After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Bulgaria last October, three rounds of play and 28 teams competing for just three spots in PyeongChang, the final slots were today locked up by Norway, Slovenia and Germany for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 28 Aug 2016
🇷🇺 Russia 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Václava Nedomanského, Hodonín 🇨🇿
Sunday, 28 August 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:51 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vainio, holding
06:57 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kudryavtsev, tripping
07:05 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koivula, hooking
11:25 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Chebykin, interference
13:32 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koppanen, hooking
18:56 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Leskinen, holding
19:59 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Al. Volkov (Vorobyov, Rykov)
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 27 Aug 2016
🇷🇺 Russia 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Václava Nedomanského, Hodonín 🇨🇿
Saturday, 27 August 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:12 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hronek, hooking
06:40 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kostin, kneeing
06:57 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Fazylzyanov, roughing
08:20 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Koblížek, roughing
09:15 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Li, high sticking
09:39 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Chmykhov, high sticking
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 26 Aug 2016
🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Václava Nedomanského, Hodonín 🇨🇿
Friday, 26 August 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:28 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kaprizov (Polunin)
00:50 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zaitsev, hooking
03:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Li (Chebykin, Belyayev)
03:05 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Volkov, tripping
06:27 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Li, hooking
18:01 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kvartalnov (Kudako, Volkov)
19:18 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Wahlgren, holding
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🇫🇮 Jere Karalahti Retires After 23 Pro Seasons
Finnish power defender Jere Karalahti today announced his retirement from the Swedish club HV71, ending a sometimes tumultuous career in the NHL, KHL, and Finnish, Swedish and German premier leagues at the age of 41.
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2017 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2017 World Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany, with defending champions Canada opening the tournament against Czechia, while hosts Germany open the tournament against the United States on opening day, and France hosts Norway on day two.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 06 Aug 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 06 August 2016
Joel Eriksson-Ek scored the decisive shootout winning goal as Sweden topped Finland, 3-2, in the day’s earlier tilt at the 2016 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Aug 2016
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
National Junior Evaluation Camp
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 August 2016
Erik Foley scored for the second straight game, but the U.S. fell to Finland, 2-1 here tonight at the 2016 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 03 Aug 2016
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 03 August 2016
In the day’s first matchup at the 2016 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan, Finland came from behind to defeat Canada, 2-1, in overtime from a goal by Arttu Ruostalainen.
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🇨🇦 Brad Richards Retires After 16 Year Pro Career
Nearly one month after his former Tampa Bay and Team Canada teammate Vincent Lecavalier retired from pro hockey, power forward Brad Richards today announced his NHL career would conclude after spending his final season in Detroit.
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🇫🇮 Ossi Väänänen Retires From Jokerit
Finnish defender Ossi Väänänen today announced his formal retirement from Jokerit at the age of 35, ending his career with the same team he started his career with 18 years earlier, which included stops in the NHL, Liiga, SHL and KHL.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Shocks The World
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 American Independence Day, we look back at the final tilt between Team USA and Canada at the 1996 World Cup Of Hockey, where the Americans won their first ever “best on best” world title.
🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Cup Of Hockey Final, Game 3
Centre Molson, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 14 September 1996
By 1996, the United States had replaced the Soviet Union / Russia as Canada’s principle international rivalry. In part this was because the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 had rendered the Russians more vulnerable and not as dominant. In part, the rivalry had been as political as it was sporting, so without the cloak of the Iron Curtain, the two countries weren’t nemeses any more.
And, in part, it was because of the emergence of the U.S. as a true hockey power. Canada had defeated the Americans — not the Soviets — in the 1991 Canada Cup, and the core American players from that team were now in their prime in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Canada’s Gold Drought Ends
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 Canada Day, we look back at the end of Canada’s Olympic Gold Medal drought in 2002, where 50 years of futility was put to rest in Salt Lake City.
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Sunday, 24 February 2002
After the great disappointment of Nagano, when Canada failed to win a medal despite a tremendous lineup and Gold medal expectations, Canada was leaving nothing to chance four years later. Wayne Gretzky, who was not selected in the shootout against the Czechs in 1998, had retired and been named Canada’s general manager, and he surrounded himself with a roster of executives unlike anything in Canada’s hockey history.
Collectively, they chose the 20 skaters and three goalies who would try to bring their country Olympic glory for the first time since 1952.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces 2016 Class
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2016 on 14 November, with Eric Lindros, Sergei Makarov, Rogatien Vachon and Pat Quinn getting the call, bringing their professional and international accolades (along with their International Hockey Lineal Championship reigns) to the famed Hall in Toronto.
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IHLC Winners Win Big At 2016 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League handed out its hardware to the best players in the world Wednesday night in the newest NHL city, Las Vegas, with ten IHLC holders representing four countries taking home trophies.
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🇨🇦 Vincent Lecavalier Formally Announces Retirement From Kings
Making good on his announcement at the start of the 2015-16 NHL season, Vincent Lecavalier today announced his retirement from professional hockey, his 17 year NHL career concluding with the Los Angeles Kings’ first round playoff exit.
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Penguins Capture Stanley Cup With IHLC Support
They may not have been able to take the title on home ice for the first time in franchise history, but the Pittsburgh Penguins capitalized on the heroics of Kris Letang and Matt Murray to capture their fourth Stanley Cup title from the San Jose Sharks in six games.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: The 1981 Canada Cup Final
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 Russia Day (and of the upcoming World Cup of Hockey), we look back at the Soviet Union’s convincing victory at the 1981 Canada Cup, their first (and so far only) title in the tournament.
🇷🇺 Soviet Union 8-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Canada Cup Final
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Sunday, 13 September 1981
The 1981 Canada Cup was all about momentum. It was the second edition of the event started five years earlier, and Canada was the prohibitive favourite. There was one significant difference, though. In 1976, the Soviet Union had sent an “experimental” team, not fully knowing the level of competition it would face and worried some of its top players might try to defect. The result was a performance not befitting the country that had claimed World Championship and Olympic gold many times over.
In 1981, it would make no such mistake.
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🇨🇦 Gordie Howe: 1928-2016
Former NHL and WHL legend, Hall of Famer, and the man known as “Mr. Hockey,” Gordie Howe, has died at his son’s home in Ohio, following a strenuous few years of debilitating strokes and stem cell treatments. He was 88 years old.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Sweden’s First Olympic Title
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 National Day (“Sveriges Nationaldag”) in Sweden, we look back at Sweden’s first Olympic Gold Medal, capped off by Peter Forsberg’s legendary shootout winner over Canada.
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Håkons Hall, Lillehammer 🇳🇴
Sunday, 27 February 1994
In Sweden, this is one of the most replayed sports highlights on television. Peter Forsberg was only 20 years old when he pulled the most daring move on Canada’s goaltender Corey Hirsch in the Olympic gold medal game in Lillehammer in 1994. A classic sports moment which became immortalized on a stamp.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 