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05 Sep 2011, 15:29 | Kevin Dallman will not play for Kazakhstan

In an interview for club official site, Barys Astana president Nurlan Orazbayev declared defender Kevin Dallman won't play for Kazakhstan national team as rumoured: "Dallman will not play for Kazakhstan, because we don't have dual citizenship. Canada has dual citizenship, and he wants to play, but here in our country it's impossible, so he will not play in our team. In order to play for us, he must renounce to Canadian citizenship, but this is a private matter.

05 Sep 2011, 13:14 | CSKA champion of Moscow

CSKA won Mayor's Cup, the unofficial Moscow championship last weekend. They won all three games. 3-2 against Atlant, 4-2 against Spartak and 2-1 against Dynamo.

04 Sep 2011, 21:14 | Mannheim drown their chance in penalties

Adler Mannheim missed out on their chance of making European Trophy finals as they lost their final group game 3-5 against Slavia Praha. Mannheim needed a win to climb over Linköping to second place of South division, but conceded three goals in the 2nd period in a nervous game with 270 penalty minutes (133 to Mannheim, 137 to Slavia).

04 Sep 2011, 16:26 | U17 Finnkampen

Finland U17 and Sweden U17 played three games in Finland this weekend. On Friday Sweden won 6-2 in Lempäälä. Finland won Saturday's game 4-0 in Valkeakoski. Today's game was won by Sweden 4-3 in Hämeenlinna. Jacob de la Rose scored the winner five minutes before the end.

04 Sep 2011, 14:23 | AAHL Suspends Operations for 2011-2012 Season

The All American Hockey League (AAHL) announces that the league will suspend operations for the 2011-2012 season.

The All American Hockey League was formed in the summer of 2008 as the All American Hockey Association when the Battle Creek Revolution and South Shore Shooters (later the Chi-Town Shooters) of the Mid-Atlantic Hockey league (MAHL) banded together with the Evansville Icemen and Motor City Gamblers (later the Detroit Dragons) of the Midwest Hockey league (MWHL).

The All American Hockey League saw three seasons between 2008-2011 and three different Champions: Chi-Town Shooters, Evansville IceMen and Battle Creek Revolution

04 Sep 2011, 08:46 | EIHL starts

The British Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) started yesterday with two games. David-Alexandre Beauregard scored a hat trick when Nottingham Panthers beat Cardiff Devils 6-1. Mark Ramsey and Steve Birnstill both scored in the shootout to secure the 2-1 win for Sheffield Steelers against Belfast Giants.

04 Sep 2011, 01:10 | Sary Arka captain becomes team’s new coach

Few days after finishing Kazakhstan Cup as runner up, Sary Arka lost its coach Sergey Voykin, resigning to come back to coach junior team debuting in MHL. Managment decided to replace him with captain Ramil Saifullin. Player hangs up the skates to fully dedicate himself at coach career

04 Sep 2011, 00:29 | Wallin to hospital

Luleå's Niclas Wallin was taken to hospital after a hard tackle from behind by Liberec' Jaroslav Kudrna in today's European Trophy game. Kudrna was sent of the ice with a game misconduct. At the hospital Wallin was diagnosed with a concussion.

03 Sep 2011, 22:18 | Two more teams to the Red Bulls Salute

Frölunda Indians and Jokerit booked their tickets to the Red Bull Salute on Saturday as they won their respective games.

Frölunda beat KalPa 5-2 and Jokerit beat Slovan Bratislava 7-2.

03 Sep 2011, 13:34 | 2011 AIHL final teams decided

Melbourne Ice and Newcastle North Stars qualified for tomorrow's AIHL final.

Melbourne beat Adelaide Adrenaline 8-3 in the first semi final and then Newcastle beat Sydney Ice Dogs 5-2.

03 Sep 2011, 13:24 | Avangard wins Stone Flower

Avangard Omsk won the Stone Flower cup in Ekaterinburg after beating Sibir Novosibirsk 5-2 in the final.

Barys Astana beat Metallurg Novokuznetsk 5-2 for the third place and Automobilist finished 5th after beating Amur Khabarovsk 5-1.

02 Sep 2011, 21:58 | Toros has a new manager

The VHL team Toros Neftekamsk hired a new manager for the upcoming season: Valeri Nurgutdinov was appointed as director of the club. Nurgutdinov, 42, was director of the Department of Administrative and Social Welfare of the state company "Bashneft".

02 Sep 2011, 20:20 | U20 games in Podolsk

Today Russia beat Finland 11-4 and Sweden beat Czech Republic 7-2 in a four nations tournament for U20 teams in Podolsk, Russia. Yesterday Sweden beat Finland 5-4 And Russia won 2-1 against the Chechs. The winner in tomorrow's game between Russia and Sweden wins the tournament.

02 Sep 2011, 05:12 | Kazakhstan Cup Awards

Kazakhstan Hockey Federation announced individual awards for Kazakhstan Cup.
Best Goalie was nominated Artem Stoletov from champion Arystan, Best Defender trophy went to veteran Sary Arka Sergei Yakovenko, while his teammate Vyacheslav Tokarev won the title as Best Forward.
Vasili Gorbovoy from debutant HK Astana was the top scorer.

01 Sep 2011, 21:10 | Stephan Lundh is the new coach of Dunaújváros

Hungarian team Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák signed experienced Swedish coach Stephan Lundh to face its first season in Austrian Nationalliga. Lundh - 52 -  coached Djurgården, Malmö and Frolunda where he won Elitserien in 2004/2005 along with Coach of the Year Award. He also coached Sweden national team between 1998 and 2000 and Sweden U18, crowning World Champion in 2010

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