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19 Feb 2011, 13:22 | Is there a new owner of the Trashers on the horizon?

The Atlanta native, movie-actor, director and producer in one person, Stephen Rollins, is interested in buying of the Atlanta Trashers NHL license. "I´m cooperating with an investing company and we are thinking about more sport teams. In current economical situation we won´t risk anything but I want to NHL stay still in Atlanta," Rollins said. Experts are questioning his possible buying of the languishing NHL team, because Atlanta needs immediate help of strong investor and fans if the club should stay in the city and Rollins is too observant.

19 Feb 2011, 10:00 | The Czech Etxraliga TOP 10 is closed

After 51 rounds of 52 it is known the list of the play-off qualified teams in Czech Extraliga. The play-off system in the Czech republic is based on the preliminary round, where the teams from 6th to 10th spots are qualified. From 3-wins series two teams will advance to the quarterfinals, where the teams from the 1st to 5th place are waiting.

In the 2011 Czech Extraliga play-offs these teams will play: Třinec, Liberec, Vítkovice, Zlín, České Budějovice, Pardubice, Slavia Prague, Plzeň, Litvínov and Karlovy Vary.

19 Feb 2011, 10:00 | Třinec is the early winner of the President trophy

Although there remains another one round to play in Czech Extraliga, Třinec already reserved the President trophy, a cup for the winner of the Czech Extraliga regular season, for themselves due to interplay of two yesterday's results: Třinec beats the last year's President trophy holder Plzeň(4-0) and the second team in the league standings, Liberec, lost their game in Litvínov(4-3).

18 Feb 2011, 17:34 | HC Brest has problems

Troubled waters in Brest: despite good campaign team players decided to write a letter to Brest governor Konstantin Sumar to report the awful condition of club: insufficient supply of materials, delay of wages and bonuses, poor quality of food and of vehicle to carry teams around the country.
Brest general director Vadim Drachev denied the existence of letter and its content but same Drachev complained the state of club in verious interviews in the past

18 Feb 2011, 16:02 | No surprises in game #1 playoffs quarter-finals in Italy

For a strange coincidence 2010-2011 playoffs quarter-finals in Italian Serie A allign the same last season pairs. Yesterday in game one of best-of-seven series there were no surprises, home teams - favourite for advance at semifinals - won opening game. Check eurohockey.com complete boxscores and reviews clicking on link

16 Feb 2011, 18:41 | Two teams withdrew from Turkish League

Turkish Ice Hockey Federation announced Anka and Erzurum Genclik ve Spor teams have been withdrawn from the Turkish Super League due repeatedly not fill roster with required minimum number of players. Erzurum has also one game no-show.

15 Feb 2011, 23:30 | SaiPa’s best scorer injured

SaiPa´s top scorer Tyler Redenbach was injured in training and will miss the rest of the SM-Liiga season.

15 Feb 2011, 18:52 | U16 national teams tournament for Finland

Finnish players in the cathegory under-16 years wins a tournament of four nations on their home ground. They win all three games with total score 8:3. On the opposite side of the standings ends the Czechs with 0 points and the horrible score 4:15.

Results: SWE - RUS 3:4, CZE - FIN 1:3, FIN - RUS 4:2, CZE - SWE 1:6, FIN - SWE 1:0, CZE - RUS 2:6.

Standings: 1. FIN 9p.; 2. RUS 6p.; 3. SWE 3p.; 4. CZE 0p.

15 Feb 2011, 16:04 | HC Košice sets the new Slovak Extraliga record in points

HC Košice, the last two years winner of Slovak Extraliga, broke their own two years old record in ammount of reached points during the regular season, even if another three rounds still remaining to play. At the moment Košice has 128 points on their account from 54 games, the hitherto maximum was 126 points from the 2008/09 season.

15 Feb 2011, 15:45 | Martin Straka becomes new owner of HC Plzeň

One of the Czech hockey legends, the still active forward Martin Straka, became a new owner of the Czech Extraliga club HC Plzeň 1929. The club lawyer Tomáš Tesař announced it during the meeting with the fans: "Martin is the only shareholder of the club stocks," Tesař said. The Plzeň patriot Straka bought the equity security from the businessmen couple Jiří Vlasák and Zdeněk Pechr in the HC Plzeň Investments company - the current 70% owner of the club. Except that he is the team captain on the ice and the club's general manager off the ice, this is his third function in the Indians organisation.

15 Feb 2011, 15:25 | Eric Chouinard extends contract

Eric Chouinard, who currently holds the sixth place in the DEL scoring list, signed a new contract with Nürnberg Ice Tigers and will stay at the club until 2013.

15 Feb 2011, 13:07 | Another change on the Izhstal bench

After 15 days Albert Loginov resigns as Izhstal coach. He was replaced by former player Vladimir Maslov, in the last 5 years Head Coach of the junior team. His assistant will be the current 2nd team coach Dmitri Mekeshkin.

15 Feb 2011, 11:21 | Randy Robitaille leaves Lugano

After 3 seasons HC Lugano and Canadian forward Randy Robitaille cancelled the contract by a mutual agreement. Robitaille will now look for an opportunity in the NHL and recently signed a PTO contract with San Antonio Rampage in the AHL. Despite having been the best assistman in the league, at the end of the season Lugano scratched Robitaille from the roster and this year the 35 years old forward never played for his Swiss team.

14 Feb 2011, 20:14 | Forsberg is retiring again

Just two road-games Peter Forsberg, 37, played in the Colorado Avalanche jersey after his big come-back and there is the end coming again. The two-fold Stanley Cup champion and two-fold Olympics Games gold medalist will describe his reasons for re-retirement today on a press conference at 14:30 MST(22:30 CET).

13 Feb 2011, 07:22 | Jaromír Jágr will be a new CEO of HC Kladno

The unageing hockey megastar Jaromír Jágr, 38, will undertake the management of the Czech Extraliga club HC Kladno. The right-winger confirmed this information in iDnes.cz as well as the current CEO of the club, his father, Jaromír Jágr sr..

Jágr jr. will take the club under his wings from the next season, but it doesn't necessitate termination of his professional career or comeback to Czech Extraliga, Jágr jr. said.

We will bring you more detailed info later...