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02 Oct 2015, 21:28 | Plzeň becomes the new Extraliga leader

After a 4 : 3 win against Kometa Brno, the Bohemians are now the new leaders of the overall classification. Mlada Boleslav and HK Mountfield follow, the former even after a defeat at the shootout against reigning champions Litvinov.

30 Sep 2015, 16:01 | Yunost and Dinamo Maladzyechna will battle for Salei Cup

Yunost Minsk and Dinamo Maladzyechna are the finalists of Salei Cup (National Cup of Belarus) 2015. In a home/away semifinal series Yunost won national champion Shakhtar Soligorsk 8-3 and 2-6 reaching the final for the seventh time since the first edition of the competition in 2001-02 equaling the record of defunct Keramin Minsk. Yunost already holds the record for the most wins, four, along with HK Gomel.
Dinamo Maladzyechna, a team founded in 2014, reached its first ever final by beating 2-1 and 3-3 Khimik-SKA Novopolotsk
Final will be played in home/away format, on October 06 in Minsk and October 20 in Maladzyechna

29 Sep 2015, 16:28 | EBEL: Rafael Rotter suspended 8 games

28 year old Austrian winger Rafael Rotter, member of the Vienna Capitals, has been handed an 8 game suspension by DOPS, EBEL's department of player safety. The incident happened during the Caps' home game against Olimpija Ljubljana, leading to a concussion of Guillaume Desbiens. The detailed reasons behind the ban are being explained in DOPS' official video release.

29 Sep 2015, 12:51 | Andrei Potaychuk resigned as head coach of the Sary Arka

Russian coach Andrei Potaychuk, arrived at Sary Arka Karaganda this summer, resigned today, terminating the contract by mutual agreement, after eight games and nine points earned.

Vadim Yepanchintsev was appointed as interim coach

24 Sep 2015, 09:38 | Barys sacked coach

After the last game lost 1-4 at home against Avangard and a disappointing start of season - just 3 victories in 13 games - Barys Astana announced club fired coach Erlan Sagymbaev and his assitant, Finnish Raimo Helminen. Evgeny Koreshkov was appointed as interim coach

18 Sep 2015, 23:36 | Asiago wins Supercoppa

Italan champion HC Asiago faced off against Coppa Italia-winner Ritten Sport in a game to determine the holder of the 2015 Supercoppa. In a close matchup the game was tied going into the final period thanks to goals scored by Markus Spinell and Sean Bentivoglio. In the 43th minute Anthony Nigro gave the Lions the 2-1 lead, a goal which would eventually result as the game winner.

17 Sep 2015, 22:22 | Game interrupted in Norway

Tonight's game Vålerenga - Lørenskog in Norwegian GET-Ligaen was terminated in the second period due to too much fog over the ice. At that point Lørenskog had a 1-0 lead on a goal by Nathan Longpre.

Other results in Norway today: Stavanger - Sparta 10-2, Stjernen - Manglerud 7-3 and Kongsvinger - Frisk Asker 3-7.

16 Sep 2015, 08:45 | Mannheim star signing Marcel Goc out 3-4 weeks

DEL top summer signing Marcel Goc who returned to Adler Mannheim for the third time in his career after playing for Pittsburgh and St. Louis in the NHL last season is out for 3 to 4 weeks. According to his club the forward suffered a lower body injury in the away loss to Red Bull Munich (2-4) on Sunday. His first DEL weekend wasn't yet impressive with 0 points in 2 games and a -1 rating.

14 Sep 2015, 17:21 | Krämmer gets two year extension in Hamburg

DEL side Hamburg Freezers have extended the contract of German national team player Nico Krämmer until 2018. The original contract of the 22 year old forward would have ended next summer.

14 Sep 2015, 15:34 | Short EIHL summary

The Elite League in the UK has been running for two weeks now but a mixture of regular league games and Challenge Cup games does not give a very clear indication of early pacesetters. However, making the early running in the EIHL are Belfast Giants even though they have only played once. The picture with the Challenge Cup is much clearer. In one conference Braehead are out in front with a 100% record whilst in the Erhardt conference Sheffield Steelers last evening trounced leaders Cardiff Devils to take second place.

12 Sep 2015, 14:58 | Yunist’ Kharkiv is the last team to apply for playing in the Ukranian League

On Septeber 10, at the deadline for the partecipation at the next Ukranian League, the new club Yunist' Kharkiv applied to compete in the league. Thus Kharkiv team became the eighth team of the national championship of Ukraine.
According to coach Valeriy Plyasheshnyk, the team will count mainly on young players from the famous hockey school SDYuSShOR Kharkiv.
Besides Yunist' Kharkiv the XXIV Hockey Championship of Ukraine will allign: Bilyy Bars Bila Tserkva, Vytyaz' Kharkiv, Generals Kyiv, Donbas Donets'k, Companion Kyiv, Rapid Kyiv and HC Kremenchuk

12 Sep 2015, 13:38 | Continental Cup Group C scheduled

The IIHF Continental Cup second round, gets under way in October and the Coventry Blaze of the EIHL, have now confirmed the order and face off times for all of the matches in group C. Blaze will face Romanian Champions, Dunarea Galati, hosts and Polish Champions GKS Tychy and the winner of first round Group A in the four team event.  The winners will progress to the third round in Rouen, France in November.

Full schedule for group C:

Friday 23rd October

15.30 - Dunarea Galati v Coventry Blaze
19.30 - Group A Winner v GKS Tychy

Saturday 24th October

15.30 - Coventry Blaze v Group A Winner
19.30 - GKS Tychy v Dunarea Galati

Sunday 25th October

15.30 - Group A Winner v Dunarea Galati
19.30 - GKS Tychy v Coventry Blaze

All face off times are CET which is the local time zone.

11 Sep 2015, 08:37 | Finnish goalie released for pro-drug comments

Richard Ullberg, goalie of second-tier Mestis side Hermes Kokkola, was released by his team due to violating the club's anti-drug policy. The 22-year old made positive comments about the use of cannabis on his personal social media accounts which made a further work relationship with the club impossible.

Ullberg, who already played in top division Liiga and Austrian-based EBEL earlier in his career, had a great preseason and looked like the top candidate as starting goalie.  After being testes by the club on forbidden substances, the goalie will be able to play for any other team as there were no anomalies found.

10 Sep 2015, 20:28 | Berlin signs Japanese forward

DEL club Eisbären Berlin have signed Japanese winger Shuhei Kuji for the 2015-16 DEL season. The 28 year old could become the first ever Japanese player to make it to the DEL level. The 2012 Asia League champion - with his longtime team Oji Eagles - was the best goal scorer of Asia League in 2010-11 - together with Go Tanaka who himself played in Germany during the 2009-10 season for 2. Bundesliga side ESV Kaufbeuren.

Kuji already had played in all 4 CHL games of the Polar Bears as a test player and scored 1 goal.

08 Sep 2015, 07:16 | Nürnberg six months without goalie Reimer

Bavarian DEL club Nürnberg Ice Tigers will miss Jochen Reimer for a scheduled six months which means likely the loss of a full season for the 30 year old who shared goaltending duties in 2014-15 with Andreas Jenike. The bad news come after Reimer needed hip surgery in the off season.

Nürnberg now are looking for a new second goalie and are likely to sign a new player soon to fill the gap with the league start in Germany's highest professional men's league coming this weekend.

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