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 โIHLC Classics.โ Today, in honour of Czech Independence Day, we look back at Czechia’s third World Championship from the year 2000, won in a tense battle over neighbouring Slovakia in their first major elimination game since the split of Czechoslovakia.
๐จ๐ฟย Czechia 5-3 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ
World Championshipย Gold Medal Game
Ice Palace, Saint Petersburg ๐ท๐บ
Sunday, 14 May 2000
Proving that breakups of countries donโt have to result in bloodshed, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993, an event sometimes called the Velvet Divorce.
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