🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Friday, 15 May 2026
The hosts of the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship got off to a great start in Zürich. Switzerland beat the US 3–1.
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After announcing before the 2025-26 PWHL season that it would be her last in order to focus on her studies, Hannah Brandt made her retirement from hockey official at the age of 32, following an illustrious career capped with one Olympic and three World Championship Gold medals, but falling short of the Triple Gold Club after the Boston Fleet were eliminated from the Walter Cup postseason by Ottawa.
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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, starting this Friday 15 May, kicking off the premiere event of the annual global hockey calendar, the 2026 IIHF World Championship.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪
Exhibition Game
SAP Arena, Mannheim 🇩🇪
Sunday, 10 May 2026
The U.S. Men’s National Team used goals from five different players on the way to a 5-2 win over Germany here tonight in its lone pre-tournament game ahead of the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship. The content was played before a lively and capacity crowd of 12,909 at SAP Arena.
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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sosnowiec, Poland saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2027 World Championship in Germany settled in a thrilling tournament, with Kazakhstan clinching the first spot, while Ukraine snagged the final spot on the last day of competition, clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2025 and 2007, respectively.
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Slovenian forward Anže Kopitar, both the most decorated Slovene and Los Angeles King in hockey history, played his final game after confirming that this season would be his last, retiring at age 38 with two Stanley Cups, and an assortment of individual trophies, including a Messier, three Lady Byng and two Selke awards.
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Czech journeyman forward Jakub Klepiš, a veteran of nearly a quarter century across multiple clubs in Czechia, Russia, Sweden and the United States, confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 41, following Sparta Prague’s elimination from the 2026 Czech Extraliga playoffs.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 April 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:30 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Goos, delay of game
07:13 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Funck (Håkansson, Holmertz)
13:36 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Záhejský, roughing
13:36 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Höglund, roughing
17:50 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Jansa, high sticking
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After three years stuck in Division IA, and just three months removed from a disappointing last place finish at the Milan Olympics, France clinched their spot at the 2027 Women’s World Championship in Québec, Canada, after a 3-1 defeat of Slovakia locked them into promotion at the Division IA Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Saturday, 18 April 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:31 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Fasner (Brabanec, Záhejský)
16:20 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Záhejský (Brabanec, Fasner)
18:26 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Mišiak, tripping
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🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Friday, 17 April 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Nappiot, tripping
09:11 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Bissig (Sauser)
16:19 – 🇨🇭 PEN – team, too many players
19:28 – 🇨🇭 PEN – N. Lehmann, tripping
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Swedish winger Linus Omark, a mainstay on the Swedish national team for over a decade with a World Championship Gold, Swedish and Swiss League title to his name, confirmed his retirement from the game at the age of 39, following his club, Luleå, being eliminated in the semifinals of the Swedish Hockey League playoffs.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Thursday, 16 April 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:25 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Schmidt, charging
13:44 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Pedrotti, hooking
13:58 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Sauser, delay of game
15:24 – 🇫🇮 PP2 GOAL – Aarvala (Sinivuori, Kapanen)
16:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Melanen, hooking
17:57 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – von Rohr (Nappiot, Aeschlimann)
19:56 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Franzina, high sticking
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A stunning and surprising development has emerged out of the Switzerland national hockey team’s camp just over a month from hosting the World Championships, as head coach Patrick Fischer, who led the Eisgenossen to three World Championship Silver medals, was terminated after admitting to falsifying COVID vaccination documents to enter China during the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:58 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Vehovský, hooking
19:29 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Pekař, slashing
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Jonathan Quick, the winningest American goalie in NHL history, confirmed that his start for the New York Rangers against Florida yesterday evening would be his last, capping a 19-season pro career that saw Quick capture three Stanley Cups and an Olympic Silver medal.
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Making its return for the first time in twelve years, the NHL today announced the host cities for the World Cup of Hockey, with group play to be split between Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Prague, Czechia, with the semifinal and final to be hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Unipol Dome, Milan 🇮🇹
Sunday, 22 February 2026
Jack Hughes scored at 1:41 of overtime to give the United States Olympic Gold with a 2-1 win over Canada.
The Americans capitalized on a turnover in their end to create a three-on-one, and Hughes finished the play with a low shot under the left pad of Jordan Binnington.
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🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Olympic Semifinal
Unipol Dome, Milan 🇮🇹
Friday, 20 February 2026
The United States scored early and late in the first period and skated to an emphatic 6-2 win over Slovakia tonight.
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By virtue of the United States‘ thrilling overtime victory over Canada to capture Olympic Gold in Milan, three forwards on Team USA have now joined the Triple Gold Club, as Taylor Heise, Britta Curl and Grace Zumwinkle all added Olympic Gold to their existing World Championship Gold and Walter Cup titles.
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