🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Friday, 07 November 2014
If it weren’t for Meeri Räisänen, Canada might have ran up the score against Finland in the Four Nations Cup round-robin finale at Interior Savings Centre on Friday, 07 November.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
Karjala Tournament
Tegera Arena, Leksand 🇸🇪
Thursday, 06 November 2014
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:28 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Medvedev, holding
01:35 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Hersley (Danielsson, Klasen)
02:07 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Janmark, interference
07:10 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kugryshev, holding
11:07 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Janmark, tripping
12:21 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Engqvist (Brithén)
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 05 November 2014
Haley Irwin and Rebecca Johnston scored 46 seconds apart in the third period as Canada erased a late one-goal deficit to defeat the United States and send 4,500 fans home happy Wednesday night.
🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 04 November 2014
Jillian Saulnier and Jamie Lee Rattray each scored their first goals with Canada’s National Women’s Team as the host side shut out Sweden, 2-0, Tuesday night at the 2014 Four Nations Cup.
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Thanks to Russia’s dethroning of Finland in the finals of the 2014 IIHF World Championships this past May, the IHLC is guaranteed to join the Euro Hockey Tour circuit, with the first stop being the Karjala Tournament in Helsinki, Finland.
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For the first time since February’s Sochi Olympics, the top four nations in women’s hockey will meet in Kamloops, British Columbia, to compete in the nineteenth annual Four Nations Cup, pitting Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland against each other.
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As first reported by ESPN, part of the delay for the anticipated 2016 World Cup Of Hockey announcement were discussions between the NHL and the Montréal Canadiens, in the hopes that Centre Bell could co-host the tournament with Toronto in September 2016. However, the league has expressed a desire to keep the entire tournament in a single city, hosted out of the Air Canada Centre (pictured above), home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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According to a report by Hokej.cz, details regarding the next iteration of the World Cup Of Hockey in 2016 were released at the annual IIHF Congress in Tenerife, Spain, with dates being confirmed for the tournament rumoured to be hosted in Toronto.
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After months of speculation and deliberation over whether the host nation of the 2018 Olympics, Korea, would be granted automatic berths in the games for ice hockey, the IIHF today announced at their IIHF Congress meeting that both the Korean men’s and women’s teams would gain berths to the Games. As reported by the IIHF, the decision was made to increase investment to Korea’s hockey program in the three-plus years leading up to the games to ensure that the Koreans field competitive teams in 2018.
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As reported by SME, former Slovakian national team forward Miroslav Hlinka, a member of the stalwart team that shocked the world with a Gold Medal performance at the 2002 World Championships, has died of suicide at the age of 42.
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After an 18-year NHL career, and an illustrious span as the captain of Finland since 1998, Saku Koivu announced his retirement from the Anaheim Ducks.
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The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 Women’s World Championship in Malmö, Sweden, worldwomen2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in March and April.
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Former U.S. national team defenceman Bob Suter, who helped helm the legendary 1980 U.S. Olympic team to the stunning “Miracle On Ice” victory at the 1980 Olympics over the Soviet Union, has died of a heart attack at age 57.
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Hockey Canada today announced that Kamloops, British Columbia would host the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship in April 2016, after the IIHF had awarded Canada with the tournament previously. All games will take place at the Interior Savings Centre (host of the 2014 Four Nations Cup) and the McArthur Island Sports And Event Centre, with specific dates and schedule to follow at a later date.
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Welcome to the official home of the International Hockey Lineal Championship, tracking the best in international hockey in a boxing-style, “king of the hill” lineal format, where every game has the potential to be a “title” match! You can learn more about the IHLC concept, how the rules of the championship work, or peruse the 100+ years of history of the IHLC, including game results and where teams rank amongst the world’s top squads.
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As was first reported earlier in the month, the International Olympic Committee and IIHF righted a big wrong committed at the Gold Medal Game in Sochi this past February, awarding a silver medal to Swedish forward Nicklas Bäckström, who was barred from the game just prior to puck drop over testing positive for pseudoephedrine in an allergy medication, which was later discovered to be prescribed to him, and not ingested maliciously.
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The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 World Championship in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, iihfworlds2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in May.
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One of the most intriguing story lines of the 2014 Gold Medal Game between Canada and Sweden, in which Canada won 3-0 to win its second straight Olympic Gold and retain the International Hockey Lineal Championship, was not the players in the game, but the one player who was not in the game: Nicklas Bäckström.
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🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Olympic Center, Lake Placid 🇺🇸
Saturday, 09 August 2014
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:13 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Milano, roughing
10:13 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Mašín, roughing
10:51 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Motte (Collins, Butcher)
11:09 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Downing, roughing
18:56 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Carlo, interference
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Some more details on the 2015 Worlds in Malmö have been released – the all-important groupings! The teams break down as follows (current IIHF rankings in parentheses):
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