The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
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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IHLC 2024 In Review – Women’s
The 2024 calendar year saw a reduction in international competition due to the rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, but there was still plenty of drama between the United States and Canada all throughout North America over the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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π©π° Denmark Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2026
For the first time since 2019, Denmark will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, after being pushed to the brink by Austria before upsetting them in a do-or-die final showdown in Bled, Slovenia, winning 5-4 in regulation to capture the Division IA tournament and book their ticket to Minnesota in 2026.
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π±π» Kaspars DaugaviΕΕ‘ Announces Surprise Retirement From Hockey
Latvian forward Kaspars DaugaviΕΕ‘, who captained his country to their historic first ever World Championship medal in 2023, today announced his sudden retirement from the sport at age 36, ending a 20+ year pro career spanning teams across seven countries, citing family issues as the reason for the sudden, mid-season announcement.
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πΊπΈ π¨π¦ π·πΊ Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2024
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2024 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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πΈπͺ Anton StrΓ₯lman 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 StrΓ₯lman 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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πΈπͺ Alexander Edler Signs One-Day Contract To Retire As Canuck
Inactive for the past season, Swedish defender Alexander Edler today signed a one-day contract with the Vancouver Canucks in order to retire with the franchise, wrapping a nearly two-decade NHL career, marked with over 1,000 games played, and a trio of international medals won with his native Sweden.
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π¨π¦ Lauriane Rougeau Announces Retirement, Shift To Hockey Ops
Canadian defender Lauriane Rougeau, a key cog of Team Canada’s blueline for the past decade and a half, today confirmed her retirement from the game after just one season in the PWHL, at the age of 34, announcing a move to hockey operations with her former club in Toronto.
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πΈπͺ Oscar MΓΆller Confirms Retirement Following Long-Term Injury
Swedish winger Oscar MΓΆller, 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 SkellefteΓ₯ capturing their fourth Le Mat Trophy to end last season, minus MΓΆller on the active roster.
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πΊπΈ Gigi Marvin Confirms Retirement From Hockey At Age 37
With details around the 2024-25 PWHL season set to be revealed soon, a major part of the American women’s game for the past nearly two decades confirmed she will not take part, as Gigi Marvin today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 37.
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π¨πΏ 2025 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted for the first time by Czechia in the Bohemian city of ΔeskΓ© BudΔjovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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π¨π¦ Tyler Ennis Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 34
After injuries hampered his NHL prospects, sending him to two seasons in Europe, Canadian journeyman winger Tyler Ennis today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 34, following a 15 year pro career with seven different teams, along with a pair of Gold medals won with Team Canada.
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π¨π¦ 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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π±π» π©π° πΈπ° Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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πΊπΈ Johnny Gaudreau: 1993-2024
Johnny Gaudreau, the American winger who dazzled NHL fans with his skill and talent despite his small stature, today was tragically announced dead at the age of 31 following a cycling accident involving a drunk driver in his home state of New Jersey, alongside his younger brother Matthew, aged 29.
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π©π° πΈπͺ 2025 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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π¨π¦ Eric Staal Signs One Day Contract, Retires From Pro Hockey
After going a year without playing professionally, today Eric Staal signed a one-day contract with the Carolina Hurricanes to formalize his retirement, officially stepping away from the game just a few months shy of his 40th birthday.
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π«π· πΊπΈ French Alps, Salt Lake City Announced As Hosts Of 2030 & 2034 Winter Olympics
Today, during the 142nd session of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, France, the next two Winter Olympic Games hosts were confirmed, with the French Alps winning the 2030 Games, while the 2034 Games will return to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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