IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 01 Apr 2017


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 7-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 01 April 2017

Team USA scored three goals in the second period–two by Jocelyn Lamoureux-Davidson–en route to an impressive 7-0 win over Russia.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 31 Mar 2017


🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 31 March 2017

The Americans may have been a few practises shy of being fully game ready, but they showed no signs of rust, and their rivalry with Canada was just the ticket.

Nicole Hensley stopped all 18 shots from Canada in only her second career start in World Women’s Championship play, backstopping the host United States to a huge 2-0 win over Canada to start the tournament for both countries.
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🇨🇿 Patrik Eliáš Announces Retirement After 20 Seasons With Devils


Czech winger Patrik Eliáš, a career member of the New Jersey Devils who was their offensive star and all-time leading scorer, today announced his formal retirement after 20 seasons, spending the entire 2016-17 season attempting to come back from injury.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team, USA Hockey Strike New Agreement


In a good news story after weeks of bad blood between the U.S. Women’s National Team and USA Hockey, a new four year agreement has been agreed upon by both parties, ensuring that the U.S. team will suit up for the Women’s World Championships, which begin in just three days time in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 Women’s World Championship


A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team Vows Boycott Of World Championship, USA Hockey Responds


In a shocking development less than a month before the 2017 Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, the U.S. women’s national team today announced, in solidarity, that they will sit out the Worlds in protest of a lack of support from USA Hockey, the culmination of a year’s worth of legal proceedings with the American hockey body.
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🇨🇭 🇯🇵 Switzerland And Japan Clinch Final Olympic Qualifying Spots

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After nearly half a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Mexico last October, four rounds of play and 22 teams competing for a mere two spots in PyeongChang, the final qualification spots were today clinched by Japan and Switzerland for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 11 Feb 2017

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Slovakia Cup Gold Medal Game
Nitra Aréna, Nitra 🇸🇰
Saturday, 11 February 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:27 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Riat (Sutter, Zangger)
04:43 – 🇨🇭 PEN – P. Baltisberger, slashing
06:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Paschoud, hooking
08:49 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Sutter (Leone, Senteler)
15:21 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Macík, charging
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 10 Feb 2017

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Belarus 🇧🇾
Slovakia Cup Semifinal
Nitra Aréna, Nitra 🇸🇰
Friday, 10 February 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Riat (Zangger)
06:24 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Guerra, high sticking
13:14 – 🇧🇾 PEN – Levsha, high sticking
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2017 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed

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After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2017 Inductees

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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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🇨🇦 Hayley Wickenheiser Retires After Illustrious 23 Year Career

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The most decorated player in women’s hockey history today announced her retirement from professional hockey, with Hayley Wickenheiser stepping down from the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno and Team Canada, which she joined in 1994 at the age of 15.
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