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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.

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.

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