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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Bolzano, Italy saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2025 World Championship in Sweden and Denmark locked up on the final day of competition, with Slovenia and Hungary both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇳🇴 🇭🇺 Norway, Hungary Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship

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At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Klagenfurt, Austria today, it was Norway and Hungary that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2025, to be hosted in České Budějovice, Czechia.
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🇨🇿 Jakub Voráček Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching

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Czech winger Jakub Voráček, sidelined by injuries for the last two seasons after a decorated fourteen season career both in the NHL and with the national team, today announced his formal retirement from hockey at age 34, opting instead to join his hometown club Rytíři Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading →

🇨🇦 Jeff Carter Confirms Retirement Following End Of Penguins Season

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Mainstay NHL centre Jeff Carter announced, following the official elimination of his Pittsburgh Penguins from NHL playoff contention, that he would be retiring from the game at the age of 39, wrapping up a nearly two-decade career highlighted with two Stanley Cups and an Olympic title. Continue reading →

IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 14 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 14 April 2024

Another chapter was scripted in the intense rivalry between Canada and the United States on Sunday evening at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship.

In the Gold medal game, it took overtime for Canada to defeat the United States 6-5.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 11 Apr 2024

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🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 11 April 2024

The United States gave the home crowd something to cheer about as the team earned a 10-0 shutout victory over Japan in their quarter-final game at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship in Utica, New York.
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🇨🇳 🇩🇰 China, Denmark Relegated From 2024 Women’s Worlds

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In the final day of competition at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the final game on the calendar dictated which teams would be relegated to Division IA in 2025, with China and Denmark drawing the unfortunate distinction.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 08 Apr 2024

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🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Monday, 08 April 2024

Kirsten Simms scored at 3:38 of overtime to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Canada and first place in the Group A standings with a perfect 4-0 record.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 07 April 2024

Canada scored three goals in the first period to take control of a game they won in dominating fashion, beating Czechia 5-0 to stay a perfect 3-0 in Group A with the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 April 2024

Natalie Spooner drove hard to the net in the first period, resulting in two goals that spurred Canada to a tight 3-0 win over Switzerland this afternoon in Utica at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championships.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 04 April 2024

Ella Shelton’s goal and pair of assists powered Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York on Thursday night.
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🇫🇮 Mikko Koskinen Confirms Retirement From Hockey

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Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen, whose seventeen season pro career spanned five countries and multiple international tournaments, today confirmed his retirement from the game at age 35, following his club HC Lugano’s elimination from the Swiss NLA playoffs.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship

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The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 30 Mar 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 8-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Slush Puppie Place, Kingston 🇨🇦
Saturday, 30 March 2024

Offence wasn’t a problem for Canada’s national team on Saturday as the squad flattened Finland 8-2 in its lone exhibition tune-up before next month’s IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York.
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🇨🇦 Wayne Simmonds Announces Retirement From Hockey

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The “Wayne Train” has made its final stop, as Canadian bruiser Wayne Simmonds, whose fifteen season pro career spanned six teams in two countries, along with three stints on Team Canada, drew to a close, with recurring injuries forcing the 35 year old to hang it up after remaining a free agent for the current NHL season, signing a one-day contract to retire as a Philadelphia Flyer.
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🇨🇦 Meghan Agosta Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey

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Canadian forward Meghan Agosta, who starred on Team Canada since the age of seventeen, today made her retirement from hockey official twenty years after it begun, having not played competitively since 2018, following an illustrious career with three Olympic and two World Championship Gold Medals.
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🇷🇺 🇧🇾 IIHF Extends Russia, Belarus Ban Into 2024-25 Season

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During an IIHF Council meeting, the International Ice Hockey Federation today confirmed that their ban on Russian and Belarusian teams, dating back to their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was extended through the 2024-25 hockey season.
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