🇫🇮 Finland Wins 2018 Euro Hockey Tour & Challenge

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For just the second time in history, the same nation has captured both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge titles, with Finland today edging out Sweden to lock up the 2017-18 Tour, becoming the second team after Czechia in 2012 to achieve the double.
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🇬🇧 🇮🇹 Great Britain, Italy Promoted To 2019 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament saw one expected and one very surprising participant both qualify for the 2019 World Championship top division in Slovakia, with Italy returning after a one-year absence, while Great Britain returns after a quarter century absence.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇷 France 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 28 Apr 2018

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🇫🇷 France 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Euro Hockey Challenge
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Saturday, 28 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:08 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Ďaloga (Bakoš)
15:48 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Rech (Lampérier)
17:58 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Treille, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-0 France 🇫🇷 – 27 Apr 2018

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-0 France 🇫🇷
Euro Hockey Challenge
Nitra Aréna, Nitra 🇸🇰
Friday, 27 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:34 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Chakiachvili, hooking
05:38 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Haščák (Mikúš, Sekera)
09:58 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Marcinko, slashing
18:40 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Manavian, interference
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Ak Bars Kazan Wins Historic Third Gagarin Cup With 16 IHLC Winners

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Ak Bars Kazan made KHL history on home ice, upending the expected champion CSKA Moscow in only five games to win the 2018 Gagarin Cup, becoming the first team in the league’s decade-long history to win three titles (2008, 2009, 2018).
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🇰🇷 South Korea Becomes First New Men’s IHLC Contender In 15 Years

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In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, Slovakia’s IHLC win over Latvia today confirmed their next opponent will be South Korea (Korea Republic), making the Koreans the first new team in 15 years to contend for the IHLC.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 21 Apr 2018

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
Euro Hockey Challenge
Zimný štadión mesta Poprad, Poprad 🇸🇰
Saturday, 21 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:25 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Fehérváry (Graňák, Paulovič)
14:52 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Svitana, tripping
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 20 Apr 2018

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
Euro Hockey Challenge
Zimný štadión Michalovce, Michalovce 🇸🇰
Friday, 20 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:50 – 🇱🇻 PEN – Jevpalovs, hooking
07:02 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Hovorka, boarding
07:48 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Bondra, high sticking
14:13 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Bakoš (Miklík, Hovorka)
16:37 – 🇱🇻 PEN – Ševčenko, interference
17:42 – 🇱🇻 PEN – Balinskis, high sticking
18:43 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Miklík (Kudrna, Čajkovský)
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 15 Apr 2018

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
EnergieVerbund Arena, Dresden 🇩🇪
Sunday, 15 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:40 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Müller (Pietta, Wagner)
09:56 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Höfflin, roughing
13:22 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Šimun (Ďaloga, Nagy)
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪 (SO) – 14 Apr 2018

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪 (SO)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Eisstadion Weisswasser, Weisswasser 🇩🇪
Saturday, 14 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:09 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Čajkovský, elbowing
18:54 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Uvira, cross checking
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🇫🇷 France Clinches Final Spot In 2019 World Women’s Championships

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France’s women’s hockey team has made history in the Alps commune of Vaujany, as they became the tenth and final team to clinch a spot at the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship, becoming the first team to join the Top Division since the tournament expanded to ten teams in 2017.
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🇨🇦 Ken Hitchcock Retires After 30+ Year Coaching Career

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Longtime NHL coach Ken Hitchcock, who spent over three decades coaching many of the world’s top players on both the professional and international stage, announced his retirement from coaching the Dallas Stars on Friday, ending his career as the third winningest coach in NHL history (823 wins).
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🇨🇿 Florida Panthers Confirm Radim Vrbata’s Retirement

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The Florida Panthers confirmed that Czech forward Radim Vrbata would sit out the Panthers’ season finale in Boston, putting his 17 season career to an end, with stops in Colorado, Carolina, Chicago, Phoenix, Tampa Bay, Vancouver and Florida, along with stints with Liberec and Mladá Boleslav of his native Czech league.
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🇸🇪 Sedin Twins Announce Dual Retirement After 18 NHL Seasons

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Swedish twin forwards Henrik and Daniel Sedin, proverbially joined at the hip for nearly two decades both with the Vancouver Canucks and Tre Kronor, formally ended their career tonight with the Canucks in Edmonton, closing out a historic 18-season NHL career spent side by side.
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🇨🇦 Patrick Sharp Announces Retirement From Blackhawks

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Canadian winger Patrick Sharp announced his sudden retirement from the NHL just prior to his Chicago Blackhawks’ final game of the 2017-18 season, capping his illustrious sixteen season career with three teams, three Stanley Cups, and an Olympic Gold Medal.
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IHLC Results – 🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 07 Apr 2018

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🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 07 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:33 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Höfflin, tripping
03:41 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Khokhlachyov (Kagarlitski, Semyonov)
06:23 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Semyonov, high sticking
06:58 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Sezemsky, tripping
07:23 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Michaelis (Bender, Nowak)
13:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vereshagin, tripping
18:04 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Loibl, tripping
18:59 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Nowak, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 06 Apr 2018

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🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Friday, 06 April 2018

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:47 – 🇩🇪 PEN – team, too many players
09:11 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Ilyenko (Padakin)
19:32 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Wagner, kneeing
19:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kraskovski, roughing
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🇩🇪 Christian Ehrhoff Retires After Twenty Season Career

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Christian Ehrhoff, fresh off a shocking German silver medal win at the PyeongChang Olympics, has decided to retire from hockey at the age of 35, following Kölner Haie’s elimination from the Deutsche Eishockey Liga playoffs, capping a 20 season career split between the NHL and Germany.
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