The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their sixteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with six IHLC winners, all from Russia, taking home trophies.
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Category Archives: IHLC News
๐จ๐ฆ Ron Ellis: 1945-2024
Ron Ellis, the Canadian winger who served as a key to the core of both the late 1960’s Toronto Maple Leafs, as well as the 1972 Summit Series squad for Team Canada, today passed away at the age of 79.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship
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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๐ซ๐ฎ Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42
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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๐ธ๐ช Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title
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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๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐บ Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship
๐ณ๐ด ๐ญ๐บ Norway, Hungary Promoted To 2025 Womenโs World Championship
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 ฤeskรฉ Budฤjovice, Czechia.
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๐ท๐บ Metallurg Magnitogorsk Sweeps To 2024 Gagarin Cup Victory
After a near-elimination in the conference finals, Metallurg Magnitogorsk today completed a four-game sweep of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 2024 Gagarin Cup finals, capturing their third title and first in eight years.
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๐จ๐ฟ Jakub Vorรกฤek Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching
Czech winger Jakub Vorรกฤek, sidelined by injuries for the last two seasons after a decorated fourteen season career both in the NHL and with the national team, today announced his formal retirement from hockey at age 34, opting instead to join his hometown club Rytรญลi Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading
๐จ๐ฆ Jeff Carter Confirms Retirement Following End Of Penguins Season
Mainstay NHL centre Jeff Carter announced, following the official elimination of his Pittsburgh Penguins from NHL playoff contention, that he would be retiring from the game at the age of 39, wrapping up a nearly two-decade career highlighted with two Stanley Cups and an Olympic title. Continue reading
๐จ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ China, Denmark Relegated From 2024 Womenโs Worlds
In the final day of competition at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the final game on the calendar dictated which teams would be relegated to Division IA in 2025, with China and Denmark drawing the unfortunate distinction.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Mikko Koskinen Confirms Retirement From Hockey
Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen, whose seventeen season pro career spanned five countries and multiple international tournaments, today confirmed his retirement from the game at age 35, following his club HC Lugano’s elimination from the Swiss NLA playoffs.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship
The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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๐ง๐พ Konstantin Koltsov: 1981-2024
Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian journeyman winger who recently moved into a coaching position in the KHL, today was announced dead of an apparent suicide in Miami, Florida at the age of 42.
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๐จ๐ฆ Wayne Simmonds Announces Retirement From Hockey
The “Wayne Train” has made its final stop, as Canadian bruiser Wayne Simmonds, whose fifteen season pro career spanned six teams in two countries, along with three stints on Team Canada, drew to a close, with recurring injuries forcing the 35 year old to hang it up after remaining a free agent for the current NHL season, signing a one-day contract to retire as a Philadelphia Flyer.
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๐จ๐ฆ Meghan Agosta Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey
Canadian forward Meghan Agosta, who starred on Team Canada since the age of seventeen, today made her retirement from hockey official twenty years after it begun, having not played competitively since 2018, following an illustrious career with three Olympic and two World Championship Gold Medals.
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๐ท๐บ ๐ง๐พ IIHF Extends Russia, Belarus Ban Into 2024-25 Season
During an IIHF Council meeting, the International Ice Hockey Federation today confirmed that their ban on Russian and Belarusian teams, dating back to their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was extended through the 2024-25 hockey season.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
The NHL, who will be staging a “light” version of the World Cup Of Hockey with the Four Nations Face-Off in February 2025, has unveiled its projected lineups for the four national squads partaking next year in Montrรฉal and Boston, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
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๐จ๐ฆ Charges Officially Filed Against 2018 Canadian World Junior Stars
After nearly two years since the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal, and the subsequent cover-up, broke in the news, the London Police Service formally charged five members of the 2018 World Junior squad with sexual assault.
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NHL Announces Participation In 2026 & 2030 Olympics, Debut Of Four Nations Face-Off
At a press conference during the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend in Toronto, Canada, both NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and IIHF President Luc Tardif announced a number of international hockey developments, including the return of NHL players to the Winter Olympics and a new tournament to debut in February 2025.
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