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KHL All Stars Played in Sochi Last Sunday

January 29th, 2015 EAST wins against WEST 18:16, such was the result of the KHL All Star Game 2015, which took place in Sochi on Sunday, 25 January 2015.The event has been a good showpiece for the game in Russia and Eastern Europe in the times when the region’s political and economic ties stand the hardest imaginable tests. Here is how the KHL All...

Europe’s Champions Hockey League Expects Semi-Finals

December 21st, 2014 The European Champions Hockey League has managed to engage into its tournament the best hockey teams of the Old Continent (with the exception of Russian clubs). Currently the league is past the quarter-finals’ stage and is set for the intensive and most interesting semi-finals to be played in January 2015.Until the semifinals the...

DEL Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

September 11th, 2014 The German professional ice hockey league (Deutsche Eishockeyliga – DEL) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2014. The history of the league is definitely shorter than the history of ice hockey in Germany, but in the last twenty years the league has contributed greatly to the sport’s development and popularity among the nation.The...

Champions Hockey League Starts Anew in Europe

August 26th, 2014 The International Ice Hockey Federation and major European ice hockey stakeholders, clubs re-launched the Champions Hockey League last week. The re-launch in August 2014 follows the league’s initial failure to last more than one season caused by financial troubles in 2009 due to the worldwide economic downturn.The first games of...

Swiss Hockey - An Analysis Of The Swiss NLA

July 31st, 2011 Swiss hockey is becomming a big deal. The NHL sets the bar high as far as talent and wages go but hockey is also a serious business throughout Europe. The NLA of Switzerland being top of that business as far as highest average attendance in Europe goes, not bad from a country of only 7.8 million people compared to 142 million in Russia....