News archive

29 Sep 2011, 03:32 | Kudashov reaches 150 points

Serving two assists in Dynamo Moscow 4-1 victory against Dinamo Riga, team captain Aleksei Kudashov reaches a milestone: 150 points (60 goals, 90 assists), all with Dynamo jersey

29 Sep 2011, 03:02 | Coaches’ change in Angarsk and Balashikha

Ermak Angarsk (VHL) head coach Victor Laukhin resigned today for health's reasons. Assistant coach Aleksei Zhdakhin was promoted as new head coach.
In MHL MVD Balashikha (Dynamo Moscow junior team)decided to fire coach Nikolai Varyanov due to team's poor results. MVD is penultimate in MHL Center Division with two victories in eight games. Assistant coach Sergei Oreshkin will be the new head coach, assisted by Andrei Kapranov, last season Russian champion with Dynamo Moscow '95

28 Sep 2011, 00:12 | A loss that hurts

Vitebsk was down 7-3 to Metalurgs Liepaja a few minutes into the third period of the Belarus league game, but still was able to score 4 goals and tie the game at 7 seven minutes before the end. The heroic effort was still in vain as Juris Upitis scored to restore Liepaja's lead at 57:24 and the game was lost 8-7.

27 Sep 2011, 23:18 | Another 3 goals by Sprunger

Julien Sprunger scored three goals when HC Fribourg-Gottéron beat EHC Biel 4-1 today.

Sprunger who has scored 10 goals in 8 games leads Swiss NLA in goal scoring.

27 Sep 2011, 13:09 | Draisaitl to lead Ice Tigers

Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers (Nürnberg) hired Peter Draisaitl as new head coach after Andreas Brockmann who was fired after the club's weak start of DEL.

24 Sep 2011, 19:14 | Ice Tigers fire coach

Andreas Brockmann was fired as head coach of Nürnberg Ice Tigers today. Ice Tigers has lost the first three DEL league games.

Until the club finds a new coach it will be lead by former assistant coach Derek Mayer.

23 Sep 2011, 17:25 | Arlan reconfirms Bondarev

Unlike the first information, Arlan Kokshetau denied dismissal of coach Dmitri Bondarev. Head coach will be regularly on the bench in next game against Kazzinc Torpedo-2

23 Sep 2011, 17:11 | Val Pusteria wins Italian Super-Cup

Val Pusteria Wolves wins Italian opening season trophy Super-Cup, playing between last season champion Asiago and National Cup winner. Game was also a replay of playoffs finals. Asiago opens the score with newcomer Stefano Marchetti but Val Pusteria recovers and reversed score with goals by David Ling, Max Oberrauch and Joe Jensen, winning its first ever Super-Cup

22 Sep 2011, 05:47 | Arlan fires coach and players

Six points in six games aren't enough for an ambitous club like Arlan Kokshetau: after the last game - a 0-6 defeat against Ertis Pavlodar - club decided to fire coach Dmitri Bondarev and three players: defenders Sergei Kagaikin, Aleksandr Kuklin and Evgeny Moshkarev. Bondarev arrived this summer in kokshetau after been coached Pervaya Liga Kristall Berdsk for two season

22 Sep 2011, 00:48 | After 21 years and 1374 points Mike Modano announces retirement

The icon of Dallas Stars Mike Modano officially announced his retirement at 41 years old with a post on his Facebook page: "I've come to the decision that it's time to retire as a player from the NHL".
Modano,recently declined a tryout with the Vancouver Canucks,is the NHL's all-time points leader among U.S.-born players with 1374 points in 1499 games career almost played for Dallas Stars where he stayed from 1992, when franchise was relocated from Minnesota, to 2009. Last season Modano signed with Detroit but a wrist injury allowed him to play just 40 games (4 goals, 11 assists).
Modano told ESPN he'd like to work for the Stars' organization.

21 Sep 2011, 18:15 | ECHL approved San Francisco membership for 2012

The ECHL announced that the board has approved the Expansion Membership application of the San Francisco Bulls for admission to the ECHL.
San Francisco is scheduled to begin play in October 2012 and its home arena will be historic Cow Palace, former San Josè Sharks arena

21 Sep 2011, 17:52 | Ukranian Professional League elects chairman and change playoffs rules

During the first meeting of PHL board, Bilyy Bars Brovary president Vitali Fedyanin was elected League chairman.
It was decided also to adjust playoofs rules. Now teams finishing from 1st to 4th places will fight for title in playoffs semifinals (best of four), teams from 5th to 8th place will compete in "small playoffs" series to determine final position. All series will be played best-of-three. In original format all teams would play playoffs for the title

20 Sep 2011, 22:54 | New League, old habits

After just two rounds of new Ukranian Professional League, two teams fired coach: champion Donbas Donets'k replaced Sergei Petrov and his assistant Nicholas Maiko with former Dinamo Minsk and Belarus U20 coach Oleg Mikulchik and Igor Andryushchenko as assistant, while Kharkivs'ki Akuly Kharkiv sacked Oleg Panasenko, temporarly replaced by Evgeny Gladchenko. "Analyzing the begin of the season, we understand young coach hasn't the qualification to lead the team at such high level as Ukraine League. Club managment set ambitious goals and we can't rely on young, inexperienced coach." was the comment of Kharkiv president Valery Seredenko

20 Sep 2011, 22:46 | NLA game stopped will be replayed in January

The game between ZSC Lions and EHC Biel in Swiss NLA that stopped after 27 minutes because of fog in the arena will be replayed on January 24 at 19:45. The sScore was 0-0 when the game was stopped.

20 Sep 2011, 18:51 | JYP sacks coach after two games

Finnish SM-Liiga side JYP Jyväskylä suprisingly sacked their coach Risto Dufva after losing the first two games of the season. Assistant coach Jyrki Aho will temporarily replace Dufva as head coach.

Tweets by @eurohockey