🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team Vows Boycott Of World Championship, USA Hockey Responds

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In a shocking development less than a month before the 2017 Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, the U.S. women’s national team today announced, in solidarity, that they will sit out the Worlds in protest of a lack of support from USA Hockey, the culmination of a year’s worth of legal proceedings with the American hockey body.
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🇨🇭 🇯🇵 Switzerland And Japan Clinch Final Olympic Qualifying Spots

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After nearly half a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Mexico last October, four rounds of play and 22 teams competing for a mere two spots in PyeongChang, the final qualification spots were today clinched by Japan and Switzerland for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 11 Feb 2017

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Slovakia Cup Gold Medal Game
Nitra Aréna, Nitra 🇸🇰
Saturday, 11 February 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:27 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Riat (Sutter, Zangger)
04:43 – 🇨🇭 PEN – P. Baltisberger, slashing
06:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Paschoud, hooking
08:49 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Sutter (Leone, Senteler)
15:21 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Macík, charging
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 10 Feb 2017

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Belarus 🇧🇾
Slovakia Cup Semifinal
Nitra Aréna, Nitra 🇸🇰
Friday, 10 February 2017

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Riat (Zangger)
06:24 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Guerra, high sticking
13:14 – 🇧🇾 PEN – Levsha, high sticking
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2017 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed

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After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2017 Inductees

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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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🇨🇦 Hayley Wickenheiser Retires After Illustrious 23 Year Career

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The most decorated player in women’s hockey history today announced her retirement from professional hockey, with Hayley Wickenheiser stepping down from the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno and Team Canada, which she joined in 1994 at the age of 15.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Jan 2017

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🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2017

Troy Terry has done it again. He was the only scorer of ten shootout shooters tonight, giving the USA the Gold medal in an incredible 5-4 win over Canada.
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NHL Outdoor Classics Feature Top IHLC Winners

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Many of the top players in the game took their talents outside this past weekend, with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings highlighting the inaugural Centennial Classic on 01 January, followed a day later with the St. Louis Blues hosting the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2017 Winter Classic.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2017

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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2017

Sweden took a 3-0 first-period lead and pounded Slovakia 8-3 in the early Montréal quarter-final. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek and Tim Söderlund each scored twice.
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