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🇯🇵 🇨🇿 Japan Promoted, Czechia Relegated At Women’s Worlds

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After falling to Switzerland in a best-of-three relegation series, Czechia has been demoted to Division I Group A in 2018, while Japan, victors of 2017 Group IA in Graz, Austria, will be promoted for the 2019 Women’s World Championships, with no tournament being held in 2018 due to the PyeongChang Olympics.
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NHL Confirms Players Will Not Attend 2018 PyeongChang Olympics

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After months of speculation and negotiations, the National Hockey League today announced that they will not actively participate in the 2018 Olympics in Korea, ending a 20-year span of NHL participation in the Games.
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🇨🇿 Patrik Eliáš Announces Retirement After 20 Seasons With Devils

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Czech winger Patrik Eliáš, a career member of the New Jersey Devils who was their offensive star and all-time leading scorer, today announced his formal retirement after 20 seasons, spending the entire 2016-17 season attempting to come back from injury.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team, USA Hockey Strike New Agreement

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In a good news story after weeks of bad blood between the U.S. Women’s National Team and USA Hockey, a new four year agreement has been agreed upon by both parties, ensuring that the U.S. team will suit up for the Women’s World Championships, which begin in just three days time in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 Women’s World Championship

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A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team Vows Boycott Of World Championship, USA Hockey Responds

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In a shocking development less than a month before the 2017 Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, the U.S. women’s national team today announced, in solidarity, that they will sit out the Worlds in protest of a lack of support from USA Hockey, the culmination of a year’s worth of legal proceedings with the American hockey body.
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🇨🇭 🇯🇵 Switzerland And Japan Clinch Final Olympic Qualifying Spots

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After nearly half a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Mexico last October, four rounds of play and 22 teams competing for a mere two spots in PyeongChang, the final qualification spots were today clinched by Japan and Switzerland for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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2017 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed

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After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2017 Inductees

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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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🇨🇦 Hayley Wickenheiser Retires After Illustrious 23 Year Career

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The most decorated player in women’s hockey history today announced her retirement from professional hockey, with Hayley Wickenheiser stepping down from the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno and Team Canada, which she joined in 1994 at the age of 15.
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