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13 Nov 2010, 18:31 | Denmark wins Polesie Cup

Denmark beat Slovenia 3-2 after a shoot-out. The win also gave them the tournament vicory. Julian Jakobsen scored twice, including the game winning penalty shot. Belarus beat Norway 5-2 to finish second.

12 Nov 2010, 23:59 | Wins for Germany and Switzerland in Deutschland Cup

Germany beat Canada 4-3 and Switzerland beat Slovakia 2-0 on the opening day of Deutschland Cup.

12 Nov 2010, 22:13 | Friday’s late EIHC games

Kovyrshin, Efimeno and Pavlovich scored two goals each when Belarus defeated Slovenia 8-2. Poland-Ukraine ended 6-3. Spain beat Serbia 6-4. Ilic scored three goals for the losing team. Hungary lost 4-2 to Japan. The Japanese NHL experienced netminder Fukufuji made 40 saves.

12 Nov 2010, 22:04 | Eldebrink signs new contract

Kloten Flyer's Swedish coach Anders Eldebrink signed a new contract. He will stay at Kloten until 2012.

12 Nov 2010, 19:26 | Friday’s early EIHC games

Denmark beats Norway 3-2 after a shoot-out. Holgaard got the game-winner. Lukas scored twice when Austria defeated France 4-3. Romania beat Croatia 6-1 and Russia B had no problem against The Netherlands. The game ended 9-1.

12 Nov 2010, 16:15 | Arlbrandt joins Tre Kronor

Sweden have called up Luleå's forward Pär Arlbrandt for the two remaining games of the Karjala Cup. He replaces Dick Axelsson who was injured in the game against the Czech Republic.

12 Nov 2010, 10:59 | DEL games only in the weekends

From next season all DEL games with just a few exceptions will be played during the weekends. This is because the games played Mondays-Thursdays have 25-30% less spectators.

11 Nov 2010, 22:25 | Big wins in Poland

Russia B defeated Ukraine 7-0 and Poland embarrassed Netherlands 10-1 in the EIHC group in Sanok, Poland. Igor Musatov scored 3 goals. Ivan Kasutin only had to make 7 saves to earn the shut-out. Poland's best scorer was Mikolaj Lopuski (3+1).

11 Nov 2010, 22:09 | Serbia close to an upset against Romania

Serbia lost 2-1 to Romania in the Romanian EIHC tournament but they had the lead late in the second period. Levente Zsok scored the game winner for Romania on a penalty shot at 43:35.

Croatia had no problem to beat Spain 6-1.

11 Nov 2010, 22:02 | Belarus loses to Denmark

Hosts Belarus lost their first game of this weekend's EIHC tournament in Minsk against Denmark 4-2. Three Danish goals in the second period secured the win.

11 Nov 2010, 20:39 | Tollefsen hits a moose

Modo's Norwegian defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen was in a car crash with a moose last night. He and his friends were not injured. The moose also survived the crash.

11 Nov 2010, 16:29 | Norway beats Slovenia

Norway defeated Slovenia 3-1 in the opening game of the EIHC tournament in Belarus. Røymark, Forsberg and Bastiansen scored for the winners and goalie Pål Grotnes made 26 saves. Rok Ticar scored for Slovenia.

11 Nov 2010, 15:00 | Krajicek reveals salary

Defenseman Lukas Krajicek of Ocelari Trinec, who is considered to have the highest salary in Czech Tipsport Extraliga, revealed in an interview for iDnes.cz that he earns 600 000 CZK per month (€ 24,000). The salaries in Czech Extraliga remain unrevealed. Krajicek has played 328 games in NHL and in the last season he played the Stanley Cup finals with the Flyers. He is rumored to move to Ak-Bars Kazan soon.

11 Nov 2010, 12:35 | Steve Walker returns to Berlin

Steve Walker retired after last season but has now decided to put on the Eisbären Berlin dress again. The 37-year-old attacker has signed a contract until the end of the season. In ten years with Berlin, Walker played 556 games in the DEL and scored 206 goals and 355 assists.

10 Nov 2010, 23:17 | Scott Barney caught driving drunk

SaiPa's best scorer in SM-Liiga, Scott Barney, was caught driving drunk and was immediately fired from the team.

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