Looking to repeat the magic of the 2015 midseason classic in Nashville, today the National Hockey League announced the 11-man rosters for all four divisions in the 2017 NHL All-Star Game 3-on-3 tournament, taking place in Los Angeles on 29 January.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Jan 2017
🇺🇸 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 04 Jan 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Canada rallied from a shaky start and deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 to defeat Sweden, 5-2.
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NHL Outdoor Classics Feature Top IHLC Winners
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
🇸🇪 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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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
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
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
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇭 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
🇧🇾 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.
🇫🇮 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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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2016
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2016 Class, inducting four world-class players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇸🇰 Marek Svatoš: 1982-2016
Slovak winger Marek Svatoš, a former standout winger with the Colorado Avalanche, was today reported dead at the age of 34 in Lone Tree, Colorado, with details still emerging regarding the circumstances of this tragedy.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 06 Nov 2016
🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Deutschland Cup
Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, Augsburg 🇩🇪
Sunday, 06 November 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:51 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Dravecký, tripping
15:17 – 🇸🇰 SH GOAL – Cingel (Gernát)
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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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