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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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship
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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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 30 Mar 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Exhibition Game
Slush Puppie Place, Kingston ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 30 March 2024
Offence wasn’t a problem for Canada’s national team on Saturday as the squad flattened Finland 8-2 in its lone exhibition tune-up before next month’s IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York.
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๐ง๐พ Konstantin Koltsov: 1981-2024
Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian journeyman winger who recently moved into a coaching position in the KHL, today was announced dead of an apparent suicide in Miami, Florida at the age of 42.
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๐จ๐ฆ Wayne Simmonds Announces Retirement From Hockey
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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๐จ๐ฆ Meghan Agosta Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey
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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๐ท๐บ ๐ง๐พ IIHF Extends Russia, Belarus Ban Into 2024-25 Season
During 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 2024-25 hockey season.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 11 Feb 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 7
Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Sunday, 11 February 2024
Natalie Spooner and Emma Maltais each scored twice, Ann-Renรฉe Desbiens made 24 saves and Canada routed the United States 6-1 on Sunday in the decisive seventh game of the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-0 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 09 Feb 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-0 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Brandt Centre, Regina ๐จ๐ฆ
Friday, 09 February 2024
Natalie Spooner opened the scoring on a power play 58 seconds into the third period and Canada won its third straight to send the Rivalry Series to a decisive seventh game, beating the United States 3-0 on Friday night.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
The NHL, who will be staging a “light” version of the World Cup Of Hockey with the Four Nations Face-Off in February 2025, has unveiled its projected lineups for the four national squads partaking next year in Montrรฉal and Boston, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 07 Feb 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 5
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 07 February 2024
Ashton Bell and Renata Fast scored in a 2:38 span of the third period and Canada stayed alive in the Rivalry Series, rallying to beat the United States 4-2 on Wednesday night in Game 5.
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๐จ๐ฆ Charges Officially Filed Against 2018 Canadian World Junior Stars
After nearly two years since the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal, and the subsequent cover-up, broke in the news, the London Police Service formally charged five members of the 2018 World Junior squad with sexual assault.
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NHL Announces Participation In 2026 & 2030 Olympics, Debut Of Four Nations Face-Off
At a press conference during the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend in Toronto, Canada, both NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and IIHF President Luc Tardif announced a number of international hockey developments, including the return of NHL players to the Winter Olympics and a new tournament to debut in February 2025.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees
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 Results โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 6-2 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช โ 05 Jan 2024
๐บ๐ธ United States 6-2 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scandinavium, Gothenburg ๐ธ๐ช
Friday, 05 January 2024
The United States made the most of their chances and skated to an almost flawless 6-2 victory over Sweden to capture their sixth all-time Gold medal. They won their first in 2004 and most recent one in 2021, and have won those six in a 21-year span.
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IHLC Results โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ โ 04 Jan 2024
๐บ๐ธ United States 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scandinavium, Gothenburg ๐ธ๐ช
Thursday, 04 January 2024
Cutter Gauthier’s late power-play goal gave the United States a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Finland to earn the team a spot in the Gold medal game tomorrow night against hosts Sweden.
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๐ณ๐ด Norway Relegated From World Junior Championship
For the first time in history, the World Junior Championship relegation round came down to a single game, with Germany defeating Norway 5-4 in overtime to send Norway back down to Division IA in 2025, after just one year in the Top Division.
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IHLC Results โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 7-2 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป โ 02 Jan 2024
๐บ๐ธ United States 7-2 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Frรถlundaborg, Gothenburg ๐ธ๐ช
Tuesday, 02 January 2024
The American offence went into high gear in Tuesday’s 7-2 quarter-final romp over Latvia. The all-18-year-old line of Will Smith, Ryan Leonard and Gabe Perreault dominated, combining for six points. Blueliner Seamus Casey chipped in three assists.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior
The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 10-2 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ โ 31 Dec 2023
๐บ๐ธ United States 10-2 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frรถlundaborg, Gothenburg ๐ธ๐ช
Sunday, 31 December 2023
In the New Year’s Eve showdown for first place in Group B, the U.S. left no doubt, hammering Slovakia 10-2 at Frรถlundaborg. Captain Rutger McGroarty set the tone with a hat trick and goalie Trey Augustine shone when tested with 38 stops.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 