A report by TSN has sparked rumours that the NHL is considering sending NHL players to China for the 2022 Olympics if they are awarded to Beijing this July, after years of speculation that the NHL would not send players to the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, Korea.
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IIHF Announces 2018 Olympic Qualification Format
In advance of the men’s 2015 World Championships in Czechia and women’s 2016 World Championships in Canada, the IIHF today announced the tournament structure and qualification format for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, with the big news being that the format will remain the same for both men and women as in Sochi 2014.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Wins The First Olympic Gold
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 Clarkson Cup, we look at the first ever Olympic Gold Medal Game in women’s hockey at the Nagano Olympics.
🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena, Nagano 🇯🇵
Tuesday, 17 February 1998
The 1998 Olympics was historic for two reasons. For the men, it was the first time full NHL participation occurred. For the women, it was the first time they were playing Olympic hockey at all. The excitement of the women’s event was all the more palatable because it was virtually certain that Canada and USA were headed towards a gold medal showdown.
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🇧🇾 Belarusian Goaltending Legend Andrei Mezin Retires
Only a week after highlighting the “Miracle At Salt Lake” victory, the goaltender that backstopped Belarus for that and another 15 international tournaments (Olympics and World Championships, only bested for a goaltender by the legendary Vladislav Tretyak), Andrei Mezin, today announced his retirement at the age of 40.
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🇧🇾 🇸🇪 IHLC Classics: Miracle At Salt Lake
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, we take a look at one of the biggest upsets in Olympic hockey history, the “Miracle at Salt Lake.”
🇧🇾 Belarus 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Quarterfinal
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 20 February 2002
The 2002 Olympics were rounding into shape quite nicely during the Final Round. Germany and Belarus, the two weakest teams which had advanced from the Preliminary Round, finished in fourth and last place of their respective groups, and the world’s top six nations had each played three games to get to know each other.
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🇸🇰 Richard Lintner Retires To Begin Broadcasting Career
After a lengthy career that spanned the NHL, KHL and top leagues in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and his native Slovakia, Slovak national team mainstay Richard Lintner today announced his retirement from his hometown club Dukla Trenčín, after spending parts of the last season transitioning to a career in broadcasting and marketing.
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🇷🇺 Nabby Reaches The End: Yevgeni Nabokov Retires
After a fifteen year NHL career, mainly with the San Jose Sharks but including stops on Long Island and in Tampa Bay, Russian netminder Yevgeni Nabokov announced his retirement after being waived by the Lightning and traded back to San Jose, allowing him to retire as a Shark.
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A Note On Cyrillic Spelling
When this site launched, as more and more boxscores (which now number over 700 on this site, and is continually growing) were added, a noticeable trend was noticed among scores featuring teams from the Soviet Union, and the states formed in the former’s dispersal after 1991, such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. As the sources would vary for where the boxscore information was coming from, so to were different variations and spellings of names from one game to the next: Aleksander to Alexander, Myshkin or Mishkin, Valeri, Valery or Valeriy, and so on.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 07 Feb 2015
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 07 February 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
07:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Vondrka (Zohorna, Koukal)
09:52 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zohorna (Roman, Zaťovič)
10:22 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Slepyshev (Grigoriev)
11:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Lazarev (Loktionov)
13:46 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
14:53 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Klesla, interference
17:30 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Gulaš, interference
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 05 Feb 2015
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
KV Arena, Karlovy Vary 🇨🇿
Thursday, 05 February 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:55 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Koukal (Vondrka, Gulaš)
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🇨🇦 Martin Brodeur Announces Retirement From Blues
After perhaps the most illustrious goaltending career in NHL, if not all hockey, history, Martin Brodeur has announced that he will retire from the game after 22 seasons, after limited playing time this season for the St. Louis Blues. Brodeur will join the Blues’ front office to finish his contract before considering a return to the New Jersey Devils, the club he spent all but seven games of his brilliant career with.
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🇨🇿 Radek Dvořák Retires After 18 Seasons
After an lengthy career with six NHL teams and a myriad of international accomplishments, Czech forward Radek Dvořák today announced his immediate retirement from the Carolina Hurricanes.
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IHLC Plays Big Part In All-Star Extravaganzas
Separated by nearly 10,000 kilometres, the best hockey players in the world gathered both in Sochi, Russia and Columbus, Ohio to showcase the game’s top stars in the All-Star Games for the KHL and NHL, respectively, with International Hockey Lineal Champions abound showing off their skills.
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World Cup Of Hockey Return Announced For 2016
After months of speculation, the NHL today confirmed during the All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio that the World Cup Of Hockey would officially return in 2016, being hosted solely in Toronto from 17 September – 01 October 2016. As expected, six national teams (Canada, United States, Russia, Czechia, Sweden and Finland) and two “all star” teams (a team of under-23 stars from Canada and the United States, and a team made up of European players without teams playing in the tournament, such as Slovakia, Norway and Switzerland) will make up the tournament.
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🇨🇦 “The Wizard” Hanging It Up After 23 Seasons
One of the most underrated forwards in NHL history, Ray “The Wizard” Whitney, has decided to retire from the NHL after 23 seasons, finishing his career with the Dallas Stars after stints in San Jose, Edmonton, Florida, Columbus, Detroit, Carolina and Phoenix.
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2015 KHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to set the starting lineup, and a media vote to set the second lines, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for the 2015 KHL All Star Game in Sochi, Russia on 25 January.
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2015 NHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to decide the first six participants, the National Hockey League today announced the participants for the 2015 NHL All Star Game in Columbus, Ohio on 25 January, with rosters to be determined in a fantasy draft on 23 January.
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🇨🇦 J.P. Parisé: 1941-2015
Former NHL star J.P. Parisé, who rose to notoriety as a member of Team Canada at the 1972 Summit Series, has died after a year-long battle with lung cancer at the age of 73.
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🇨🇿 Vlastimil Bubník: 1931-2015
Former Czech national team winger Vlastimil Bubník, a four-time Olympian and amongst the all-time Olympic hockey points leaders, has passed away at the age of 83 in Brno.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺 – 05 Jan 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Monday, 05 January 2015
Canada twice had the Russians on the ropes, and twice the Russians got back into the game, falling just short in a dramatic and tense Gold medal showdown.
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