Two years removed from being swept in their Gagarin Cup finals debut, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is now in the midst of building a dynasty, repeating as champions with a 3-2 victory over Ak Bars in Game Six of the finals in Kazan.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Five Players Join Triple Gold Club Following Victoire Walter Cup Win
Following the Montréal Victoire’s first Walter Cup championship, and the first title for a Canadian club, there are now five new members of the unofficial Women’s Triple Gold Club, as Canadians Marie-Philip Poulin, Laura Stacey, Ann-Renée Desbiens and Erin Ambrose, along with American Hayley Scamurra, have now added a Walter Cup to their existing Olympic and World Championship Gold medals.
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🇨🇦 Montréal Victoire Win 2026 Walter Cup, First For Canada
After two disappointing consecutive semifinal losses in the PWHL playoffs, the Montréal Victoire finally climbed the proverbial mountain, defeating the Ottawa Charge in four games to win the club’s, and Canada’s, first ever Walter Cup championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹 – 20 May 2026
🇨🇭 Switzerland 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Austria came into the game riding a historic high. Never before had they won all three of their first three games at an IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
That streak ended today when Switzerland rolled to a convincing 9-0 win.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 18 May 2026
🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 18 May 2026
Three was tonight’s magic number for Switzerland. Three goals in 3:33 blew this game open in the second period, and took the host nation to three wins from three games.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 16 May 2026
🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 16 May 2026
Switzerland secured a second win in two days at the 2026 IIHF World Championship. But while the tournament host took the points in Zürich, Latvian goalie Kristers Gudļevskis collected many of the plaudits.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 May 2026
🇨🇭 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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🇺🇸 Hannah Brandt Retires After Fleet’s Playoff Elimination
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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IHLC Preview – 2026 World Championship
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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪 – 10 May 2026
🇺🇸 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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🇰🇿 🇺🇦 Kazakhstan, Ukraine Promoted To 2027 World Championship
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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🇸🇮 Anže Kopitar Retires Following Kings Playoff Elimination
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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🇨🇿 Jakub Klepiš Retires At 41 After Playoff Elimination
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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2026
🇸🇪 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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🇫🇷 France Promoted To 2027 Women’s World Championship
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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 18 Apr 2026
🇨🇿 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 17 Apr 2026
🇨🇿 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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🇸🇪 Linus Omark Confirms Retirement Following Luleå Elimination
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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 16 Apr 2026
🇨🇭 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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🇨🇭 Patrick Fischer Fired As Swiss National Team Coach Over Falsified Document Scandal
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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