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Russian ice hockey star files appeal to CAS against doping ban

  • Ice Hockey

Russia's three-time world champion and Olympian Danis Zaripov has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his suspension over a failed drugs test.

the 2008, 2009 and 2014 World Championships, was given a two-year doping ban by the International Ice Hockey

verdict would be "equal to winning the Gagarin Cup" - the trophy awarded to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey

19 this year, while Smith will be ruled out until September 2, 2018.The world's second largest ice hockey


Marjamaki to depart as Finland's ice hockey head coach

  • Ice Hockey

Lauri Marjamaki has announced that he will depart as head coach of Finland's men's ice hockey team after

not to extend his three-year contract after Pyeongchang 2018 in February and the International Ice Hockey

on a new challenge.Finland finished fourth at this year's World Championships ©Getty Images"The ice hockey

association was ready to continue the agreement but we respect Marjamaki's decision," Finnish Ice Hockey

Finland has won six men's Olympic ice hockey medals in their history.They won silvers in 1988 and 2006



Australian Paralympic Committee receive grant for Para-ice hockey equipment

  • Para Ice Hockey News

A grant to purchase Para ice hockey equipment has been given to the Australian Paralympic Committee (

grant programme in collaboration with World Para Ice Hockey.The equipment, which includes 21 Para ice hockey

The hope is that this equipment will be a catalyst for the development of a Para-ice hockey programme

Shona Powell, the long-time captain of the Australian women's ice hockey team, will participate in a

ice hockey, we believe we can really help Para-ice hockey to get going, and to become a serious winter

sport in Australia," said Ice Hockey Australia vice-president Andrew McDowell."


Former NHL player Ramsay named Slovakia men's team head coach

  • Ice Hockey

Craig Ramsay has been named as the Slovakian men’s ice hockey team head coach for the next two years.

the side into next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, along with next year’s International Ice Hockey

the 2019 World Championships being hosted by Slovakia.Ramsay spent 14 seasons playing in the National Hockey

Lightning.At the latter, he won the 2004 Stanley Cup.Slovakia's best result in the men's Olympic ice hockey

in the NHL as a player for many years as a coach in various roles will join us and help us lead our hockey

into a new epoch with new methods,” Slovak Ice Hockey Federation general manager Miroslav Satan told


Argentina to meet Canada in men's Pan American Hockey Cup final

  • Hockey

Olympic champions Argentina will face Canada in the men’s Pan American Hockey Cup final after both countries

nbsp;Today's results also mean that New Zealand have become the latest team to qualify for the 2018 Hockey

World Cup in Indian city Bhubaneswar.The Black Sticks finished in sixth position at last month's Hockey

faced an anxious wait to see if that was good enough to earn them qualification.Under International Hockey

 If that team has already qualified by finishing in the top five of the Hockey World League Semi-Finals

- as both Argentina and Canada did by coming second and fifth respectively at June's Hockey World League


Pettersen named head coach of Norwegian women's national ice hockey team

  • Ice Hockey

Thomas Pettersen has been appointed as the new head coach of the Norwegian women’s national team.

He has signed a two-season contract with the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association to lead the side after

Norway’s women have been competing in the second tier - Division I Group A - of the International Ice Hockey

behind Japan and host nation Austria.They have never qualified for the Winter Olympics since women's ice hockey




Olympic silver medal-winning ice hockey player dies aged 95

  • Ice Hockey

American ice hockey player Dan McKinnon, an Olympic silver medallist in 1956, has died at the age of

represented the US at the 1955 and 1958 World Championships.He was instrumental in the establishment of ice hockey

 "Dan was an instrumental part of our hockey program and in what we represent today.




Ashgabat 2017 strike deal with China National Petroleum Corporation

  • OCA

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has become the latest official partner of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Ashgabat.

medical and sporting programmes.They have signed sponsorship deals with sports including football, hockey


Tokyo 2020 keen to prioritise Major League Baseball deal over format demands

  • Baseball and Softball

Ensuring top players from Major League Baseball (MLB) participate at the Olympics is the priority for Tokyo 2020 as they prepare for the Games, their Sports Director has claimed.

believes ensuring participation from the world's best players should be the priority ©WBSCThe National Hockey

continuing to maintain that players from the league will be barred from next year's Winter Olympic ice hockey

in Pyeongchang, despite participating in the past five editions.Unlike with ice hockey, the WBSC believe