Category Archives: Women’s World Championship

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Cruises To Second Straight Gold

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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 revisit Team USA’s second Women’s World title fifteen years later, with Jessie Vetter and Caitlin Cahow powering them to their second straight Gold Medal.

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🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Sunday, 12 April 2009

The U.S. won its second straight Women’s World Hockey Championship with a 4-1 win over Canada on Sunday. The Americans have won back-to-back titles for the first time after beating Canada 4-3 in last year’s final in Harbin, China.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: St-Pierre Shuts Out Team USA For Gold

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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 Canada Day, we revisit Canada’s 2004 Women’s World title twenty years later, where Kim St-Pierre shut out Team USA on home ice in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 06 April 2004

The Halifax Metro Centre was transformed into a sea of red and white Tuesday night, as 10,506 hockey fans filled the Halifax arena to watch Team Canada face-off against Team USA in the Gold medal game of the 2004 IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2024

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The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2024 on 11 November, with Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick and Shea Weber representing the male players, while Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell become the first pair of women to be inducted in the same year since 2010, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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🇨🇦 Natalie Spooner Named 2024 IIHF Female Player Of The Year

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Canadian forward Natalie Spooner, who only one week ago was crowned as the PWHL’s inaugural MVP, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season, capping off a spectacular campaign that saw Spooner capture her third World Championship title.
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🇨🇦 Mélodie Daoust Announces Retirement, Shift To Coaching

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Canadian winger Mélodie Daoust, who debuted with Team Canada at age 22, announced today she is leaving pro hockey just a decade later, leaving the game for a coaching position at age 32, capping a career highlighted by two Olympic Gold medals, a World Championship Gold and Bronze medal, along with two tournament MVP titles and a CIS championship. Continue reading →

🇺🇸 Minnesota Captures Inaugural Walter Cup, Five Join Triple Gold Club

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In the dramatic finale of the 2024 PWHL playoffs, a shutout performance from Nicole Hensley led PWHL Minnesota to capture the inaugural Walter Cup, defeating PWHL Boston 3-0 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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🇫🇷 2024 IIHF Congress Names France As 2028 World Championship Hosts

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The 2024 IIHF Congress today in Prague, Czechia formally announced the hosts of the 2028 World Championship, with the French cities of Paris and Lyon awarded hosting duties for 12-28 May 2028, winning as the sole candidate after withdrawn bids from Norway and Kazakhstan.
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🇳🇴 🇭🇺 Norway, Hungary Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship

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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 České Budějovice, Czechia.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 14 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 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

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🇺🇸 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

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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

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🇺🇸 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

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🇨🇦 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

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🇨🇦 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

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🇨🇦 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

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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

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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

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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

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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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