IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 14 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 14 April 2024

Another chapter was scripted in the intense rivalry between Canada and the United States on Sunday evening at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship.

In the Gold medal game, it took overtime for Canada to defeat the United States 6-5.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 11 Apr 2024


🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 11 April 2024

The United States gave the home crowd something to cheer about as the team earned a 10-0 shutout victory over Japan in their quarter-final game at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship in Utica, New York.
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🇨🇳 🇩🇰 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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 08 Apr 2024


🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Monday, 08 April 2024

Kirsten Simms scored at 3:38 of overtime to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Canada and first place in the Group A standings with a perfect 4-0 record.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 07 April 2024

Canada scored three goals in the first period to take control of a game they won in dominating fashion, beating Czechia 5-0 to stay a perfect 3-0 in Group A with the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 April 2024

Natalie Spooner drove hard to the net in the first period, resulting in two goals that spurred Canada to a tight 3-0 win over Switzerland this afternoon in Utica at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championships.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 04 April 2024

Ella Shelton’s goal and pair of assists powered Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York on Thursday night.
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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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🇨🇦 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 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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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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🇫🇮 Sanni Hakala Forced Into Retirement At 26 After On-Ice Paralysis


Finnish winger Sanni Hakala, who suffered a horrific injury in a Swedish League matchup less than a week ago which stunned the hockey world, today announced the end of her playing career at age 29, with the injury leaving her paralyzed from the chest down, with limited mobility in her arms and legs.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2023


The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2023 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇺🇸 2024 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Utica, New York, United States, with the hosts looking to repeat as champions for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🇨🇦 Meaghan Mikkelson Retires From Hockey, Pivots To Broadcasting


Canadian defender Meaghan Mikkelson, a mainstay of Team Canada’s blueline for almost fifteen years and almost as many Olympic, World Championship and club titles, confirmed her retirement from the sport, taking on a broadcasting role with the NHL’s Calgary Flames.
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🇨🇦 Geneviève Lacasse Joins PWHL Staff, Retires From Hockey


Canadian goaltender Geneviève Lacasse, whose absence from the inaugural PWHL Draft spurred speculation about her coming retirement, confirmed today she is joining the PWHL’s Ottawa front office, confirming her retirement from the game at age 34, recapping a Triple Gold-winning career with Olympic, World Championship and CWHL titles to her name. Continue reading

🇨🇦 Jennifer Wakefield Retires As Player, Pivots To Coaching


Canadian centre Jennifer Wakefield, a mainstay of the Canadian national team throughout the 2010’s, and a two-time Gold winner at the Olympics and World Championship, today announced her full-time transition to coaching, leaving the game as a player at the age of 34.
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🇨🇳 🇩🇰 China, Denmark Promoted To 2024 Women’s World Championship


At the conclusion of the delayed Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Shenzhen, China today, it was hosts China and Denmark that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2024, solidifying for good the 2023-24 international hockey calendar.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Knight’s Golden Journey Begins

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 not only American Independence Day, but Hilary Knight’s inaugural IIHF Female Player Of The Year victory, we feature her first of nine (and counting) World Championship titles.

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🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Baqu Arena, Harbin 🇨🇳
Saturday, 12 April 2008

The U.S. Women’s National Team captured the Gold medal with a 4-3 win over Canada at the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Championship here tonight at the Baqu Arena. Team USA finished with the tournament with a 4-0-1-0 record and ended with back-to-back victories over top-seeded Canada for its second Gold medal in the last three World Championships.
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