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Peter Oremus left Vitkovice

After two seasons Peter Oremus left his charge of head coach at Vitkovice after Sunday's defeat with Zlin.
"We had to take this decision: the team lost twelve of the eighteen matches, it's logical" says general manager Petr Husička.
"Our results were poor despite invaluably beginning of the season. Unfortunately the roster was plagued by injuries, we lost few matches in the last minutes. I'm agree with the decision of the board. I spent two wonderful years here in Vitkovice" commented Peter Oremus

Servette and Vitkovice add players for Spengler

Geneve Servette announces the addition of goalie Robert Mayer (Hamilton Bulldogs), Finnish defenceman Markus Nordlund and forward Inti Pestoni - both from Ambrì-Piotta - for the upcoming Spengler Cup. Also, Czech club Vitkovice will have a Swiss player for the tournament, Kloten Flyers' defenceman Gian-Andrea Randegger.

MHL teams open JCWC in style

All three teams of MHL won their opening game of the Junior Club World Cup yesterday. HK Riga beat Dubuque Fighting Saints 5-2, Dinamo-Shinnik Bobruisk beat Sudbury Wolves 5-1 and Omsk Hawks got a 5-1 win over Vitkovice.

In the fourth game Finnish HPK beat Swedish Frölunda 4-3.

Spengler Cup participants officially announced

Genève-Servette, Rochester Americans, HC Vitkovice Steel, Team Canada, HC Davos and CSKA Moscow were officially announced as participants at the 87th Spengler Cup, held in Davos (SUI) from 26 to 31 December 2013.

HC Vitkovice at Spengler Cup

For the third consecutive years, Czech club HC HC Vitkovice will play at Spengler Cup along with HC Davos, Team Canada, Rochester Americans and Genève-Servette HC. Kazakh Barys Astana announced partecipation but it wasn't still confirmed by Spengler Committee

Czech Extraliga shows up two hattricks

Lukáš Klimek scored three goals during today's game of the 35th Czech Extraliga round between Zlín and Vítkovice. Thanks to its 26-year forward HC Vítkovice Steel fed its tie hopes until the game's very ending. However in time 59.05 Čajánek scored an empty net goal to make the final score a 5-3 victory for Zlín. In another game of the day Lukáš Krenželok scored three Slavia's goals to win surprisingly 2-4 at home of the fearless Czech Extraliga standings leader Plzeň. Accidentaly both hattrick scorers of the round grew up in the team of Vítkovice.

Thomas Wellinger at Spengler with Vitkovice

EHC Biel Swiss defender Thomas Wellinger will play Spengler Cup with Czech team HC Vitkovice.
Wellinger is the sixth Biel player to play the traditional tournament, besides Reto Berra and Patrick Kane (HC Davos), Jacob Micflikier, Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Tyler Seguin (Team Canada)

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.

Spengler Cup program unveiled

The program of the 2012 edition of the Spengler Cup, which takes place from December 26 to 31 in Davos, was releaved. Like in last edition, the six teams were divided into two groups, named Torriani and Cattini.

Invited as special guest for its 75th anniversary, HC Fribourg-Gotteron will have the honor of playing the opening match against Russian Salavat Yulaev Ufa on December 26 afternoon. At night Team Canada and Adler Mannheim will open the Cattini group.
Czech HC Vitkovice Steel completes the group Torriani while host HC Davos is the third team of Cattini Group. Here the complete fixture

Spengler Cup participants named

Today the Spengler Cup officials released the names of the participants for this year's Spengler Cup. Favourite for the tournament win is Salavat Yulayev Ufa (KHL). The other participants are Adler Mannheim (DEL), host HC Davos and Fribourg-Gottéron (both NLA), HC Vítkovice (Czech Extraliga) and a team consisting of Canadian players.