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Mike Keenan Heading To Russia

by Paul on 05/13/13 at 08:27 AM ET
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Video- How About Some Goals, SEL Style!

by Paul on 04/01/13 at 03:42 PM ET
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While we wait for some trade news, why not sit back and watch the top 10 goals regular season goals from the Swedish Elite League.

Thanks to our friend the HockeyWebcaster for the viideo which you can watch below.

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Russian Hockey Player Dies After Hit To The Head

by Paul on 04/01/13 at 09:38 AM ET
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from Harrison Mooney of Puck Daddy (Sunday post),

Tragic news out of the Kazakhstan Vyschaya Liga, the highest professional hockey league in Kazakhstan, where Russian forward Dmitri Uchaykin has passed away the morning after being hospitalized due to a hit to the head.

Uchaykin suited up Saturday night for his club, HC Ertis-Pavlodar, in a game versus HC Arystan. Midway through the game, he was knocked unconscious on a high hit from Arystan forward Donatas Kumeliuskas.

He was taken immediately to hospital, lapsing into a coma on the way there. The following morning, he died.

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Swiss Player Ronny Keller Paralyzed After Hockey Hit

by Paul on 03/07/13 at 08:14 AM ET
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Watch a video of the incident below which is eerily similar to some recent hits we have seen.

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From Tomakomai, Japan To Mora, Sweden

by Paul on 02/22/13 at 08:09 AM ET
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from Henrik Manninen at IIHF.com,

A standout both on and off the ice in his native country, 19-year-old Yuto Osawa opted to travel west to Sweden to continue his development - a move set to pay dividends for Japanese hockey in the future.

When Ronald Sätterman scrutinised his roster ahead of this season, a kid from Hokkaido surprised the newly appointed head coach of Mora IK:s under-20 team.

"I must admit I didn't know enough about hockey in Japan and it was a deal that had been done before I arrived to the club," said Sätterman about the transfer of Osawa to Mora. "So when I saw that there was a Japanese player in our under-20's, I expected him to end up with our affiliate team, Orsa Hockey in division two, but when I then during our first practises I very quickly realised that this kid was good."

The story of how a teenage Asian prospect ended up in small town Sweden has its beginnings at the tail end of last season. The Oji Eagles had then approached Mora about the possibility of sending over one of their youngsters, a highly-rated young playmaker, overseas to develop his game in Europe. With the Japanese club taking care of all costs, the two teams shook hands on a gamble that has since benefited both parties.

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Campoli Signs With A Team In Switzerland

by Paul on 02/07/13 at 09:15 PM ET
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via the CP at TSN,

Defenceman Chris Campoli will play the rest of the 2012-13 season with a team in Switzerland, according to Swiss media reports.

The Geneva Tribune and Swiss Hockey News reported that Campoli, who helped negotiate a new NHL collective bargaining agreement, has signed for the balance of the season with Geneva of Switzerland's top league. Geneva used its eighth and last foreign-player license to sign him.

Campoli, a 28-year-old Mississauga, Ont., native, played for the Montreal Canadiens last season, recording two goals and nine assists, but his contract was not renewed. He was an unrestricted free agent while serving as a member of the NHL Players Association's negotiating committee during the lockout. He had been seeking a new team since the lockout ended in early January.

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Can Sergei Fedorov Still Play?

by Paul on 01/11/13 at 12:10 PM ET
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from The Voice of Russia,

Ice hockey legend Sergey Fedorov is mulling over a return to competitive hockey at the age of 43, says CSKA Moscow’s interim head coach Vyacheslav Butsaev.

Fedorov, who has not played a game since leaving Metallurg Magnitogorsk at the end of last season, is currently plying his trade as CSKA’s general manager.

“We’ve talked to him about it [returning to ice rink],” the R-Sport news agency quotes Butsaev as saying. According to Butsaev, Fedorov has been training recently and is now in “excellent condition.”

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Finnish Player Fined $4700 By Court For One-Sided Fight

by Paul on 12/31/12 at 02:38 PM ET
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via Reuters at Yahoo,

Finnish hockey player Semir Ben-Amor was ordered by a district court to pay a fine of 3,540 euros ($4,700) for knocking an opponent unconscious during a European Trophy game between the top two Helsinki teams.

The court said Jokerit forward Ben-Amor in September tackled HIFK's Ville Peltonen, a former NHL player, from behind with his elbow and kept hitting Peltonen with his bare hands as he lay on the ice.

Ben-Amor, in a letter to the court, confessed to his role in the incident. He was earlier suspended by the Finnish SM-liiga for 18 games and the league also handed out smaller punishments to both teams and their coaches following the heated game.

"The whole situation was only my fault and it was caused by my overreaction during the game. I have a son who plays hockey himself in a junior team of Jokerit, and I can't justify what I did in any way to him," Ben-Amor told the court, according to Finnish media.

You can watch the incident below...

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Wojtek Wolski Returns To His Roots

by Paul on 11/22/12 at 10:56 AM ET
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from Adam Steils of IIHF.com,

“I have never had the chance to play in Poland because I grew up in Canada. I felt that this may be the only opportunity for me to play in Poland so I didn't want to pass it up,” he said.

It’s been an adjustment for the 26-year-old. Going from the capital of the U.S. to a Polish town of approximately 43,000 souls has been an interesting move to say the least.

“It’s a very big difference from living in any of the cities I have played in. It has taken some time to get used to but is very peaceful and reminds me of being up north somewhere in Ontario,” said Wolski.

Wolski’s arrival to Sanok caused quite a stir in a country not necessarily known for hockey. He landed at the airport to a gaggle of reporters and TV crews, but since then the buzz has died down and he has been able to focus on hockey and at the same time soak up some of the European lifestyle.

“It certainly is a different lifestyle across Europe compared to North America. Here people work to live, not live to work. Family is truly the most important thing.”

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Semin Still Trying To Get In Game Shape

by Paul on 11/20/12 at 02:25 PM ET
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from R-Sport,

Carolina Hurricanes forward Alexander Semin said Tuesday he is still not at full fitness despite playing almost two months of lockout hockey in his native Russia.

Semin was one of the NHL’s first big names to move abroad when the lockout took effect, joining his hometown junior team in late September before moving up to the KHL with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod two weeks later.

“Without doubt, I still need to improve my physical condition,” he said on the Torpedo website.

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