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17 Dec 2017, 13:58 | Robert Sigurdsson named Icelandic Player of the Year

UMFK Esja forward Robert Sigurdsson was named 2017 Icelandic Player of the Year.
Sigurdsson, 24, after some season in North American minor leagues, played in Iceland since 2014 for Skautafélag Reykjavíkur and from this season for champion UMFK Esja Reykjavík and is Icelandic League top scorer at moment with 46 points (24+22) in 14 games. Sigurdsson is also member of Iceland National Team

Eva María Karvelsdóttir is the Women's Player of the Year

05 Dec 2017, 20:57 | Draw in the first leg of Belarus Cup

In front of 2.800 spectator at Gomel ice arena, home team lets the victory escaped in the first leg of Belarus Cup final against Neman Grodno. Leading 2-0 after 22 minutes, Gomel suffered two goals in 15 seconds at minute 24.for the final 2-2
The second decisive leg will be played at Neman Arena on December20

30 Nov 2017, 09:55 | Zilina replaces coach

31 points after 25 rounds weren't enough for Stanislav Skorvánek to keep his job at Zilina: headcoach was fired by the club and replaced by Czech Petr Rosol.
Rosol, 53, has a long career in Czech Extraliga for Litvinov and Jihlava, with experiences in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Internationally, he played for Czechoslovakia winning the World Championship in 1985 in Prague and the bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville
As coach, Rosol worked at homeland for Usti nad Labem, Ceske Budejovice, and as assistant at Litvínov and in Switzerland at Martigny and EHC Uzwil, his last duty in 2016-17

26 Nov 2017, 12:06 | New coach at Rubin Tyumen

Rubin Tyumen, 17th in the standing, fired headcoach Vladislav Khromykh and one of his assistants Denis Bayev, replacing him with Andrei Kirdyashov, in last two seasons on Sputnik Nizhny Tagil bench. Dmitri Andreyev, who lead team as interim coach for one week, and Rashid Galimzhanov will be the asssitants

26 Nov 2017, 11:35 | Dunarea Galati announced new coach

After the resignation of Cornel Chiriţă at the beginning of November and the interim period of GM Mihai Brandabur, Dunarea Galati announced the appointment of Cristi Munteanu as new coach. Former Dunarea player, Munteanu, 43, coached U18 team last season and was assistant coach of Romania women national team

22 Oct 2017, 16:02 | Tough weekend for Sportul

Even though Sportul Studentesc Bucharest is used to defeats, living in a perennial place at bottom of Romanian League, this weekend was to remember: opposed to Erste Liga team Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc, the amateur team lost 30-1 on friday, with a total of 67 shots on goal faced by two goalies Rares Bularca and Stan Stefan. On Sport Club side, Radim Valchar (6+6) and Zoltan Sandor (5+2) were the top scorer.
On Saturday, in the replay, a loss for "just" 19-0.
In ten games of the league, of course all lost, included a 25-2 against Dunarea and a combo 22-0 and 20-0 against Progym, Sportul already suffered 195 goals, scoring just 10.

19 Oct 2017, 21:48 | Israel League started

Israel League started this week with a spectacular game between Raanana Hitman and HC Bat Yam, decided by a power play goal at minute 57 by Joshua Greenberg. For Raanana weren't enough 4 goals by Eli Tilson for the 5-6 final score.
Silver medalist Kfar Saba Horses will debut againstNes Ziona Dragon

2017-2018 Israel League alligns 10 teams, with the newly formed Holon Ninjas replacing HC Metula.

As usual eurohockey will follow all the games of Israel League with gamesheets, rosters and stat

15 Oct 2017, 00:17 | Slovenian Cup stats available

THe complete statistics for 2017 Slovenian Cup, played in September in Celje, are now available on eurohockey, don't miss the last episode of eternal rivalry between Jesenice and Olimpija

14 Oct 2017, 10:10 | Sputnik replaces coach

After 12 rounds without a victory and no points in the standing, coach Alexander Rozhkov left the bench of Sputnik Nizhny Tagil. Club replaces him with current assistant coach Sergei Lopushansky

12 Oct 2017, 12:46 | Ratushny replaced as Lausanne head coach

Despite an 8:4 derby win against Servette Geneve the previous day, Lausanne HC have relieved head coach Dan Ratushny of his duties on Wednesday. The club from Switzerland's NLA has named Yves Sarault, one of Ratushny's assistants and head coach of the club's U18 team as his replacement for the next games.

06 Oct 2017, 21:59 | Detva fires coach

With just one point after nine rounds of Extraliga, newly promoted HC 07 Detva decided to fire coach Miroslav Chudý, replacing him with current assistant Dušan Kapusta, who will be assisted by Tomáš Chlebničan.
"We are dissatisfied with the results, we cannot replace 25 players, but we had to do something," said the club Chairman Róbert Ľupták.

06 Oct 2017, 14:37 | Two IIHF tournaments moved to a new venue

- iihf.com

Two IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship events got a new venue following approval by the 2017 IIHF Semi-Annual Congress.

The 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division III Qualification will take place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina that hosted the 1984 Olympic Winter Games, from 25th to 28th February 2018. Earlier the original host United Arab Emirates had withdrawn their application.

The lowest tier in the men's senior World Championship category includes the United Arab Emirates, Bosnia & Herzegovina as well as the two newcomers Kuwait and Turkmenistan.

The 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division I Group A that was previously awarded to France got a new venue within the country. The event will now take place in the French Alps in Vaujany.

Austria, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, France and Slovakia will play at the six-team event from 8th to 14th April. The winner will be promoted to the top division of the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship in Finland, which will be the first to be played with ten teams.

30 Sep 2017, 12:53 | New President for Japan Federation

Japan Hockey Federation announces Akihisa Mizuno as new President, during the last General meetings.

Mizuno, 64, previously worked for various companies in Japan and US and for the World Bank.

Former player Tsutomu Hanzawa was appointed as the new General Secretary.

30 Sep 2017, 12:44 | Games cancelled in Lyon

The Magnus Ligue game between Lyon and Epinal was stopped after first period due a failure of refrigeration machinery. The club announced also the next game versus Strasbourg, scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled assuring ensuring they are doing everything they can to fix the failure as soon as possible

27 Sep 2017, 10:56 | Neman and Gomel are the finalists of Belarus Cup

Despite two defeats in 2nd leg of semifinals, Cup holder Neman Grodno and HK Gomel are the finalists of 2017 Belarus Cup, named after Ruslan Salei.

In a replay of last season Cup and league finals, Neman knocked out rival Yunost Minsk, winning 6-4 in Minsk and loosing 1-2 at home.

An opening goal by Edijs Brahmanis was enough for Gomel to secure the pass for the final, despite the 3-1 defeat against Dinamo Maladzyechna, thanks to the 3-0 victory in the first leg.
The date of final is TBD
HK Gomel won the national Cup 4 times, the lasty in 2013; Neman has two titles, in 2015 and 2017

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