The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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Category Archives: Euro Hockey Tour
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 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 – 🇨🇿 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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🇸🇪 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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🇸🇪 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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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk Officially Announces Retirement Following Hall Induction
Just a day after being announced as an inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame this November, Russian forward Pavel Datsyuk, who has been prevented by injury from playing since 2021, officially announced his retirement from the game at age 45.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42
Finnish centre Jarkko Immonen, whose pro career spanned over two decades across eight pro teams in four countries, today announced his retirement from the sport at age 42, following the conclusion of the 2023-24 Finnish Liiga season.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title
By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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🇨🇿 Jakub Voráček Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching
Czech winger Jakub Voráček, sidelined by injuries for the last two seasons after a decorated fourteen season career both in the NHL and with the national team, today announced his formal retirement from hockey at age 34, opting instead to join his hometown club Rytíři Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading
🇫🇮 Mikko Koskinen Confirms Retirement From Hockey
Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen, whose seventeen season pro career spanned five countries and multiple international tournaments, today confirmed his retirement from the game at age 35, following his club HC Lugano’s elimination from the Swiss NLA playoffs.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s
The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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An IHLC Lineage Correction – 1992 Olympics
As part of our continuous improvement to always refine the International Hockey Lineal Championship, we came across an improper lineage in the 1992 season that has now been corrected, impacting in particular lineage during the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France.
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🇨🇿 Roman Čechmánek: 1971-2023
Roman Čechmánek, the Olympic and three-time World Champion Czech goaltender who was part of the golden era of post-communist Czech hockey, was announced to have died at the age of 52 today in Czechia.
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🇨🇿 Tomáš Plekanec Announces Retirement Just Short Of 41st Birthday
Czech centre Tomáš Plekanec, one of the top two-way forwards of his era, and a mainstay on both the Montréal Canadiens, HC Kladno and the Czech national team over the past two decades, today formally announced his retirement from Kladno just three days short of his 41st birthday.
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🇨🇿 David Krejčí Confirms Retirement From NHL
Czech centreman David Krejčí, a longtime mainstay of both the Boston Bruins and Narodnitym, today announced his retirement from professional hockey at the age of 37, after sixteen pro seasons in Boston, along with another two in the Czech league.
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