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
Category Archives: Women’s World Championship
🇨🇦 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.
🇺🇸 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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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Ottawa As 2025 World Junior Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced that hosting rights for the 2025 World Juniors have been awarded to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2024.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Lundqvist, Ouellette Highlight Hockey Hall Of Fame Class Of 2023
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2023 on 13 November, with a trio of goaltenders, and a pair of Canadian forwards and builders, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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🇺🇸 Hilary Knight Named Inaugural IIHF Female Player Of The Year
American star forward Hilary Knight, who just a few months ago scored twice in 27 seconds with less than five minutes remaining in regulation to give Team USA their tenth World Championship title, was today awarded the IIHF’s inaugural Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2022-23 season.
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🇺🇸 Megan Bozek Announces Retirement At Age 32
American defender Megan Bozek, a mainstay in both the premier North American women’s pro leagues and the Team USA roster for over a decade, today formally announced her retirement from the sport at the age of 32.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 16 Apr 2023
🇺🇸 United States 6-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Hilary Knight scored three goals including two near the end of the third period on power plays to break a 3-3 tie and send the United States on their way to a 6-3 win and a Gold Medal at Canada’s expense. Canada had three leads in the game, but each time the resilient Americans came back.
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🇺🇸 IIHF Names Utica As 2024 Women’s World Championship Host
On the final day of the 2023 Women’s World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed the next host of the tournament, with the 2024 Women’s World Championships to be hosted in Utica, New York, running from 04-14 April 2023.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 15 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Saturday, 15 April 2023
Sarah Fillier scored three goals – two in the second period to break a scoreless tie through more than half a game – to lead Canada to a 5-1 win over Switzerland this afternoon at CAA Centre. The win takes Canada to the expected and thrilling Gold medal game against the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 13 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 13 April 2023
Sweden took Canada to overtime in the quarter-finals of the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, playing a tenacious 60 minutes of regular time and scoring in the final seconds to tie the game. Canada would end up with the win however, with Sarah Nurse scoring in extra time.
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🇭🇺 🇫🇷 Hungary, France Relegated From 2023 Women’s Worlds
In the final day of competition at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the final two Group B matchups dictated which teams would be relegated to Division IA in 2024, with Hungary and France drawing the unfortunate distinction.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (SO) – 10 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (SO)
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Monday, 10 April 2023
In likely the craziest finish in the storied Canada-United States rivalry, Jamie Lee Rattray scored in the 9th round of the penalty-shot shootout to give Canada a 4-3 win over the United States before a rowdy crowd of 4,322 at CAA Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Friday, 07 April 2023
Canada defeated Czechia 5-1 tonight in a rough-and-tumble game before a raucous crowd of 4,036 at CAA Centre. It was a solid win challenged by an impressive effort from coach Carla MacLeod’s Czechs.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Two-time defending Gold medallists Canada started their drive for a three-peat with an impressive 4-0 win over Switzerland at CAA Centre tonight. The win keeps Canada perfect against the Swiss all time, now 11-0 with a whopping goals differential of 81-2, nine of those wins by shutout.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 Women’s World Championship
For the first time since 2017, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will return to North America in front of fans, with the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, Canada hosting the 22nd edition of the tournament from 05-16 April, with all games held at the CAA Centre.
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🇺🇸 Brianna Decker Retires From Pro Hockey
American forward Brianna Decker, a six-time World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, NCAA champion and unofficial member of the women’s Triple Gold Club with two Clarkson Cups and an Isobel Cup, today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 31, moving into a full-time coaching capacity.
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🇨🇦 2023 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
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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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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