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04 Nov 2015, 21:44 | Women’s national team tournaments

Today started two national team tournaments for women. In Sundsvall, Sweden Canada beat Finland 2-0 and the home team lost 2-6 to USA. In Czech Republic Russia beat Switzerland 4-1 and Germany beat Slovakia 4-2.

03 Nov 2015, 19:40 | New coaches at MODO

MODO Hockey of SHL released today the head coach Larry Huras and his assistants Henrik Gradin and Jan-Axel Alavaara. Andreas Johansson will be new head coach of the team that holds the 13th spot of the 14 SHL teams. He will be assisted by Fredrik Olausson.

01 Nov 2015, 12:59 | Lugano hire Serie A head coach as new assistant

Pat Curcio, until yesterday head coach of Italian top league club HC Valpellice, has accepted an offer of struggling Swiss NLA member HC Lugano. Lugano, after a tough start into the season, repositioned their coaching staff, signing Doug Shedden as the new boss on the bench. Curcio will help Shedden in his new role as the team's assistant coach.

31 Oct 2015, 08:44 | U17 games

Four pre-tournament games before the 2015 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge was played last night: Finland - Czech Republic 8-7 (OT), Sweden - Canada Black 5-1, Canada White - Russia 3-2 and USA - Canada Red 4-3.

28 Oct 2015, 14:40 | Lithuania named national teams coaches

Lithuania Federation announced the coaching staff for U18 and U20 national teams.
American/Irish James Tibbetts, 62, will lead U18 national team at Division 2a championship in Brasov, Romania in April 2016. Tibbets coached in France and Ireland in the past. He will be assisted by American Damian DiGiulian, 45, last year on St. Michael's College bench in Northeast-10 Conference. Both signed a 1+1 contract

Latvian Aigars Cipruss was confirmed as U20 headcoach; he was assisted by former player Arunas Aleinikovas and current Hockey Punks Vilnius captain Mindaugas Kieras. Cipruss will coach Lithuania next december at U20 WJC Division 2a held on home ice of Elektrenai Arena

27 Oct 2015, 15:45 | New coach at Ertis Pavlodar

Czech Ladislav Lubina was appointed as new headcoach of Ertis Pavlodar. Lubin replaces Slovak Julius Penzes, resigned after five years and three titles, due to bad start of the team in Kazakhstan League. Lubina, on Slavia Praha bench last season, signed last summer for another Kazakh team, Beybarys Atyrau, but resigned in August after the training camp. Curiously the first game for Lubina on Ertis bench will be against Beybarys.

"Now I will not talk a lot, we have a lot of work. I came here to help Ertis to take its rightful place in the standing" said Lubina during his presentation

25 Oct 2015, 07:20 | Munich without two top players for weeks

Injuries are continuing to be a serious problem for several championship contenders in Germany's DEL. Red Bull Munich have to play without their starting goalie Danny aus den Birken - who is also a regular in the German national team - and forward Steve Pinizzotto - who is their best plus/minus player of the current season - during the next weeks. Both players suffered leg injuries this week and a date for their return is not yet scheduled. Now a total of 7 regulars are out with injuries for the Red Bulls.

21 Oct 2015, 06:23 | Mannheim climbing in DEL standings

Adler Mannheim are continuing their upwards trend in Germany's top professional hockey league. Following a 5-point weekend, the current DEL champions were able to beat vice champions ERC Ingolstadt in a rematch of last season's playoffs finals by a score of 3-1.

This was the 3rd consecutive win for Mannheim who are now 6th while Ingolstadt stays 14th - dead last - in the league after losing 5 league matches in a row, bringing the total of losses in official competitions to six combined with losing in CHL round of last 16.

21 Oct 2015, 06:16 | DEL injury report

Two DEL players suffered long-time injuries this weekend during wins against Straubing.

Mannheim defender Dennis Reul is expected to miss up to 4 months with a shoulder injury that requires surgery. The injury happened during the Eagles' 4-1 away win in Sraubing on Friday. It was Reul's first appearance after a four week absence due to injury.

Augsburg forward Mike Iggulden is out for 8 weeks with a knee injury after a check in the 4-3 win of the Panthers against Straubing on Sunday. Surgery is not required.

20 Oct 2015, 10:02 | CSKA Sofia won’t travel to Tychy

Due to financial problems CSKA Sofia, winner of Round 1 of Continental Cup, announced the team won't travel to Tychy, Poland, next weekend to partecipate in Second Round of competition. IIHF will fine the club for the withdrawal and invited the clubs finished behind CSKA to partecipate. Also runner-up Zeytinburnu Istanbul declined, but Partizan Beograd, finished third with just one game won, accepted the invite and will face GKS Tychy,Coventry Blaze and Dunarea Galati for a spot in semifinals

11 Oct 2015, 15:53 | Bulgaria advances in Olympic Qualifications

Bulgaria take the first step towards PyeongChang 2018 winning 9-1 at Winter Palace in Sofia, in front of 581 spectators, the Qualification game against Georgia. Captain Martin Boyadjiev was the star of the game, scoring 2 goals and serving 6 assists. His teammates at CSKA Sofia Yanaki Gachev (3+3) and Petar Mihov (2+3), along with Kristian Semkov and Bogdan Stefanov also contributed to demolish the weak Georgian team. Fiery Crusaders Tbilisi forward Vitali Dumbaze scored the only goal for Georgia.
Bulgarian coach Kirill Hudulov granted one minute on ice at 51-years-old legendary goalie Konstantin Mikhailov

Now Bulgaria will play next round of Olympic qualification at Tallinn, Estonia from 5 to 8 November against Estonia, Mexico and Israel

05 Oct 2015, 19:04 | Two KHL players temporarily banned today

After an accurate review, the KHL board has temporarily banned two players from playing the next few games of the Kontinental Hockey League: Barys Astana forward Dustin Boyd and Evgeny Artyukhin (SKA St. Petersburg) were suspended because of misconduct for four and one games respectively, after the major penalties inflicted against their teams already during Saturday's matches. Alexei Pepelyayev, the Torpedo player hit by Boyd, even required medical treatment and therefore spent the rest of the match outside the ice rink, while Semyon Afonasyevsky, the Traktor forward who collided with Artyukhin, didn't receive serious injuries.

05 Oct 2015, 19:00 | Yuzhny Ural Orsk fires coach

Andrei Martemiyanov has resigned from the position of headcoach at Yuzhny Ural Orsk after seven games and just one victory in regulation time. Former captain and current hockey school coach Vitaly Kazarin was appointed as interim coach.
"Of course the start of the championship wasn't satisfactory. When the team arrived in Orsk, we met with the coach, talks and take a mutual decision to terminate the contract" said Minister of Regional Sports Oleg Pivunov

05 Oct 2015, 18:54 | Graz 99ers fire head coach

The Graz 99ers reacted to their poor start in EBEL by releasing Todd Björkstrand from his duties as head coach and GM. Assistant coach Ivo Jan has been promoted to the position of head coach and will try to bring his team out of last place. Teppo Kivelä will continue in his role as assistant coach.

04 Oct 2015, 21:44 | Nuremberg Ice Tigers lead the DEL

With a 3-2 victory against reigning champions Adler Mannheim, the Ice Tigers are now the new leaders of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the Franconians is the first win in Mannheim since 2010. The Eisbären Berlin and the Straubing Tigers follow in the leading table after having been both defeated today.

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