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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.

09 Feb 2011, 12:50 | EBEL update

Red Bull Salzburg won 3-1 in the 47th round of Erste Bank Eishockey Liga against Vienna Capitals in the battle for the second place. Salzburg are 8 points behind league leading KAC and 2 points before Vienna.

09 Feb 2011, 12:05 | Volchenkov and Cooke for disciplinary hearings

Two NHL players - Matt Cooke and Anton Volchenkov - will face disciplinary hearings today. The Pittsburgh Penguins forward Cooke has been called for his hit from behind on Fedor Tyutin during the game against Columbus; the defenceman of New Jersey Devils Volchenkov should give an explanation of his elbow foul to the Zach Boychuk's head during the game against Carolina.

09 Feb 2011, 06:43 | Switzerland beats NLA selection

The Swiss national team beat an NLA selection 3-2 (SO) in the PostFinance-Arena, Bern last night. Today the team will travel to Slovakia where it will play Belarus on Saturday in Slovakia Cup.

08 Feb 2011, 23:33 | NLA coach fired

Serge Pelletier has been laid off at Fribourg-Gottéron as coach and sporting director. Interim boss until the end of the season will be the Assistant Coach René Matte.

08 Feb 2011, 18:14 | Vikingstad returns to Norway

After 13 years in foreign clubs Tore Vikingstad, one of Norway´s best players ever, returns home to the Norwegian league. Vikingstad signed a contract with Stavanger for the next two seasons.

08 Feb 2011, 15:43 | Jämtin signs new long-term contract

Andreas Jämtin signed a contract today for another four years with Linköpings HC of Elitserien.

08 Feb 2011, 14:19 | Will the NHL come back to Winnipeg?

The NHL former team Jets leaved the city of Winnipeg in 1996 and was moved to Phoenix where is playing for 14 years now as the Coyotes. The club is in the league ownership now and the NHL commissionaire Gary Bettman avows with his interest for a fast selling of the club, what was saved ahead of abolition after the club's bancruptcy.

The NHL already had a buyer - the owner of the BlackBerry company Jim Basilie would like to buy the club last year, but the civil court cancelled this deal. The league is still seeking for new buyer and also the speculations regarding the possibility of moving back the club to Winnipeg are louder and louder. Regarding backstage voices the NHL could be played in Winnipeg from the next season.

08 Feb 2011, 12:38 | Hudáček falls out of the Slovakia roster

The Slovak Ice Hockey Federation announced, that goaltender Július Hudáček (HC Košice) won't join the Slovak national team for the upcoming Slovakia Cup. Slovak Head Coach Glen Hanlon decided to give the chance only to Lašák and Hamerlík, but the doors to the national team aren't closed for Hudáček in the future. Regarding his words, he just want to see other goalies, from this reason there will be no substitute for Hudáček in the team.