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09 Nov 2010, 23:40 | Eight German debutants in Deutschland Cup

In Uwe Krupp's German squad for the upcoming Deutschland Cuo there are eight players who will play their first national team games.

Florian Kettemer, Benedikt Kohl, Darin Olver (Augsburg), Martin Buchwieser, Martin Schymainski (München), Jerome Flaake (Hamburg), Frank Mauer (Mannheim) and Daniel Pietta (Krefeld).

06 Nov 2010, 22:26 | MacNevin out for the season.

AIK:s important defenseman Josh MacNevin is out for the remainder of the season after a serious leg injury in the Elitserien game against Timrå.

02 Nov 2010, 22:53 | First win for TPS

The 2010 Finnish champions TPS Turku had a terrible start of the season. Today, in their 20th game of the season they managed to win their first 3-pointer.

21 Oct 2010, 23:15 | Gustafsson joins ZSC

Former head coach of the Swedish national team Bengt-Åke Gustafsson is the new head coach of Swiss club ZSC Lions from Zürich. After signing Gustafsson the club also signed former NHL-star Owen Nolan to their roster.

10 Oct 2010, 17:23 | New coach for Spain

50 year-old Italian/Canadian Luciano Basile is new head coach of the Spanish National team.
Basile is currently coach at Briançon, France Ligue Magnus. He previously coached Spanish team Majadahonda and won the championship in 1997. 
For the past two season he's been awarded best coach of Ligue Magnus. Prior to this he worked in Italian Varese and Asiago.

08 Oct 2010, 16:13 | New coaches for Kazakhstan national teams

Russian Andrei Khomutov was appointed as the new coach of Kazakhstan national team. Khomutov's ambition, currently being head coach of KHL's Barys Astana, is to try to win the Asian Winter Games, hosted by Kazakhstan in February, and to bring the team back into the Elite division during the IHWC Division I in Kyiv next spring.
Aleksandr Maltsev is the new head coach of the womens' team.

The Federation created a department to develop junior hockey. Former player Aleksandr Koreshkov is the appointed director of this pioneering department.

08 Oct 2010, 16:00 | Kazzinc Torpedo fired coach

Vladimir Belayev was fired from his position as coach of Kazzinc Torpedo Ust Kamenogorskhead. The club's vice-president Yuri Petukhov commented: "Vladimir is a good man and a very good coach, but unfortunately, under his leadership the team failed to meet the goals we set". Former coach of champion Sary-Arka Oleg Bolyakin is the new coach.

05 Oct 2010, 22:40 | Peter Oppitz leaves Puigcerdà

Slovak coach Peter Oppitz leaves Spanish team CG Puigcerdà and signs with ambitious 2nd Division team Las Encinas de Boadilla from Madrid. Delay in payments and a better economic offer persuaded Oppitz to leave the Pyrenaic team. In five seasons under his command Puigcerdà won 3 leagues and 4 National Cups. Puigcerdà managment will soon announce who will be the new coach, probably a player\coach.

04 Oct 2010, 21:35 | Ertis Pavlodar punished

Today the Kazakhstan Hockey Federation confirmed sanctions against Ertis Pavlodar for leaving the ice at 59:02 during a game versus Sary Arka Karaganda, alleging a double major penalty decided by the referee was an unacceptable mistake. Sary Arka won the game 5-0.

04 Oct 2010, 20:45 | SKA beats Hurricanes

In tonight's exhibition game between SKA St. Petersburg and Carolina Hurricanes the Russian team won 5-3.

Maksim Sushinsky scored twice for the winners.

29 Sep 2010, 21:55 | AIK wins first derby in eight years

In front of 13 850 sold out crowd the newcombers AIK won the first derby in Stockholm defeating last year's finalist Djurgården 5-2.

29 Sep 2010, 15:49 | Kozlov returns to Russia

Vyacheslav Kozlov is back in Russian club hockey after 18 years and 1,182 regular season games in the NHL.

Kozlov signed a one-year contract with CSKA Moscow.

17 Sep 2010, 23:41 | Three countries want 2016 World Championship

Three national associations have submitted applications to organize the 2016 IIHF World Championship: Russia (Moscow and Kazan), Denmark (Copenhagen and Herning) and Ukraine (Kiev). The IIHF Annual Congress in Bratislava in May 2011 will decide about the allocation.

15 Sep 2010, 21:15 | Elitserien starts

Sweden's top league started with one game on Wednesday evening. Linköping won comfortably with 5-1 away to the newly promoted AIK. The first round continues with four games on Thursday and one on Friday.

10 Sep 2010, 23:46 | NLA starts

Zug defeated 2010 champions Bern 4-1 in the opening round.

Davos, Biel, Lugano and Kloten also started with 3-pointers.

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