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IHLC 2025 In Review – Women’s

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2025 saw a continuation of closer parity in international women’s hockey, with the juggernauts of the United States and Canada continuing to set the tone in the lead-up to the 2026 Milan Olympics, competing for World Championship, Rivalry Series and International Hockey Lineal Championship glory.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 29 Dec 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Monday, 29 December 2025

Captain Jack Berglund, Anton Frondell, and Viggo Björck scored two goals apiece to pace Sweden to a 8-1 thumping of Germany in Monday’s early Group A action.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Sunday, 28 December 2025

Sweden scored two goals early in the third period to erase a 2-1 Switzerland lead en route to a 4-2 win this afternoon at Grand Casino Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 26 Dec 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Friday, 26 December 2025

Ivar Stenberg scored the winner with 3:57 left and added an assist as Sweden defeated Slovakia 3-2 at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The hard-working, youthful Slovaks rallied from a two-goal second-period deficit, but fell short.
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IHLC Preview – 2026 World Junior Championship

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The eyes of the hockey world are looking just beyond the holiday season, with Boxing Day marking the kickoff of the fiftieth annual IIHF World Junior Championship, this time being hosted by the defending champion Americans in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the home team looking to “three-peat” for the first time in history.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 7-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 23 Dec 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 7-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Rochester Recreation Center, Rochester 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 23 December 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:27 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Aeschlimann (Henry, Haas)
05:07 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Borradori, tripping
09:05 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Danielsson, slashing
12:36 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Genborg (Gustafsson, V. Björck)
19:16 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Borradori, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 20 Dec 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Canada Life Place, London 🇨🇦
Saturday, 20 December 2025

Jack Berglund scored twice in the third period, including a short-handed marker 43 seconds into the frame, as Sweden rallied to beat Canada 4-2 in a pre-World Junior Hockey Championship contest on Saturday night.
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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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