🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Thursday, 28 December 2017
Slovakia’s Samuel Buček put on a one-man show to score the winning goal at 17:52 of the third to give his nation an unexpected 3-2 win over the U.S.
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🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 26 December 2017
The defending champion U.S. got five first-period goals and never looked back in a 9-0 demolition of Denmark to start the 2018 World Juniors on Tuesday.
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Finnish winger Niklas Hagman today announced his retirement from professional hockey at age 38, ending a 20 year career spent in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Russia and his native Finland, where he spent his last four seasons.
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The IIHF announced the newest class of inductees to the Hall of Fame, highlighted by a quartet of international superstars – Daniel Alfredsson, Rob Blake, Jere Lehtinen and Chris Chelios, who will have their numerous achievements, both professionally and internationally, recognized in Denmark this May.
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Netminder Ján Lašák, a mainstay in the net for Slovakia for nearly two decades, announced his retirement from pro hockey, instead opting to help overhaul a Slovak Hockey Association heading in a new direction under the leadership of former teammate and national team GM Miroslav Šatan.
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The schedule for the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York is highlighted by the first ever outdoor game in IIHF competition, a tilt between defending champs Team USA and their cross-border rivals, Canada, on 29 December, at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2017
Troy Terry has done it again. He was the only scorer of ten shootout shooters tonight, giving the USA the Gold medal in an incredible 5-4 win over Canada.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Canada rallied from a shaky start and deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 to defeat Sweden, 5-2.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2017
Sweden took a 3-0 first-period lead and pounded Slovakia 8-3 in the early Montréal quarter-final. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek and Tim Söderlund each scored twice.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Jonathan Dahlén starred with a hat trick as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to complete a perfect round-robin. Goalie Filip Gustavsson debuted with a win.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Finland’s dreams of repeating as champs are fading, while Sweden is dialled in so far. With a 3-1 win over Finland, the Swedes wrapped up first place in Group A.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Sweden beat Switzerland 4-2 for its second straight Bell Centre win on Wednesday. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek scored twice, including the third-period winner.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2016
The opening game of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was a smashing success for Sweden, which beat Denmark 6-1 at Montréal’s Bell Centre on Boxing Day.
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🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 05 January 2016
In a tense and thrilling climax to the 2016 World Juniors, Kasperi Kapanen’s overtime winner at 1:33 gave host Finland a 4-3 Gold medal victory over Russia.
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Monday, 04 January 2016
Finland’s top line was shut down, but it didn’t matter. Mikko Rantanen and Kasperi Kapanen stepped up and led the team to a 2-1 win, and to the WJC final.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 02 January 2016
Sweden was simply too strong for Slovakia. Led by goaltender Linus Soderstom and forward Adrian Kempe, Sweden won its quarter-final game 6-0.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Sweden threw a power play party on New Year’s Eve, scoring three times with the man advantage to top Canada 5-2. Canada will face Finland in the quarter-finals.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Felix Sandström made ninesaves en route to a shutout in his first game in the tournament as Sweden beat Denmark 5-0.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Monday, 28 December 2015
Team USA outshot Sweden, and controlled big portions of the game, but they didn’t have Alexander Nylander or Linus Söderström. Nylander scored the game winning goal off a breakaway in the second period, and Söderström made 46 saves en route to a shutout.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Sweden opened with a 8-3 thrashing of the Swiss on Saturday, but its hopes of Gold were hurt when stars William Nylander and Adrian Kempe left after high hits.
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