U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

MHL Red Stars (represented by the new MHL team Sakhalin Sharks) won the U20 Challenge Cup of Asia in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. They beat Japan 8-3, South Korea 12-0 and Kazakhstan 3-1.

Russia opens U20 Asian Challenge with a victory

Russia U20 - actually a team formed almost by players from MHL team Amur Tigers Khabarovsk - won the first game of U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, helding in Khabarovsk. Besides Russia and Korea, also Japan partecipate in the tournament

Red Stars MHL - Korea 4-0 (1-0,0-0,3-0)
Goals: Kirill Voronoy, Sergei Smurov, Igor Ishayev, Vitaly Teslenko.

U20 Challenge Cup of Asia starts in Seoul

Today the U20 Challenge Cup of Asia started in Seoul, Korea.

China beat Taiwan 5-2 while Russia (an MHL All-Star team) beat the home team Korea 6-0.

Tht fifth nation, Japan, enters the tournament tomorrow.

MHL AllStar will have two coaches in Seoul

Russian Federation announces Yuri Strakhov (Khimik Voskresensk) and Oleg Bratash (MHK Spartak) will coach MHL Stars from May 27 to June 1, 2012 in Seoul at the U20 Asian Challenge Cup in 2012.

This season Strakhov and Bratash already work together coaching Western Conference team in the Challenge Cup.

MHL send AllStar team to IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

The "Red Stars", an Allstar team from Russian MHL, will partecipate in IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia, in Seul, Korea, from May 27 to June 2. Host Korea, China, Japan and Taipei are the other partecipants.
The partecipation of Red Star is directly connected with the promotion of hockey in the Far East and a possible future establishment of a Pacific Division in KHL.

Challenge Cup of Asia

The IIHF announced dates and venues for the four Challenge Cup of Asia tournaments to be played this spring.

2012 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia in Dehradun, India, 17-25 March 2012

2012 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia in Seoul, Korea, 26-30 May 2012

2012 IIHF U18 Challenge Cup of Asia in Abu Dhabi/Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 1-6 April 2012

2012 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia in Qiqihar, China, 15-20 February 2012