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17 Apr 2014, 08:58 | Germany lose two key players for 2014 WC

The list of players that are not able to participate for Germany during the 2014 IIHF World Championship in Minsk in May, becomes longer and longer. Yesterday news were published by the German federation that NHL players Christian Ehrhoff and Alexander Sulzer (both Buffalo Sabres, NHL) told the head coach of the national team, Pat Cortina, that they won't be able to play due to injuries (concussions in both cases). Before already Michael Wolf (foot injury) and David Wolf (banned by federation for violence) were not able to play.

12 Apr 2014, 11:21 | Ertis confirms title

Ertis Pavlodar sweeps Arlan Kokshetau 4-0 in the playoffs series confirming title of Kazakhstan League.
Two Czech players from champion team, goalie Marek Pinc and forward Tomas Vak were nominated best goalie and best forward, while English Ben O'Connor from Arlan Kokshetau were awarded as best defender. Arystan Temirtau won bronze medal by beating Beybarys Atryau 3-2 in the series, with a decisive 4-5 at overtime.
Canadian Yanick Riendeau (Arlan) was League Topscorer

06 Apr 2014, 10:19 | Vita Hästen promoted - Björklöven stays

Vita Hästen from Norrköping has won promotion from Division 1 to HockeyAllsvenskan, the second level of Swedish ice hockey.

Troja-Ljungby are relegated after losing the decising game 3-0 to Björklöven.

04 Apr 2014, 16:09 | Olimpija Ljubljana won Slovenian title

Olimpija Ljubljana confirmed Slovenian title by beating twice Team Jesenice 1-5 and 6-3. This season Slovenian league was played after the end of INL and EBEL. It's the third cnsecutive title for Green Dragons

02 Apr 2014, 23:00 | Vålerenga-Stavanger in the Norwegian finals

BothVålerenga Ishockey and Stavanger Oilers won game seven of the semi finals to qualify for the GET-ligaen finals.

Vålerenga beat Storhamar 2-1 in the decisive game while Stavanger got a 6-2 win over Lillehammer.

The first final will be played on Friday.

31 Mar 2014, 17:48 | Villach fires John Hughes

VSV Villach announces club has immediately fired Canadian forward John Hughes after the defeat against Bolzano that ended the season. Several witnesses confirmed that John Hughes has extensively celebrated on the evening before the game. The existing contract has been terminated and the club withdrawn the offer of a contract for next season to EBEL Top Scorer

30 Mar 2014, 20:49 | Viiking Sport confirmed title in Estonia

With a spectacular comeback from 0-3 in game #3 of playoffs finals, Viiking Sport Tallinn won 4-3 at overtime and closed the series winning 3-0 over Kalev Valk Tartu, confirming the title won for the first time last season. it was a perfect season in Estonian Meistriliiga for Viiking that won all the games in regular season and playoffs.
"I suppose we were a bit better prepared physically," said forard Ragnar Hindrek Russ. "It is always good to win. Guys are very happy and we have a good feeling."

28 Mar 2014, 15:13 | Harijs Vitolins will coach Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow CEO Andrei Safronov announces during a press conference reported by RIA Novosti that Harijs Vitolins will be the new head coach of Dynamo, replacing Olegs Znarks, appointed as new head coach of Russia
Vitolins was Znaroks' assistant in last three seasons at Dynamo

27 Mar 2014, 14:28 | Andreas Johansson new head coach of HV71

Andreas Johansson was today named head coach of HV71. He signed a 2-year contract. The former NHL and Tre Kronor player was this season coach of Södertälje SK in HockeyAllsvenskan.

25 Mar 2014, 12:45 | Bipolo Vitoria win (also) Copa del Rey

Closing a dominating season, League champion Bipolo Vitoria captured Copa del Rey (Spanish National Cup) - the first ever in club history - last weekend by beating 4-1 CG Puigcerdà in the final, played in Barcelona in a repeat of recent League final series.

24 Mar 2014, 11:27 | Harold Kreis new coach of EV Zug

EV Zug announces German Harold Kreis as new head coach for two next seasons. Fired by Adler Mannheim in December, Kreis, 55, is back in Switzerland where he won two titles, with Lugano (2005-06) and ZSC Lions (2007-08).

23 Mar 2014, 20:53 | Austrian girls promoted

Austria won the World Women's U18 Championship Div. I Qualification in Krynica, Poland undefeated.

This means that Austria is promoted to the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Womens World Championship Division I.

Outstanding scoring leader of the competition was Poland's Kamila Wieczorek who recorded nine goals and two assists in the four games.

20 Mar 2014, 22:14 | Polish finals

GKS Tychy beat Aksam Unia 1-0 tonight to win the semi final series 4-2 and qualify for the finals against Ciarko PBS Bank. Josef Vitek scored the goal early in the third period.

Ciarko PBS Bank from Sanok had earlier knocked out JKH GKS Jastrzębie 4-1.

19 Mar 2014, 15:10 | KHL increase number of foreigners per team to 7

According to Russian website rsport.ru the foreigner limit for the KHL teams which was 5 so far, has been extended to 7 players per team. In a meeting of the KHL clubs in Moscow on Wednesday all but 2 teams voted in favour of the foreigner increase. It was only decided to play the 2014-15 season with 7 foreigners as a compromise as most teams want no limit at all similar to the NHL where a team could consists of 100% foreign players in theory.

The change in the foreigner limit has to be allowed by the KHL until 15 April 2014 to be valid for next season.

There are different regulations for non-Russian expansion teams who can sign a larger number of foreigners to be competitive with the Russian teams.

17 Mar 2014, 10:57 | Bipolo Vitoria wins Spanish League

Bipolo Vitoria/Gasteiz confirms its dominion over the Spanish hockey scene winning the second consecutive title after beating 5-2 in playoffs finals game #4 CG Puigcerdà. With just 5 games lost in last two regular seasons and a 4-lines roster (not common in Spain where usually teams play with two lines), Bipolo swept opponents allowing Puigcerdà a victory in the series. Catalan team submitted a protest after the first two games of finals alleging three Bipolo imports - Evan Mackintosh, Vitaly Kulikov and Dmitry Gnitko - were alligned unevenly, but Federation rejected the requestNow Bipolo can seal another perfect season grabbing also Copa del Rey that will be played in Barcelona next week, with Bipolo as favourite