Asia League

The Asia League Ice Hockey season kicked off this weekend

On September 7, the Yokohama Grits secured a 2-0 victory over the Tohoku Free Blades in Japan, while in South Korea, HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club dominated the Nikko Icebucks with a 5-1 win. The following day, the Tohoku Free Blades bounced back with a 5-2 win over the Grits, and the Nikko Icebucks edged out HL Anyang in a thrilling 4-3 shootout victory.

(08 Sep 2024)

Asia League Awards

After the end of the regular season, Asia League announces the seasonal awards:

Best player award: Lee Chong Min (HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club)
Most points award: Seiji Takahashi (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Most assists award: Ryo Hashimoto (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Most points award: Kim Sang-wook (HL Anyang Ice Hockey Club)
Best save percentage GK award: Yuta Narisawa (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Newcomer Award: Riku Ishida (Tohoku Free Blaze)

All-Stars Team:
Yuta Narisawa (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Ryo Hashimoto (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Song Hyun-chul (HL Anyang)
Seiji Takahashi (Red Eagles Hokkaido)
Boivin Alexander (Tohoku Free Blaze)
Shogo Nakajima (Red Eagles Hokkaido)

(30 Mar 2024)

Asia League finals canceled

The Asian League Ice Hockey has decided to cancel the playoff final, which was scheduled to be held on February 29, due to concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus infection in Japan and overseas.

(26 Feb 2020)

Tohoku Free Blades wins championship

Tohoku Free Blades of Japan beat Anyang Halla of South Korea for the third consecutive game to win the Asia League title.

(24 Mar 2015)

Further Delays in Asia League Schedule

Earlier in the season, the League delayed several games involving the Chinese and Japanese teams due to rising political tensions. While some of those games have been played already, further games have been delayed. Two games scheduled December 29 and 30 are being pushed back to February 2 and 3.

(30 Nov 2012)

High1 pound China

It started just 9 seconds into the game and never stopped. High1 relentlessly out-shot China Dragon 51 to 32 and scored 9 goals. Inoue stopped all 32 shots he faced. Barney had a hat trick and an assist for 4 points. Yu-won Lee had 2 goals and an assist, and Swift had 4 assists. Mid-game Dragon defense Kumagai received a 5 minute major for hi-sticking and a game misconduct. This is one of the Dragon's worst losses of the season, the other being a 10-1 loss to the Blades.

(29 Nov 2012)

East China sea conflict causes Asia League to post-pone games

The Asia League has post-poned another set of games due to the growing Japan China conflict over a set of uninhabited islands. This weekend the Eagles were to play in China, but the league has postponed the games until the middle of November and end of December. Last week three games against the Cranes were rescheduled until January.

(28 Sep 2012)

Swift given 1 game suspension

After receiving 32 minutes in penalties related to a roughing call in Wednesday's game against the Eagles, High1 forward Michael Swift received a 1 game suspension for rule 528-h which relates to "A player who grabs or holds the face mask or helmet or pulls the hair of an opponent". He will miss the September 29 game against the Cranes in Japan.

(20 Sep 2012)

Eagles thrash High1 at home

Oji Eagles completed a three game sweep of High1 on Wednesday night when they defeated them 8-4. High1 took an early lead but saw it evaporate quickly as the Eagles tied it up by the end of the first and secured a lead mid-way through the second. Oji got two goals from Hashimoto and Takahashi while Cavosi and Saito each had 3 assits. Suh managed to get a couple goals for High1. Swift failed to get a single point during the game and was ejected early in the third period receiving a 2 minute roughing penalty, a 10 minute misconduct and a 20 minute game misconduct. Kawashima for the Eagles also took a 10 minute misconduct as part of the altercation. Despite a lop-sided second period which saw the Eagles get five goals on only eight shots, the Eagles outshot High1 49-47.

(19 Sep 2012)

Halla gets three players back from Finland

Three players that went to Finland have returned to Anyang Halla. Tuesday night they announced that Donku Lee (D), Woosang Park (F), and Minho Cho (F) would be rejoining the team. After attending try-outs in Finland the three players return to Halla having only missed the first 2 games of the season.

(18 Sep 2012)