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26 Dec 2017, 13:24 | Italian Hockey League Elite started today

The Italian teams partecipating at Alps Hockey League started today the battle for qualification at Final Four, scheduled in next February, to assign the Italian title.
The eight teams were splitted in 2 groups, South A and B, with homa and away games scheduled between December 26 and January 6. The games count both for Alps Hockey League and the Serie A, this season called Italian Hockey League Elite. The first two teams for each group will advance to Final Four of February 10-11 to assign the title
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Group South A: SV Renon/Ritten, HC Val Pusteria/Pustertal, SG Cortina, Fassa Falcons
Group South B B: Asiago Hockey 1935, HC Egna, HC Gherdeina, SSI Vipiteno Broncos

25 Dec 2017, 10:45 | Damir Ryspaev can go back in KHL

According to portal shaiba.kz, the KHL terminated the suspension of Damir Ryspaev imposed after player started a brawl on 08 August 2016 during the a game between his club Barys Astana and the Red Star Kunlun for the Cup of the President of Kazakhstan in Astana. A week later Ryspaev received a lifetime ban from the league. He started the season playing for Nomad Astana, the Barys' satellite club playing in Kazakh League, before to receive the permission to play in VHL, moving to Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk where played 7 games

24 Dec 2017, 16:31 | Txuri Urdin win Copa del Rey

Txuri Urdin win Copa del Rey (Spanish National Cup) by beating 3-1 arch-rival CH Jaca in the final played at home in San Sebastian. Two goals on power-play at the begin of last period, scored by Slovak Vladimir Lantos and Czech Pavel Mrna decided the game. The two teams have faced each other for the third year in a row in the final, with Jaca won last season and Txuri two years ago.
With this victory Txuri Urdin sums 11 Cups. Jaca remains the remains the major winner with 15 titles, following by Puigcerdà with 12

23 Dec 2017, 19:46 | HSC Csíkszereda won Romanian Cup

HSC Csíkszereda (SC Miercurea Ciuc) won its ninth Romanian Cup by beating 5-1 major rival Corona Brasov in the final played at Galati. Experienced Russian forward Pyotr Schastlivy scored two goals while compatriot Andrei Taratukhin netted a decisive short-handed goal in the second period.It was the eighth final in the last ten years for Sport Club, defeated last season by Dunarea Galati. Progym Gheorgheni won the bronze defeating 6-5 host Dunarea

20 Dec 2017, 20:16 | Gomel win Belarus Cup

Kazakh forward German Nesterov was the key player for Gomel winning the 2018 Belarus Cup, named after Ruslan Salei. Nesterov scored a goal, seved one assist and netted the decisive shootout in 3-2 epic victory at Ice Palace Grodno in front of 2800 spectators against Cup holder Neman Grodno. The first leg of final ended 2-2. With this victory Gomel award the fifth National Cup, becoming the major winner of the Trophy along with Yunost Minsk, both with 5 titles

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.

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