After just three months Olympic qualifiers that were set to begin nearly a year ago, but delayed due to COVID-19, the three final qualification spots for a trip to Beijing were today clinched by Czechia, Denmark and Sweden for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 14 Nov 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Sunday, 14 November 2021
Victoria Bach scored twice, Brianne Jenner had a goal and two assists, and Canada defeated hosts Finland 5-1 on Sunday in women’s hockey to sweep the countries’ three-game exhibition series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 13 Nov 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Saturday, 13 November 2021
Natalie Spooner had a hat trick, Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice, and Canada thumped Finland 8-0 on Saturday in women’s hockey.
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🇨🇦 Braydon Coburn Retires From Hockey At Age 36
Bruising Canadian defenceman Braydon Coburn, who spent sixteen NHL seasons with five clubs, amassing nearly 1000 games played and a Stanley Cup ring, today announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 36.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 11 Nov 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Mélodie Daoust scored the winning goal as Canada downed host Finland 4-2 in a women’s hockey game Thursday.
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🇸🇰 Marián Gáborík Formally Announces Retirement From Pro Hockey
After spending the past three seasons on injured reserve due to a herniated disk, Slovak star forward Marián Gáborík officially announced his retirement from pro hockey at the age of 39.
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🇨🇦 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, returning to the originally planned hosts of Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which was set for the 2021 tournament but instead played in a quarantine bubble only in Edmonton, in front of no fans.
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🇨🇿 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Procházka’s Golden Goal
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 Czech Independence Day, we feature Czechia’s first World Championship title as an independent nation, twenty five years after stunning Canada with two goals in the final minute of play.
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Sunday, 05 May 1996
Patera, Procházka…and then the puck was shaking viciously in the net. Whoever saw it will not forget. The last minute of the final period of the 1996 World Cup has an indelible golden tinge for Czech hockey. The group from the heart of Europe then became world champions in Vienna after an eleven-year wait.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 25 Oct 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 2
XL Center, Hartford 🇺🇸
Monday, 25 October 2021
Amanda Kessel isn’t panicking after the United States women’s hockey team opened its pre-Olympic series with two straight losses to rival Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 22 Oct 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 1
PPL Center, Allentown 🇺🇸
Friday, 22 October 2021
Emily Clark scored twice, including the go-ahead goal 5:05 into the third period, and Canada beat the United States 3-1 in Game 1 of a nine-game pre-Olympic Rivalry Series between the national women’s hockey teams Friday night.
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Provisional Olympians Named For Beijing 2022
As part of the NHL’s re-entry into the Olympics with the upcoming games in Beijing this February, the NHL and IIHF collectively announced provisional NHL players for each team, naming three active professionals to each roster.
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🇫🇷🇨🇭 Tardif Named New IIHF President, Fasel Inducted To IIHF Hall Of Fame
After a four-round vote to replace IIHF President René Fasel after a 27-year term, Luc Tardif Sr. today was voted in as new President of the International Ice Hockey Federation, following stints as IIHF Treasurer and President of the French Ice Hockey Federation.
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🇨🇳 2022 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 09 February, with defending champions the Russian Olympic Committee starting their title defence on the opening day, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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🇨🇳 2022 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, China were released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 03 February.
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IIHF Congress Approves Women’s World Championships In Olympic Years
After over twenty years of not holding the IIHF Women’s World Championship in years when the Olympics are taking place, today the IIHF Congress voted to allow for both tournaments to be held the same calendar year every four years, with the tournament moving from April to August in Olympic years, starting in 2022.
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🇨🇿 Czech Goaltender Jakub Kovář Retires At Age 33
Citing health reasons for his early retirement, Czech goaltender Jakub Kovář today announced he was leaving KHL club Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg after just one start in the 2021-22 KHL season, ending his professional career.
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🇨🇿 Ladislav Lubina: 1967-2021
Ladislav Lubina, the Czech winger who captured a number of medals for the Narodnitym throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, today sadly passed away from brain cancer at the age of 54.
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🇺🇸 American Forward David Backes Retires As Blue At Age 37
American forward David Backes, who has seen limited playing time over the past two seasons due to recurring injuries, today officially signed with St. Louis for a day to retire as a Blue, ending his career at the age of 37.
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🇨🇳 NHL, IIHF Reach Agreement On 2022 Olympic Participation
After the NHL and NHL Player’s Association came to an agreement last summer to participate at both the 2022 and 2026 Olympics, pending negotiations with the International Olympic Committee and IIHF, today it was announced that NHL players will in fact participate at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, marking their return to the Games after skipping the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 31 Aug 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Marie-Philip Poulin scored the golden goal at 7:22 of the first overtime period to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States. It was Canada’s first Gold medal at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship since 2012 and ended a run of five in a row for their adversaries.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 