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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2022

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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

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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.

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🇨🇦 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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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released

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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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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Sep 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 04 September 2022

Brianne Jenner scored both of Canada’s goals and Ann-Renée Desbiens saved the Gold in the dying seconds, giving Canada their third straight major Gold with a 2-1 victory over the United States. It comes after the 2021 Women’s Worlds last August and Olympic Gold in Beijing this past February.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender

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Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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🇭🇺 Hungary Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender In 12 Years

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In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, a wild series of events on the final day of group play at the 2022 Women’s World Championship means that Hungary will contend for the IHLC, making the Magyars the first women’s team in over a decade to contend for the IHLC.
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🇩🇰 🇫🇷 Denmark Relegated, France Promoted To 2023 Women’s Worlds

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In one of the most shocking developments in recent World Championship history, it is Denmark, in front of a home crowd in Frederikshavn, hosting their first ever Championship tournament, who was relegated on home ice, thanks to a literal last-second goal by Germany, sending them to Division IA in 2023, with France set to take their place.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 30 Aug 2022

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🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Canada opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the United States stormed back to claim a 5-2 win in the finale of the preliminary round of Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 28 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 28 August 2022

Japan knew life in Group A of the Women’s Worlds would be radically different from Group B, and today they got a reminder of just how different. Canada stormed their goal for 60 minutes and skated to a 9-0 win this afternoon to re-join the United States at the top of the Group A standings.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 27 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Saturday, 27 August 2022

Sarah Fillier, the “Next One” whose time appears to be now, scored her first two goals of the tournament to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Switzerland in Group A action in Herning tonight.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 25 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 25 August 2022

Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and assist in the opening period to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland tonight at KVIK Arena in Herning.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship

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After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 23 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

After golden years for the United States, the last 12 months were Canada’s months in women’s hockey. Gold at the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship on home ice in Calgary last August, Olympic Gold in Beijing last February and again Gold at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship on American ice in Madison, Wisconsin.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 20 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Saturday, 20 August 2022

Kent Johnson knocked in a loose puck at 3:20 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over Finland and take the Gold medal at the 2022 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 19 August 2022

Wearing their snazzy, red, throwback sweaters, Canada blasted past the underdog Czechs by a 5-2 score this afternoon to advance to the gold medal game Saturday night, 6pm local time. They’ll play the winners of tonight’s Sweden–Finland semi-finals. It will be their fifth appearance in the ultimate game in the last six years.
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🇨🇦 Kyle Turris Retires From Playing Career, Turns To Management

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Canadian centre Kyle Turris today announced he is stepping away from playing hockey, moving into a management role with the Coquitlam Express of the BCHL, putting an end to his fifteen year professional career, highlighted by a World Junior Championship Gold and World Championship Silver medal.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 17 Aug 2022

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🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 17 August 2022

Propelled by a four-goal first period, Canada defeated Switzerland 6-3 in Thursday’s marquee quarter-final in front of a happy Rogers Place crowd. Coach Dave Cameron’s team will face either the Finns or the Czechs in the semi-finals on Friday.
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