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14 Aug 2016, 08:20 | Team USA U17 wins in Dallas

USA got four easy wins to finish on top of the 5-nations tournament for U17 national teams in Frisco, Texas. Czech Republic finished second before Switzerland, Slovakia and Germany.

05 Aug 2016, 10:44 | Bled will host both U18 I division WC

The city of Bled, Slovenia, already chosen by the federation to host U18 Division I Group B World Championship next April, will organize also the Division I Group A since no-one of the six participating nations submitted an application to host the tournament.

So entire Division I will be played in the same venue: from 07 to 13 April Denmark, Germany, Kazakhstan, France, Norway and Hungary for Group A and from 15 to 21 April 2017 Austria, Japan, Ukraine, Slovenia, Italy and Poland for Group B

01 Aug 2016, 09:15 | New Zealand ice hockey finals

The Sky Sports Southern Stampede are the first team through to the finals of the NZIHL as they beat Botany Swarm at the weekend but it is a close run thing for second with Botany Swarm, Canterbury Red Devils and West Auckland Admirals in contention.

30 Jul 2016, 20:58 | Swiss U20 team wins in Dresden

Team Switzerland U20 won the 4-nations U20 tournament in Dresden, Germany with a perfect record. Germany was beaten 4-2, Czech Republic 4-0 and Slovakia 3-0.

Swiss goalie Matteo Ritz was outstanding shutouts in both games he played. Damien Riat, also Switzerland, was the tournament's top scorer with three goals and two assists.

28 Jul 2016, 22:56 | Courbevoie withdrawn, Grenoble punished

CO Courbevoie announced the club won't partecipate in next France Division 1 season and auto-relegated to Division 3. Consequently, applying the regulation, Federation fined the club with 6.000 euro and ousted from Division 3 final round and the promotion for upcoming season.

Following the report of National Monitoring and Management Control Commission (CNSCG) Grenoble was fined and sanctioned for violations of administrative rules, financial tax or statutory and concealment of official documents.
Thus the club received a withdrawal of 6 points in next Magnus Ligue and two years suspension from Coupe de France

26 Jul 2016, 22:39 | Belarus U20 and Khimik withdrew from Belarus Cup

Belarus Federation announced changes on calendar of Belarus Cup, named after Ruslan Salei, that was supposed to start today: two teams - Belarus U20 and SKA-Khimik Novopolotsk - were withdrew from competition for different reasons: Khimik faced a serious financial crisis during the summer, resolved only days ago, so the team started preparation very late and is not able to compete, while Federation decided to focus the U20 national team preparation for upcoming tournaments in autumn.
Check the new fixtures here

24 Jul 2016, 20:24 | Defeat in first ever game for Kunlun

New KHL team, Red Star Kunlun from Beijing, played its first ever game today in Vierumäki, Finland against Traktor Chelyabinsk. The Chinese team lost 0:2, postponing the scoring of first historic goal. Maxim Yakutsenya and Aleksandr Sharov scored for Trakto. Next Red Star Kunlun game will be on July 28 against Spartak Moscow. Follow all the pre-season games on eurohockey

24 Jul 2016, 12:17 | Odins wins the Golden Whistle

Latvian Eduards Odins, 40, wins the Zolotoy svistok (Golden Whistle) award as the best referee of the KHL. It's the fourth trophy for Odins

23 Jul 2016, 18:13 | SHKO Ust-Kamenogorsk changes name

Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk announced the club's second team, performing in Kazakhstan League, changed the name: previously known as SHKO Ust-Kamenogorsk, the farm team is now called Altai-Torpedo. Als the junior team, playing in MHLB, has the same name. Altai is the name of mountains surrounding the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk

21 Jul 2016, 21:08 | Donbas joins EHC

Current Ukranian champion Donbass Donets'k is the newest member of Alliance of European Hockey Clubs (EHC), becoming the first Ukrainian club and the first from former CIS joining the organization, created last June with the mission to unite and represent Europe's professional ice hockey clubs.
"The creation of EHC is an opportunity to make the European hockey market more modern and profitable, and we are proud to become the first Ukrainian club part of that organization" - said Donbass CEO Alexei Braga.

21 Jul 2016, 15:46 | Tom Barasso new coach at Asiago

Asiago Hockey announced the appointment of former NHLer Tom Barasso as new headcoach, Barasso, 51, had his first experience as headcoach last season at Valpellice Bulldogs, when he replaced Canadian Pat Curcio, winning a National Cup, the second ever trophy for the club, and loosing at game #7 playoffs quarterfinals against Asiago

21 Jul 2016, 15:32 | DVTK Miskolc hires Stana as goalie coach

MOL Liga champion DVTK Miskolc announced former goalie Rastislav Stana as new goalie coach. Stana,36, retired after 2014-15 season after a career in North America, Sweden, Russia and Czech Republic. Although he has won just one national title, in 2013-2014 with Kosice, he was the gaolie of historic World Championship title won by Slovakia in 2002. He will work in Miskolc with former Sapa Fehervar junior teams goalie coach Tamás Farkas

20 Jul 2016, 15:54 | Miroslav Valíček new General Secretary at Slovak Federation

Former Director of Slovak hockey Hall of Fame Miroslav Valíček is the new General Secretary of Slovak IceHockey Federation replacing Robert Pukalovič. Mr Valíček also worked in 2019 World Championship organizing Committee.
"He's an experienced person who has previously worked with the Federation. He will be one of my closest collaborator" said President Martin Kohut

20 Jul 2016, 13:40 | Barys confirmed camp in Switzerland

After a first statement announcing the cancellation of training camp in Switzerland due the delay in the journey bacause of political situation in Turkey, Barys Astana confirmed today the team arrived in Davos. During the camp team will play three pre-season games, 2 against HC Davbos and one versus Vityaz.

17 Jul 2016, 11:05 | AIHL Finals in Melbourne

The 2016 AIHL season will see its final act at O'Brien Group Arena in Melbourne on 27-28 August weekend when the top four regular season AIHL teams will compete for the Goodall Cup.

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