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07 Mar 2014, 12:30 | Bilyaletdinov new Ak Bars vice president and GM

Zinetula Bilyaletdinov returns to his former club Ak Bars Kazan. The 2009 and 2010 Gagarin Cup champions announced that the veteran hockey coach signs a contract as the new vice president and general manager of the KHL team. This comes after Bilyaletdinov served as the head coach of Team Russia during the last three years, winning the World Championship in 2012 with the team. His contract was not extended after a disappoiting quarterfinal loss against Finland during the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

07 Mar 2014, 11:42 | Mongolia will have first indoor rink

Finally Mongolia will have its first ice hockey indoor rink: Goverment decided to implement a project on building a winter sports house to develop winter sports in the country, especially, speed skating, short-track speed skating, ice hockey and curling and to have international joint training.
The country has currently two indoor rinks, in Ulaanbaatar and Bulgan

05 Mar 2014, 23:32 | Donbass to play playoffs in Donetsk

Vladimir Shalaev, vice president of KHL, told Russian news website sports-express.ru that there are no plans to reschedule the first playoff round between Donbass Donetsk and Dinamo Riga despite the political crisis between Russia and Ukraine and protests in Donetsk. This comes after a visit by a special committee to the Eastern Ukrainian city.

05 Mar 2014, 21:50 | Hamburg head coach stays till 2015

Benoit Laporte, head coach of DEL's 2013-14 regular season winners Hamburg Freezers, extends his contract for another year till summer 2015. The 53 year old Canadian-French dual citizen who participated for France in the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games, is in charge of the German side already since December 2010 and reached the playoffs in 3 of the 4 seaons.

04 Mar 2014, 09:38 | Canada wins Colombia in Pan-American debut

In the only game of the day, Canada opens its Pan-American tournament in Mexico with a 9-3 victory against Colombia. Former Ohio University and Idaho Steelheads Kyle Reed and former EV Landshut Marc Rancourt both scored three goals.

28 Feb 2014, 17:43 | Zvolen appoints Josef Turek as new headcoach

Slovak champion HKM Zvolen announced Czech Josef Turek as head coach following the resignation of Julius Supler. Joseph Turek started the season in HK36 Skalica, before to move to Chomutov from November to January. With Zvolen Turek signed a contract until the end of next season.

27 Feb 2014, 11:49 | Julius Šupler resigned as coach of HKM Zvolen

Julius Šupler resigned as coach of Zvolen: 63-year-old coach arrived on Zvolen bench in mid-October, when he replaced Cech Lubomir Oslizla. At the time of his arrival Extraliga reigning champion was in 10 place, currently, the team is in 7th with 66 points and three rounds to play, not yey sure of playoffs qualification.
"Perhaps my departure would be a good incentive for players and clubs to mobilize targets and dragged to the desired state. I would hate if my party should be the cause of the failure. I gave all players a chance to show their own potential. It is not an escape from the sinking ship. I did everything in my power: players are well prepared, they can play hockey, now it's up to them how" said in a statement Šupler.

27 Feb 2014, 11:24 | INL playoff pairings chosen

The Inter-National-League (INL), joint competition of teams from Austria, Italy and Slovenia, has a fixed schedule for the upcoming quarterfinals. Jesenice beat Caldaro 4:3ot in the decisive game for the last playoff ticket. Immediately afterwards, the first teams picked their opponent for quarterfinals. The pairings are: Gherdeina – Jesenice, Appiano – Bregenzerwald, Egna – Feldkirch, Zell am See – Lustenau. All best-of-five series start on March 1.

24 Feb 2014, 22:13 | Macau and Kyrgyzstan win in Day #1 of Asian Challenge

Challenge Cup of Asia Division I opened today in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In first day of tournament Macau routed India 12-0 while host Kyrgyzstan won 6-3 vs Singapore

23 Feb 2014, 13:00 | NHL won’t allow Swedish players to celebrate in Stockholm

Swedish NHL players are not allowed to celebrate the results of the team at home in Stockholm.

A few hours after the final match they will take a special flight to bring back remaining NHL players in North America.

Even if Sweden will win the gold medal, players, all in the roster except Jimmie Ericsson, will not be released for a ceremony in Sweden. Earlier Swedish hockey players had planned to negotiate with their clubs to come to their location a day later, but the NHL decided otherwise.

23 Feb 2014, 12:55 | 42% of Finns watched game vs USA

According to the Finnish press, bronze medal match between Finland and the United States was watched in Finland by 2.28 million people, about 42 percent of the total population.

22 Feb 2014, 10:34 | Defender Paul Martin out for Bronze Final

US defender Paul Martin won't play tonight in he final for Bronze medal against Finland due to hand injury. According to preliminary informations, Pittsburgh Penguins defender will be sidelined for one month and return for the begin of NHl playoffs.

21 Feb 2014, 20:26 | Zetterberg out for 8 weeks, Zuccarello for 4

The Tre Kronor and Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg had back surgery today and will be out of play for about 8 weeks.

New York Rangers forward Mats Zuccarello will miss 3-4 weeks with non-a displaced fracture in his left hand sustained while playing for Norway at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

21 Feb 2014, 11:44 | DEG announce new GM

German DEL club Düsseldorfer EG announced signing a contract with a prominent new General Manager - Jochen A. Rotthaus. The 47 year old who holds a degree in business administration previously earned himself a name as football executive. He was responsable for the marketing of Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart before he was the GM of 1899 Hoffenheim from 2006 to 2013, a club he led form 4th thier Regionalliga to 1. Bundesliga, the highest German football competition. He will start his new job 1 May 2014 and will subsitute the duo Jörn Klocke (sponsoring) and Paul Specht (finances) who were only in office since summer and who will return to their old jobs with DEG.

19 Feb 2014, 21:30 | John Tavares out for semifinal

Hit from Arturs Kulda into the boards during the second period John Tavares suffered a leg injury during Canada's 2-1 quarterfinal victory against Latvia and will miss the remainder of the Olympic tournament.

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