IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Thursday, 17 February 2022

Talk about revenge and rising to the occasion. Legendary captain Marie-Philip Poulin stepped up with two goals and an assist as Canada beat the U.S. 3-2 to win the 2022 Olympic women’s hockey Gold medal on Thursday. Utterly relentless, the Canadians regained the title they lost to the Americans in PyeongChang four years ago.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 10-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 14 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 10-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Olympic Semifinal
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Thursday, 17 February 2022

There was never any doubt. Canada scored five first-period goals and kept on rolling in a 10-3 semi-final rout of Switzerland. The reigning World Champions outshot the Swiss 61-13. Canada faces the winner of the U.S.Finland semi-final in Thursday’s Gold medal game.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 11-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 11 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 11-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Quarterfinal
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Friday, 11 February 2022

Canada scored four goals in the first period and never looked back, skating to a one-sided 11-0 win over Sweden to advance to the semi-finals and send the Swedes packing. It was a dominating performance by the top-scoring team in the tournament, and they now have two full days off before playing again on Monday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 08 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Preliminary Round
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Tuesday, 08 February 2022

It is one of the greatest rivalries in sports, and when Canada defeated the U.S. 4-2 to lock up first place in Group A, it was the most exciting hockey we’ve seen yet at these 2022 Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺 – 07 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺
Olympic Preliminary Round
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Monday, 07 February 2022

Canada overcame an unusual delay of more than an hour to the start of Monday’s game with the ROC team and marched to a 6-1 victory, staying perfect atop Group A.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Winter Olympics (Men’s)


For the second straight Olympics, the men’s hockey tournament will not feature NHL superstars (although this time due to COVID-19), making the Olympic tournament not necessarily a true “best on best,” but still a showcase of some of the world’s top talent looking to capture Gold and Olympic glory in Beijing.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 11-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 05 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 11-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Saturday, 05 February 2022

Once again, Sarah Fillier lit the fire and her Canadian teammates stoked the blaze. In an 11-1 rout of Finland, the preternaturally gifted 21-year-old Olympic rookie set the early tone with two goals, as she did in the 12-1 shellacking of Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 12-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 03 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 12-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Olympic Preliminary Round
National Indoor Stadium, Beijing 🇨🇳
Thursday, 03 February 2022

The cauldron has yet to be lit to start these 24th Olympic Winter Games but already Canada’s women’s team has come out with an emphatic 12-1 victory over the Swiss this afternoon at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Winter Olympics (Women’s)


The seventh ever women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Thursday, with an anticipated showdown once again between Canada and the United States likely to highlight the Gold Medal Match for the sixth time.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Junior


Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw seven games of competition this year on the junior side, nearly a year apart, all in Edmonton, and cut short thanks to the outright cancellation of the 2022 World Junior Championship thanks to the Omicron variant.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Men’s


With the international hockey calendar returning (relatively) to normal in 2021, the IHLC saw a flurry of activity throughout the year, bookended with stops on the Euro Hockey Tour, and a relocated World Championship in between. Continue reading

IHLC 2021 In Review – Women’s


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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Remainder Of 2022 World Junior Championship Cancelled


After the third game in two days needed to be cancelled due to positive cases on an individual team, today the IIHF announced that the remainder of the 2022 World Junior Championships in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada would be cancelled.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Remainder Of 2021-22 Rivalry Series Cancelled


After their scheduled matchup for 20 December in Saint Paul, Minnesota was cancelled due to the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, today Hockey Canada announced the final two games of their Rivalry Series against the United States, set to take place in early January in Alberta, have been cancelled as well.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Junior Championship


After COVID-19 forced the 2021 World Junior Championship into a bubble, the tournament returns to Alberta, Canada for 2022, with Edmonton and Red Deer hosting the world’s top under-20 hockey teams in front of fans for the first time since January 2020, just before the world changed forever.
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NHL Withdraws From 2022 Olympics Due To COVID Postponements


After having to cancel fifty games in the past week over protocols due to the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, the National Hockey League today officially announced that due to the material impact of these postponements on the 2021-22 season, they will be withdrawing their players from participating in the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 17 Dec 2021


🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Centene Community Ice Center, Maryland Heights 🇺🇸
Friday, 17 December 2021

Marie-Philip Poulin scored at 3:31 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States on Friday night in Game 6 of the pre-Olympics women’s hockey series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 15 Dec 2021


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 5
Centene Community Ice Center, Maryland Heights 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Marie-Philip Poulin scored her second goal of the night in overtime as Canada edged the United States 2-1 on Wednesday in Game 5 of the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Dec 2021


🇷🇺 Russia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

In the opening match of the 2021 Channel One Cup, Russia survived a late onslaught against Canada, emerging victorious by a score of 4-3 at the CSKA Arena in Moscow.
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