🇸🇪 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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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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🇸🇪 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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🇸🇪 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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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Exhibition Game
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Brady Martin and Gavin McKenna have quickly found chemistry for Canada’s world junior team.
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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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🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 4
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Saturday, 13 December 2025
Canada improved, but not enough to beat the United States in the fourth and final game of their women’s hockey Rivalry Series.
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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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🇺🇸 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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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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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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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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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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🇸🇪 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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🇺🇸 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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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Five Nations Cup
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Saturday, 08 November 2025
BOXSCORE
1st Period
none
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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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🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Rocket Arena, Cleveland 🇺🇸
Thursday, 06 November 2025
Abbey Murphy scored three times, Taylor Heise had a goal and three assists, and the United States women’s national hockey team defeated Canada 4-1 in Thursday’s opening game of the 2025-26 Rivalry Series.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Five Nations Cup
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Thursday, 06 November 2025
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:43 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lisler, interference
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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, in honour of Czech Independence Day, we feature Czechia’s first ever World Junior Championship title, captured in 2000 amidst the “Golden era” of Czech hockey at the turn of the 21st century.
🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Skellefteå Kraft Arena, Skellefteå 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 04 January 2000
The Czech Republic won the World Junior Hockey Championship for the first time ever with a 1-0 shootout win over defending champion Russia yesterday.
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