IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 10-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 10-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Goyang Ice Rink, Goyang 🇰🇷
Sunday, 04 February 2018

Blayre Turnbull, Natalie Spooner and Brigette Lacquette scored two goals apiece, pacing Canada’s Women’s Olympic Team to a 10-0 win over Switzerland on Sunday in its final pre-tournament game ahead of the PyeongChang Games.
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🇺🇸 Jim Johannson: 1964-2018


Jim Johannson, the ex-Team USA player who joined USA Hockey in 2000 and became General Manager for all American men’s teams in international competition in 2007, died suddenly last night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just a few weeks shy of the 2018 Olympics.
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🇰🇷 🇰🇵 IOC, IIHF Announce Historic Joint Korean Women’s Olympic Hockey Team


After days of rumour and speculation, the International Olympic Committee, in tandem with the International Ice Hockey Federation, today confirmed that the Korean Olympic women’s hockey team will feature players from both Koreas at the upcoming PyeongChang Games.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 05 Jan 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 January 2018

Tyler Steenbergen scored the biggest goal of his life, and Canada won the Gold medal by defeating Sweden 3-1.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Jan 2018


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Semifinal
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Thursday, 04 January 2018

Sweden scored shorthanded twice in 38 seconds in a 4-2 semi-final win over the defending champion U.S. to advance to Friday’s World Junior Gold medal game. Sweden will face the winner of the CanadaCzech Republic semi-final in the final.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺 – 02 Jan 2018


🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 02 January 2018

Kieffer Bellows scored a Production Line-type goal to break a 2-2 tie midway through the third, putting the U.S. in the semis. Russia goes home in 5th place.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Junior


The International Hockey Lineal Championship stayed with Team USA for the majority of 2017, with the 2017 World Junior champions holding the IHLC for eight of a possible twelve games in 2017, including carrying the title into the medal round of the current 2018 tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Finland 🇫🇮 – 31 Dec 2017


🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Sunday, 31 December 2017

Adam Fox broke a 4-4 tie with a goal at 18:23 of the third period to give the United States a dramatic 5-4 win over Finland. The U.S. led at one point, 3-0.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Men’s


The International Hockey Lineal Championship increased the number of champions yet again from a previous year, with eight different countries holding the title over 28 games in the lead-up to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 30 Dec 2017


🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Saturday, 30 December 2017

Aleksi Heponiemi got the third-period winner as Finland temporarily passed the U.S. for second place in Group A with a hard-working 5-2 win over Slovakia.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Women’s


The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw its usual see-saw between Canada and the United States on the women’s side, trading back and forth over a 15-game span in 2017, with both teams working to build momentum for the upcoming Olympics in PyeongChang.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 28 Dec 2017


🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Thursday, 28 December 2017

Slovakia’s Samuel Buček put on a one-man show to score the winning goal at 17:52 of the third to give his nation an unexpected 3-2 win over the U.S.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 26 Dec 2017


🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 26 December 2017

The defending champion U.S. got five first-period goals and never looked back in a 9-0 demolition of Denmark to start the 2018 World Juniors on Tuesday.
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🇷🇺 Russian Female Players Banned From Olympics For Life Due To Doping (UPDATED)


After the IOC’s landmark decision to ban Russia outright from the 2018 Olympics, but still allow individual athletes to compete under the Olympic flag if they pass IOC drug tests, the IOC today announced that members of Russia’s women’s team at the 2014 Sochi Games failed their tests, and are thus banned for life from the Olympics.
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🇫🇮 Niklas Hagman Retires After 20 Professional Seasons


Finnish winger Niklas Hagman today announced his retirement from professional hockey at age 38, ending a 20 year career spent in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Russia and his native Finland, where he spent his last four seasons.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 17 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 17 December 2017

Jennifer Wakefield scored with 26 seconds to play in overtime as Canada’s National Women’s Team defeated the United States 2-1 to close out the teams’ six-game pre-Olympic series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 17 Dec 2017


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 17 December 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:50 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Mertl, holding
12:18 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Mozík (Vondrka, Kovář)
14:37 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Stålberg, holding
15:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Řepík (Mozík, Vondrka)
18:22 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
SAP Center At San Jose, San Jose 🇺🇸
Friday, 15 December 2017

Haley Irwin, Sarah Nurse and Marie-Philip Poulin scored as Canada’s National Women’s Team beat the United States 3-1 to pick up its fourth straight win of the pre-Olympic series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Dec 2017


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 15 December 2017

Matt Ellison opened the scoring on a second-period power play, but Canada’s National Men’s Team dropped a 4-1 decision to the Czech Republic on Friday at the 2017 Channel One Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 13 Dec 2017


🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Channel One Cup
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Wednesday, 13 December 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Koukal, tripping
04:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koskiranta, tripping
05:45 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Manninen
18:42 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kundrátek, holding
19:09 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Kemppainen (Junttila)
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