After a tumultuous year that saw the IIHF Women’s Championship be cancelled for the second straight year, then revived in August, the IHLC finally saw a return to relative normalcy in the second half of 2021, in the lead-up to the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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IIHF Congress Approves Women’s World Championships In Olympic Years
After over twenty years of not holding the IIHF Women’s World Championship in years when the Olympics are taking place, today the IIHF Congress voted to allow for both tournaments to be held the same calendar year every four years, with the tournament moving from April to August in Olympic years, starting in 2022.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 31 Aug 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Marie-Philip Poulin scored the golden goal at 7:22 of the first overtime period to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States. It was Canada’s first gold medal at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship since 2012 and ended a run of five in a row for their adversaries.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 30 Aug 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Monday, 30 August 2021
Canada did exactly what it had to do tonight against Switzerland and skated to a dominating 4-0 win to advance to the Women’s Worlds gold-medal game against the United States tomorrow night for the first time since 2017.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-0 Germany 🇩🇪 – 28 Aug 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 7-0 Germany 🇩🇪
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Canada defeated Germany tonight by a 7-0 score to advance to the semi-finals on Monday. They will play either Switzerland or Czechia, depending on the outcome of the final game tonight. With the loss, Germany will head to the 5th-8th placement games grouping which begins tomorrow.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 26 Aug 2021
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Canada scored early and often and defeated the United States emphatically, 5-1, to claim first place in Group A. They did it without their captain, Marie-Philip Poulin, but Jamie Lee Rattray stepped up and contributed two goals in the win.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺 – 24 Aug 2021
🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
It’s all history, all the time in Calgary. Hilary Knight scored her 45th career Women’s Worlds goal to surpass fellow American legend Cammi Granato for the all-time tournament record as the unbeaten U.S. thrashed the ROC team 6-0 on Tuesday.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 22 Aug 2021
🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Sunday, 22 August 2021
So, we meet again! The defending champion U.S. blanked 2019 Silver medalist Finland 3-0 in Sunday’s late game at Calgary’s WinSport Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 20 Aug 2021
🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Friday, 20 August 2021
With a dazzling 55-save performance, Swiss goalie Andrea Brändli made sure it wasn’t a cakewalk for the U.S. on Day One. The defending champions had to work hard for their 3-0 victory over Switzerland in the third game at Calgary’s WinSport Arena.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 Women’s World Championship
Following an eighteen month delay of no major international women’s hockey thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw one World Championships cancelled and another delayed, the puck is finally set to drop on the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the twentieth edition of the tournament, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, bringing the world’s top ten women’s nations in their first major competition since early 2020.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺 – 18 Aug 2021
🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺
Exhibition Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The U.S. Women’s National Team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee 6-0 in its lone pre-tournament matchup ahead of the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship at WinSport Arena this afternoon.
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🇸🇪 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Zibanejad’s Golden Goal
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 Swedish Sveriges nationaldag (National Day), we feature Sweden’s most recent World Junior Championship triumph in 2012, just their second title in history.
🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2012
Mika Zibanejad scored the magnificent overtime winner as Sweden earned its first World Junior gold medal since 1981 and second all-time with an 1-0 triumph over Russia on Thursday. The Swedes outshot Russia 58-17.
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🇨🇦 IIHF Confirms Calgary As New 2021 Women’s World Championship Host
The IIHF today announced that the 2021 Women’s World Championship, which was cancelled in 2020, then postponed in 2021, is set to be hosted now in Calgary, Alberta this August.
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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 Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Aug 2015
🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 05 August 2015
Canada fell to Russia 3-2 in a hard-fought shootout Wednesday night in the penultimate game of Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 04 Aug 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
2015 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medallists Brayden Point and Jake Virtanen put on a show at the Markin MacPhail Centre on Tuesday, combining for eight points in a 7-1 Canadian win; Point had five points and Virtanen added three.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 03 Aug 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Russia 🇷🇺
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Monday, 03 August 2015
A goal from Joe Hicketts in the first minute of the second period stood up as the winner as Canada topped Russia 4-1 in the opening game of the Sport Chek World Junior Showcase on Monday night.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 12 Dec 2013
🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Thursday, 12 December 2013
A preoccupied Canada’s National Women’s Team fell 5-1 to the United States on Thursday, as the red and white tried to come to grips with the sudden resignation of their head coach.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 05 Jan 2012
🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2012
Mika Zibanejad scored the magnificent overtime winner as Sweden earned its first World Junior Gold medal since 1981 and second all-time with an 1-0 triumph over Russia on Thursday. The Swedes outshot Russia 58-17.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 03 Jan 2012
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 03 January 2012
Sebastian Collberg and Max Friberg scored in the shootout as Sweden rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat arch-rival Finland 3-2 in Tuesday’s first semi-final. The Swedes will face the winner of Canada–Russia for gold, while the Finns take on the loser for Bronze.
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