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02 Mar 2011, 06:43 | Piestany wins Slovak 1.liga

Piestany beat Liptovsky Mikulas 4-0 in the 7th game to win the Slovak 1.liga final series 4-3.

01 Mar 2011, 21:20 | Federal Hockey League announces new team for 2011-12

The Federal Hockey League announces the eighth member of the league, the Green Mountain Rock Crushers as an expansion franchise for the 2011-12 season. The Rock Crushers will play at the Ice Haus Arena at Jay Peak Resort.
The Green Mountain Rock Crushers will be the state's first ever professional hockey team in Vermont. The team begins play in late October 2011 for the sophomore season

01 Mar 2011, 10:40 | Czech 1. liga semifinalists known

Two clear favourites of Czech second division - 1. liga - have succesfully passed the first playoff hurdle. Chomutov beat Hradec Kralove 4-1 while Usti nad Labem came from 1-2 down in the series to down Vrchlabi 4-2. Other semifinalists are Jihlava, beating Znojmo 4-2, and Havlickuv Brod knocking out Olomouc 4-2, as well. Semifinals Usti - H. Brod and Chomutov - Jihlava begin on 5th March.

01 Mar 2011, 06:51 | Set for Mexican LME finals

Last weekend was the Liga Mexicana Élite semi final round played. The final games will be played mid-March between Mayan Astronomers and Teotihuacan Priests.

28 Feb 2011, 02:31 | Barcelona will face Jaca in Spanish final

While Jaca easily walked over Majadahonda scoring 11 goals and advancing to the finals, a real battle occurred in Barcelona between the home team (victorious in first game) and Puigcerdà. On Saturday the visitors snatched an important victory despite support by a very good crowd and a comeback in the last period. A goal by Juan Brabo with less than 2 minutes before the overtime sent Puigcerdà to game 3, on Sunday again in Barcelona due to better placement in regular season. This time blau-grana didn't waste the second home matchball, equalizing twice Puigcerdà´s advantage and closing the question at 57:02 with Ramon Morer. Jaca dominated the season and is the favourite for the title, but Barcelona showed to have tools to face the Pyrenean team.

27 Feb 2011, 23:00 | Tied in Slovak 1.liga finals

The final series of the Slovak 1.liga (2nd level) is tied at 3 after Mikulas 5-2 win against Piestany today.

27 Feb 2011, 22:42 | No surprises in Austria

All the top ranked teams, KAC Klagenfur, Red Bulls Salzburg, Vienna Capitals and VSV Villach won the first quarter final round in the playoff of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. One game went to overtime, Brent Aubin scored the game winner when the Red Bulls defeated Olimpija Ljubljana 5-4.

27 Feb 2011, 14:19 | Anyang Halla wins again

South Korean Anyang Halla won 2-1 today to take a 2-0 lead in the Asia League semi final series against Oji Eagles of Japan. Both Korean goals were scored by Alex Kim.

The other semi final series between the two Japanese teams Nippon Paper Cranes and Tohoku Freeblades is now tied at 1 after Cranes´ 6-2 win today. Daisuke Obara scored 3 goals for the winners.

27 Feb 2011, 01:49 | Premiere for Valpelllice

Valpellice Bulldogs made a real feat in playoffs quarter finals game #5: with a small roster and a coach fired last month from Serie A2, Valpellice advances to the semi finals for the first time ever in its history knocking out super favourite Renon, finalist in the last 3 consecutive seasons. A stellar performance by goalie Kevin Regan and a fighting spirit by Iannone and Nikiforuk made a miracle. More than 500 fans followed the team in Collalbo from Torre Pellice. Now Bulldogs will face another favourite, regular season winner Val Pusteria, closing easily, as expected, its pair versus Alleghe winning 2-1 in game 5. Same path for champion Asiago, knocking out Fassa in five games and now facing Bolzano in an intriguing semi final.

26 Feb 2011, 10:28 | Asia League playoffs start with two surprises

In both today´s semi finals of the Asia League the lower ranked away team won.

Tohoku Freeblades defeated Nippon Paper Cranes 7-3 and the only Korean team of the playoffs, Anyang Halla, beat regular season winners Oji Eagles 4-3.

26 Feb 2011, 01:41 | Bolzano mourns first title’s president

88 year old deputy Alcide Berloffa died friday after an illness. He was the president of HC Bolzano from 1960 to 1964, in charge when Bolzano won its first title in 1963

25 Feb 2011, 23:53 | Lausanne to NLB semis

Lausanne HC was the last team to qualify for the Swiss Nationalliga B semi finals. Today´s 6-2 against HC Ajoie gives a 4-3 series win.

The other quarter final series ended: Chx-de-Fds - Sierre-Anniviers 4-0, EHC Olten - EHC Basel Sharks 4-0 and EHC Visp - SC Langenthal 4-2.

23 Feb 2011, 23:07 | Three teams made it to the Mestis semi finals today

The quarter finals of the Finnish second league Mestis is played February 19-26. Three out of four series were decided today. Only SaPKo-D Team is still alive.SaPKo won 8-1 today but D Team leads the series 2-1.

Jukurit knocked out K-Vantaa, Sport Vaasa beat LeKi and KooKoo got past K-Laser. All in three straight games.

23 Feb 2011, 16:33 | HC Lugano has a new coach

The third coach of the season for HC Lugano: before the start of the playouts the club from Ticino hired 46 year old Canadian Greg Ireland, last season on AHL's San Antonio Rampage bench. Ireland will be assisted by current interim coach Mike McNamara and assistant coach Patrick Fischer.

23 Feb 2011, 13:20 | Kracík is out from the Czech Extraliga playoffs preliminary round

Forward Jarolsav Kracík is playing for Litvínov on a loan from Plzeň. Both teams will be fighting for one quarterfinals spot in a best-of-five series from this evening. In the player loan agreement between Plzeň and Litvínov it is written, that Plzeň's approval is needed for Kracík's start in mutual games, but Plzeň disagree with Kracík's start and he has to stay off the ice.

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