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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

21 Mar 2011, 19:00 | KHL 2011/12 newcomers: Espoo Blues denied interest in joining KHL

Executive Director of the Espoo Blues Marcus Lindstrom said to Finnish TV MTVv3 he is "surprised" by the statement KHL president Alexander Medvedev, that his club in the next season will play in the KHL. "We are now focused in the playoffs, we never discussed about it"
General Manager Jussi Salonoya was more determined: "Next season we will play in Finland. The club will invest a lot of money to be competitive in SM-Liiga"

21 Mar 2011, 18:25 | Stepanov earns Belarussian citizenship

Belarus Open League top scorer, Yunost Minsk Russian born forward Andrei Stepanov received today Belarussian citizenship and could be on the national team roster for next World Championship

21 Mar 2011, 14:57 | A new record-man in playoffs goals in Czech Extraliga

Viktor Ujčík from Vítkovice, 38, scored into Pardubice's net his 53rd and 54th Czech playoffs goal in his career yesterday, and he jumped past Jiří Zelenka, the current holder of the record with 53 goals.

21 Mar 2011, 12:55 | KHL 2011/12 newcomers: Poprad and maybe also Espoo and Milan

President of KHL Alexander Medvedev announced that in the case of HC Lev Poprad it is almost sure now, that the club will be one of the KHL clubs for the next season: "It's certain for 99%," Medvedev told.

He also figured out, that an interest from two other clubs is the topic of the day: A Finnish club Espoo Blues and an Italian team Milan are in the game for the KHL tickets. As Medvedev stated, from the season 2012/13 it is possible for a start of other clubs, especially Slovan Bratislava(SVK), Yunost Minsk(BLR) and Sokil Kyiv(UKR). A German gutter-press Bild is also speculating about a possible start of a club from Leipzig.

21 Mar 2011, 08:27 | KAC and Red Bulls lead 2-1

In the Austrian championship KAC Klagenfurt and Red Bulls Salzburg both have 2-1 leads in the best of seven semi final. In the third game KAC won 2-1 against Villach and Red Bulls defeated Vienna Capitals with the same numbers, but after overtime.

21 Mar 2011, 03:17 | Asiago will defend title

Winning 6-3 versus Bolzano in semifinal game #7, current champion Asiago closed the series and will defend its title against Val Pusteria Wolves, winner of regular season, in best-of-seven finals, starting on march 22

20 Mar 2011, 22:06 | Liepājas Metalurgs Latvian Champion 2011

Liepājas Metalurgs II beat HK Ozolnieki-MONARCH in four straight games to win the Latvian Championship. Metalurgs won 9-0 and 4-2 away and then 12-4 and 4-2 at home.

19 Mar 2011, 19:24 | Three teams in the race in Kvalserien

After three rounds of Kvalserien, the qualification round to Sweden's top league Elitserien three teams have a gap to the other three teams. It seems like it is Växjö, Södertälje and MoDo that will fight for the two spots in next season's edition of Elitserien.