On 20 May the supervisory board of the Belarusian sports society Dinamo under the chairmanship of Enver Bariyev confirmed Alexander Andriyevsky as HC Dinamo Minsk head coach for the 2013/14 season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), according to the official site of the HC Dinamo Minsk. Lubomir Pokovic and Oleg Mikulchik were confirmed as Alexander Andriyevsky’s assistants. According to the HC Dinamo Minsk website, Alexander Andriyevsky has been a many-year leader at the Belarusian national ice hockey team, one of the country’s best players. After retirement, he has achieved good...

The 2013 IIHF Annual Congress allocated the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship to Cologne (Germany) and Paris (France).The German-French bid received 63 votes from the delegates. The other bid with Copenhagen (Denmark) and Riga (Latvia) got 45 votes.“It was quite a battle but the Danish and Latvian delegation always offered a fair competition. It was a nice experience to work together,” said Franz Reindl, the General Secretary of the German Ice Hockey Association, who is set to assume the same role in the Organizing Committee as he did in 2010.“We are really proud about the...

The 2013 IIHF Annual Congress assigned 28 tournaments of the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program. The tournaments will take place in 22 different countries.The biggest tournament with the venue not previously known is the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A where the two teams promoted to the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in the Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic, will be determined.Korea will host the tournament which also includes Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Japan and Ukraine in Seoul under the slogan “Beyond the New Horizons”.Also the...

HC Dinamo Minsk announced on Friday that Norwegian goalie Lars Haugen, 26, had signed a two-year contract extension that will keep the goaltender with the team through 2014-2015 season in the Kontinental Hockey League. This past season Lars Haugen moved into a key role for Dinamo Minsk after Finnish goaltender, who played for the Belarusian club during the NHL lockout, left the capital in December 2012. Lars Haugen grabbed the chance to gain foothold in the main lineup, setting his career bests with a 1.81 goals-against average (second best in the League) and .922 save percentage (fifth best)....