On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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Category Archives: World Championship
IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-0 France ๐ซ๐ท – 17 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-0 France ๐ซ๐ท
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Sweden kept rolling along this afternoon at a loud and sold out Avicii Arena, skating to a dominant 4-0 win over France and maintaining a perfect record, now 6-0.
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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-0 Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ – 16 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-0 Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Friday, 16 May 2025
Sweden fired puck after puck at Slovenian goalie Lukรกลก Horรกk, but try as he might he couldnโt prevent Tre Kronor from skating away with a convincing 4-0 win tonight at Avicii Arena.
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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 6-0 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป – 14 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 6-0 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
What was expected to be one of the loudest games of the entire tournament was certainly wildly entertaining.
While the Latvian fans can claim a win in the stands, on the ice, it was the home team that bagged the victory, as Sweden beat Latvia 6-0.
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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 2-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 12 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 2-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Monday, 12 May 2025
Playing near flawless hockey, Tre Kronor skated to an impressive 2-1 victory over Finland tonight at Avicii Arena in what was a very much one-sided game.
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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-2 Austria ๐ฆ๐น – 10 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-2 Austria ๐ฆ๐น
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Saturday, 10 May 2025
Austria was so close to getting their own “Miracle on Ice,” but Sweden scored twice within 12 seconds with less than three minutes remaining and added an empty-netter to win the game 4-2.
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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 5-0 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ – 09 May 2025
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 5-0 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Friday, 09 May 2025
Sweden opened its IIHF World Championship with an impressive 5-0 win over Slovakia tonight at a jam-packed, yellow-sweater wearing, sold-out crowd at Avicii Arena. The victors scored three goals in the first period and never looked back.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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๐ฎ๐น ๐ฌ๐ง Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sfรขntu Gheorghe, Romania saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland locked up on the final day of competition, with Italy and Great Britain both clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Valtteri Filppula Confirms Retirement At Age 41
Finnish forward Valtteri Filppula, the first Finn to become a member of the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his 2008 Stanley Cup, and Olympic and World Championship titles both in 2022, today confirmed his retirement following at the age of 41.
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๐ท๐บ It’s Officially Official – Ilya Kovalchuk Retires From Hockey At Age 41
After initially claiming his career was over in early March, soon correcting that to clarify he was simply a free agent, Russian winger Ilya Kovalchuk today made it official that, at the age of 41, he would be stepping away from hockey for good, following an illustrious career highlighted by one Olympic and two World Championship titles.
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๐จ๐ฟ Jiลรญ Kochta: 1946-2025
Jiลรญ Kochta, the Czechoslovak winger who was a member of the historic 1972 World Championship Gold medal squad, and would capture eight international medals in his career, has passed away at the age of 78.
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๐ธ๐ช Loui Eriksson Confirms Retirement After Two Year Absence
Two years after his most recent game in the Swedish Hockey League semifinals, Loui Eriksson today confirmed his retirement from pro hockey, leaving the sport at age 39 after twenty pro seasons across three countries.
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๐ท๐บ ๐ง๐พ IIHF Extends Russia, Belarus Ban Into 2025-26 Season
Following an IIHF Council meeting, the International Ice Hockey Federation today confirmed that their ban on Russian and Belarusian teams, dating back to their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was extended through the 2025-26 hockey season.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2025 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2025, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Stockholm, with five different nationalities and a pair of Swedish goaltenders highlighting the class.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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๐ฑ๐ป Kaspars Daugaviลลก Announces Surprise Retirement From Hockey
Latvian forward Kaspars Daugaviลลก, who captained his country to their historic first ever World Championship medal in 2023, today announced his sudden retirement from the sport at age 36, ending a 20+ year pro career spanning teams across seven countries, citing family issues as the reason for the sudden, mid-season announcement.
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๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2024
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2024 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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๐ธ๐ช Anton Strรฅlman Confirms Retirement From Hockey, Shift To Football
After a one-season return to the Swedish league, following a sixteen year NHL career, journeyman defender Anton Strรฅlman today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 38, surprisingly announcing a shift to coaching women’s football, following a two-decade plus career across twelve clubs in Canada, the United States and his native Sweden.
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๐ธ๐ช Alexander Edler Signs One-Day Contract To Retire As Canuck
Inactive for the past season, Swedish defender Alexander Edler today signed a one-day contract with the Vancouver Canucks in order to retire with the franchise, wrapping a nearly two-decade NHL career, marked with over 1,000 games played, and a trio of international medals won with his native Sweden.
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