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NHL Withdraws From 2022 Olympics Due To COVID Postponements

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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

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🇨🇦 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

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🇨🇦 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

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🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 23 Nov 2021

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🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 4
The Arena At TD Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 23 November 2021

The Beijing Olympics are still two months away, but the rivalry between the Canadian and American women’s hockey teams is already running high.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 21 Nov 2021

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Leon’s Centre, Kingston 🇨🇦
Sunday, 21 November 2021

The Canadian women’s hockey team squandered a two-goal lead in the third period and the United States came back to win 3-2 in overtime in the Rivalry Series on Sunday.
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🇨🇦 Dion Phaneuf Formally Announces Retirement

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Just days after fellow punishing defender Braydon Coburn announced his retirement from hockey, his counterpart Dion Phaneuf, a three-time NHL All-Star inactive for the past three seasons, today formally announced he is stepping away from the game at age 36.
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🇨🇦 🇸🇰 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2020 Following Delay

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After a sixteen-month pandemic delay, the Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their Class of 2020, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 Czechia, Denmark, Sweden Clinch Final 2022 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots

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After just three months Olympic qualifiers that were set to begin nearly a year ago, but delayed due to COVID-19, the three final qualification spots for a trip to Beijing were today clinched by Czechia, Denmark and Sweden for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 14 Nov 2021

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Sunday, 14 November 2021

Victoria Bach scored twice, Brianne Jenner had a goal and two assists, and Canada defeated hosts Finland 5-1 on Sunday in women’s hockey to sweep the countries’ three-game exhibition series.
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🇨🇦 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, returning to the originally planned hosts of Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which was set for the 2021 tournament but instead played in a quarantine bubble only in Edmonton, in front of no fans.
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🇨🇿 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Procházka’s Golden Goal

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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, in honour of Czech Independence Day, we feature Czechia’s first World Championship title as an independent nation, twenty five years after stunning Canada with two goals in the final minute of play.

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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Sunday, 05 May 1996

Patera, Procházka…and then the puck was shaking viciously in the net. Whoever saw it will not forget. The last minute of the final period of the 1996 World Cup has an indelible golden tinge for Czech hockey. The group from the heart of Europe then became world champions in Vienna after an eleven-year wait.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 25 Oct 2021

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 2
XL Center, Hartford 🇺🇸
Monday, 25 October 2021

Amanda Kessel isn’t panicking after the United States women’s hockey team opened its pre-Olympic series with two straight losses to rival Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 22 Oct 2021

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 1
PPL Center, Allentown 🇺🇸
Friday, 22 October 2021

Emily Clark scored twice, including the go-ahead goal 5:05 into the third period, and Canada beat the United States 3-1 in Game 1 of a nine-game pre-Olympic Rivalry Series between the national women’s hockey teams Friday night.
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Provisional Olympians Named For Beijing 2022

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As part of the NHL’s re-entry into the Olympics with the upcoming games in Beijing this February, the NHL and IIHF collectively announced provisional NHL players for each team, naming three active professionals to each roster.
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🇨🇳 2022 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released

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The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 09 February, with defending champions the Russian Olympic Committee starting their title defence on the opening day, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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IIHF Congress Approves Women’s World Championships In Olympic Years

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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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