IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 31 Dec 2016


🇸🇪 Sweden
 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2016

Jonathan Dahlén starred with a hat trick as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to complete a perfect round-robin. Goalie Filip Gustavsson debuted with a win.
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IHLC 2016 In Review – Men’s

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The International Hockey Lineal Championship doubled up on champions in 2016, with six different nations taking hold of the IHLC over a span of 23 games, leaving an unlikely country the incumbent champion heading into 2017.
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IHLC 2016 In Review – Women’s

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Unlike 2015, which was “the year of Team USA” in women’s hockey, there was a little more parity in the later months of 2016, with Canada finally striking multiple blows to Team USA’s dominance, ultimately ending the calendar year with the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Dec 2016


🇸🇪 Sweden
 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2016

Finland’s dreams of repeating as champs are fading, while Sweden is dialled in so far. With a 3-1 win over Finland, the Swedes wrapped up first place in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2016


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Sweden beat Switzerland 4-2 for its second straight Bell Centre win on Wednesday. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek scored twice, including the third-period winner.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 26 Dec 2016


🇸🇪 Sweden
 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2016

The opening game of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was a smashing success for Sweden, which beat Denmark 6-1 at Montréal’s Bell Centre on Boxing Day.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 19 Dec 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Progressive Auto Sales Arena, Sarnia 🇨🇦
Monday, 19 December 2016

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored 52 seconds into overtime to give Canada’s National Women’s Team a 3-2 win over the United States and a sweep of the inaugural two-game December Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Dec 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 17 December 2016

Rebecca Johnston scored a hat trick as Canada’s National Women’s Team erased a two-goal deficit to defeat the United States 5-3 in Game 1 of the December Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-1 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 17 Dec 2016

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-1 Belarus 🇧🇾
Swiss Challenge Gold Medal Game
Tissot Arena, Biel 🇨🇭
Saturday, 17 December 2016

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:56 – 🇧🇾 PEN – Parfeyevets, tripping
04:57 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Sciaroni (Froidevaux)
10:29 – 🇧🇾 GOAL – Denisov
11:25 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Hollenstein (Praplan)
13:52 – 🇧🇾 PEN – Graborenko, interference
18:55 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Geering (Baltisberger)
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IHLC Results – 🇧🇾 Belarus 7-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 16 Dec 2016

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🇧🇾 Belarus 7-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Swiss Challenge Semifinal
Tissot Arena, Biel 🇨🇭
Friday, 16 December 2016

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:47 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Kudrna (Gernát)
08:37 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Dravecký, boarding
13:37 –
🇧🇾 GOAL – Denisov (Volkov)
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🇫🇮 🇸🇪 IHLC Classics: “Tupu, Hupu & Lupu” Golden For Finland

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 Finnish Independence Day, we look back at the 1995 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the long overdue first title for the Leijonat, over their Swedish rivals on Swedish ice.

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🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 07 May 1995

Finally, Finland wins the IIHF World Championship for the first time. And the victory couldn’t have been sweeter. They won the gold medal game against their fiercest rival Sweden, in Sweden and with a Swedish head coach. To really rub it in, the Finnish team celebrated the win in downtown Stockholm, this while also “stealing” the Swedish tune designated for a home-team victory.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 06 Nov 2016

🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Sunday, 06 November 2016

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Alexeyev, holding
06:16 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Chebykin, interference
06:29 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Andersson (Bernhardt, Pettersson)
06:48 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Shvyryov (Veryayev)
07:44 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Brännström, hooking
10:03 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Pettersson (Andersson, Grundström)
16:32 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Karlström, high sticking
16:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Voronkov, roughing
16:32 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ohlsson, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 05 Nov 2016

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🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Four Nations Cup Gold Medal Game
Järvenpää Arena, Järvenpää 🇫🇮
Saturday, 05 November 2016

Brianna Decker tallied three points (one goal, two assists) and Hilary Knight added two goals to help the U.S. Women’s National Team defeat Canada, 5-3, and claim its seventh Four Nations Cup Championship. Nine players had at least one point in the victory.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Nov 2016

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Deutschland Cup
Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, Augsburg 🇩🇪
Saturday, 05 November 2016

Kevin Clark and Greg Scott contributed a goal and an assist each, but Canada’s National Men’s Team ended up on the wrong end of a 4-3 shootout decision against Slovakia on Saturday at the 2016 Deutschland Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Nov 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Vierumäki Ice Arena, Vierumäki 🇫🇮
Friday, 04 November 2016

Haley Irwin’s power play goal six minutes into the third period lifted Canada’s National Women’s Team to a 3-2 win over the United States at the 2016 Four Nations Cup on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO) – 04 Nov 2016

🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 04 November 2016

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:48 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Parikka, hooking
09:57 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Salo, high sticking
16:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vesalainen, high sticking
19:37 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ruotsalainen, cross checking
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