
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Colisée Vidéotron, Trois-Rivières 🇨🇦
Monday, 20 February 2023
Circle Wednesday on the calendar if you enjoy do-or-die showdowns between acrimonious rivals.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Colisée Vidéotron, Trois-Rivières 🇨🇦
Monday, 20 February 2023
Circle Wednesday on the calendar if you enjoy do-or-die showdowns between acrimonious rivals.
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The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Sunday, 12 February 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:25 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Tikka, tripping
11:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Lennström (Pudas, Sörensen)
12:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rasmussen, delay of game
16:20 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Innala, high sticking
19:00 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lander, tripping
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🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 11 February 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:46 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Flynn, slashing
11:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Matinpalo (Aaltonen, Sallinen)
14:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Aaltonen (Sallinen, Kossila)
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🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Thursday, 09 February 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
17:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – de la Rose, cross checking
17:57 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kovář (Lakatoš, Zámorský)
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Swedish centre Joel Lundqvist, a mainstay of both the Swedish Hockey League and national team for over two decades, today announced his retirement just shy of his 41st birthday, a year and a half after his twin brother Henrik hung up his skates.
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Bobby Hull, the Canadian two-time league MVP and Hockey Hall of Famer whose accomplishments on the ice were almost as prominent as his checkered life off the ice, today was announced to have died at the age of 84.
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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2023
Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the game at 6:22 of the unlimited three-on-three overtime to give Canada the Gold Medal at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship in Halifax.
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🇨🇦 Canada 6-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2023
Canada fought off a sluggish start and a 2-0 deficit to beat the United States 6-2 and advance to the Gold Medal game tomorrow against Czechia. The U.S. will play Sweden earlier in the day for Bronze.
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After consecutive losses of 5-2 and 4-2 in their relegation series against Latvia, Austria was today relegated to the World Junior Division IA in 2024, returning to the lower division for the first time since 2020.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (OT)
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2023
Connor Bedard scored at 5:17 of three-on-three overtime to give Canada a thrilling 4-3 win over Slovakia and advance to the semi-finals on Wednesday against the United States.
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After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Connor Bedard set up three Canada goals in the first 12 minutes of the game – and added a fourth in the third period – to lead the team to a hard-fought 5-1 win over Sweden.
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The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2022
Ludvig Jansson scored at 1:35 of overtime to give Sweden a 3-2 win over Czechia and stay undefeated to remain in first place of Group A. The loss was Czechia’s first of the tournament.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 27 December 2022
Jiří Kulich scored three goals en route to a one-sided Czechia 9-0 win over Austria tonight in Halifax. The win moves Czechia to 2-0 and keeps them tied for first place in the Group A standings with Sweden.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2022
Czechia scored three goals in the second period and came away with their first win against Canada at the World Juniors since 2013 (8 losses), stunning the favoured hosts by a 5-2 score tonight in Halifax.
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After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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