Following Metallurg Magnitogorsk’s elimination from the Gagarin Cup playoffs at the hands of Avangard Omsk, Russian goaltender Vasili Koshechkin, an Olympic, World and Gagarin Cup champion, announced his retirement from hockey at the age of 40.
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๐จ๐ฆ Toronto Six Capture 2023 Isobel Cup In OT Thriller
Following years of instability for the Premier Hockey Federation, largely due to COVID-19 restrictions and delays, the 2022-23 successful season, which introduced a seventh expansion team in Montrรฉal, came to a thrilling conclusion tonight in Tempe, Arizona, with the Toronto Sixย capturing the Isobel Cup with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Minnesota Whitecaps.
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๐บ๐ธ Brianna Decker Retires From Pro Hockey
American forward Brianna Decker, a six-time World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, NCAA champion and unofficial member of the women’s Triple Gold Club with two Clarkson Cups and an Isobel Cup, today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 31, moving into a full-time coaching capacity.
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๐ท๐บ Five-Time Gagarin Cup Champion Danis Zaripov Retires From Hockey
Russian winger Danis Zaripov, a three-time World champion and record five-time Gagarin Cup champion, today announced his retirement from pro hockey, following the final regular season matchup for his club Ak Bars Kazan, in advance of the 2023 Gagarin Cup Playoffs.
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๐ธ๐ช 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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๐ธ๐ช Joel Lundqvist Announces Retirement At Age 40
Swedish centre Joel Lundqvist, a mainstay of both the Swedish Hockey League and national team for over two decades, today announced his retirement just shy of his 41st birthday, a year and a half after his twin brother Henrik hung up his skates.
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๐จ๐ฆ Bobby Hull: 1939-2023
Bobby Hull, the Canadian two-time league MVP and Hockey Hall of Famer whose accomplishments on the ice were almost as prominent as his checkered life off the ice, today was announced to have died at the age of 84.
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๐จ๐ฆ 2023 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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๐ฆ๐น Austria Relegated From World Junior Championship
After consecutive losses of 5-2 and 4-2 in their relegation series against Latvia, Austria was today relegated to the World Junior Division IA in 2024, returning to the lower division for the first time since 2020.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Junior
After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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๐ณ๐ด Norway Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2024
For the first time since 2014, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, after defeating Kazakhstan today 5-3 on home ice in Asker, capturing the Division IA title and booking a trip to next year’s tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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๐จ๐ฆ IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2023, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Tampere, Finland, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Henrik Zetterberg, Brian Leetch, Caroline Ouellette, Cristobal Huet and Jimmy Foster to the Hall.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2022
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2022 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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NHL Announces Postponement Of World Cup Of Hockey
The National Hockey League and NHL Players Association today announced that the World Cup Of Hockey, which was being planned to return in February 2024, would be delayed until at least 2025, if not potentially longer.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Noora Rรคty Announces Retirement From Finnish National Team
Finnish goaltender Noora Rรคty, arguably the greatest goaltender in women’s hockey history, and a multiple World Championship and Olympic medallist, today announced in a shocking social media post that, at only age 33, she would no longer play for the Naisleijonat.
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๐จ๐ฆ P.K. Subban Retires Following 13 Year Career
Canadian defender P.K. Subban, a powerful offensive defenceman who became one of the most outgoing personalities in the National Hockey League, today announced his retirement from hockey due to recurring injuries at the age of 33.
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