The 2025 international hockey men’s calendar saw the title competed over in six different countries over two continents in five tournaments, with seven different countries capturing the International Hockey Lineal Championship in only a three month-span of competition.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Feb 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Four Nations Face-Off Group Round
TD Garden, Boston 🇺🇸
Monday, 17 February 2025
Although Sweden knew prior to the game that it would not be able to advance to the championship of the Four Nations Face-Off, its players said they would still play with pride against the United States.
And that’s exactly what they did.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
For the first time in nearly a decade, the NHL will be presenting a true “best on best” international tournament, but in a smaller format than usual, with teams from Canada, Sweden, Finland and the United States facing off in the inaugural Four Nations Face-Off.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 IHLC To Be Contended At Four Nations Face-Off
By virtue of a 20-save shutout from Oskari Salminen and a three point game from Julius Nättinen in Stockholm earlier today, the IHLC will officially be brought to the inaugural Four Nations Face-Off next week, as Finland’s win over Czechia guarantees that Finland or Sweden will bring the title across the Atlantic to Montréal.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off
The remaining spots for each Four Nations Face-Off roster today were finalized, and the 92 players set to represent Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States are now set for the tournament in Montréal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 2025 Four Nations Face-Off Schedule Released
The schedule for the NHL’s mid-season 2025 tournament, the Four Nations Face-Off, was announced today prior to the start of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, with Boston, United States and Montréal, Canada set to host their respective host nations, along with Sweden and Finland, next February, a tune-up to the NHL’s Olympic return at the 2026 Olympics.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
The NHL, who will be staging a “light” version of the World Cup Of Hockey with the Four Nations Face-Off in February 2025, has unveiled its projected lineups for the four national squads partaking next year in Montréal and Boston, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Women’s
The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw its usual see-saw between Canada and the United States on the women’s side, trading back and forth over a 15-game span in 2017, with both teams working to build momentum for the upcoming Olympics in PyeongChang.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 25 Oct 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Agganis Arena, Boston 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Canada scored once shorthanded and once on the man advantage, and successfully killed off nine American power play opportunities to notch a 5-1 victory and even its six-game series with the United States at one win each.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Clarkson And Isobel Cups Awarded In Rival Leagues
It was a big weekend for women’s hockey, as both the Clarkson Cup in the CWHL and the inaugural Isobel Cup in the NWHL were awarded, to the Calgary Inferno and Boston Pride, respectively.
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IHLC Winners On Display At 2016 Winter Classic
Former winners of the International Hockey Lineal Championship played a large role in the NHL’s marquee Winter Classic event, as the Montréal Canadiens scored early and often to elevate them to a 5-1 thumping over their hated rivals, the Boston Bruins.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 04 Jan 1996
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Conte Forum, Boston 🇺🇸
Thursday, 04 January 1996
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:36 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Langkow (Domenichelli, Iginla)
08:41 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nilsson
09:46 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Öhlund
14:10 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Watt
19:27 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Petrasek
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 03 Jan 1996
🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Conte Forum, Boston 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 03 January 1996
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:41 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Podollan (Gauthier)
07:04 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Korolyuk
10:35 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Allan
11:24 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Morozov (Shafikov, Nabokov)
14:07 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Allan
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 31 Dec 1995
🇨🇦 Canada 8-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Junior Championship Group Round
Matthews Arena, Boston 🇺🇸
Sunday, 31 December 1995
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:44 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – McCauley (Domenichelli, Gordon)
09:06 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Warrener
10:35 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Bakunenko
13:07 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Revenko
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Dec 1995
🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Group Round
Matthews Arena, Boston 🇺🇸
Friday, 29 December 1995
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:05 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Baumgartner
07:05 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Elomo
16:45 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Riihijärvi
17:22 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Baumgartner (Iginla)
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