
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

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

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 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 25 Apr 2015

🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Tour
Mytischi Arena, Mytischi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 25 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
17:31 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Johansson (Sjögren, Petersson)
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🇺🇸 Hal Gill Calls It A Career After 16 Seasons

Defensive powerhouse Hal Gill, who won a Stanley Cup and a World Championship Bronze medal in his 16 year career, announced his retirement from the Philadelphia Flyers at the age of 40.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺 – 24 Apr 2015

🇸🇪 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

🇸🇪 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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IHLC Winners Major Key To SKA Gagarin Cup Victory

After storming back from a 3-0 series deficit to defeat their oldest rivals, CSKA Moscow, in seven games in the KHL Semifinals, SKA Saint Petersburg needed only five games to defeat Ak Bars Kazan to win the 2015 Gagarin Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 17 Apr 2015

🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Tour
T3 Center, Umeå 🇸🇪
Friday, 17 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:55 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zaťovič (Radil, Koukal)
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🇨🇿 Jaroslav Holík: 1942-2015

Czech forward Jaroslav Holík, whose career spanned nearly 25 years, in addition to a lengthy coaching career and children and grandchildren making an impact in international hockey as well, has passed away due to an undisclosed illness at the age of 72.
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🇨🇿 🇩🇪 Czechs Promoted, Germany Relegated For Women’s Worlds

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

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

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

🇨🇿 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

🇨🇿 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

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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🇨🇦 Caroline Ouellette Retires From Canadian National Team

After making the Canadian roster for the 2015 World Championships only by virtue of an injury to Haley Irwin, decorated Olympian and World Champion Caroline Ouellette played her final game for Canada in their 7-5 Gold Medal loss to the United States, after confirming prior to the tournament that these World Championships would be her last time putting on the red and white.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Norway 🇳🇴 – 04 Apr 2015

🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Norway 🇳🇴
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kristins Hall, Lillehammer 🇳🇴
Saturday, 04 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:00 – 🇳🇴 PEN – Ødegaard, interference
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-5 Canada 🇨🇦 – 04 Apr 2015

🇺🇸 United States 7-5 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 04 April 2015
Brianna Decker scored the third-period winner as the U.S. beat Canada 7-5 in a wild World Women’s Gold medal game that saw both starting goalies pulled.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Norway 🇳🇴 – 03 Apr 2015

🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Norway 🇳🇴
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kristins Hall, Lillehammer 🇳🇴
Friday, 03 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:44 – 🇳🇴 PEN – Espeland, kneeing
09:32 – 🇳🇴 PEN – team, too many players
16:07 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Svačina (Simon)
18:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, hooking
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