Category Archives: World Championship

IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-6 Austria 🇦🇹 (OT) – 14 May 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 7-6 Austria 🇦🇹 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Tuesday, 14 May 2024

André Tourigny was seen shaking his head in disbelief. Or maybe it was shock. Likely, a combination of the two.

Moments earlier, Tourigny – the Canadian head coach – watched Austria’s Marco Rossi lift a backhander over Canada’s goaltender Jordan Binnington that tied the game 6-6. Rossi’s goal was Austria’s fifth of the third period as the team overcame a 6-1 deficit to force overtime at the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 12 May 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 12 May 2024

The Danes gave Canada all it could handle on Sunday at the 2024 IIHF World Championship. But Canada’s Connor Bedard was the difference, scoring a pair of goals and adding an assist to lead his team to a 5-1 win. Canada is now 2-0 and has six points to sit atop Group A, while Denmark falls to 1-1 but still right in the mix with three points.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Great Britain 🇬🇧 – 11 May 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 11 May 2024

Connor Bedard’s much-anticipated World Championship debut brought him two goals – including the game winner – as Canada shot down a battling Britain in Prague with a 4-2 verdict.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42

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Finnish centre Jarkko Immonen, whose pro career spanned over two decades across eight pro teams in four countries, today announced his retirement from the sport at age 42, following the conclusion of the 2023-24 Finnish Liiga season.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Bolzano, Italy saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2025 World Championship in Sweden and Denmark locked up on the final day of competition, with Slovenia and Hungary both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇨🇿 Jakub Voráček Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching

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Czech winger Jakub Voráček, sidelined by injuries for the last two seasons after a decorated fourteen season career both in the NHL and with the national team, today announced his formal retirement from hockey at age 34, opting instead to join his hometown club Rytíři Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading →

🇨🇦 Jeff Carter Confirms Retirement Following End Of Penguins Season

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Mainstay NHL centre Jeff Carter announced, following the official elimination of his Pittsburgh Penguins from NHL playoff contention, that he would be retiring from the game at the age of 39, wrapping up a nearly two-decade career highlighted with two Stanley Cups and an Olympic title. Continue reading →

🇫🇮 Mikko Koskinen Confirms Retirement From Hockey

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Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen, whose seventeen season pro career spanned five countries and multiple international tournaments, today confirmed his retirement from the game at age 35, following his club HC Lugano’s elimination from the Swiss NLA playoffs.
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🇨🇦 Wayne Simmonds Announces Retirement From Hockey

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The “Wayne Train” has made its final stop, as Canadian bruiser Wayne Simmonds, whose fifteen season pro career spanned six teams in two countries, along with three stints on Team Canada, drew to a close, with recurring injuries forcing the 35 year old to hang it up after remaining a free agent for the current NHL season, signing a one-day contract to retire as a Philadelphia Flyer.
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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 – Men’s

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The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2023

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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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🇨🇿 Roman Čechmánek: 1971-2023

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Roman Čechmánek, the Olympic and three-time World Champion Czech goaltender who was part of the golden era of post-communist Czech hockey, was announced to have died at the age of 52 today in Czechia.
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🇺🇸 Paul Stastny Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 37

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American centre Paul Stastny, the son of hockey royalty who carved out his own illustrious career that spanned nearly two decades, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, having last played for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2022-23 NHL season.
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🇨🇦 Joe Thornton Makes Retirement Official At Age 44

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Canadian power forward Joe Thornton, the last remaining player in the NHL to have played in the 1990’s, officially confirmed his retirement after an illustrious 24-season NHL career, retiring at age 44 with an NHL MVP and scoring title, Swiss championship, Olympic Gold Medal, World Junior Gold Medal and two World Cup titles for Team Canada.
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🇨🇿 Tomáš Plekanec Announces Retirement Just Short Of 41st Birthday

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Czech centre Tomáš Plekanec, one of the top two-way forwards of his era, and a mainstay on both the Montréal Canadiens, HC Kladno and the Czech national team over the past two decades, today formally announced his retirement from Kladno just three days short of his 41st birthday.
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🇨🇦 Jake Muzzin Formally Retires As Player, Moves Into Scouting

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Canadian defender Jake Muzzin, plagued by spinal injuries and concussions throughout his career, today was announced as a scout for the Toronto Maple Leafs, effectively ending his playing career at the age of 34, spanning a Stanley Cup, IIHF World Championship and World Cup victory.
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