The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2026, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Zรผrich, with six players from four different nationalities highlighting the class.
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๐จ๐ญ Surgery Forces Simon Moser Into Retirement At 36
Swiss forward Simon Moser, a mainstay of both the Swiss National League and national team, confirmed that he would be forced to retire from hockey at age 36, following a career-ending surgery, capping a two-decade plus career highlighted by a pair of World Championship Silver medals.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ธ Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2025
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2025 Class, inducting six legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Juuso Hietanen Announces Retirement From Hockey At 40
Finnish defender Juuso Hietanen confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 40, following a 20-plus year pro career spanned across Finland, Sweden, Russia and Switzerland, highlighted by being a backstop of Finland’s historic “Golden double” in 2022.
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๐จ๐ฆ Rebecca Johnston Announces Retirement From Hockey At Age 36
Canadian utility forward Rebecca Johnston, a nearly two-decade veteran of the CWHL, PWHPA and Canadian national team, today confirmed her retirement from pro hockey the day after her 36th birthday, capping her career with two Clarkson Cups, two World Championship titles and three Olympic Gold medals.
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๐บ๐ธ Amanda Pelkey Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 32
American forward Amanda Pelkey confirmed her retirement from pro hockey at the age of 32, following spending the inaugural two seasons of the PWHL in Boston, capping a career highlighted by two World Championship and one Olympic Gold medals for Team USA.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Juhamatti Aaltonen Announces Retirement At 40
Finnish forward Juhamatti Aaltonen, whose two-decade career spanned nearly a dozen teams over six European countries, along with numerous appearances for his native Leijonat, today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 40, following the 2024-25 season with Jokerit Helsinki.
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๐จ๐ฟ Josef ฤernรฝ: 1939-2025
Josef ฤernรฝ, the Czech winger whose dominant play led him to amass double digits in Czech league, World Championship and Olympic titles in his playing career from 1956-79, today passed away at the age of 85.
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๐ธ๐ฐ Jaroslav Halรกk Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 40
Journeyman Slovak goaltender Jaroslav Halรกk, who backstopped seven different NHL teams and the Slovakian national squad for twenty pro seasons, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, two years after his last professional game.
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๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฟ IHLC Classics: Team USA Conquers Gold In Olympic Valley
From time to time, TheIHLC.com will feature detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history, considered to be “IHLC Classics.” Today, in honour of American Independence Day, and in light of Team USA’s first World Championship title in decades, we look back at the last time the Americans were crowned World Champions, at the 1960 Olympics – the aftermath of the original “Miracle On Ice.”
๐บ๐ธ United States 9-4 Czechoslovakia ๐จ๐ฟ
Olympic Medalย Round
Blyth Memorial Ice Arena, Olympic Valley ๐บ๐ธ
Sunday, 28 February 1960
The Americans had no time to celebrate (their previous day’s victory over the Soviet Union) because they were scheduled to be on the ice at eight the next morning to face the Czechs for the Gold medal.
Organizers expected the Canada–Soviet Union game to be for the Gold, so the USA-Czech game was scheduled for early Sunday.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Pentti Matikainen: 1950-2025
Pentti Matikainen, the long-time coach of numerous clubs across Finland’s Liiga, as well as a multi-event medalist in leading the Finnish national team, passed away from cancer at the age of 74 in Helsinki.
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Marie-Philip Poulin, Victoire Big Winners At 2025 PWHL Awards
The Professional Women’s Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2025 season at an awards ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario, with eight IHLC holders representing Canada and the United States taking home trophies following the league’s sophomore season.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ธ Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2025
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2025 on 10 November, with long-time nominee Alexander Mogilny finally getting the call, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Brianna Decker, and first-time nominees Zdeno Chรกra, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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๐จ๐ฆ Marie-Philip Poulin Named 2025 IIHF Female Player Of The Year
Canadian forward Marie-Philip Poulin, the most decorated Canadian women’s player in history, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2024-25 season, capping a season in which she led the PWHL in scoring and captured tournament MVP honours at the 2025 Women’s World Championship.
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๐ฎ๐น 2026 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 11 February, with defending champions Finland starting their title defence in the opening match, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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๐ฎ๐น 2026 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy was released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 05 February.
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Provisional Men’s Rosters Named For 2026 Winter Olympics
With eight months to go until the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics after a twelve year absence, the provisional rosters for each of the twelve participating men’s nations were revealed today by each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster that will face off in Milan in February 2026.
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๐จ๐ฟ Petr Koukal Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching
Czech centre Petr Koukal today announced the end of his playing career at age 42 as part of a transition to coaching, ending a 20+ year career capped by three Czech Extraliga titles and a World Championship Gold medal.
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๐จ๐ฆ Victoria Bach Confirms Retirement At Age 28
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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๐ท๐บ 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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