🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship


On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷 – 17 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 17 May 2025

Sweden kept rolling along this afternoon at a loud and sold out Avicii Arena, skating to a dominant 4-0 win over France and maintaining a perfect record, now 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 16 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 16 May 2025

Sweden fired puck after puck at Slovenian goalie Lukáš Horák, but try as he might he couldn’t prevent Tre Kronor from skating away with a convincing 4-0 win tonight at Avicii Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 14 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 14 May 2025

What was expected to be one of the loudest games of the entire tournament was certainly wildly entertaining.

While the Latvian fans can claim a win in the stands, on the ice, it was the home team that bagged the victory, as Sweden beat Latvia 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Monday, 12 May 2025

Playing near flawless hockey, Tre Kronor skated to an impressive 2-1 victory over Finland tonight at Avicii Arena in what was a very much one-sided game.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹 – 10 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 10 May 2025

Austria was so close to getting their own “Miracle on Ice,” but Sweden scored twice within 12 seconds with less than three minutes remaining and added an empty-netter to win the game 4-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 09 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 09 May 2025

Sweden opened its IIHF World Championship with an impressive 5-0 win over Slovakia tonight at a jam-packed, yellow-sweater wearing, sold-out crowd at Avicii Arena. The victors scored three goals in the first period and never looked back.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Sunday, 04 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:28 –
🇫🇮 GOAL – Ruohomaa (Saarijärvi, Erholtz)
08:38 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sörensen (Heed, Edvinsson)
13:11 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Steen, hooking
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship


The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland locked up on the final day of competition, with Italy and Great Britain both clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Saturday, 03 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hájek, boarding
01:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – L. Carlsson (Zibanejad, Andersson)
05:04 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kučeřík, delay of game
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Larsson, tripping
16:16 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Beránek, roughing
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hartmann, roughing
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🇨🇦 Flower Out: Marc-André Fleury Retires At Age 40


The “Flower” has bloomed for the last time – after confirming his retirement at the beginning of the 2024-25 NHL season, Marc-André Fleury has officially played in his final NHL game at the age of 40, following Minnesota’s elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs, ending a remarkable 21-season career spanning stops in Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 May 2025


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Thursday, 01 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:02 –
🇨🇿 GOAL – Lauko (M. Kovařčík)
10:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Erholtz, tripping
12:20 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Puistola, holding
12:31 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Beránek (Černoch, Špaček)
12:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Chlapík
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🇫🇮 Valtteri Filppula Confirms Retirement At Age 41


Finnish forward Valtteri Filppula, the first Finn to become a member of the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his 2008 Stanley Cup, and Olympic and World Championship titles both in 2022, today confirmed his retirement following at the age of 41.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 25 Apr 2025


🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Friday, 25 April 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:50 –
🇫🇮 GOAL – Merelä (Järvinen, Pesonen)
18:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Leino, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 24 Apr 2025


🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kivikylän Areena, Rauma 🇫🇮
Thursday, 24 April 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:27 –
🇫🇮 GOAL – Merelä (Järvinen, Virtanen)
01:41 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lindberg, holding
02:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hämeenaho, high sticking
04:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
12:35 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pulli, tripping
17:05 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lindberg, kneeing
18:28 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Leppänen (Kiiskinen, Puistola)
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 20 Apr 2025


🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Sunday, 20 April 2025

In a hard-fought thriller, Tessa Janecke scored the overtime winner as the U.S. defeated arch-rival Canada 4-3 to win the Gold medal at the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship in České Budějovice.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2025


🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Saturday, 19 April 2025

A huge effort from Czechia pushed Team USA to the limit in Saturday’s first semi-final in České Budějovice. But the Americans survived the scare, cancelling out Tereza Plosová’s opening goal with efforts from Laila Edwards and Kelly Pannek to break home hearts at the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
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🇦🇹 🇩🇰 Austria, Denmark Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship


At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Shenzhen, China today, it was Austria and Denmark that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2026, to be hosted in Canada.
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