The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw a fair amount of movement in its 13 junior tilts in 2018, with four nations sharing title reigns across three tournaments, including the elimination round of the 2018 World Junior Championship.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Friday, January 5, 2018
Tyler Steenbergen scored the biggest goal of his life, and Canada won the gold medal by defeating Sweden, 3-1.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Semifinal
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Sweden scored shorthanded twice in 38 seconds in a 4-2 semi-final win over the defending champion U.S. to advance to Friday’s World Junior gold medal game. Sweden will face the winner of the Canada-Czech Republic semi-final in the final at 20:00 Buffalo time.
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🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Kieffer Bellows scored a Production Line-type goal to break a 2-2 tie midway through the third, putting the U.S. in the semis. Russia goes home in 5th place.
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The International Hockey Lineal Championship stayed with Team USA for the majority of 2017, with the 2017 World Junior champions holding the IHLC for eight of a possible twelve games in 2017, including carrying the title into the medal round of the current 2018 tournament.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Adam Fox broke a 4-4 tie with a goal at 18:23 of the third period to give the United States a dramatic 5-4 win over Finland. The U.S. led at one point, 3-0.
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🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Aleksi Heponiemi got the third-period winner as Finland temporarily passed the U.S. for second place in Group A with a hard-working 5-2 win over Slovakia.
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Slovakia’s Samuel Buček put on a one-man show to score the winning goal at 17:52 of the third to give his nation an unexpected 3-2 win over the U.S.
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🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
The defending champion U.S. got five first-period goals and never looked back in a 9-0 demolition of Denmark to start the 2018 World Juniors on Tuesday.
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The schedule for the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York is highlighted by the first ever outdoor game in IIHF competition, a tilt between defending champs Team USA and their cross-border rivals, Canada, on December 29, at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park.
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