IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 22 Feb 2018


🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Thursday, 22 February 2018

After 80 minutes of end-to-end action, the women’s Olympic Gold medal was decided by a shootout. And even that went to overtime before the U.S. won, 3-2.
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IIHF Confirms 2022 Olympic Women’s Tournament Expanding To Ten Teams


Following a similar mandate made for the IIHF Women’s World Championships last year, the IIHF today confirmed that the 2022 Olympic women’s tournament in Beijing, China, will expand to ten teams, in order to accommodate both the host country and a new contender in an ever-increasing talent pool in international women’s hockey.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 19 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Semifinal
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Monday, 19 February 2018

As expected, Canada exactly matched what the Americans did earlier today, defeating their semi-finals opponent 5-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Geneviève Lacasse stoned the top scorers of the U.S. this afternoon to lead Canada to an inspired 2-1 win and claim top spot in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 13 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Remembering last year’s loss at the Women’s Worlds, Canada came out firing on all cylinders and took advantage of some weak defence by the Finns, winning 4-1.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 11 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 11 February 2018

Team Canada began its quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold with a speedy 5-0 win over the Olympic Athletes From Russia.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Canada’s Olympic Revenge

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 the upcoming Olympics, we feature the first of Canada’s four consecutive Gold Medal victories, the thrilling showdown against the United States at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸

Olympic Gold Medal Game
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Thursday, 21 February 2002

For more than a week, they bore their opponents’ taunts with smiles and silence. They talked instead about how much they respected the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team. They said nothing about the little things that were being done to irritate and belittle them; little things such as having their photographs at the athletes village scribbled on and autographed by the American players.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Gold For A Team With No Name

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 the upcoming Olympics, and in light of Russia playing under the Olympic flag, we look back on the last Russian team to play under the same flag at the 1992 Albertville Games.

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🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 23 February 1992

The days of the Soviet hockey superiority were over. Even the Soviet Union as a country had ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, when the USSR dissolved and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.

During the 1992 IIHF World U20 Championship in Germany, the Soviet team had to change its name from Soviet Union to CIS midway through the tournament, on 01 January 1992.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 10-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 Feb 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 10-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Goyang Ice Rink, Goyang 🇰🇷
Sunday, 04 February 2018

Blayre Turnbull, Natalie Spooner and Brigette Lacquette scored two goals apiece, pacing Canada’s Women’s Olympic Team to a 10-0 win over Switzerland on Sunday in its final pre-tournament game ahead of the PyeongChang Games.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 05 Jan 2018


🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 January 2018

Tyler Steenbergen scored the biggest goal of his life, and Canada won the Gold medal by defeating Sweden 3-1.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Junior


The International Hockey Lineal Championship stayed with Team USA for the majority of 2017, with the 2017 World Junior champions holding the IHLC for eight of a possible twelve games in 2017, including carrying the title into the medal round of the current 2018 tournament.
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IHLC 2017 In Review – Women’s


The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw its usual see-saw between Canada and the United States on the women’s side, trading back and forth over a 15-game span in 2017, with both teams working to build momentum for the upcoming Olympics in PyeongChang.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 17 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 17 December 2017

Jennifer Wakefield scored with 26 seconds to play in overtime as Canada’s National Women’s Team defeated the United States 2-1 to close out the teams’ six-game pre-Olympic series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 15 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
SAP Center At San Jose, San Jose 🇺🇸
Friday, 15 December 2017

Haley Irwin, Sarah Nurse and Marie-Philip Poulin scored as Canada’s National Women’s Team beat the United States 3-1 to pick up its fourth straight win of the pre-Olympic series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Dec 2017


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 15 December 2017

Matt Ellison opened the scoring on a second-period power play, but Canada’s National Men’s Team dropped a 4-1 decision to the Czech Republic on Friday at the 2017 Channel One Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 05 December 2017

Geneviève Lacasse picked up her first career shutout against the United States, turning aside 32 shots as Canada’s National Women’s Team took Game 4 of the pre-Olympic series 2-0 on Tuesday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 03 Dec 2017


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Sunday, 03 December 2017

Brianne Jenner scored 37 seconds into overtime to lift Canada’s National Women’s Team to a 2-1 win over the United States on Sunday, and a 2-1 lead in the teams’ six-game pre-Olympic series.
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IIHF Announces 2018 Hall Of Fame Class


The IIHF announced the newest class of inductees to the Hall of Fame, highlighted by a quartet of international superstars – Daniel Alfredsson, Rob Blake, Jere Lehtinen and Chris Chelios, who will have their numerous achievements, both professionally and internationally, recognized in Denmark this May.
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