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19 Sep 2014, 17:51 | Dunarea Galati fired coach Rauhanen

The moving of Finnish coach Kari Rauhanen from MOL vice champion Corona Brasov to Dunarea Galati of Romanian League was the shocking transfer of the summer for Romanian hockey. After three months and only two official games played in Romanian Cup (one victory one loss), Dunarea announced Rauhanen was fired without further comments

18 Sep 2014, 11:58 | World Championship to Poland

IIHF announced today that Krakow, Poland will host the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championship.
Ukraine was originally supposed to host the championship but withdrew due to the political situation in the country.

15 Sep 2014, 11:17 | SC Miercurea Ciuc won Romania Cup

A goal by Ede Mihaly in the overtime gives 2-1 victory and the Romanian Cup to SC Miercurea Ciuc in the final played in Galati against Corona Brasov

15 Sep 2014, 11:05 | Neman replaces coach

Belarus champion Neman Grodno sacked Latvian coach Aigars Cipruss due to the poor start in Extraliga and replaces him with Russian Vasili Spiridonov, 63, until 2013 on Metallurg Zhlobin bench with whom he won the league in 2011-2012 season. Cipruss arrived in Grodno last June and won Belarus Cup some weeks ago

13 Sep 2014, 15:57 | NLB game cancelled

The NLB game between HC Red Ice Martigny and the SC Langenthal today Saturday is postponed.
At least twelve of the Martigny players suffer from food poisoning.

13 Sep 2014, 13:26 | Riley Emmerson received 10-games ban

The Elite League's Department of Player Safety has handed Edinburgh Capitals Riley Emmerson a 10-match ban and fined the club £1,000 because of the injury sustained by Belfast Giants Kevin Phillips as a result of a Emmerson boarding check during the Capitals home game on Sunday 7th September 2014.
Edinburgh have been fined £1,000 for failure to supply the matchnight footage required

13 Sep 2014, 13:10 | Only three teams apply to participate in Ukraine League

An official letter from Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine, reported by Sport.ua, says that three hockey teams - HC Kremenchug, Generals Kyiv and Vityaz Kharkov - confirmed the intention to participate in the championship.
Federation will consider the creation of a league at least with one team more.

13 Sep 2014, 13:00 | Arlan fire coach

Kazakhstan vice-champion and national cup finalist Arlan Kokshetau sacked Slovakian coach Vladimir Klinga after a bad start in Kazakhstan League (1-3 record after 4 games), even if Arlan won last game 14-1 against Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk. Andrei Psarev was named interim coach

11 Sep 2014, 23:19 | Rain of goals in Romanian Cup

Romanian Cup, started yesterday in Galati, saw big scores in first games. Sportul Studentesc Bucharest lost 0-30 and 1-22 against Corona Brasov and Steaua Bucharest, while home team Dunarea Galati won 16-0 against Progym. Dunarea signed Austrian stars Andre Lakos and Oliver Setzinger for the competition but lost first game 2-7 against SC Miercurea Ciuc. Follow Romanian Cup on eurohockey.com

11 Sep 2014, 23:02 | MHL reaches 5,000

Today was the 5,000th game of KHL's junior league MHL played. MHK Spartak Moscow beat Dinamo St. Petersburg 4-3 in a shootout game in this historic event.

MHL started in 2009 and is now in its sixth season.

11 Sep 2014, 21:17 | Igor Chibirev to coach Ukraine U20

Ukraine Federation announced the appointment of Igor Chibiriev as head coach of U20 national team, with Andrei Sryubko as assistant. Chibiriev, 46, worked as assistant coach at Molodaya Gvardia Donetsk, while Sryubko held a similar position at Dmitrov.
"The most important thing is that we have a common vision of what needs to be done to achieve a result" said Igor Chibiriev. Ukraine U20 will compete in WJC U20 Division IB in Dunaujvaros, Hungary, next December against Poland, Kazakhstan, France, Japan and Hungary.

09 Sep 2014, 09:58 | 2015 IIHF IHWC mascot introduction

The mascot of the 2015 IIHF World Championship will today be introduced in a press conference that you can follow here from 11.30 (CET).

07 Sep 2014, 13:01 | Memory day in KHL

On the 7th of September KHL games are paused in memory of the crash of a plane that carried HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl three years ago, on 7 of September 2011. Flight attendant Alexander Sizov was the only one who survived in a crash, while 26 players, 4 coaches, 7 club staff members and 7 members of plane crew died.

04 Sep 2014, 14:13 | Beroun faces problems

Traditional participant of the Czech 1.liga (2nd-level competition) Medvědi Beroun struggles with financial issues which could lead to closing down the organization as whole. According to information from the Czech Ice Hockey Association (CIHA), Beroun owes the total amount of app. € 18,000 to players on wages and it seems to be unable to even out its liabilities by September 5, which has been stated as the final deadline by CIHA. The club, which finished in the last spot of the 1.liga last year and was relegated to 2.liga (3rd-level competition), is now threatened even by losing of its 2.liga license and by total extinction.

02 Sep 2014, 15:26 | Slavutich will not participate in the Belarus Extraliga

Slavutich Smolensk won't play in Belarus Extraliga in 2014-15 season. The club, acting in Russian 3rd league, applied to join Belarus Extraliga and the Belarusian Federation accepted the proposal, but, despite a verbal agreement wih Russian Hockey Federation, the bureaucratic procedure was not successful because only the Executive Committee of the Federation has the right to allow the move, but the date of his nearest Convocation is no earlier than September 25th, after the begin of Extraliga

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