 The KHL, closely watching the financial situation in Lada Togliatti, adopted measures aimed at supporting the team. League President Alexander Medvedev’s initiative to provide financial assistance to a cash-strapped club was supported by the Board of Directors. Following the decision made at the Board of Directors meeting on October 21, the KHL made money transfers to Lada players' bank accounts for more than 17 million rubles in total. 21.10.2009 |
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Dinamo Minsk’s Glen Hanlon became the third KHL coach to lose his job – despite his team being better off than they were this time last year! The Belarusian side has taken 20 points, and six regulation-time wins, from its first 15 games this season. Last year they had just 11 points and two wins at the same stage. But a 4-1 home defeat to perennial strugglers Amur Khabarovsk on October 20, which ended a three-match winning streak, proved Hanlon’s last game in charge. The chairman of the Belarusian Hockey Federation, Vladimir Naumov, wielded the axe, saying: «I am convinced that, with the quality of players now available to Dinamo, the team should be playing better.» Alexander Andrievsky has taken charge of the side, who return to action on Thursday at home to Metallurg Novokuznetsk. |
 ZURICH – The International Ice Hockey Federation has entered into an agreement with the relevant national member associations and Hockey Europe to secure a re-launch of the Champions Hockey League for 2010-2011. Hockey Europe is the union of the professional hockey leagues from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland. Included in the agreement is a settlement that compensates the clubs that qualified for the 2009-2010 Champions Hockey League, which was cancelled on June 15, 2009 due to the global financial problems. The agreement foresees participation of clubs from Europe’s Top-7 leagues in the 2010-2011 Champions Hockey League: Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland. The format and number of participating teams will be announced later. “This agreement marks an extr ... Read more » |
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STOCKHOLM – If there’s one word that a hockey fan dreads more than
“loss”, it’s probably “rebuilding”. That’s a word that club managements
like to use when things aren’t going the way they – or the fans – would
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 Andrew Podnieks
Two mistakes was all it took. An opportunistic
Russia took advantage of Canadian errors and defeated Canada 2-1 to win
gold for the second year in a row against its archrivals. Alexander
Radulov scored the second-period winner.
Midway through the first period Canadian defenceman Braydon Coburn shot the puck out of the rink in his own end, and Oleg Saprykin capitalized on the ensuing power play. Midway through the second period, Coburn pinched unwisely at the Russian blueline, leading to Radulov,s winner. "It was like a playoff game," Radulov said. "Instead of being a best-of-seven, it was a best of one. We know the way they play, and they know the way ... Read more » |
Today Vladimir Plyuschev officially became a new head coach of Youth Russian National Team (U-20). The contract has concluded under the scheme "1+1". We will remind that the decision on Plyuschev,s appointment was accepted on June, 18th at the session of Executive committee FHR. Among pupils of Plyuschev, acting under his management in different national teams 11 hockey players have won titles of World champions in Quebec and Bern: Alexandr Frolov, Ilya Kovalchuk, Konstantin Korneyev, Alexandr Semin, Dmitry Kalinin, Sergey Zinovyev, Oleg Saprykin, Denis Grebeshkov, Anton Volchenkov, Fedor Tyutin, Alexander Perezhogin. As the head coach of a Youth National team
Plyuschev has already won a gold medal in the World championship in
2002, and before has won the Wo
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 Sunday
night was not the goalies, dream night, that,s for sure. Russian
offensive weapons stole the spotlight as the reigning world champions
pounded France 7-2.
It probably wasn,t the greatest of nights to be a goalie at either end of the rink. For France,s Eddy Ferhi, it was an uphill battle from the get-go, and his colleague, Alexander Eremenko, faced 22 shots in the game, and just nine in the first 30 minutes. It took Russia just 1:23 to take the 1-0 lead. Alexander Radulov got the puck in the neutral zone and carried it over the offensive blueline. He got close to the French defenceman who had lost his stick a few second earlier, used him as a screen, then sidestepped him and sent a wrist shot behind Ferhi, beating him on the stick ... Read more » |
 Yesterday the national team of
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