Category Archives: IHLC News

🇺🇸 Joe Pavelski Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey

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After announcing at the end of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs that he would step away from the game, today American forward Joe Pavelski officially announced his retirement from pro hockey just five days after turning 40, capping a remarkable 18-year career with over 1,000 points in over 1,300 career games.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off

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With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk Officially Announces Retirement Following Hall Induction

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Just a day after being announced as an inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame this November, Russian forward Pavel Datsyuk, who has been prevented by injury from playing since 2021, officially announced his retirement from the game at age 45.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2024

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The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2024 on 11 November, with Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick and Shea Weber representing the male players, while Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell become the first pair of women to be inducted in the same year since 2010, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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Florida Panthers Avoid Collapse, Capture Stanley Cup

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Capping their thirtieth season in the National Hockey League, the Florida Panthers today avoided an epic, historic collapse in Game Seven the Stanley Cup Final, capturing their first Stanley Cup over the Edmonton Oilers, who forced the decisive game after coming back from a 3-0 series deficit, with a narrow 2-1 victory on home ice.
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🇨🇦 Natalie Spooner Named 2024 IIHF Female Player Of The Year

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Canadian forward Natalie Spooner, who only one week ago was crowned as the PWHL’s inaugural MVP, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season, capping off a spectacular campaign that saw Spooner capture her third World Championship title.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 2025 Four Nations Face-Off Schedule Released

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The schedule for the NHL’s mid-season 2025 tournament, the Four Nations Face-Off, was announced today prior to the start of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, with Boston, United States and Montréal, Canada set to host their respective host nations, along with Sweden and Finland, next February, a tune-up to the NHL’s Olympic return at the 2026 Olympics.
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🇺🇸 Minnesota Captures Inaugural Walter Cup, Five Join Triple Gold Club

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In the dramatic finale of the 2024 PWHL playoffs, a shutout performance from Nicole Hensley led PWHL Minnesota to capture the inaugural Walter Cup, defeating PWHL Boston 3-0 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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🇫🇷 2024 IIHF Congress Names France As 2028 World Championship Hosts

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The 2024 IIHF Congress today in Prague, Czechia formally announced the hosts of the 2028 World Championship, with the French cities of Paris and Lyon awarded hosting duties for 12-28 May 2028, winning as the sole candidate after withdrawn bids from Norway and Kazakhstan.
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🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Great Britain, Poland Sent Back Down From 2024 World Championship

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A day before the group round came to a close at the 2024 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2024 were confirmed, with Great Britain and Poland, who both gained promotion to Czechia just last year, will head back down to Division IA next season.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42

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Finnish centre Jarkko Immonen, whose pro career spanned over two decades across eight pro teams in four countries, today announced his retirement from the sport at age 42, following the conclusion of the 2023-24 Finnish Liiga season.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title

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By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Bolzano, Italy saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2025 World Championship in Sweden and Denmark locked up on the final day of competition, with Slovenia and Hungary both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇳🇴 🇭🇺 Norway, Hungary Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship

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At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Klagenfurt, Austria today, it was Norway and Hungary that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2025, to be hosted in České Budějovice, Czechia.
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