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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.

04 Sep 2015, 22:05 | MODO Hockey lost opening game in SCA Cup

MODO Hockey lost against Sundsvall Hockey in tonights opening game in the SCA Cup. Game ended 2-1 after Christoffer Kjaergaard scored the game-winning goal. MODO still have a tough preseason.

03 Sep 2015, 19:20 | Icelandic League started

Icelandic League started this week with a convincing victory of champion SA Akureyri and new player-coach, Finnish Jussi Sipponen, 5-0 against Bjornin. Silver medalist SR Reykjavík lost 5-4 at overtime in the city derby aginst Esja UMFK.

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02 Sep 2015, 07:52 | Marcel Goc returns to Germany

One of the few long-time NHL players from Germany, Marcel Goc (32), leaves North America after 12 years with 203 points in 699 NHL games for San Jose, Nashville, Florida, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The national team center who was picked as 20th overall in the first round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by San Jose, signed a 5 year contract with current German champions Adler Mannheim. It's the third time he joins the club after playing for them from 2001-2003 and during the 2012-2013 lockout. In Mahheim he will join his brother Nikolai Goc with whom he played in the same team already during his last stay in DEL.

31 Aug 2015, 12:57 | Kempe suspended

Vityaz forward Mario Kempe has been suspended for two KHL games after kneeing Sibir forward Sergei Shumakov.

29 Aug 2015, 22:42 | Gornyak Rudny wins Kazakhstan Cup

Gornyak Rudny surprisingly won 2015 edition of Kazakhstan Cup beating 2-1 Arlan Kokshetau in the final played at Burabai Arena. It's the second trophy for Rudny team after the Cup won in 2009-10. Beybarys Atyrau won the bronze medal defeating 5-1 Nomad Astana.

The individual awards:

Best goalie: Stepan Goryachevskikh (Arlan)
Best defender: Georgi Dulnev (Beybarys)
Best forward: Igor Cherkasov (Gornyak)
Best young player: Ivan Stepanenko (Nomad)

29 Aug 2015, 21:49 | Finland-Sweden

Finland and Sweden played three national team games today. In the Women's game Finland won 1-0 in Mariehamn. The Swedish U17 team beat Finland 7-4 in Haapajärvi. In the U20 tournament in Dmitrov, Russia Sweden won 3-2 after a shootout.

In Dmitrov the Czech U20 team beat Russia 4-0.

28 Aug 2015, 18:30 | Ertis Pavlodar lost decisive game by forfeit

Cup holder and national champion Ertis Pavlodar was awarded a 5-0 forfeit loss in the last match of Kazakhstan Cup against Gornyak Rudny for alligning four young players born after 01 January 1991 instead of five, as determined by rules of competition. After the game, won by Ertis 3-2 after shootouts, Gornayk has filed a protest to the federation, which was examinated and accepted. Individual statistics for the game will be maintained, according to the rule

Thus, Gornyak Rudny won Group B and will play the final against Arlan Kokshetau, winner of Group A

Nomad Astana and Beybarys Atyrau will battle for the bronze. Both games are scheduled for August 29

27 Aug 2015, 13:44 | Marty twins retires from the Swiss national team

Swiss twin sisters Julia and Stefanie Marty announce that they retire from the Swiss women's team after 11 years. Julia retires also from club hockey while Stefanie will play another year for Université Neuchâtel.

26 Aug 2015, 08:39 | Swedish Preseason games Wednesday August 26

Following Swedish teams are participating in todays preseason games. Frölunda HC - BIK Karlskoga, HC Lugano - Malmö Redhawks, Ambri Piotta - Karlskrona HK.

25 Aug 2015, 22:04 | Swedish Preseason games Tuesday August 25th

There's been four preseason games in Sweden today. VIK Västerås HK-Linköping HC 1-2, AIK-Vita Hästen 2-1, Mora IK-Leksands IF, Sundsvall-Österund 2-3 (SO). With Linköpings win, the team now have four straight wins.

24 Aug 2015, 22:22 | Swiss goalie injured

The 22-year-old keeper of Kloten Flyers, Luca Boltshauser, was injured on Friday during the preseason game against Schwenninger Wild Wings. His shoulder needs surgery. He will be out of play for 4 to 5 months.

24 Aug 2015, 16:53 | HV71 Defenseman out for six months

Lawrence Pilut, HV71, is forced to operate his shoulder in order to strengthen it up. HV71 decided today to let Lawrence operate his shoulder. This means that the young talent will be out up to six months.

24 Aug 2015, 15:35 | Klotens Luca Boltshauser out 4-5 months

According to the Kloten Flyers, newly acquired goalie, Luca Boltshauser, injured his shoulder and will be out after surgery for 4-5 months. He injured himself in a friendly game at home against the Schwenninger Wild Wings.

24 Aug 2015, 11:54 | HC Bolzano kick off transfer campaign

HC Bolzano Foxes, the Italian representative in EBEL, has been faced with financial difficulties and therefore is only starting to build its new team now. After bringing back coach Tom Pokel, hero of the suprise 2014 EBEL championship title, the Italian national team players Marco Insam and Anton Bernard have been resigned.

The club also announced its first acquisitions. 23 year old speedy Canadian center Taylor Vause and 36-year old veteran forward Nate DiCasmirro, who possesses the Italian, American and Canadian citizenship, have been added to the roster of the 19-time Italian champion.

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