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03 Apr 2011, 18:45 | Troubled waters in Lustenau

Future of Nationalliga club EHC Lustenau is very uncertain: Finnish coach Kari Eloranta terminated his contract, originally valid also for next season, due to uncertain club financial situation and chairman Werner Alfare resigned after 10 years at the helm of club. Lustenau has 3 weeks to find a new managment and sponsorship, until annual general meeting where the club could be declared bankrupt

02 Apr 2011, 23:55 | Iginla reached 1.000 points

Scoring his second goal of the game in the Flames' 3-2 comeback victory over the St. Louis Blues on Friday night Jerome Iginla marked his 1,000th career point. "When I started, I never would have thought of that and it wasn't something I was thinking about year in and year out or anything like that until maybe the last few," Iginla said to ESPN "It just makes me reminisce and how much fun it's been and how fortunate I've been to play as long as I have."
Iginla became the 77th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 points.

02 Apr 2011, 06:50 | Defenseman kicked out a neighbor’s door

A defender of HC EATON Pardubice, Branislav Mezei, was drowning the season's end after the relegation by Vítkovice from the Czech Extraliga semi finals in a pub and after leaving home he kicked out a flat door. To his own surprise he realized that he mixed up the floors and the door was the neighbor's. He didn't panic, went one floor down, kicked out his own door and went to bed, when he was waken up by the police later he apologized to an aggrieved family and promised compensation of the damage.

02 Apr 2011, 04:39 | A Russian club in the next Belarus Open League?

After the EIHC game against Russia, in a press conference, Belarussian Hockey Federation president Evgeny Vorsin invited Russian club Slavutich Smolensk to participate in next Belarussian Open League. Slavutich, estabilished in 2010, played its inaugural season in Pervaya League.

02 Apr 2011, 02:08 | Val Pusteria lost 0-5 game #5

24 hours after winning 7-2 on ice game #5 of playoffs finals, Val Pusteria received a sanction by Federation and game lost 0-5 by forfeit apparently for a childish mistake having recorded two foreign goalies (Mikko Stromberg and Tommi Nikkilä)in official gameshhet and not an Italian one as rule reads. So now series is 3-2 for Asiago that tomorrow can recapture title

01 Apr 2011, 20:59 | The second finalists in Czech Extraliga is Třinec

HC Vítkovice Steel, the first finalist that has ended its semi final series with Pardubice after 5 games, will in league finals challenge the team of Třinec. Třinec won the game no.7 against Slavia 5-2 and is advancing into the second finals in the club's history. We will bring more info later.

01 Apr 2011, 07:21 | Get-Ligaen finals start

In front of 3.000 spectators regular season champion Sparta Sarpsborg won first game of Norwegian League final series beating 6-1 Stavanger Oilers

01 Apr 2011, 06:57 | Val Pusteria earns first match-ball

With an amazing first period Val Pusteria annihilated Asiago and get the first match point in final series. Matt Kelly (2 goals) and Joe Cullen (1 goal and 4 assists) were the stars of the night in final 7-2. Probably Asiago is tired after 7 games with Bolzano and two taut games to recover initial 0-2 gap

01 Apr 2011, 06:19 | Mongolia withdraws from World Champions

Mongolian Hockey Federation secretary Choijiljav Baasandavaa announced they have to withdraw their men's and U18 national teams from the respective Division III tournaments, in Cape Town (South Africa) and Tapei City (Taipei) due to lack of money and of hockey equipment. The games originally scheduled to be played by the Mongolian teams will technically remain in the respective game schedule and all games including Mongolia will end with a 5-0 forfeit for the opposing team.
Mongolia is the third country to withdraw from IHWC after Japan and DPR Korea

31 Mar 2011, 23:47 | Germany beats Austria 7-0

Germany beat Austria 7-0 in the Euro Hockey Challenge, preparing for the World Championship. Adrian Grygiel scored three of the goals. the others were scored by Tobias Wörle, Thomas Oppenheimer, Martin Schymainsky and Kevin Lavallee.

31 Mar 2011, 23:17 | Belgium is relegated to the World U18 Championship Div III

With one day remaining of the World U18 Championship Div II in Ukraine it is already decided that Belgium is relegated to the 2012 IIHF World U18 Championship Div III. Belgium has lost all four games and even a win against their neighbours from The Netherlands in the last game can't help them from finishing last.

Who will win the promotion? In the last game the hosts from Ukraine will play Lithuania to decide a winner. Follow the tournament here!

31 Mar 2011, 15:29 | USA names U18 roster

USA Hockey today announced the 22-player roster for the 2011 U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team that will compete at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Men's U18 Championship from April 14-24, in Crimmitschau and Dresden, Germany.
View the roster here

31 Mar 2011, 06:29 | Barys-2 is second finalist in Kazakh League

Barys-2 Astana won 3-0 decisive game against champion Sary arka Karaganda and advances to Kazakhstan League finals versus Beybarys Atyrau. Series between Sary Arka and Barys-2 needed eight games to determine winner, after the federation determined to cancel result of game #5, won 3-2 by Barys-2, because Barys-2 alligned a suspended player, Konstantin Pushkarev. Replay was played on march 29 and won 4-3 at shootouts by Barys

31 Mar 2011, 04:53 | Vipiteno won Serie A2

Winning 4-3 game #6 of final series over regular season winner Gherdeina, Vipiteno Broncos is 2010-11 Serie A2 champion. Now Broncos have right to apply for next Serie A. Last summer Vipiteno request was rejected by Italian Federation due lack of rights

30 Mar 2011, 22:54 | HC Košice wins final 1

Košice beat Poprad 3-1 in the first Slovak final.