After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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Tag Archives: Canada
IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 31 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Connor Bedard set up three Canada goals in the first 12 minutes of the game – and added a fourth in the third period – to lead the team to a hard-fought 5-1 win over Sweden.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 26 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2022
Czechia scored three goals in the second period and came away with their first win against Canada at the World Juniors since 2013 (8 losses), stunning the favoured hosts by a 5-2 score tonight in Halifax.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 23 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
After a couple easy tune-up tests, Canada had to battle from start to finish on Friday night to defeat Finland 5-3 in the final exhibition game ahead of the World Junior men’s hockey championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 21 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Exhibition Game
Avenir Centre, Moncton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
As the World Junior Championship approaches, Canada continued to look impressive in pre-tournament play with a 6-1 win over Slovakia on Wednesday at the Avenir Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 19 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 5
Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles 🇺🇸
Monday, 19 December 2022
Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series on Monday night.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 19 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Avenir Centre, Moncton 🇨🇦
Monday, 19 December 2022
In the first of three test runs before the World Junior Hockey Championship opens next week, Canada cruised past Switzerland 6-0 at the Avenir Centre on Monday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 4
The Dollar Loan Center, Henderson 🇺🇸
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Sarah Nurse scored the game-winning goal 15:04 into the third period as Canada snapped a three-game skid, defeating the United States 3-2 in Rivalry Series action on Thursday.
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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2023, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Tampere, Finland, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Henrik Zetterberg, Brian Leetch, Caroline Ouellette, Cristobal Huet and Jimmy Foster to the Hall.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 20 Nov 2022
🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle 🇺🇸
Sunday, 20 November 2022
Canada’s rough start to the Rivalry Series continues as the United States won 4-2 on Sunday for its third consecutive victory.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 17 Nov 2022
🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 2
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Canada dropped a second consecutive contest in Rivalry Series play to the United States Thursday, falling 2-1 at Sandman Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 15 Nov 2022
🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Prospera Place, Kelowna 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Canada kicked off the seven-game Rivalry Series with a 4-3 shootout loss to the United States on Tuesday night at Prospera Place.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2022
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2022 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The Summit Series At Fifty
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, to commemorate the historic fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, we look back with a new IIHF feature on the historic final game, and final goal, of this epic international hockey showdown.
🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 28 September 1972
“Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here’s another shot…right in front! They score! Henderson has scored for Canada!” – Foster Hewitt
It is the most famous goal call in Canada’s long and rich hockey history, and it came from the game’s greatest voice exactly 50 years ago today, at the Sports Palace in Moscow.
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🇨🇦 P.K. Subban Retires Following 13 Year Career
Canadian defender P.K. Subban, a powerful offensive defenceman who became one of the most outgoing personalities in the National Hockey League, today announced his retirement from hockey due to recurring injuries at the age of 33.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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