Three legends of emerging squads both played their final international matches today at the 2017 World Championship, as French goalie Cristobal Huet, French captain Laurent Meunier and Danish captain Morten Green played their final games of the tournament, finalizing their retirements that were announced before the tournament began.
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🇸🇮 🇮🇹 Slovenia, Italy Relegated From World Championship
Still with a day until the end of the 2017 World Championship group round, the two relegated teams for 2018 have already been determined, with both Slovenia and Italy, who only gained promotion in 2016, set to return to Division IA next season.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT) – 14 May 2017
🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 14 May 2017
Valtteri Filppula scored on a bad-angle deke at 2:24 of overtime to complete Finland’s comeback from 2-0 down.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 13 May 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Fabrice Herzog scored twice, including the overtime winner at 3:40, as Switzerland rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit to stun Canada 3-2 on Saturday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷 – 11 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Canada led 1-0. France led 2-1. Canada went ahead 3-2. The sold-out crowd of 14,510 was rockin’ all night as David and Goliath played evenly for 60 minutes.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 08 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Monday, 08 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon kept his hot hand going, scoring two more goals and adding a great assist. Mitch Marner added two signature helpers of his own.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 07 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 07 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon made it look easy–the whole team did–beating a game Slovenia, 7-2, despite some fine goaltending from a beleaguered Gasper Krošelj.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 05 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Friday, 05 May 2017
In many cities over many decades have Canada and the Czechs played hockey, but until tonight never Paris.
The massively pro-Czech crowd of 8,834 left disappointed, though, because their team was beaten by a superior, but sloppy, Canada, 4-1.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 World Championship
The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 05 May in both Cologne and Paris, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting to compete at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 02 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva 🇨🇭
Tuesday, 02 May 2017
Wayne Simmonds and Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist apiece, helping Canada’s National Men’s Team to a 4-1 win over Switzerland on Tuesday in exhibition action ahead of the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇭 Russia Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Switzerland Wins Euro Hockey Challenge
With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge, as the season ends to ring in the start of the 2017 World Championships in Paris and Cologne, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2016-17 season.
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🇦🇹 🇰🇷 Austria, South Korea Promoted To 2018 World Championship
The two teams that narrowly missed promotion to the 2017 World Championship today both punched their tickets to the 2018 tournament in Denmark, with Austria and South Korea locking up their spots at the World Championship Division IA finals in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 28 Apr 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
Euro Hockey Challenge
St. Jakob-Arena, Basel 🇨🇭
Friday, 28 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:41 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Díaz, tripping
17:00 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Hollenstein, tripping
19:36 – 🇨🇭 PEN – team, too many players
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IHLC Results – 🇩🇰 Denmark 5-4 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 26 Apr 2017
🇩🇰 Denmark 5-4 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Euro Hockey Challenge
Patinoire des Mélèzes, La Chaux-de-Fonds 🇨🇭
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:37 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Praplan, tripping
07:24 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Herzog (Brunner)
07:49 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Almond, tripping
08:18 – 🇩🇰 PP GOAL – Russell (Hardt, Ehlers)
14:11 – 🇩🇰 PEN – Jacobsen, holding
14:45 – 🇩🇰 PEN – Lauridsen, slashing / unsportsmanlike conduct double minor
15:12 – 🇨🇭 PP2 GOAL – Brunner (Ambühl, Almond)
16:36 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Ambühl (Brunner, Malgin)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 22 Apr 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Challenge
Tissot Arena, Biel 🇨🇭
Saturday, 22 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
09:02 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Malgin, Ambühl)
11:45 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Loeffel, high sticking
14:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Namestnikov, slashing
17:10 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Golyshev, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 21 Apr 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Challenge
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Friday, 21 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:47 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Gennazi, slashing
05:26 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Burdasov (Lyubushkin, Arzamastsev)
17:03 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ozhiganov, hooking
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🇯🇵 🇨🇿 Japan Promoted, Czechia Relegated At Women’s Worlds
After falling to Switzerland in a best-of-three relegation series, Czechia has been demoted to Division I Group A in 2018, while Japan, victors of 2017 Group IA in Graz, Austria, will be promoted for the 2019 Women’s World Championships, with no tournament being held in 2018 due to the PyeongChang Olympics.
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SKA Wins Second Gagarin Cup On Backs Of IHLC Winners
SKA Saint Petersburg roared back from an early deficit to win Game 5 of the Gagarin Cup finals 5-3 over Metallurg Magnitogorsk, capturing their second Cup in three seasons, with goals from five different scorers and a 42 save performance by Mikko Koskinen locking up the title.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 France 🇫🇷 – 15 Apr 2017
🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 France 🇫🇷
Euro Hockey Challenge
Traktor Ice Arena, Chelyabinsk 🇷🇺
Saturday, 15 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:05 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Mironov (Telegin)
07:01 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Treille, hooking
07:38 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Kiselevich (Shalunov)
11:48 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Valier, tripping
13:10 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Shalunov (Sannikov, Shumakov)
15:29 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perret, holding
19:26 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇷 France 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 13 Apr 2017
🇫🇷 France 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Traktor Ice Arena, Chelyabinsk 🇷🇺
Thursday, 13 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
12:03 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Blazhiyevski, boarding
19:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Shumakov, tripping
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