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12 Apr 2013, 17:59 | Mexican Federation has new Secretary

The Mexican Ice Hockey Federation has announced the appointment of Jorge Perez Alfaro as General Secretary, replacing Luis Olivares Torres. Alfaro was part of the Mexican Horse Riding Federation for many years and represented Mexico in international horse riding competitions. He owns a construction company and is part of a group that is building new ice hockey rinks in the country.

12 Apr 2013, 17:31 | Peteris Skudra is new Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod coach

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod announces the appointment of Latvian Peteris Skudra as new head coach. Skudra was assistant coach last season at Sibir Novosibirsk

12 Apr 2013, 17:23 | New coaches at THK Tver

Alexei Zhdakhin is the new coach of VHL THK Tver. Vladimir Koltsov and Kiril Pafifov will be the assistants. Zhdakhin coached Yermak Angarsk in last 3 seasons. Koltsov was Tver head coach until last February when he was fired

11 Apr 2013, 16:09 | New leadership at the Ice Tigers

Nurnberg Ice Tigers will have a new management duo in the upcoming DEL season. Martin Jiranek is new sports director, while Christoph Sandner will assume the position of CEO.

As a Ice Tigers player, Jiranek still have the record of most games(493), goals (178) and assists (252) of the club where he played from 1996 to 2004 and in the 2006/07 season. Jiranek number 12 shirt was retired by Ice Tigers.

Christoph Sandner recently worked as Communication Manager for sports sponsoring company Thomas Sabo

10 Apr 2013, 17:31 | Baskent Yildizlari is Turkish League champion

Baskent Yildizlari from Ankara wins its third consecutive Turkish League title taking advantage of a strange play-offs format
For the playoffs, the top 4 teams in the league (Baskent, Izmir, Kocaeli, and Erzurum) keep the regular season points from the games between themselves. So Baskent had 18 points, Izmir had 12 points, and Kocaeli and Erzurum had 3 points each. Then every team plays each other twice, total of 6 games.
So Baskent only needed to win any 2 games and beat Izmir in one of the two games against them. If Baskent did and lost everything else, would be tied with Izmir, but win on the tie breaker of head to head total wins.
So on March 30th, Baskent played and beat Izmir 6-3 in Kocaeli. After that, none of the games actually mattered, including the last one, a kind of playoffs final, when Izmir beats Baskent 8-6

Baskent Slovakian forward Dennis Legersky was the League top scorer with 75 points (42 goals, 33 assists)

10 Apr 2013, 17:23 | Olimpija Ljubljana wins Slovenian title

By beating 4-1 and 3-2 Slavija, Olimpija Ljubljana wins its second consecutive Slovenian title.
check all Slovenian League stats here

10 Apr 2013, 14:45 | Langnau Tigers changes coaches

Down 2-1 in the promotion/relegation series against Lausanne, Langnau Tigers try a desperate move "freezing" coach Alex Reinhard and sending back to junior team assistant Konstantin Kurashev. Sport Director and former coach Jacob "Köbi" Kölliker will lead team in last games, assisted by Alfred Bohren.

10 Apr 2013, 14:41 | Aleksandr Godynyuk appointed Donbas junior team coach

Former Ukraine national team coach Aleksandr Godynyuk signed three-year contract with Donbas Donets'k to lead the new junior team that will compete in MHL next season. In last two seasons Godynyuk was on Sokil Kyiv bench.

10 Apr 2013, 14:25 | In May will open a new arena in Orsha

After five years of construction and some delays due to financial problems, finally the new Nasha Niva Ice Palace will open at the end of May. Belarusian Railway company allocated an additional 20 million dollars to complete the works. Arena will host 3.500 spectators and will be the third bigger ice palace of the country

10 Apr 2013, 14:05 | Avangard Omsk hires two assistant coaches

After Eduard Zankovets and Santeri Heiskanen left the club, Avangard Omsk announces the appointment of two new assistant coaches: Yevgeny Kornoukhov and Vladimir Chebaturkin. Both were head coach in MHL last season: Kornoukhov coached Omsk Hawks, while Chebaturkin was on Atlant Mytischi bench

10 Apr 2013, 01:57 | Teemu Kesä suspended for six games

Next season will start later for Rapperswil Finnish defender Teemu Kesä: he takes six-games suspension for his checking to the head against Langnau forward Claudio Moggi, during March 30 playouts game. Kesa received also 1500 Swiss francs fee

08 Apr 2013, 21:43 | Hungary wins WJC18 Div II A

Hungary won all five games and won the IIHF U18 World Championship Division 2 A and promoted to Division 1 B. See results and stats on our Tournament page.

07 Apr 2013, 00:05 | SC Miercurea Ciuc wins title in Romania

With an amazing comeback from 0-3, SC Miercurea Ciuc wins 6-4 game #5 in playoffs finals against Corona Brasov, closing the series 4-1 and capturing the seventh consecutive title in Romania, for a total of 15 titles. This season SC Miercurea Ciuc was also silver medalist of MOL Liga

06 Apr 2013, 23:46 | Bronze for Rødovre in Denmark

Rødovre won bronze in the Danish playoff after winning the bronze series against Odense. Both games ended with a draw and Rødovre won after penaly shootout

06 Apr 2013, 15:56 | New arena opened in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

With the presence of Federation President Vladislav Tretiak, a new 15.000 places arena named "Kristall" was opened in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The Ice Palace was built as part of the regional program of development of physical culture and sports. Construction began in 2010. Kristall arena will host ice shows, concerts, and games of hockey and volleyball