IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 31 Dec 2015


🇸🇪 Sweden
 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 31 December 2015

Sweden threw a power play party on New Year’s Eve, scoring three times with the man advantage to top Canada 5-2. Canada will face Finland in the quarter-finals.
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IHLC 2015 In Review – Men’s

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2015 was a wild year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, with the Euro Hockey Tour and World Championship providing much drama as the title changed through the hands of three world powers by the close of the 2015 Worlds in Czechia.
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IHLC 2015 In Review – Women’s

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2015 was the year of Team USA in women’s hockey (and for the International Hockey Lineal Championship in particular), with the Americans running the table throughout the calendar year to establish their dominance over the world.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 30 Dec 2015


🇸🇪 Sweden
 5-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Felix Sandström made ninesaves en route to a shutout in his first game in the tournament as Sweden beat Denmark 5-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 28 Dec 2015


🇸🇪 Sweden
 1-0 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Monday, 28 December 2015

Team USA outshot Sweden, and controlled big portions of the game, but they didn’t have Alexander Nylander or Linus Söderström. Nylander scored the game winning goal off a breakaway in the second period, and Söderström made 46 saves en route to a shutout.
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🇫🇮 Leijonat To Retire Numbers Of Four Legends At 2016 World Juniors

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With Helsinki hosting the 2016 World Junior Championships this winter, the Finnish Ice Hockey Association will retire the numbers of four national team legends during the tournament, with the numbers of Teemu Selänne, Saku Koivu, Jere Lehtinen and Ville Peltonen to be forever enshrined in the rafters of Hartwall Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 26 Dec 2015


🇸🇪 Sweden
 8-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 26 December 2015

Sweden opened with a 8-3 thrashing of the Swiss on Saturday, but its hopes of Gold were hurt when stars William Nylander and Adrian Kempe left after high hits.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 23 Dec 2015

🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Exhibition Game
Kisakallio jäähalli, Kisakallio 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 23 December 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Kessler, Heldner)
09:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Kindschi, Kessler)
10:22 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Kindschi, tripping
12:54 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Koch, holding
13:13 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Kessler (Suter)
18:57 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Privet, cross checking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 21 Dec 2015

🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Monday, 21 December 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:45 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Mikkola, tripping
10:11 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Meier, hooking
10:53 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Meyer, slashing
15:05 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Kessler
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IIHF Announces Hall Of Fame 2016 Class

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The International Ice Hockey Federation announced their 2016 Hall Of Fame class, to be inducted during the 2016 World Championships in Russia. The class includes five players and two coaches from six different countries, including two posthumous inductions, that have held a myriad of World Championship, Olympic and World Cup medals, along with a number of International Hockey Lineal Championship titles.
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2016 World Cup Exhibition Schedule Released

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The exhibition schedule in advance of the 2016 World Cup in Toronto has been unveiled, with 12 games on tilt the week before the tournament in 10 cities across six nations on two continents.
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