🇫🇮 Noora Räty Announces Retirement From Finnish National Team

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Finnish goaltender Noora Räty, arguably the greatest goaltender in women’s hockey history, and a multiple World Championship and Olympic medallist, today announced in a shocking social media post that, at only age 33, she would no longer play for the Naisleijonat.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The Summit Series At Fifty

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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, to commemorate the historic fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, we look back with a new IIHF feature on the historic final game, and final goal, of this epic international hockey showdown.

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🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 28 September 1972

“Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here’s another shot…right in front! They score! Henderson has scored for Canada!” – Foster Hewitt

It is the most famous goal call in Canada’s long and rich hockey history, and it came from the game’s greatest voice exactly 50 years ago today, at the Sports Palace in Moscow.
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🇸🇰 Zdeno Chára Announces Retirement Following Illustrious 25 Year Career

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Slovakian defenceman Zdeno Chára, whose towering presence (the tallest player in NHL history at 6’9) and dominating play terrorized NHL offences for a quarter century, today announced his retirement from hockey at the age of 45, following 25 pro seasons with Ottawa, Boston, Washington and the New York Islanders, ending his career signing a one-day contract with the Boston Bruins.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Sep 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 04 September 2022

Brianne Jenner scored both of Canada’s goals and Ann-Renée Desbiens saved the Gold in the dying seconds, giving Canada their third straight major Gold with a 2-1 victory over the United States. It comes after the 2021 Women’s Worlds last August and Olympic Gold in Beijing this past February.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 Sep 2022

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🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Saturday, 03 September 2022

Team USA scored six goals in the first period to put the game out of reach with speed and seeming ease, defeating Czechia by a 10-1 count and advancing to the Gold medal game tomorrow night. They will face the winner of tonight’s Canada–Switzerland tilt.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender

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Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 12-1 Hungary 🇭🇺 – 01 Sep 2022

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🇺🇸 United States 12-1 Hungary 🇭🇺
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 01 September 2022

It’s not often that a team wins a playoff game to advance to the semi-finals of a tournament that that is of secondary importance, but that was the case this afternoon.
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🇸🇰 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Šatan’s Pair Sends Naši chlapci To Finals

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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 Slovakia’s Constitution Day (Deň Ústavy Slovenskej republiky), we look back at Slovakia’s unlikely run to the 2012 World Championship Gold Medal Game, where they knocked off neighbouring Czechia to punch their ticket to the finals.

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Semifinal
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 19 May 2012

Miroslav Šatan’s second goal of the game, a beautiful short-handed marker early in the third, broke a 1-1 tie and led Slovakia to a 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic to give his team a place in the Gold medal game tomorrow.
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🇭🇺 Hungary Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender In 12 Years

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In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, a wild series of events on the final day of group play at the 2022 Women’s World Championship means that Hungary will contend for the IHLC, making the Magyars the first women’s team in over a decade to contend for the IHLC.
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🇩🇰 🇫🇷 Denmark Relegated, France Promoted To 2023 Women’s Worlds

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In one of the most shocking developments in recent World Championship history, it is Denmark, in front of a home crowd in Frederikshavn, hosting their first ever Championship tournament, who was relegated on home ice, thanks to a literal last-second goal by Germany, sending them to Division IA in 2023, with France set to take their place.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 30 Aug 2022

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🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Canada opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the United States stormed back to claim a 5-2 win in the finale of the preliminary round of Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 28 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 28 August 2022

Japan knew life in Group A of the Women’s Worlds would be radically different from Group B, and today they got a reminder of just how different. Canada stormed their goal for 60 minutes and skated to a 9-0 win this afternoon to re-join the United States at the top of the Group A standings.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 27 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Saturday, 27 August 2022

Sarah Fillier, the “Next One” whose time appears to be now, scored her first two goals of the tournament to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Switzerland in Group A action in Herning tonight.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 25 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 25 August 2022

Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and assist in the opening period to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland tonight at KVIK Arena in Herning.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship

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After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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