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25 Mar 2011, 07:39 | Banská Bystrica ties the semi finals against Poprad

Banská Bystrica beat Poprad 2-1 to tie the Slovak semi final series 2-2. Jan Sykora scored the game winner in the shootout.

24 Mar 2011, 20:59 | Odessa Jackalopes will move to NAHL

Central Hockey League Odessa Jackalopes announces team will move to NAHL next season after NAHL governors accepted bid and the ownership group finalized the purchase of a team from Owatonna Minnesota last week.
Odessa's departure from the CHL continues a recent exodus as Amarillo and Corpus Christi moved to the NAHL last season.

24 Mar 2011, 20:18 | Ilidza won Bosnian Cup

HK Ilidža 2010, a team that joined Bosnian hockey family during this season and missed qualification for playoffs in BH Liga, won the second edition of Bosnian national cup, named after former Czech coach of HK Bosna Jaroslav Jandourek. After won 6-3 over Alfa Novo Sarajevo in semifinal with an hattrick by promising Dino Čordalija, Ilidza beated 2-1 in the final last season cup winner HK Bosna.

23 Mar 2011, 22:58 | Yunost wins the first final in Belarus

Yunost Minsk won the first of the Belarus Championship finals against Neman Grodno. The game ended 6-1. Find the game stats here.

23 Mar 2011, 17:14 | Mike Williamson named head coach of Canada’s U18 team

Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Hockey League, announced Wednesday that Mike Williamson (Leduc, Alta.), head coach of the WHL's Calgary Hitmen, will be the head coach of Canada's National Men's Under-18 Team for the 2011 IIHF World Under-18 Championship, April 14-24 in Dresden and Crimmitschau, Germany.

23 Mar 2011, 16:04 | Donbass and Companion won semifinals game #1 in Ukraine

Ukranian League played its first game in best-of-three semifinals series: regular season winner Donbass Donetsk won away, hammering HC Kharkiv 1-8, confirming its favouritism for title. In other pair Companion-Naftogaz Kyiv surprisingly won at shoot-outs eternally champion Sokil Kyiv

23 Mar 2011, 09:18 | Václav Sýkora recalled from SKA St. Petersburg

The SKA St. Petersburg Council of President's reacted on the team's underachievement really quick. As the first move after the team's elimination from the KHL quarterfinals they announced the end of Václav Sýkora in the position as head coach and also of Jan Votruba, his assistant.

One day before this action the president of club Alexander Medvedev told, that players are winning the games, coaches are losing, which hinted a possibility of Sýkora's and Votruba's removing from the team. "This is a management's decision, there's nothing to comment. It's the decisions time and I think that they will be constructive and they'll come soon," GM Andrei Tochitsky said.

23 Mar 2011, 08:52 | Jeřábek named new Mladá Boleslav head coach

After Monday's Miloš Holaň removing from the position as head coach of Mladá Boleslav the sport manager Milan Hnilička was looking for a substitution and he has found it really fast.

Vladimír Jeřábek, 52, signed a contract for the rest of this season. He has only one target: To save an Extraliga license for the next season, because the team of Mladá Boleslav is balancing on the edge of relegation to the 1.liga. Last time, Jeřábek was leading HC Kometa Brno in Extraliga, but he resigned after bad results on Jan 5, 2011.

23 Mar 2011, 05:51 | Val Pusteria won finals game 1

In a sold out Solar Arena, Val Pusteria debuts in its first ever playoffs final and confirmes favouritism, despite absences of top scorer Robert Sirianni and captain Thomas Pichler, both injured. Brunico team won 4-1 against defending champion Asiago and leads 1-0 in the series. Next game on thursday in Asiago

22 Mar 2011, 23:10 | Sapa Fehérvár AV19 wins first Hungarian final

Sapa Fehérvár AV19 beat Dab.Docler 2-1 in the first of seven Hungarian finals. Balazs Ladanyi and Istvan Sofron scored for the winners.

22 Mar 2011, 22:33 | Färjestad and Luleå win first semi finals

It was tight games when the first semi final in Sweden was played. Luleå won 4-3 away to Skellefteå after overtime (boxscore). In the other game Färjestad won against the surprise team AIK, AIK's first loss of the playoff (boxscore).

22 Mar 2011, 21:45 | 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0

All Quarter Final series of the VHL ended 3-0.Neftyanik beat Kristall, Dizel beat VMF, Rubin beat Ermak and Toros beat Molot. In the semi finals Neftyanik will play Dizel and Rubin will play Toros.

22 Mar 2011, 19:19 | Barry Smith is new coach of HC Lugano

HC Lugano announces the sign of 59 years old American Berry Smith as new coach for next two seasons.
Smith worked in NHL for Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes winning 5 Stanley Cup: in 1991 and 1992 with Pittsburgh, in 1997, 1998 and 2002 with Detroit Red Wings. From 1997 to 2010 he was head coach of SKA st. Petersburgh in KHL and last season worked in Chicago Blackhawks as scout.

22 Mar 2011, 11:04 | Jokerit coach suspended

Jokerit's head coach Erkka Westerlund is suspended from the 4th SM-Liiga Quarter Final against HIFK and maybe also more games after an incident in the third game. After HIFK's late 2-1 goal he threw a bottle at the referee and received a match penalty.

21 Mar 2011, 20:23 | Petr Machovsky won F.W "Dinty" Moore Trophy in OHL

Brampton Battalion 17 years old Czech goalie Matej Machovsky was awarded with F.W. "Dinty" Moore Trophy as the rookie goalie with the Best Goals-Against-Average.

Machovsky - eligible for the 2011 NHL Entry Draft - led all rookie goaltenders with a goals-against-average of 2.90 which ranked as the seventh best mark in the entire OHL. Last season another Czech goalie, Petr Mrazek from Ottawa 67's, captured the trophy

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