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.

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 want to.

Rebuilding means cutting costs, throwing aging stars overboard – if lucky, the club can sell or trade them, but not always in the European circles – and, basically, starting from scratch.

That’s not to say that rebuilding isn’t a good, or a necessary thing. Sometimes it is.

In the NHL, the teams get rebuilt through drafts. In Sweden, the clubs take a look at their own junior system to see if there are talents that can keep afloat, and with age and experience, take it back to the top.

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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.

Yesterday the national team of Russia has gone to Switzerland where on April, 22nd will lead a friendly match with a command of Hungary, and on April, 24th will lead the first game in the World championship. The president of FHR Vladislav Tretyak, executive chief FHR Valery Fesyuk together with 25 players, a trainer,s and administrative staff have gone to Bern in the afternoon, 21 of April.