and Jeff Sauer were honoured with the Lester Patrick Award on Wednesday, Oct 26, in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. The Lester Patrick award is presented for outstanding service to hockey in United States since 1966.

28 Oct 2011, 06:30 | Marc Crawford will coach Canada in Spengler Cup

Hockey Canada announced Thursday that Marc Crawford will be head coach of Canada's National Men's Team at the 2011 Spengler Cup, scheduled for Dec. 26-31 in Davos, Switzerland. In addition, Doug Shedden and Trent Yawney will serve as assistant coaches.

27 Oct 2011, 08:21 | Montreal fired assistant coach

After three years Montreal Canadiens fired asistant coach Perry Pearn before Wednesday night's game against the Philadelphia Flyers.

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