🇷🇸 🇲🇽 IIHF Cancels January 2022 Tournaments, Including Junior Division IIB & III

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Thanks to the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant across the globe, the IIHF today announced that all tournaments set to begin in January 2022 will be cancelled, including the entire Under-18 Women’s World Championship, and the two bottom Divisions in the World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Junior Championship

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After COVID-19 forced the 2021 World Junior Championship into a bubble, the tournament returns to Alberta, Canada for 2022, with Edmonton and Red Deer hosting the world’s top under-20 hockey teams in front of fans for the first time since January 2020, just before the world changed forever.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 23 Dec 2021

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🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 23 December 2021

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:17 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Simontaival (Hirvonen, Mäenpää)
04:49 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Mazur, delay of game
12:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, kneeing major + game misconduct
14:37 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Cooley, holding
17:57 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Dickinson
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NHL Withdraws From 2022 Olympics Due To COVID Postponements

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After having to cancel fifty games in the past week over protocols due to the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, the National Hockey League today officially announced that due to the material impact of these postponements on the 2021-22 season, they will be withdrawing their players from participating in the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia (OT) 🇷🇺 – 19 Dec 2021

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🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 19 December 2021

In a dramatic battle, Russia only managed to claim one point against Finland in the concluding match of the 2021 Channel One Cup in Moscow, conceding a narrow 3-2 defeat in overtime.
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🇧🇾 Belarus Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2023

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After a one-year stasis of the same ten teams in the World Junior Championship Top Division thanks to COVID-19, today Belarus punched their ticket to Russia in 2023 by emerging victorious atop Division IA in Denmark, going a perfect 5-0 in the tournament and sealing their victory with a win over Norway.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 18 Dec 2021

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🇷🇺 Russia 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Saturday, 18 December 2021

In the third match of the 2021 Channel One Cup, the senior Russian national team comfortably defeated the Czech Republic at the CSKA Arena in Moscow, emerging victorious by a score of 5-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 17 Dec 2021

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Centene Community Ice Center, Maryland Heights 🇺🇸
Friday, 17 December 2021

Marie-Philip Poulin scored at 3:31 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States on Friday night in Game 6 of the pre-Olympics women’s hockey series.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 1-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 16 Dec 2021

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🇷🇺 Russia 1-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 16 December 2021

In a tight, tense contest, Russia edged Sweden in the second match of the 2021 Channel One Cup, holding on to claim an important 1-0 victory at the CSKA Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 15 Dec 2021

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 5
Centene Community Ice Center, Maryland Heights 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Marie-Philip Poulin scored her second goal of the night in overtime as Canada edged the United States 2-1 on Wednesday in Game 5 of the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Dec 2021

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🇷🇺 Russia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

In the opening match of the 2021 Channel One Cup, Russia survived a late onslaught against Canada, emerging victorious by a score of 4-3 at the CSKA Arena in Moscow.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 23 Nov 2021

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🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 4
The Arena At TD Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 23 November 2021

The Beijing Olympics are still two months away, but the rivalry between the Canadian and American women’s hockey teams is already running high.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 21 Nov 2021

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Leon’s Centre, Kingston 🇨🇦
Sunday, 21 November 2021

The Canadian women’s hockey team squandered a two-goal lead in the third period and the United States came back to win 3-2 in overtime in the Rivalry Series on Sunday.
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🇨🇦 Dion Phaneuf Formally Announces Retirement

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Just days after fellow punishing defender Braydon Coburn announced his retirement from hockey, his counterpart Dion Phaneuf, a three-time NHL All-Star inactive for the past three seasons, today formally announced he is stepping away from the game at age 36.
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🇨🇦 🇸🇰 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2020 Following Delay

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After a sixteen-month pandemic delay, the Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their Class of 2020, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 Czechia, Denmark, Sweden Clinch Final 2022 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots

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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

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🇨🇦 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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