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13 Mar 2016, 15:41 | Valpellice forces Game 7 against defending champion

The Valpellice Bulldogs, coached by NHL-legend Tom Barrasso, have come back from a 1-3 deficit in the quarter final series against defending Italian champion Asiago Hockey. Thanks to a 5-2 win on home ice,  Valpellice will face Asiago in Game 7 on Tuesday. Ritten, Pustertal and Sterzing have already qualified for the semifinals, eliminating Cortina, Gherdeina and Fassa respectively.

12 Mar 2016, 08:02 | Kloten Flyers owners already on the jump

As the "Avenir Sports Entertainment" (ASE) communicated in the night of Friday to Saturday, the Canadians have decided to pull out of the ownership as they feel that only a Kloten based ownership can bring back success to the longest serving NLA team. As mentioned in the statement "It has become clear that having outside ownership, such as ASE, is not the proper structure for success in Kloten". ASE has begun searching for a new owner and will take over the responsibilties as the current owner for the time being until a new owner is found.

The Kloten Flyers are expected to generate a loss of 7 to 8 million Swiss Francs this past season after reaching the playoffs for the first time in two years and loosing to HC Davos 0-4 in the quarterfinal series.

You can find the complete statement here

10 Mar 2016, 09:59 | Scottish National League Champions

Kirkcaldy Kestrels held of Paisley Pirates and Edinburgh Capitals to claim their second successive SNL trophy. Things did not look promising early season as they crashed out of the Autumn Cup but a heavy defeat in November gave them a wake up call to remain focussed on the task in hand: that of claiming the title. As their close rivals ran out of games and the Capitals and Pirates played each other the way was clear for the Kestrels to sneak through.

09 Mar 2016, 21:23 | JYP wins women’s title in Finland

At 13:51 of the overtime Tanja Niskanen scored the only goal of game 3 of the Finnish women's finals. That was enough to secure the title for JYP Jyväskylä who won three straight games against HPK without allowing a single goal.

JYP has been outstanding this season. They lost only one point in 28 regular season games and won all six games of the playoffs.

01 Mar 2016, 20:01 | Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc win Romanian Cup

Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc/Csíkszereda win Romanian Cup 2015-16 beating 3-2 Steaua Bucharest in the final played in Brasov. The game was the replay of the original final, scheduled on 20 december 2015 at Gheorghieni ice rink and suspended after second period with score 7-2 for Miercurea Ciuc due to a short circuit. It's the eighth trophy for Sport Club.

29 Feb 2016, 12:34 | Narva PSK win title in Estonia

With three rounds still to play, Narva PSK was already crowned Estonian champion after the 5-1 victory against Viru Sputnik in front of almost 1000 spectators. The title is back to Narva after 15 years, since defunct club Kreenholm/Narva 2000 grabbed the title in 2001

28 Feb 2016, 23:28 | Komarek unleashes the inner Granlund

In Game 2 of the EBEL Quarter Finals, Konstantin Komarek of Red Bull Salzburg helped his team with THIS gorgeous goal (click here to watch the video). In 'Grandlund-fashion' the 23-year-old Austrian scored on Klagenfurter AC to increase the series' lead to two. Also Linz, Dornbirn and Villach are now up 2:0 in their match-ups.

28 Feb 2016, 23:01 | Darius Kasparaitis debuts in Lithuanian League

Hockey legend Darius Kasparaitis, 43, made his seasonal debut tonight with his team Hockey Punks Vilnius in the game against Geležinis vilkas Vilnius for Lithuanian League. Hockey Punks won 10-1 with Kasparaitis scoring one goal and serving three assists. In the last two seasons Kasparaitis played just one game in each season

28 Feb 2016, 00:35 | Serie A playoffs start on Tuesday

In Italy's top league the eight teams have finished the regular season, with Ritten Sport emerging as the top seeded club. Following are the match-ups in the Quarter Finals (Best-of-Seven):

Rittner Buam - SG Cortina

Pustertal Wolves - HC Gherdeina

Asiago Hockey 1935 - Valpellice Bulldogs

Sterzing/Vipiteno Broncos - Fassa Falcons

27 Feb 2016, 23:35 | Slovan and Sochi out from KHL playoffs

Slovan Bratislava and HC Sochi were the two first team eliminated from the KHL playoffs 1/8 finals. Slovan lost the series 0-4 to CSKA Moscow while Sochi also lost 0-4 to Dynamo Moscow. Tomorrow Neftekhimik and Admiral also risk being eliminated.

27 Feb 2016, 11:31 | Scottish National League update

The Paisley Pirates are just two points off leaders Kirkcaldy Kestrels with a game in hand. Veteran netminder Gordon Langford says he would like to end his career with a medal by clinching the title. That game in hand is against bottom of the table Kilmarnock Storm who have only won once all season. Paisley head into the weekend games with on a rich veign of form, and will hope to take two points off early pacesetters Edinburgh Capitals.

25 Feb 2016, 14:52 | Mighty Camels win Emirates League

A goal at 40:29 by Canadian Ross Macmillan gives the Dubai Mighty Camels the victory 3-2 in the decisive game #3 of finals against reigning champion Dubai Oilers and the title of 2015-16 champion of Emirates Hockey League, the third in Mighty Camels history. Russian Nikita Klyuchnikov of White Bears Dubai was the Top Scorer of the League with 51 points (28+23) in 12 games of regular season. White Bears were eliminated in playoffs semifinals by Oilers

25 Feb 2016, 14:14 | Eihl challenge cup finalists are now known

The Eihl Challenge Cup final will be between the Cardiff Devils and seven times winners - four in a row - Nottingham Panthers.
Cardiff progressed courtesy of a two leg victory over Belfast Giants and Nottingham did the same by defeating Sheffield Steelers.
The final will be a showpiece event at the Sheffield Arena on March 6th.

23 Feb 2016, 10:29 | EBEL playoff draw made

In EBEL, the top-3 seeded club could pick their opponent for the first playoff round. Following matchups will battle in the quarterfinals:

Red Bull Salzburg (1) - Klagenfurter AC (8)

Orli Znojmo (2) - Dornbirn Bulldogs (5)

Vienna Capitals (3) - VSV Villach (7)

HC Bolzano Foxes (4) - Black Wings Linz (6)

19 Feb 2016, 15:25 | New coach at Brest

HK Brest announced the contract with coach Sergei Petukhov was terminated by mutual consent and the new coach became Roman Romanenko, 41, at his first assignment as head coach after finishing his playing career last season with Kalev Valk Tartu in Estonia

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