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09 May 2011, 22:59 | Viktor Fasth wins Guldpucken

The Swedish goalie Viktor Fasth wins the prestigeous award Guldpucken as the best player of Elitserien.

09 May 2011, 12:01 | No more NHL’ers to the Swedish team

Sweden decided not to wait for more NHL players from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Anders Nilsson, David Rundblad and Andreas Jämtin was added to the roster today.

08 May 2011, 21:59 | HC Lev Poprad will play in the KHL

It will be announced on Monday`s press conference in Crowne Hotel in Bratislava. Alexander Medvedev, René Fasel, Poprad`s owner Roman Slavcev and General manager Tibor Turan will be present. The press conference is held by the KHL. Another press conference will take place in Poprad on Thursday.

08 May 2011, 14:05 | USA adds van Riemsdyk

The Philadelphia Flyers winger James van Riemsdyk will join arrive in Slovakia today to join the Team USA roster for the World Championship.

06 May 2011, 23:09 | Ovechkin comes

Alexander Ovechkin will join the Russian World Championship team on Saturday.

04 May 2011, 10:22 | Peltonen MVP

Ville Peltonen, HIFK's captain, was voted SM-Liiga MVP by the players. He got 1056 points. The runner-up Janne Lahti of Jokerit got 342. Jari Levonen was named Best referee.

03 May 2011, 20:36 | Hockey beats soccer in the Czech Republic

Czech public TV CT4 Sport had to solve collision between two important sporting events at the same time - a World championship game in ice hockey Slovakia - Russia and Champions League in soccer Real Madrid - FC Barcelona. Eventually, the TV decided to broadcast live the game Slovakia - Russia and the match Real - Barcelona will be shown afterwards from the record.

03 May 2011, 09:40 | NZIHL schedule available on Eurohockey.com

The schedule for the New Zealand Ice Hockey League is now available. The league starts May 21.

02 May 2011, 20:38 | Ulf Samuelsson to coach in Elitserien

Ulf Samuelsson returns to Sweden to become new Head Coach of Modo. Samuelsson spent the last five years as Assistant Coach of Phoenix Coyotes in NHL and has now signed a 2-year contract with Modo for his first Head Coach job.

As a player Samuelsson played 15 seasons in NHL and won Stanley Cup 1991 and 1992.

02 May 2011, 14:00 | DEL’s top scorer to Eisbären

This season's outstanding top scorer in the German DEL, Darin Olver, moves from Augsburger Panther to Eisbären Berlin. So does also Barry Tallackson who was 4th in scoring.

01 May 2011, 16:05 | Kulda suspended three games

Latvian defender Arturs Kulda was suspended for three game by IIHF disciplinary commission after tough hit against Czech Radek Martinek.
"The video showed Arturs Kulda jumping into the situation, hitting Martinek's head and neck area," said Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Jan-Ake Edvinsson.

01 May 2011, 13:49 | Martinek will not continue

"The life of Czech defenseman Radek Martinek was in jeopardy. He will not continue at the championship. He is OK now but stays in hopital in Bratislava," said Czech team doctor Radomir Holibka. Martinek was attacked by Arturs Kulda in the 15th minute of the game Czech Republic - Latvia. Kulda received a three-game suspension.

01 May 2011, 08:07 | More NHL’ers come the Worlds

Marian Hossa and Michal Handzus will join the Slovak team for Sunday's game against Germany.

Czech Republic will get Tomas Plekanec and Zbynek Michalek for the game versus Norway on Monday..

29 Apr 2011, 19:16 | Canada adds five players

Team Canada added five players to the World Championship roster today.

Goaltender Jonathan Bernier (Laval, Que./Los Angeles Kings, NHL), defencemen Carlo Colaiacovo (Toronto, Ont./St. Louis Blues, NHL), Marc-André Gragnani (Île-Bizard, Que./Buffalo Sabres, NHL) and Mario Scalzo (Montreal, Que./Mannheim Eagles, DEL) and forward James Neal (Whitby, Ont./Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL).

29 Apr 2011, 17:39 | Donbass Donetsk applies for VHL

After having discarded option to play in Belarus League, today Ukranian champion Donbass Donetsk applied to join 2011-12 VHL

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