๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Semifinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Monday, 30 August 2021
Canada did exactly what it had to do tonight against Switzerland and skated to a dominating 4-0 win to advance to the Women’s Worlds Gold medal game against the United States tomorrow night for the first time since 2017.
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After nearly two year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Luxembourg and China in November 2019, four rounds of play, 36 teams competing and a global pandemic in between, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Beijing, with the spots being clinched locked up by Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 7-0 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
Womenโs World Championship Quarterfinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Canada defeated Germany tonight by a 7-0 score to advance to the semi-finals on Monday. They will play either Switzerland or Czechia, depending on the outcome of the final game tonight. With the loss, Germany will head to the 5th-8th placement games grouping which begins tomorrow.
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Vladimir Shadrin, the Russian centreman who starred on some of the most powerful Soviet squads of the 1970’s, today passed away in Moscow from COVID-19 complications at the age of 73.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Canada scored early and often and defeated the United States emphatically, 5-1, to claim first place in Group A. They did it without their captain, Marie-Philip Poulin, but Jamie Lee Rattray stepped up and contributed two goals in the win.
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Swiss defender Severin Blindenbacher, a mainstay on the Eisgenossen blueline for over a decade, today announced his retirement from the ZSC Lions at age 38.
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Jan Suchรฝ, the Czech defenceman who anchored some of the most successful club and international teams in the history of the Czech hockey program, and is both a member of the IIHF and Czech Hockey Hall of Fame, today passed away at age 76.
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๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Itโs all history, all the time in Calgary. Hilary Knight scored her 45th career Womenโs Worlds goal to surpass fellow American legend Cammi Granato for the all-time tournament record as the unbeaten U.S. thrashed the ROC team 6-0 on Tuesday.
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The hockey world today was again struck with tragic news, as the news of 31 year old American forward Jimmy Hayes, a former NHL and international player who recently became a new father, had unexpectedly passed away in his home state of Milton, Massachusetts, USA.
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Rod Gilbert, the Hall of Fame winger and top scorer in New York Rangers history, today passed away at the age of 80, just twelve days following the death of fellow 1972 Summit Series teammate Tony Esposito.
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๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Sunday, 22 August 2021
So, we meet again! The defending champion U.S. blanked 2019 Silver medalist Finland 3-0 in Sundayโs late game at Calgaryโs WinSport Arena.
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๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Friday, 20 August 2021
With a dazzling 55-save performance, Swiss goalie Andrea Brรคndli made sure it wasn’t a cakewalk for the U.S. on Day One. The defending champions had to work hard for their 3-0 victory over Switzerland in the third game at Calgaryโs WinSport Arena.
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Swedish goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, a Gold Medal winner at both the Olympics and World Championship, and the sixth winningest goaltender in NHL history after an illustrious 15-year career with the New York Rangers, today officially retired from hockey at age 39, after missing the 2020-21 NHL campaign after undergoing open heart surgery.
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Following an eighteen month delay of no major international women’s hockey thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw one World Championships cancelled and another delayed, the puck is finally set to drop on the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the twentieth edition of the tournament, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, bringing the world’s top ten women’s nations in their first major competition since early 2020.
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๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ
Exhibition Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The U.S. Womenโs National Team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee 6-0 in its lone pre-tournament matchup ahead of the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation Womenโs World Championship at WinSport Arena this afternoon.
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The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, returning to the nation for the first time since Helsinki hosted consecutively in 2012-13.
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Anthony “Tony O” Esposito, the legendary Chicago Black Hawks goaltender who was a three-time Vezina Trophy winner, and one of the backstops in Canada’s historic 1972 Summit Series, today died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 78. Continue reading
Belarusian forward Alexander Kulakov, a mainstay of both the Minsk and national hockey scenes for over two decades, today announced his retirement from pro hockey at the age of 38.
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Swedish journeyman goaltender Anders Nilsson, a former World Champion with playing stints in Sweden, Russia, the United States and Canada, today announced his retirement from hockey at age 31, ending his career over recurring issues suffered from post-concussion syndrome and neck injuries.
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Swedish stay-at-home defender Niklas Hjalmarsson, one of the best defensive defencemen of the modern era, a three-time Stanley Cup champion and Olympic Silver medalist for Sweden, today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 34.
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