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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...

12 Feb 2011, 21:20 | Peter Forsberg back on the ice

One of Sweden's greatest players of all times, Peter Forsberg, refuses to give up his career. Despite years of injury trouble he made a comeback with Colorado Avalanche in the NHL. "You could argue to say that he was our best players", Colorado's coach Joe Sacco said after the game.

12 Feb 2011, 20:53 | 200th game in Team Sweden

Magnus Johansson played today with the jersey #200 in Sweden's 6-2 win over Russia in LG Hockey Games (EHT) to celebrate that this was his game number 200 in the Swedish national team.

12 Feb 2011, 06:28 | PHL coach extends contract

Rudolf Rohacek extended his contract as Head Coach of ComArch Cracovia in the PHL until the 2013/14 season. Cracovia won the regular season and has started the playoffs with two wins, 5-0 and 10-1, against Zaglebie.

11 Feb 2011, 23:37 | LG Games roster updates

Finland's Mika Pyörälä injured his knee against Russia yesterday in the LG Games opener. He will be replaced with the Elitserien scoring leader Mikko Lehtonen.

Lehtonen's team mate in Skellefteå AIK, Tim Erixon, was supposed to play his first game for Team Sweden tomorrow but got sick and will be replaced with Jan Sandström.

11 Feb 2011, 23:29 | Friday’s EIHC games

There are three EIHC tournaments played right now; in Denmark, Norway and Spain. Denmark was the only home team to win today when Russia B was beaten 3-2. Nichlas Hardt scored twice. Spain lost 2-7 to Romania and Norway lost to Ukraine 0-1 after a shoot-out. Latvia beat Italy 7-1 in Norway.

10 Feb 2011, 22:14 | EIHC results

In Norway the hosts lost 3-4 to Italy in the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge tournament in Lørenskog. Italian keeper Daniel Bellissiomo made 38 saves when his team was outshot 41-12. In the other game in Lørenskog Ukraine beat Latvia 2-1.

Denmark beat France 4-3 after a shootout in a game not included in the Energi Danmark Challenge standings. In the Danish tournament Russia B beat France 5-0 yesterday. Tomorrow the Russians will play Denmark 0nad the "real" game between Denmark and France will take place on Saturday.

09 Feb 2011, 17:07 | Team Denmark Head Coach signs new contract

Pär Bäckman, Head Coach of the Danish national team since 2008, signed a new contract today. The new contract expires May 31 2013.

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