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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🇨🇿 Jakub Voráček Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching
Czech winger Jakub Voráček, 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 Rytíři Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇳 🇩🇰 China, Denmark Relegated From 2024 Women’s 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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🇫🇮 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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🇧🇾 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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🇨🇦 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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🇨🇦 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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🇷🇺 🇧🇾 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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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 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 Montréal 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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🇨🇦 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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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2024, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Prague, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, including a trio of native Czechoslovak legends heading the class.
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🇳🇴 Norway Relegated From World Junior Championship
For the first time in history, the World Junior Championship relegation round came down to a single game, with Germany defeating Norway 5-4 in overtime to send Norway back down to Division IA in 2025, after just one year in the Top Division.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior
The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s
The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Women’s
The 2023 calendar year saw another fourteen heavyweight matchups between the United States and Canada on the international hockey stage, with both nations fighting for Gold medals, world supremacy, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship
With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2025
For the first time since 2020, Kazakhstan will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, by virtue of France’s defeat of Austria, meaning that the 4-0 Kazakhs locked up their spot at the 2025 World Juniors in Ottawa, Canada two days before the Division IA tournament in Budapest, Hungary ends.
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