๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ (OT)
Womenโs World Championship Gold Medal Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Semifinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
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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After nearly two year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Luxembourg and China in November 2019, four rounds of play, 36 teams competing and a global pandemic in between, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Beijing, with the spots being clinched locked up by Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 7-0 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
Womenโs World Championship Quarterfinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
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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Rod Gilbert, the Hall of Fame winger and top scorer in New York Rangers history, today passed away at the age of 80, just twelve days following the death of fellow 1972 Summit Series teammate Tony Esposito.
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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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The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, returning to the nation for the first time since Helsinki hosted consecutively in 2012-13.
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Anthony “Tony O” Esposito, the legendary Chicago Black Hawks goaltender who was a three-time Vezina Trophy winner, and one of the backstops in Canada’s historic 1972 Summit Series, today died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 78. Continue reading
After having to delay for a year following the 2019-20 outbreak of the COVID-19 virus across the world, delaying another month to meet Canadian quarantine protocols, and finally delaying another three months due to a last-minute cancellation by the Nova Scotia government, today the IIHF announced the schedule for the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, set to open up on 20 August after no international women’s hockey tournaments for two and a half years.
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Unlike having to win their 2020 title in front of an empty arena 4,500 kilometres from home, the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight repeated as Stanley Cup champions, defeating the Montrรฉal Canadiens 1-0 to win their third Stanley Cup in Game Five of the Finals in front of a packed Tampa crowd.
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The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2020-21 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals, with fourteen IHLC holders representing fiveย countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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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 American Independence Day, we feature the first Gold Medal for the United States women’s team, captured in a thrilling shootout in 2005.
๐บ๐ธ United States 1-0 Canada ๐จ๐ฆย (SO)
Women’s World Championshipย Gold Medal Game
Cloetta Center,ย Linkรถping ๐ธ๐ช
Saturday, 09 April 2005
Few team sports have been dominated so emphatically by one country as womenโs hockey by Canada. Since the inception of the World Womenโs Championship into the IIHF program in 1990, Team Canada won all eight championships leading up to the ninth Womenโs World tournament in Sweden in 2005. Additionally, Canada had won the 2002 Olympic gold. The only blemish to Canadaโs womenโs record was USAโs win in the 1998 Olympics.
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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 both Canada’s national day, and in light of the shocking residential school discoveries across the nation, we highlight the first international medal for Canada’s top indigenous player, and one of Canada’s all-time top goaltenders, Carey Price, who also happens to be in the midst of his first Stanley Cup Final.
๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 4-2 Russia ๐ท๐บ
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Ejendals Arena, Leksand ๐ธ๐ช
Friday, 05 January 2007
Twenty-two Canadian junior hockey players will return from Sweden with a gold medal after capturing a third world title in as many years on Friday.
Making its sixth consecutive appearance in the championship game, Canada rode three first-period goals to a 4-2 win over Russia in Leksand.
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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 Russian National Day, we feature the Red Army’s first Olympic title in 1956, which saw the two most recent World Champions go head-to-head on the Olympic stage in Italy.
๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 2-0 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Olympic Medalย Round
Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio, Cortina d’Ampezzo ๐ฎ๐น
Saturday, 04 February 1956
When the Soviets won the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm, their first ever international tournament, they shocked Canada and the hockey world. But by 1956, there was no shock factor heading to the Olympics in Cortina dโAmpezzo, Italy.
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After successfully completing their first full season since 2019, the Kontinental Hockey League today honoured the best players of the 2020-21 season, handing out their annual awards at a gala event in Moscow, Russia. Continue reading
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎย (OT)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Arฤna Rฤซga, Rฤซga ๐ฑ๐ป
Sunday, 06 June 2021
Nick Paul scored at 6:26 of the first three-on-three unlimited overtime to give Canada its 21st all-time Gold medal at the World Championship. The goal gave Canada a 3-2 win over Finland and avenges a 2019 loss at the hands of Suomi. It is Canada’s third Gold in the last six years.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
World Championship Semifinal
Arฤna Rฤซga, Rฤซga ๐ฑ๐ป
Saturday, 05 June 2021
Germany put up a mighty challenge, but the champion still reigns for another day as Finland built up a 2-0 first-period lead and held on to win an emotional semi-final game 2-1.
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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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After a year away during one of the most tumultuous years in human history, with a pandemic and political strife seeing a year-long delay and a change in venue, the international hockey calendar sees some sense of normalcy return with the resurgence of the IIHF World Championship, set to take place this year in Rฤซga, Latvia.
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