IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 9-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Nov 2026


🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Nov 2026


🇫🇮 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 04 Nov 2026


🇸🇪 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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IHLC Preview – 2026 Women’s World Championship


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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 30 Oct 2026


🇺🇸 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.
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🇷🇺 CAS Overturns IIHF Ruling, Orders Russia Reinstated To World Championships


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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 28 Oct 2026


🇨🇦 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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🇨🇿 🇫🇮 IHLC Classics: Czechs Run The Table For Second Straight Gold

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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🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Non-IHLC Classics: The Largest World Championship Crowd In History

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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🇨🇦 Claire Thompson Confirms Retirement, Pivot To Medical Career


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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🇨🇦 2027 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


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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🇸🇪 John Klingberg Confirms Retirement From Hockey At Age 34


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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🇩🇪 2027 World Championship Schedule Released


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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🇷🇺 In Memoriam – Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2011-12

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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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 30 Aug 2026


🇸🇰 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Aug 2026


🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 26 Aug 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Five Nations Tournament
Ilmatar Areena, Espoo 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 26 August 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:35 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Řípa
05:32 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Mrtka, high sticking
11:08 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Benák, holding / unsportsmanlike conduct double minor
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 Aug 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Summer Showcase
Windsor Family Credit Union Centre, Windsor 🇨🇦
Saturday, 01 August 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:04 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Nilsson, high sticking double minor
12:43 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pärssinen, slashing
12:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Klingsell (Sjöström, Nilsson)
15:25 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Virtanen (Katavisto, Alalauri)
17:38 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hermansson, roughing
17:38 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kapanen, roughing
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