IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 15 Dec 2024


🇨🇿 Czechia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Sunday, 15 December 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:50 – 🇸🇪 PEN – de la Rose, tripping
08:51 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Chlapík (Zadina, Sedlák)
14:14 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ollas Mattsson, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 14 Dec 2024


🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Saturday, 14 December 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:07 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zadina (Kundrátek, Krejčík)
19:39 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Stránský (Tomášek, Zábranský)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 Dec 2024


🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
Enteria arena, Pardubice 🇨🇿
Thursday, 12 December 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:47 – 🇨🇿 PEN SHOT – Kovařčík stopped
16:10 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Kubalík (Smejkal, Zábranský)
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🇫🇮 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Hagman’s Helsinki Heroics

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 Finnish Independence Day (itsenäisyyspäivä), we look back at the Leijonat’s thrilling home ice Gold Medal victory at the 1998 World Junior Championships, with Niklas Hagman’s overtime snipe securing the title in Helsinki.


🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 03 January 1998

Finland achieved its first World Junior Championship Gold in 1987, but at that time the rankings were decided by playing in series.

The playoffs only entered the World Junior Championship program for the 1995-96 Games, and what would be more comfortable than to settle World Cup Gold at home in extra time of the final?
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off


The remaining spots for each Four Nations Face-Off roster today were finalized, and the 92 players set to represent Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States are now set for the tournament in Montréal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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🇱🇻 Kaspars Daugaviņš Announces Surprise Retirement From Hockey


Latvian forward Kaspars Daugaviņš, who captained his country to their historic first ever World Championship medal in 2023, today announced his sudden retirement from the sport at age 36, ending a 20+ year pro career spanning teams across seven countries, citing family issues as the reason for the sudden, mid-season announcement.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇷🇺 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2024


The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2024 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 10 Nov 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Idaho Central Arena, Boise 🇺🇸
Sunday, 10 November 2024

Jocelyne Larocque scored less than four minutes into the game, Sarah Nurse added a goal midway through the first period and Canada cruised to a 4-1 win over the United States in Boise, Idaho on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-game Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-4 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 10 Nov 2024


🇫🇮 Finland 5-4 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Sunday, 10 November 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 –
🇸🇪 GOAL – Sellgren (Friberg, Lang)
05:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Andreasson, tripping
15:15 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Steen (Pettersson, Peterson)
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 09 Nov 2024


🇫🇮 Finland 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Karjala Tournament
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 09 November 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:52 –
🇫🇮 GOAL – Pesonen
10:56 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Larmi, delay of game
19:36 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Rajala
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (SO) – 08 Nov 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (SO)
Rivalry Series, Game 2
Maverik Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Friday, 08 November 2024

Marie-Phillip Poulin scored the go-ahead goal and 17-year-old Chloe Primerano scored her first career goal to clinch a 2-0 shootout win for Team Canada to even the Rivalry Series with the U.S. at a win apiece on Friday night.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 07 Nov 2024


🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
KV Arena, Karlovy Vary 🇨🇿
Thursday, 07 November 2024

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:02 –
🇨🇿 GOAL – Gazda
10:02 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Pyrochta (Kovařčík)
15:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Weissbach, slashing
16:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kousal (Kaut, Kodýtek)
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 06 Nov 2024


🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Tech CU Arena, San Jose 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 06 November 2024

A five-goal first period led Team USA past Canada, 7-2, in the opening contest of the 2024-25 Rivalry Series in San Jose, California on Wednesday night.
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🇸🇪 Anton Strålman Confirms Retirement From Hockey, Shift To Football


After a one-season return to the Swedish league, following a sixteen year NHL career, journeyman defender Anton Strålman today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 38, surprisingly announcing a shift to coaching women’s football, following a two-decade plus career across twelve clubs in Canada, the United States and his native Sweden.
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🇸🇪 Alexander Edler Signs One-Day Contract To Retire As Canuck


Inactive for the past season, Swedish defender Alexander Edler today signed a one-day contract with the Vancouver Canucks in order to retire with the franchise, wrapping a nearly two-decade NHL career, marked with over 1,000 games played, and a trio of international medals won with his native Sweden.
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🇨🇦 Lauriane Rougeau Announces Retirement, Shift To Hockey Ops


Canadian defender Lauriane Rougeau, a key cog of Team Canada’s blueline for the past decade and a half, today confirmed her retirement from the game after just one season in the PWHL, at the age of 34, announcing a move to hockey operations with her former club in Toronto.
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🇸🇪 Oscar Möller Confirms Retirement Following Long-Term Injury


Swedish winger Oscar Möller, whose long tenure with both the league’s top tier and national team was cut short due to injury, confirmed his retirement today at age 35, following Skellefteå capturing their fourth Le Mat Trophy to end last season, minus Möller on the active roster.
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🇺🇸 Gigi Marvin Confirms Retirement From Hockey At Age 37


With details around the 2024-25 PWHL season set to be revealed soon, a major part of the American women’s game for the past nearly two decades confirmed she will not take part, as Gigi Marvin today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 37.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The Second Summit Series At Fifty

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, to commemorate the historic fiftieth anniversary of the second and final Summit Series in 1974, we look back at the oft-forgotten Series between the top Soviet players facing off against the best Canadian players from the upstart World Hockey Association.

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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 06 October 1974

Unlike in 1972, there would be no climatic Game 8 in 1974. Team Canada had lost the series.
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🇨🇿 2025 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted for the first time by Czechia in the Bohemian city of České Budějovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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