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23 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Estonia - Latvia - Lithuania |
2008-09: The Latvian Saga
2008/09 was a struggle for survival for the Latvian ice hockey league. Here's a review.
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18 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Slovenia - Croatia - Serbia |
Serbian League 2008-09: 4th straight for Partizan
HK Partizan Beograd won the Serbian ice hockey championship for the 4th year straight. The finals series between Partizan and HK Vojvodina Novi Sad was not played to an end due to the fire that burned down the hockey arena of Novi Sad and most of the Vojvodina players' equipment. Partizan led the series 2-1 when the championship was prematurely terminated and the team was subsequently declared the champion of the 2008-09 season.
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17 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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IHWC Division III |
Armenia prepares for its return to the Worlds
Armenia is coming back from a one-year ban from the IIHF World Championship and will host the 2010 Division III, Group B in April. The new leadership of the Armenian Ice Hockey Federation will complete the preparatory work made by the president Karen Demirchayn who suffered a tragic car accident on his trip to the biannual IIHF Congress last month.
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16 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Bulgaria - Greece - Turkey |
Bulgarian Championship 2008-09 - Slavia again
Slavia Sofia won the 2008-09 Bulgarian ice hockey championship. This was the club's 8th championship in this decade and 16th championship in total. All championships won the past 25 years.
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16 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Bulgaria - Greece - Turkey |
Turkish champion 2009: Polis Akademisi
Polis Akademisi emerged as the champion of the Turkish ice hockey Superliga 2008-09. This was the Ankara club's fifth championship in six years.
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14 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Asian League of Hockey |
Asian Hockey League: Another season after another off-season storm
The Asian League of Ice Hockey (ALIH) has in its relatively short existence always been volatile as franchises have come and gone and the rules have changed frequently. As the league enters its sixth season, its face has changed dramatically again.
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13 October, 2009
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Zoë Griffiths - The National; Davide Tuniz
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Middle East |
Dubai launches new hockey league
The National, the new English newspaper launched by the Abu Dhabi Media Company, presents, in exclusive for Internationalhockey.net, the brand new Emirates Ice Hockey League and its teams
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12 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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India |
Ladakh Scouts win the 5th Indian ice hockey championship
The fifth Indian National Ice Hockey Championship proved to be a controversial affair as not only the teams but also the organizing committe were accused for match fixing after some hugely peculiar results. Here's a recap from the tournament that took place in January 2009.
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10 October, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Ireland |
Third season of irish Ice Hockey League to start up
After the tumultuous end to the 2008/09 season, the Irish Ice Hockey League is back to five teams. The season starts tonight with a double-headerbetween the newly formed Castlereagh Spartans of Belfast and Charlestown Chiefs of Dublin and Dundalk Bulls and Dublin Rams.
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14 September, 2009
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Fredrik Bennison
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Sweden |
Elitserien 2009/10 - preview
The off season saw some controversy regarding the future visions of Elitserien, with teams having differing views on the matter. All things settled for now, this is a quick look at the te
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06 August, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Denmark |
Sea of Change in the Danish Hockey League
Financial overstretch and the loss of sponsors nearly killed the Danish hockey league last season. The hockey clubs are still suffering from the shock and have now finally become financially prudent.
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10 June, 2009
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Fredrik Bennison & Karsten Skjalm
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Sweden |
Truce Called in Swedish Hockey War
It has been a spring of discontent in the Swedish Elitserien, but after a meeting in Hockeyligan, the body that governs Elitserien, last night the clubs have agreed to call for a truce.
The feud betw
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02 June, 2009
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Alessandro Seren Rosso
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KHL/Russia |
KHL Entry Draft 2009
On June 1st the first ever KHL Draft took place. Only 23 of the league's teams picked players as Khimik Voskresensk and Vityaz Chekhov couldn't participate due to the franchises' bad finances. A
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22 May, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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International Hockey History |
Canada, USA and the 1953 IIHF World Championship
On the internet, the question has often been raised why USA and Canada did not participate in the 1953 IIHF World Championship? The most common answer is that USA and Canada were banned from playing in the IHWC after the 1952 Olympics, This answer is mistakenly wrong. This article attempts to give a more precise explanation.
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21 May, 2009
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Karsten Skjalm
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Sweden |
The Swedish Civil Hockey War Heats Up
The five outbreaking hockey clubs to have talks with the KHL; the Swedish hockey federation has started preparing for a plan B, and the he seven remaining Elitserien clubs have fired back by sig
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21 April, 2009
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Fredrik Bennison
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Sweden |
Elitserien Season 2008-09 Review
Färjestad made a stellar performance in the last third of this season, winning both the regular season and the championship. But the season was long and there were several other championship cand
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