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🇫🇮 IIHF Names Tampere & Turku As 2028 World Junior Championship Host

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Today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced that hosting rights for the 2028 World Juniors have been awarded to Tampere and Turku, Finland, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2027.
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🇳🇴 Norway Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2027

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After a two-year stint in Division IA, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, thanks to a late Kazakh comeback victory over Austria, locking up their spot in the Top Division even before their final match against hosts Slovenia at the Division IA tournament in Bled.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Canada 🇨🇦 – 10 Dec 2025

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🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

The United States feasted on Canada’s porous defence in a 10-4 thrashing to take the women’s hockey Rivalry Series on Wednesday.
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🇫🇮🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Kakko’s Dagger Captures Junior Gold

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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, Today, in honour of Finnish Independence Day (itsenäisyyspäivä), we feature Finland’s most recent World Junior Championship title, a stunning victory over the Americans on the back of a late Kaapo Kakko game winning goal.


🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Arena, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Saturday, 05 January 2019

Kaapo Kakko scored the winner with 1:26 left as Finland edged the U.S. 3-2 in the 2019 World Junior Gold medal game on Saturday night.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2026 Inductees

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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2026, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Zürich, with six players from four different nationalities highlighting the class.
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🇨🇭 Surgery Forces Simon Moser Into Retirement At 36

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Swiss forward Simon Moser, a mainstay of both the Swiss National League and national team, confirmed that he would be forced to retire from hockey at age 36, following a career-ending surgery, capping a two-decade plus career highlighted by a pair of World Championship Silver medals.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2025

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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2025 Class, inducting six legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 09 Nov 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Five Nations Cup
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Sunday, 09 November 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:36 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Žemlička, tripping
01:36 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
09:41 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Frondell (Lindberg, Johansson)
09:41 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 08 Nov 2025

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🇺🇸 United States 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 2
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Saturday, 08 November 2025

It took a mere two exhibition games in Hilary Knight’s lead up to what will be her fifth and final Winter Games for the face of U.S. women’s hockey to show she hasn’t lost her scoring touch.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 07 Nov 2025

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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Five Nations Cup
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Friday, 07 November 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Sikora (Zielinski)
03:19 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Čihař, tripping
10:51 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Blessing, high sticking
11:03 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Sikora (Švec, Čihař)
12:07 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Blanár, tripping
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 06 Nov 2025

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🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Rocket Arena, Cleveland 🇺🇸
Thursday, 06 November 2025

Abbey Murphy scored three times, Taylor Heise had a goal and three assists, and the United States women’s national hockey team defeated Canada 4-1 in Thursday’s opening game of the 2025-26 Rivalry Series.
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🇨🇿 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Czechia Wins Inaugural World Juniors Gold

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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 first ever World Junior Championship title, captured in 2000 amidst the “Golden era” of Czech hockey at the turn of the 21st century.


🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Skellefteå Kraft Arena, Skellefteå 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 04 January 2000

The Czech Republic won the World Junior Hockey Championship for the first time ever with a 1-0 shootout win over defending champion Russia yesterday.
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IIHF Confirms Women’s World Championships Moving To November As Of 2026

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At today’s IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in Nice, France, it was confirmed that the 2026 Women’s World Championships would be hosted by Denmark, but more consequentially would be held in November, confirmed to be a permanent shift in moving the typical spring tournament to early November going forward, just prior to the start of the Professional Women’s Hockey League pro seasons.
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🇫🇮 Juuso Hietanen Announces Retirement From Hockey At 40

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Finnish defender Juuso Hietanen confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 40, following a 20-plus year pro career spanned across Finland, Sweden, Russia and Switzerland, highlighted by being a backstop of Finland’s historic “Golden double” in 2022.
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🇨🇦 Rebecca Johnston Announces Retirement From Hockey At Age 36

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Canadian utility forward Rebecca Johnston, a nearly two-decade veteran of the CWHL, PWHPA and Canadian national team, today confirmed her retirement from pro hockey the day after her 36th birthday, capping her career with two Clarkson Cups, two World Championship titles and three Olympic Gold medals.
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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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