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12 Dec 2010, 11:37 | World Juniors starts today

The WJC Div.1 (B) in Slovenia starts today. Tomorrow starts the A group of the 1st Division in Belarus and the Division 2 groups in Estonia and Romania.

The Elite group starts December 12 and Division 3 that is the last of the U20 World Championships to be played this season begins January 9.

You will get daily reports from all tournaments here.

12 Dec 2010, 00:17 | HC Ceresio has a new coach

Beat Lautenschlager, last season on GCK Lions bench, is the new coach of 1 Lega' club HC Ceresio. He replaced Ruben Fontana who remains in the club as manager. Ceresio is HC Lugano's farm team. After a careeer as player in Kloten and Bienne, Lautenschlager worked as assistant coach for the U20 national team and head coach for the U18 team. From 2001 to 2003 he coached EHC Basel, winning NLB in 2002, before accepting the GCK offer.

11 Dec 2010, 09:24 | Lehner to World Juniors

Ottawa Senators announced on its website that Robin Lehner, 19, will play the World Junior Championships for Sweden.

Lehner has been on the ice for two NHL games with the Senators and still have not allowed any goals. Otherwise, he has mostly been playing in the Binghamton Senators of the AHL.

09 Dec 2010, 21:59 | Trevisani awarded

Former Italy national team defender Carter Trevisani was elected Federal Hockey League November's player of the month. Trevisani, currently playing for Akwesasne Warriors, recorded 9 goals and 17 assists in 16 games, helping his team to grab the first place in the newly formed league.

09 Dec 2010, 19:59 | Lada without coach

Alleging family reasons, Nikolai Kazakov resigned as Lada Togliatti coach.

09 Dec 2010, 09:10 | Jere Lehtinen retires

NHL club the Dallas Stars confirmed last night the speculation that the Finnish ice hockey player Jere Lehtinen ends his career.
37-year-old Lehtinen is the only Finn to have won both the Stanley Cup (1999) and the World Championships (1995).
Lehtinen has had problems with injuries for a long time. Last season he had problems with the groin and played only 58 games, scoring four goals and collected 17 points.

09 Dec 2010, 07:24 | Pluss signs new contract

Martin Plüss will remain at SC Bern until 2013. Plüss has scored 129 points (58+71) in 134 games with Bern since he arrived in 2008. He has also represented Team Switzerland 203 times.

09 Dec 2010, 05:16 | Fassa sacks Posma

After a series of disappointing results Serie A team SHC Fassa sacked Canadian coach Mike Posma. Posma was the third coach on Fassa's bench this season, after Canadian Steve Stirling, resigning in late August for family reasons, and Czech-Canadian Miroslav Frycer, contracted to replace Stirling but never arrived in Fassa. The team is currently coached ad interim by Luigi Marchetti and will soon announce a new coach.

06 Dec 2010, 21:27 | Italy names junior roster

Fabio Polloni announced the Italian roster for the World Juniors Division 1 in Belarus December 13-19. Italy will face Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, Japan and Great Britain.

05 Dec 2010, 23:53 | NLA game cancelled

The Swiss National League game SC Bern - Genève-Servette HC was cancelled today because of illness and many injured players in the away team. A new date for the game is still not decided.

05 Dec 2010, 02:58 | Movements on VHL benches

Dizel Penza appointed former Severstal Cherepovets 2nd team's coach Sergei Ivanov as new head coach, days after Victor Korolev being sacked.

After the 5-11 loss versus Crystall Saratov, Molot Prikarmie Perm sacked Swedish coach Joakim Fagervall and replaced him with Nikolai Vanin.

04 Dec 2010, 11:05 | No punishment for Marjamäki

The Ilves attacker Masi Marjamäki injured Kärpät's Kamil Kreps with a brutal hit. The SM-Liiga has reviewed the hit from many angles and decided that there is no reason to punish Marjamäki for the incident. Kreps was motionless on the ice for several minutes after the hit.

02 Dec 2010, 19:06 | VHL players’ of the month

Rubin Tyumen Aleksandr Sudnitsin (2 shutouts in 9 games) was elected November's goalie of the month in Vysshaya Hockey League (VHL). As best defender was choosen Toros Neftekamsk's Anton Polishchuk, while best forward was Sergei Kochetkov (Izhstal Izhevsk).
19 years old Mechel Chelyabinsk forward Maksim Karpov was named "best rookie" for his 9 (2+7) points record past month.

02 Dec 2010, 18:52 | Dizel Penza sacked coach

Victor Korolev is no more the coach of Dizel Penza. After 7 consecutives defeats, Dizel management decided to sack the coach, replacing with Oleg Butylin as interim coach. The new coach's name isn't known yet.

02 Dec 2010, 07:25 | Successful start for Mikus at Spartak Moskva

In his first game for Spartak Moskva (KHL), Juraj Mikus scored the game-winner just 10 seconds before the final whistle of Wednesday's 3-2 win against Barys Astana.

Mikhail Zhukov had tied the game for Spartak a minute earlier.