The schedule for the rescheduled 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, restarting the tournament in Edmonton, Canada following the cancellation of December’s tournament due to an outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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2022 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will take place in an Olympic year, with the world’s top ten women’s teams convening in Denmark on 25 August to compete for the title of the world’s best, just six months after wrapping up the Olympics in Beijing.
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🇫🇮 Valtteri Filppula Joins Triple Gold Club
The only player eligible to join in this year’s World Championship, forward Valtteri Filppula tonight joined Triple Gold Club by virtue of winning his second Gold Medal in three months with the Leijonat, becoming the 31st male and first Finnish player to join the club, adding to his Stanley Cup and Olympic Gold medal.
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🇨🇦 Jason Spezza Announces Retirement From Hockey At 38
Canadian forward Jason Spezza, who maintained a high level of play throughout his 19-year NHL career, along with numerous stints with the Canadian national team, today announced his retirement from hockey, opting to join the front office of his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 IIHF Names Tampere & Rīga As 2023 World Championship Hosts
After stripping Saint Petersburg, Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the IIHF announced at their annual Congress that hosting rights would now be split between to the last two hosts of the World Championships, with 2021 hosts Rīga, Latvia and current 2022 hosts Tampere, Finland hosting next year, from 12-28 May 2023.
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🇩🇰 Frans Nielsen Retires Following Denmark’s Elimination From Worlds
With Denmark’s shocking elimination from the 2022 World Championship, the end of an era in Danish hockey has come to a close, as national team mainstay Frans Nielsen, the first Dane to find success in the NHL, announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 38.
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Relegated From World Championship Top Division
A day before the group round came to a close at the 2022 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2023 were clinched, with Italy and Great Britain gaining the dubious distinction of being sent down, at the hands of Kazakhstan and Austria, respectively.
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2022 KHL Awards Ceremony Held In Moscow
The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their fourteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with Gagarin Cup champions CSKA Moscow coming away as the big winners, and ten IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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🇺🇸 Dustin Brown Retires Following Kings Playoff Elimination
American power forward Dustin Brown, who captained the Los Angeles Kings to two Stanley Cup titles, tonight formally ended his nineteen year hockey career at the age of 37, following the Kings’ elimination from the NHL playoffs at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere and Helsinki, Finland starting this Friday, 13 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2022 IIHF World Championship.
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🇨🇦 Patrick Marleau Announces Retirement From Hockey At Age 42
Canadian ironman forward Patrick Marleau, who broke Gordie Howe’s longstanding record of most games played in an NHL career after nearly a quarter century in the NHL, today announced his retirement from hockey, signing a one-day contract with San Jose to retire officially as a Shark.
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🇨🇿 🇫🇮 🇨🇭 🇸🇪 Switzerland Confirmed As Russian Replacement On Euro Hockey Tour Through 2023-24
After participating as a replacement for Russia at this weekend’s Beijer Hockey Games in Stockholm, it was today confirmed that Switzerland will replace Russia on the Euro Hockey Tour for at least the next two seasons, due to Russia being kicked off the tour for their invasion of Ukraine.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2023 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Ljubljana saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2023 World Championship locked up a day before the tournament wrapped, with hosts Slovenia and Hungary both locking up returns to the Top Division.
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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Halifax & Moncton As 2023 World Junior Championship Hosts
After the IIHF stripped Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Junior Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the Federation announced that hosting rights were instead awarded to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2022.
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🇫🇷 France Promoted To 2023 Women’s World Championship
After two years of no promotion or relegation at the Women’s World Championship thanks to COVID-19, today France gained promotion back to the Top Division for 2023, for the first time in three years, after a winner-take-all victory over Norway on home ice in Angers, France.
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🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow Captures Second Gagarin Cup
CSKA Moscow today completed a stunning comeback in the 2022 Gagarin Cup Finals, overcoming a 3-1 series deficit to Metallurg Magnitogorsk to come back and capture their second Gagarin Cup after a 4-1 victory.
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🇷🇺 IIHF To Move 2023 World Championship From Russia
The IIHF today announced, that “out of concern for the safety and well-being of all participating players, officials, media, and fans,” that the 2023 IIHF World Championship, set to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia next May, would be moved to a different location, due to Russia’s continued and deepening of invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 Ryan Getzlaf Retires From NHL At Age 36
Canadian forward Ryan Getzlaf, the longtime captain of the Anaheim Ducks, tonight played his final NHL game after announcing his retirement following the end of the Ducks’ season, wrapping a seventeen year career highlighted by a number of team records, two Olympic titles and a Stanley Cup.
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🇨🇦 Guy Lafleur: 1951-2022
Just a week after the loss of NHL legend and native Québecer Mike Bossy, it was today announced that Guy Lafleur, the Montréal Canadiens legend and Québec native, tragically lost his battle with lung cancer today at the age of 70.
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🇨🇦 Mike Bossy: 1957-2022
Within a year where both Jean Potvin and Clark Gillies have been lost, it was announced today that after a lengthy battle with lung cancer, Canadian forward Mike Bossy, one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history and a New York Islanders legend, today lost his battle, passing away at the age of 65.
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