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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.

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.

Follow every game of Icelandic League on Eurohockey page

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.

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