The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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Category Archives: Women’s World Championship
IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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๐จ๐ฆ IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2023, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Tampere, Finland, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Henrik Zetterberg, Brian Leetch, Caroline Ouellette, Cristobal Huet and Jimmy Foster to the Hall.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2022
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2022 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 2-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 04 Sep 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 2-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Womenโs World Championship Gold Medal Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Sunday, 04 September 2022
Brianne Jenner scored both of Canada’s goals and Ann-Renรฉe Desbiens saved the Gold in the dying seconds, giving Canada their third straight major Gold with a 2-1 victory over the United States. It comes after the 2021 Women’s Worlds last August and Olympic Gold in Beijing this past February.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 10-1 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ – 03 Sep 2022
๐บ๐ธ United States 10-1 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
Womenโs World Championship Semifinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Saturday, 03 September 2022
Team USA scored six goals in the first period to put the game out of reach with speed and seeming ease, defeating Czechia by a 10-1 count and advancing to the Gold medal game tomorrow night. They will face the winner of tonightโs Canada–Switzerland tilt.
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๐จ๐ฟ Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender
Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 12-1 Hungary ๐ญ๐บ – 01 Sep 2022
๐บ๐ธ United States 12-1 Hungary ๐ญ๐บ
Womenโs World Championship Quarterfinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Thursday, 01 September 2022
Itโs not often that a team wins a playoff game to advance to the semi-finals of a tournament that that is of secondary importance, but that was the case this afternoon.
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๐ญ๐บ Hungary Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender In 12 Years
In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, a wild series of events on the final day of group play at the 2022 Women’s World Championship means that Hungary will contend for the IHLC, making the Magyars the first women’s team in over a decade to contend for the IHLC.
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๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ท Denmark Relegated, France Promoted To 2023 Womenโs Worlds
In one of the most shocking developments in recent World Championship history, it is Denmark, in front of a home crowd in Frederikshavn, hosting their first ever Championship tournament, who was relegated on home ice, thanks to a literal last-second goal by Germany, sending them to Division IA in 2023, with France set to take their place.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 5-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ – 30 Aug 2022
๐บ๐ธ United States 5-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Canada opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the United States stormed back to claim a 5-2 win in the finale of the preliminary round of Group A.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 9-0 Japan ๐ฏ๐ต – 28 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 9-0 Japan ๐ฏ๐ต
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Sunday, 28 August 2022
Japan knew life in Group A of the Womenโs Worlds would be radically different from Group B, and today they got a reminder of just how different. Canada stormed their goal for 60 minutes and skated to a 9-0 win this afternoon to re-join the United States at the top of the Group A standings.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ – 27 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Saturday, 27 August 2022
Sarah Fillier, the โNext Oneโ whose time appears to be now, scored her first two goals of the tournament to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Switzerland in Group A action in Herning tonight.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 25 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and assist in the opening period to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland tonight at KVIK Arena in Herning.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship
After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ IHLC Classics: Knight Leads USA To Three-peat
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, we feature the 2011 World Championship final, where the United States captured their third consecutive Gold medal, thanks to the overtime heroics of star forward Hilary Knight.
๐บ๐ธ United States 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆย (OT)
Women’s World Championshipย Gold Medal Game
Hallenstadion,ย Zรผrich ๐จ๐ญ
Monday, 25 April 2011
The United States has won Gold at the World Women’s Championship after an overtime goal by Hilary Knight at 7:48 of the 4-on-4 extra period.
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๐ธ๐ช ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2022
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2022 on 14 November, with a trio of Swedish forwards, anchored by a Finnish defender and a Canadian goaltender, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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2022 Womenโs World Championship Schedule Released
For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will take place in an Olympic year, with the world’s top ten women’s teams convening in Denmark on 25 August to compete for the title of the world’s best, just six months after wrapping up the Olympics in Beijing.
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๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ป IIHF Names Tampere & Rฤซga As 2023 World Championship Hosts
After stripping Saint Petersburg, Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the IIHF announced at their annual Congress that hosting rights would now be split between to the last two hosts of the World Championships, with 2021 hosts Rฤซga, Latvia and current 2022 hosts Tampere, Finland hosting next year, from 12-28 May 2023.
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