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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.

19 Sep 2011, 14:55 | Charles Franzen leaves HSC Csíkszereda

Swedish coach Charles Franzen left the HSC Csíkszereda bench before the home debut match against Ferencváros in MOL Liga. On the Csíkszereda website, the club president explained that Franzen was unsatisfied with the decision to not hiring a Swedish assistant coach as requested, but his departure was totally unexpected: "we waited for him for the dinner at the hotel but he didn't appear, he simply packed his bag and gone away." Former assistant coach Bela Nagy and former player Levente Hozo lead the team in a 4-0 victory against Ferencváros. Last season Frenzen won MOL Liga, Romanian League and Cup with Csíkszereda.

18 Sep 2011, 19:25 | Kristall Saratov fired coach

After four consecutive defeats and the last humiliating 1-9 against HK Ryazan, Kristall Saratov decided to fire coach Oleg Leontiev and replace him with assistant coach Sergei Vorsunov.
Kristall is currently last in VHL West Division

18 Sep 2011, 08:01 | Zug leads NLA

Esa Pirnes and Damien Brunner both scored three goals when EV Zug beat Geneve 7-3 in Swiss NLA.

Zug leads the league one point ahead of Bern.

18 Sep 2011, 04:15 | Sabres hire Teppo Numminen as coach

Buffalo Sabres announced the sign of former defender Teppo Numminen as head coach Lindy Ruff's assistant

Numminen retired in 2009 after 1.372 career games holding the record for most games played by a European player and worked as scout for Finland national team

17 Sep 2011, 21:45 | NLA game stopped because of fog in the arena

Today's game between ZSC Lions and EHC Biel in Swiss NLA had to be stopped after 27 minutes because of fog in the arena. The score was then still 0-0.

17 Sep 2011, 13:37 | Asia League 2011-2012

The new season of Asia League started today. Nippon Paper Cranes only scored once but that was enough to take an early lead of the league standings as they were the only team to win 3 points. The results: Free Blades-Paper Cranes 0-1, Anyang Halla-High1 4-3 (OT), Eagles-Icebucks 3-4 (SO).

16 Sep 2011, 23:06 | No Super-Six in St. Petersburg?

According to Swiss newspaper Südostschweiz, Super-Six tournament, scheduled in January was cancelled due to decline of HIFK Helsinki and Färjestad BK to partecipate. The tournament should replace Champions' League and former Super-Six but isn't organized by IIHF. Besides Scandinavian teams, also Swiss HC Davos, Czech Trinec, German Eisbären Berlin and Russian Salavat Ufa were invited

16 Sep 2011, 22:58 | Vityaz has new director

Leonid Reshetnikov is the new director of KHL team Vityaz Chekhov. He worked at Vityaz from 2000, as manager and chief of financial area

16 Sep 2011, 22:05 | Mozyakin successful

Sergei Mozyakin scored three goals when Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat Traktor Chelyabinsk 5-1.