The biggest day of the year in women’s club hockey has come and gone, with the Clarkson and Isobel Cups being awarded and two Canadian defenders joining the unofficial women’s Triple Gold Club.
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🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk Joins Triple Gold Club
The only male skater eligible to join at this year’s Games, Pavel Datsyuk punched his ticket to the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his Olympic Gold with the Olympic Athletes From Russia, becoming the 29th male and seventh Russian to join the club, adding to his two Stanley Cups and IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT) – 25 Feb 2018
🇷🇺 Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Kirill Kaprizov’s overtime goal gave the OAR team a thrilling 4-3 Gold medal win over underdog Germany. It’s the first Russian Olympic Gold since 1992.
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IHLC Results – 🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 23 Feb 2018
🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Semifinal
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Friday, 23 February 2018
Germany has defeated Canada for the first time in Olympic hockey history after suffering 15 straight losses dating back to 1932 (including East and West).
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🇺🇸 Set Of Six U.S. Women’s Players Join Triple Gold Club
By virtue of the United States’ first Olympic Gold medal in 20 years, six new skaters from Team USA have joined the women’s version of the Triple Gold Club, all adding Olympic Gold to their World Championship Gold and Clarkson Cup titles.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 22 Feb 2018
🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Thursday, 22 February 2018
After 80 minutes of end-to-end action, the women’s Olympic Gold medal was decided by a shootout. And even that went to overtime before the U.S. won, 3-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 21 Feb 2018
🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Olympic Quarterfinal
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Sweden rallies from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits but loses in overtime. The loss is the greatest upset in Olympic hockey since 2002 when Belarus beat Sweden, also 4-3.
Patirck Reimer drove hard to the goal, skated around three Swedes in the process, and banged his own rebound past goalie Viktor Fasth just 90 seconds into a 10-minute four-on-four overtime to give Germany an improbable 4-3 victory over Sweden.
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IIHF Confirms 2022 Olympic Women’s Tournament Expanding To Ten Teams
Following a similar mandate made for the IIHF Women’s World Championships last year, the IIHF today confirmed that the 2022 Olympic women’s tournament in Beijing, China, will expand to ten teams, in order to accommodate both the host country and a new contender in an ever-increasing talent pool in international women’s hockey.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 19 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Semifinal
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Monday, 19 February 2018
As expected, Canada exactly matched what the Americans did earlier today, defeating their semi-finals opponent 5-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 18 Feb 2018
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Patrik Zackrisson’s goal midway through the third broke a 1-1 tie and gave Tre Kronor a key victory over Finland.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Norway 🇳🇴 – 16 Feb 2018
🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Norway 🇳🇴
Olympic Preliminary Round
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Friday, 16 February 2018
Norway struck first through Patrick Thoresen, but Eeli Tolvanen sparked a revival as Finland collected its second win in Gangneung.
Eeli Tolvanen scored twice to help Finland overcome an early deficit and ease to a 5-1 victory against its Nordic neighbour.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Geneviève Lacasse stoned the top scorers of the U.S. this afternoon to lead Canada to an inspired 2-1 win and claim top spot in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪 – 15 Feb 2018
🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪
Olympic Preliminary Round
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Eeli Tolvanen, an 18-year-old Olympic rookie, made a splashy debut with a goal and three assists as Finland beat Germany 5-2 to kick off Group C on Thursday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 13 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Remembering last year’s loss at the Women’s Worlds, Canada came out firing on all cylinders and took advantage of some weak defence by the Finns, winning 4-1.
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IHLC Preview – 2018 Winter Olympics (Men’s)
A drastically looking different Olympic tournament, without NHL superstars present for the first time in twenty years, will make the Olympic tournament in PyeongChang a historic one, not just for which players will not be there, but to determine who is most likely to capture Gold in light of these NHL players missing.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 11 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Team Canada began its quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold with a speedy 5-0 win over the Olympic Athletes From Russia.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 11 Feb 2018
🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Anyang Ice Arena, Anyang 🇰🇷
Sunday, 11 February 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:18 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Manninen, slashing
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Canada’s Olympic Revenge
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 the upcoming Olympics, we feature the first of Canada’s four consecutive Gold Medal victories, the thrilling showdown against the United States at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Thursday, 21 February 2002
For more than a week, they bore their opponents’ taunts with smiles and silence. They talked instead about how much they respected the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team. They said nothing about the little things that were being done to irritate and belittle them; little things such as having their photographs at the athletes village scribbled on and autographed by the American players.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Gold For A Team With No Name
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 the upcoming Olympics, and in light of Russia playing under the Olympic flag, we look back on the last Russian team to play under the same flag at the 1992 Albertville Games.
🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 23 February 1992
The days of the Soviet hockey superiority were over. Even the Soviet Union as a country had ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, when the USSR dissolved and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
During the 1992 IIHF World U20 Championship in Germany, the Soviet team had to change its name from Soviet Union to CIS midway through the tournament, on 01 January 1992.
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IHLC Preview – 2018 Winter Olympics (Women’s)
The sixth ever women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Saturday, with an anticipated showdown between Canada and the United States set to highlight the Gold Medal Match for the fifth time.
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