Canadian forward Marie-Philip Poulin, the most decorated Canadian women’s player in history, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2024-25 season, capping a season in which she led the PWHL in scoring and captured tournament MVP honours at the 2025 Women’s World Championship.
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Florida Panthers Win Second Consecutive Stanley Cup
The Florida Panthers, once among the basement-dwellers of the National Hockey League, today captured their second consecutive Stanley Cup, once again besting the Edmonton Oilers to become the first repeat champions since 2021, clinching victory with a definitive 5-1 win over the Oilers in Game Six of the finals in Sunrise, Florida.
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Hellebuyck Captures Trophy Trio At 2025 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2024-25 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals, with eight IHLC holders representing six countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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๐ฎ๐น 2026 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 11 February, with defending champions Finland starting their title defence in the opening match, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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๐ฎ๐น 2026 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy was released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 05 February.
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Provisional Men’s Rosters Named For 2026 Winter Olympics
With eight months to go until the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics after a twelve year absence, the provisional rosters for each of the twelve participating men’s nations were revealed today by each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster that will face off in Milan in February 2026.
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๐จ๐ฟ Petr Koukal Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching
Czech centre Petr Koukal today announced the end of his playing career at age 42 as part of a transition to coaching, ending a 20+ year career capped by three Czech Extraliga titles and a World Championship Gold medal.
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๐ธ๐ช ๐ซ๐ฎ IHLC Classics: Youth Movement Brings Tre Kronor Second Straight Gold
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 Swedish Sveriges nationaldag (National Day), we look back at Sweden’s first ever back-to-back World Championships, capturing their second straight title in 1992 over their border rivals Finland.
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 5-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Sportovnรญ Hala, Pragueย ๐จ๐ฟ
Sunday, 10 May 1992
Sweden, which barely made the final round, won its second straight World hockey Championship yesterday with a 5-2 victory over Finland.
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๐จ๐ฆ Victoria Bach Confirms Retirement At Age 28
Canadian forward Victoria Bach has confirmed her retirement from hockey at the age of 28, capping a brief, yet very successful, career marked by league success in the NCAA, CWHL and PWHL, and highlighted by a pair of World Championship Gold medals.
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Leivo, Lokomotiv Big Winners At 2025 KHL Awards
The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their seventeenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with eight former IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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๐ท๐บ International Olympic Committee Confirms No Russian Hockey At 2026 Olympics
After confusion arose from the IIHF announcing during their annual Congress last week that Russia would not participate at the 2026 Milan Olympics, only to backtrack and say the final decision laid with the IOC, the IOC confirmed today that this is in fact the case, and Russian teams would be banned from the Games.
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๐จ๐ฆ Claire Thompson Joins Triple Gold Club
Canadian defender Claire Thompson tonight joined Triple Gold Club, just the sixth woman to do so since the advent of the Walter Cup, after capturing the Cup as part of Minnesota’s back-to-back title, becoming the first Canadian female player to join the club, adding to her World Championship and Olympic Gold medal.
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๐บ๐ธ Minnesota Frost Repeat As Walter Cup Champions
In a grueling series that saw every game go to overtime, the Minnesota Frost emerged victorious in Game 4 of the Walter Cup Finals, defeating the Ottawa Charge to capture their second consecutive title.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 1-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ (OT) – 25 May 2025
๐บ๐ธ United States 1-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ (OT)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Tage Thompson scored at 2:02 of overtime to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Switzerland to win the Gold medal.
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๐จ๐ญ King Of The Worlds: Andres Ambรผhl Formally Retires At 41
Swiss forward Andres Ambรผhl, the six-time Swiss champion and all-time leader in IIHF World Championship tournaments and games played, today played his 151st and final World Championship game following Switzerland’s Gold Medal overtime loss, formalizing his retirement from the sport at the age of 41 after a two decade-plus professional career.
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๐ท๐บ IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts
The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland 7-0 Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ – 24 May 2025
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland 7-0 Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ
World Championship Semifinal
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Switzerland is heading to the Gold medal game for the second year in a row.
Propelled by three first-period goals, the Swiss thumped underdog Denmark 7-0 in Saturdayโs late semi-final in Stockholm.
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IHLC Results – ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark 2-1 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ – 22 May 2025
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark 2-1 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
World Championship Quarterfinal
Jyske Bank BOXEN, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Denmark wrote hockey history with a sensational victory over Canada in the quarterfinals of the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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๐ท๐บ Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Captures First Gagarin Cup
One year after being swept in the Gagarin Cup finals, today Lokomotiv Yaroslavl reversed their fortunes with a Game Five overtime win over Traktor Chelyabinsk, winning the club’s first ever Gagarin Cup title.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-3 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช – 20 May 2025
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-3 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Canada’s relentless puck pursuit and finish around the goal proved too much for Jacob Markstrรถm and Tre Kronor tonight.
The Canadians won the game, 5-3, and with it finished in first place to play Denmark in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
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