IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 04 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Monday, 04 May 2015

Buoyed by a three-goal performance from star forward Loui Eriksson, Sweden stayed undefeated in Group A with a 8-1 thrashing of Latvia on Monday.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Austria 🇦🇹 – 03 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 03 May 2015

Filip Forsberg scored three goals and added an assist as Sweden waltzed past Austria 6-1 in Sunday’s early game at the O2 arena. The Swedes remain undefeated.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 01 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Friday, 01 May 2015

Oliver Ekman-Larsson got the shootout winner as Sweden blew a 4-2 third-period lead but beat the Czechs 6-5 to send the host team’s fans home disappointed.
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IHLC Preview – 2015 World Championship

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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇿 Sweden Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Czechs Win Euro Hockey Challenge

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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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🇰🇿 🇭🇺 Kazakhstan, Hungary Promoted To 2016 Worlds

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After Poland failed to defeat Hungary in regulation in front of their hometown fans, Hungary clinched the second and final promotion to the 2016 World Championships in Russia, following an undefeated Kazakhstan who punched their ticket on Thursday.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺 – 24 Apr 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
Mytischi Arena, Mytischi 🇷🇺
Friday, 24 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:25 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Lindholm (Klefbom, Rask)
08:44 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Danielsson (Lander, Rahimi)
13:27 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Ekman-Larsson (Lindström)
15:22 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Plotnikov, charging
15:22 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rahimi, holding
18:05 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Petersson (Johansson)
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Euro Hockey Tour
E.ON Arena, Timrå 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:50 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Sobotka (Mozík, Birner)
17:21 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Smoleňák, slashing
18:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – team, too many players
19:14 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Andersson (Petersson, Thuresson)
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🇨🇿 🇩🇪 Czechs Promoted, Germany Relegated For Women’s Worlds

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As a result of their 3-0 win over Denmark, improving them to 4-0 at the Division I Group A tournament in Rouen, France, the Czech women’s team has secured the eighth and final spot at the 2016 Women’s World Championship next spring in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, taking the spot from the German squad that was relegated at this year’s Championship in Malmö, Sweden.
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🇸🇪 Samuel Påhlsson Retires From MODO, Tre Kronor

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Swedish defensive centre Samuel “Sammy” Påhlsson today announced his retirement from professional hockey at the age of 37, after returning to Sweden to captain his first team, MODO, capping a 20 year pro career in Boston, Anaheim, Chicago, Columbus, Vancouver, along with MODO and Frölunda of the Swedish League.
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🇨🇦 Robyn Regehr Set To Retire From NHL

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Canadian defenceman Robyn Regehr, a sixteen-year veteran of the National Hockey League, has announced he will be retiring from the Los Angeles Kings following their disappointing season, just short of his 35th birthday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 10 Apr 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Euro Hockey Challenge
Horácký Zimní Stadion, Jihlava 🇨🇿
Friday, 10 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:46 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zaťovič (Nakládal, Růžička)
07:34 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Simon (Radil, Mozík)
08:24 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Marcinko, holding
11:02 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Haščák, roughing
17:17 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Nagy, high sticking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (SO) – 09 Apr 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (SO)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Horácký Zimní Stadion, Jihlava 🇨🇿
Thursday, 09 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:58 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Vandas, interference
08:51 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Novotný, interference
11:17 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Krejčík, holding
12:40 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Bartovič (Jaroš)
14:06 – 🇨🇿 EA GOAL – Kolář (Novotný)
19:57 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Graňák, hooking
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🇨🇿 Jágr To Reportedly Join Czech World Championship Team

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After his Florida Panthers failed to make the NHL playoffs, legendary Czech forward Jaromír Jágr, who claimed he was retired from international competition following last year’s World Championships in Belarus, is now considering rejoining the Czechs for this year’s Worlds, on home ice in his native Prague.
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