A trio of star players for the Canadian women’s team announced today they are all retiring, with forwards Jayna Hefford and Gillian Apps, along with defender Catherine Ward, hanging up their skates for the 2015-16 season.
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2016 World Cup Of Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey leaked today, confirming the already reported Group structure from earlier this year, along with the full tally of games in Toronto next fall to crown the newest World Cup of Hockey global champion.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 30 Aug 2015
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Sunday, 30 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:52 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ottosson, interference
04:32 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Andres (Gřeš)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 29 Aug 2015
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Saturday, 29 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jašek (Kaše)
12:40 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Ordoš
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 28 Aug 2015
🇷🇺 Russia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Friday, 28 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:07 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Afonasyevski (Protapovich)
07:54 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Grundström (Ottosson)
17:54 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Davidsson (Kylington, Dahlström)
19:54 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Grundström, roughing
19:54 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Nazarkin, slashing
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🇷🇺 Russia Fined For World Championship Walkout
After storming off the ice shortly after their World Championship Gold Medal loss to Canada, skipping the flag raising and the Canadian national anthem, the Russian national team was today fined 80,000 Swiss francs by the IIHF for the infraction.
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🇸🇪 Rundqvist Retires From Damkronorna
Danijela Rundqvist, a mainstay on the Swedish women’s national hockey team for over a decade, has decided to hang up her skates following a solid career with the Damkronorna, retiring with a handful of international medals in-hand.
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🇨🇦 Daniel Brière Retires After 17 Year NHL Career
Daniel Brière, known among hockey fans for for his speed, versatility and legendary clutch playoff performances, today announced his retirement from professional hockey after 17 NHL seasons, along with stops in the German and Swiss pro leagues, and a flawless record suiting up for Team Canada.
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🇺🇸 Molly Schaus Retires From Blades, USWNT
Molly Schaus, a mainstay both in the Massachusetts women’s hockey scene and in net for Team USA, today announced her retirement from professional hockey, following an illustrious career at the peak of the American women’s team’s rise to prominence.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Aug 2015
🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 05 August 2015
Canada fell to Russia 3-2 in a hard-fought shootout Wednesday night in the penultimate game of Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 04 Aug 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
2015 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medallists Brayden Point and Jake Virtanen put on a show at the Markin MacPhail Centre on Tuesday, combining for eight points in a 7-1 Canadian win; Point had five points and Virtanen added three.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 03 Aug 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Russia 🇷🇺
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Monday, 03 August 2015
A goal from Joe Hicketts in the first minute of the second period stood up as the winner as Canada topped Russia 4-1 in the opening game of the Sport Chek World Junior Showcase on Monday night.
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🇨🇳 Beijing Announced As Host Of 2022 Winter Olympics
After a two-city race between Asian powers to host the XXIV Olympiad, it was today announced in Kuala Lumpur that Beijing, China will host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, after defeating Almaty, Kazakhstan by a vote of 44-40.
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🇨🇿 Martin Ručinský Retires After 27 Pro Seasons
After nearly thirty years in professional hockey, journeying through clubs across North America and Europe, Czech mainstay winger Martin Ručinský has announced his retirement at the age of 44, ending his career with three World Championships and one Olympic title.
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2016 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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🇫🇮 Wrist Injury Forces Sami Salo To Retire At Age 40
After a nagging wrist injury forced him to sit out the entire 2014-15 NHL season, Sami Salo today officially announced his NHL retirement, after a 15 year NHL career with Ottawa, Vancouver and Tampa Bay, along with stints with Turku, Jokerit and Frölunda in Scandinavia.
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🇸🇰 Mutiny In Slovak Hockey Association Over Nemeček Reelection
Following what many saw as a controversial reelection of Igor Nemeček as the head of the Slovak Ice Hockey Association (SZHL), a number of prominent Slovakian players have pledged to boycott the national team under Nemeček’s leadership.
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Euro Hockey Tour Schedule Released, Format Same As 2014-15
After a new format for the Euro Hockey Tour was unveiled last season, eliminating the Oddset and Czech Hockey Games and replacing the second half of the tournament with a round-robin format between Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia, the tournament details have been confirmed to follow the same format for 2015-16.
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2015 Four Nations Cup Details Released
As per the Swedish Hockey Federation, details around the 2015 Four Nations Cup have finally been revealed, including news that Sweden, the host nation for the 2015 World Championships, will also host the annual tournament in November, in and around the city of Sundsvall.
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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The Forgotten Miracle
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 the United States’ 239th birthday, we look back at the first ever American Olympic Gold Medal in ice hockey, the original “Miracle on Ice” against the more powerful Soviet Union.
🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Olympic Medal Round
Blyth Memorial Ice Arena, Olympic Valley 🇺🇸
Saturday, 27 February 1960
There was no colour television coverage, no announcer using a catch-phrase like “miracle on ice,” no celebration of the extraordinary over and above a remarkable gold medal. But make no mistake—when the United States won Olympic gold in 1960 in Olympic Valley, California, it was a much greater miracle than the one that occurred in Lake Placid 20 years later. In 1980, it was one game—a 4-3 win over the Soviet Union—that defined the American victory. In 1960, the U.S. had to defeat the top four teams in the world to win gold.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 