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Plzeň becomes the new Extraliga leader

After a 4 : 3 win against Kometa Brno, the Bohemians are now the new leaders of the overall classification. Mlada Boleslav and HK Mountfield follow, the former even after a defeat at the shootout against reigning champions Litvinov.

Hadamczik becomes new head coach of Brno

Czech coach Alois Hadamczik, 62, takes over a Czech Extraliga club of Kometa Brno. So far, Hadamczik earned seven Extraliga medals with three organizations - Vítkovice, Třinec and Sparta. His last appearance in club hockey is five years old already, when he was in charge of Vítkovice between 2008 and 2010. After then, Hadamczik was the head coach of the national team of Czech Republic (2010-14).

Four teams perfect in Extraliga

Six games were played in Czech Extraliga today. When two rounds are played Trinec, Vitkovice, Plzen and Brno all have six points.

European Trophy schedules

European Trophy announced today the schedule for the 2012/13 season. Find the complete fixture list here.

Two Czechs score hat-trick

Petr Vrána, 26, helped Khabarovsk to earn 2 points in an KHL game in Ekaterinburg(4-5 SO) with scoring three goals on Saturday. One day earlier Jakub Svoboda needed only 4 minutes and 41 seconds of the second period to score a hat-trick in an Czech Extraliga game of Kometa Brno in Plzeň(1-6).

Start of Czech Extraliga postponed

Originally, Tipsport Extraliga would start this Friday, Sep 16, with seven games. Because of Yaroslavl jet crash all the first round games are postponed. "Jan Marek, Karel Rachůnek and Josef Vašíček were friends of many Czech Extraliga players. Their friends would be unable to attend Jan Marek's funeral if we will make them play hockey on Friday," Czech Extraliga head commisioner Stanislav Šulc said. New dates for the games is unknown, the clubs will arrange date of their 1st round games themselves.

The Czech top-level ice hockey competition will start on Sunday, Sep 18, with games of the second round.