🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Five Nations Tournament
Rosvalla Ishall, Nyköping 🇸🇪
Saturday, 07 November 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:26 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Pettersson (Langvardt)
13:07 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sjöström, holding
14:17 – 🇫🇮 PEN – team, too many players
18:09 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Genborg (Annborn)
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
NOCCO Hockey Games
Veikkaus Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 07 November 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:52 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Lammikko (Rautiainen, Arola)
03:31 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pakarinen, holding
13:04 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bambula, hooking
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🇺🇸 United States 7-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Granly Hockey Arena, Esbjerg 🇩🇰
Friday, 06 November 2026
With the exception of forward Joy Dunne, the USA had brought an all-PWHL roster to Denmark. However, Switzerland and star goaltender Andrea Brändli – who is also PWHL-bound for the upcoming season – did an excellent job of keeping the star-studded American team at bay during the opening stages of the game.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 9-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Five Nations Tournament
Rosvalla Ishall, Nyköping 🇸🇪
Thursday, 05 November 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:10 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Ihs-Wozniak
01:34 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Bächler, tripping
03:31 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Hillström (Klingsell, Sundström)
12:13 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Pettersson (Sundström)
14:56 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Genborg (Hillström)
15:23 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Fueter (Dedial)
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🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
NOCCO Hockey Games
Veikkaus Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 05 November 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:46 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pakarinen, interference
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Five Nations Tournament
Rosvalla Ishall, Nyköping 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 04 November 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:21 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Anderberg (Command, Krantz)
02:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, delay of game
12:31 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Genborg (Sundström, Pettersson)
15:20 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Krantz, slashing
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The IIHF Women’s World Championship is returning to Denmark for the second time in four years, as the debut November edition of the tournament sees the reigning Olympic and World champion Americans looking to defend their crownin the 25th edition of the tournament from 06-16 November, with games in Herning and Esbjerg.
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🇺🇸 United States 4-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 30 October 2026
Gwyneth Philips made 13 saves and the United States beat Canada 4-0 on Friday night at USA Hockey Arena in the second of two exhibition games between the teams ahead of the women’s world championship.
On Wednesday night in Windsor, Ontario, Canada won 5-3. The world championship is 6-16 November in Herning and Esbjerg, Denmark.
Tessa Janecke opened the scoring on a power play at 57 seconds of the second period, then assisted on Joy Dunne’s goal at 4:40.
Kirsten Simms connected on another power play with 4:09 left in the second, and Hannah Bilka scored at 1:12 of the third.
Ève Gascon stopped 28 shots for Canada.
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:44 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tremblay, body checking
15:04 – 🇺🇸 PEN – O’Brien, tripping
19:26 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Fast, cross checking
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In a stunning reversal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the International Ice Hockey Federation today was ordered to immediately reinstate all Russian hockey teams to IIHF competition despite their ongoing invasion of Ukraine, throwing a major wrench into upcoming tournaments throughout the 2026-27 season.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Windsor Family Credit Union Centre, Windsor 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Sarah Fillier scored the go-ahead goal as Canada defeated the United States 5-3 in a pre-tournament game on Wednesday ahead of the women’s hockey world championships.
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From time to time, TheIHLC.com will feature detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history, considered to be “IHLC Classics.”Today, in honour of Czech Independence Day, we feature Czechia’s second ever, and second consecutive, World Junior Championship title, going a perfect 7-0 in the tournament in Russia to win the 2001 World Junior crown.
🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 05 January 2001
The Czech Republic maintained its stranglehold on international hockey supremacy yesterday and, in case anyone is wondering, yes the Czechs do think they are better than everyone else.
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TheIHLC.com is debuting a new recurring feature, highlighting detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history – that are not, however, part of the IHLC timeline – “Non-IHLC Classics.” Today, in honour of German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), and in anticipation of Veltins-Arena hosting the 2027 IIHF World Championship opener in May, we feature when Germany hosted the largest attendance in hockey history at that point, a world record crowd of nearly 78,000 in Gelsenkirchen.
🇩🇪 Germany 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Preliminary Round
Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen 🇩🇪
Friday, 07 May 2010
What a way to start the 2010 World Championship for the host country.
With a loud and boisterous world record crowd of 77,803 looking on at Veltins-Arena, Felix Schütz tipped a shot into the USA net 21 seconds into overtime to give to Germany a 2-1 victory in the opening game of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s annual showcase event on Friday.
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After a two-round vote to replace IIHF President Luc Tardif, Franz Reindl today was voted in as new President of the International Ice Hockey Federation, following stints as an IIHF Council member and President of the German Ice Hockey Federation.
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Defender Claire Thompson, the first Canadian woman to join the Triple Gold Club at the age of 27, today confirmed her retirement from hockey just one year later, hanging up her skates to pursue a medical career full-time.
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The schedule for the 2027 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the defending champion Swedes looking to repeat as champions for the first time in history, while hosts Canada will look to regain Gold on home ice for the first time since 2023.
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Swedish defender John Klingberg, a two-way weapon whose career was hampered by nagging injury problems, today confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 34, after a dozen-year NHL career, along with two World Championship and a World Junior title to his name.
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The schedule for the 2027 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Düsseldorf and Mannheim, Germany, with the hosts set to kick off the tournament with an epic opener at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, trying to break the international attendance record set when Germany last hosted in 2010.
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Today marks the anniversary of the tragic air disaster of Yak-Service Flight 9633 on 07 September 2011, that crashed near Yaroslavl, Russia, and killed the entire roster and staff of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL, and all but one of the flight crew members, when a pilot error caused the aircraft to fail its takeoff, running off the runway and crashing into a tower mast.
Then-IIHF president René Fasel declared the crash as “the darkest day in the history of our sport,” as fans from across the world, and in particular Russia and the eight other nations represented by team players and staff, mourned for the shocking and tragic loss. On this sad anniversary, TheIHLC.com commemorates this deep loss, and remember those who perished in the accident.
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Five Nations Tournament
Ilmatar Areena, Espoo 🇫🇮
Sunday, 30 August 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:31 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Svrček, cross checking
09:21 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sörensson (Carpenhammar)
10:29 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Kazda, delay of game
12:30 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Zirath (Färhammar, Lövgren)
16:41 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Karlsson, holding
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Five Nations Tournament
Ilmatar Areena, Espoo 🇫🇮
Saturday, 29 August 2026
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:19 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Nordmark, slashing
02:06 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kähkönen, slashing
04:47 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Andersson, holding
09:46 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kossila, boarding
10:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Hemmyr (Nordmark, Hillström)
19:11 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Andersson (Nordmark, Hillström)
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