Canadian forward Victoria Bach has confirmed her retirement from hockey at the age of 28, capping a brief, yet very successful, career marked by league success in the NCAA, CWHL and PWHL, and highlighted by a pair of World Championship Gold medals.
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Leivo, Lokomotiv Big Winners At 2025 KHL Awards
The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their seventeenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with eight former IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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🇷🇺 International Olympic Committee Confirms No Russian Hockey At 2026 Olympics
After confusion arose from the IIHF announcing during their annual Congress last week that Russia would not participate at the 2026 Milan Olympics, only to backtrack and say the final decision laid with the IOC, the IOC confirmed today that this is in fact the case, and Russian teams would be banned from the Games.
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🇨🇦 Claire Thompson Joins Triple Gold Club
Canadian defender Claire Thompson tonight joined Triple Gold Club, just the sixth woman to do so since the advent of the Walter Cup, after capturing the Cup as part of Minnesota’s back-to-back title, becoming the first Canadian female player to join the club, adding to her World Championship and Olympic Gold medal.
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🇺🇸 Minnesota Frost Repeat As Walter Cup Champions
In a grueling series that saw every game go to overtime, the Minnesota Frost emerged victorious in Game 4 of the Walter Cup Finals, defeating the Ottawa Charge to capture their second consecutive title.
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🇨🇭 King Of The Worlds: Andres Ambühl Formally Retires At 41
Swiss forward Andres Ambühl, the six-time Swiss champion and all-time leader in IIHF World Championship tournaments and games played, today played his 151st and final World Championship game following Switzerland’s Gold Medal overtime loss, formalizing his retirement from the sport at the age of 41 after a two decade-plus professional career.
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🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts
The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Captures First Gagarin Cup
One year after being swept in the Gagarin Cup finals, today Lokomotiv Yaroslavl reversed their fortunes with a Game Five overtime win over Traktor Chelyabinsk, winning the club’s first ever Gagarin Cup title.
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🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship
On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Captures 2024-25 Euro Hockey Tour Title
As a result of Finland‘s loss to Switzerland on day two of the Czech Hockey Games, hosts Czechia officially clinched their fourth Euro Hockey Tour title, by staying five points ahead of the Finns, with just one day of competition left in Brno.
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland locked up on the final day of competition, with Italy and Great Britain both clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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🇨🇦 Flower Out: Marc-André Fleury Retires At Age 40
The “Flower” has bloomed for the last time – after confirming his retirement at the beginning of the 2024-25 NHL season, Marc-André Fleury has officially played in his final NHL game at the age of 40, following Minnesota’s elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs, ending a remarkable 21-season career spanning stops in Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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🇫🇮 Valtteri Filppula Confirms Retirement At Age 41
Finnish forward Valtteri Filppula, the first Finn to become a member of the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his 2008 Stanley Cup, and Olympic and World Championship titles both in 2022, today confirmed his retirement following at the age of 41.
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🇷🇺 It’s Officially Official – Ilya Kovalchuk Retires From Hockey At Age 41
After initially claiming his career was over in early March, soon correcting that to clarify he was simply a free agent, Russian winger Ilya Kovalchuk today made it official that, at the age of 41, he would be stepping away from hockey for good, following an illustrious career highlighted by one Olympic and two World Championship titles.
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🇭🇺 🇳🇴 Hungary, Norway Relegated From 2024 Women’s Worlds
After clawing their way back to the Top Division in 2024, it was a sudden relegation back to Division IA for both Norway and Hungary, who were officially both relegated with one day left in competition in České Budějovice.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Women’s World Championship
The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming to Czechia for the first time in its history, as the reigning world champions Canada will look to conquer České Budějovice for their second straight Gold medal in the 24th edition of the tournament from 09-20 April, with all games held at Budvar Aréna.
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🇨🇿 Jiří Kochta: 1946-2025
Jiří Kochta, the Czechoslovak winger who was a member of the historic 1972 World Championship Gold medal squad, and would capture eight international medals in his career, has passed away at the age of 78.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 IHLC To Miss Four Nations Face-Off Final
Just as it was uncertain that the IHLC would even be contended at the Four Nations Face-Off to begin with, necessitating a Finland win with less than a week before the tournament began, the IHLC will now be leaving North America, by virtue of Sweden‘s 2-1 round robin final victory over the United States, meaning that the IHLC will not be paired with the Four Nations title.
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World Cup Of Hockey Set To Return In 2028
On the eve of the inaugural (and potentially only) Four Nations Face-Off, the NHL and NHLPA today announced the return of the World Cup Of Hockey, set to debut in February 2028 as a mid-season, rather than preseason, tournament, and recurring every four years thereafter.
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