🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Fabrice Herzog scored twice, including the overtime winner at 3:40, as Switzerland rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit to stun Canada 3-2 on Saturday.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Canada led 1-0. France led 2-1. Canada went ahead 3-2. The sold-out crowd of 14,510 was rockin’ all night as David and Goliath played evenly for 60 minutes.
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🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Monday, 08 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon kept his hot hand going, scoring two more goals and adding a great assist. Mitch Marner added two signature helpers of his own.
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🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 07 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon made it look easy–the whole team did–beating a game Slovenia, 7-2, despite some fine goaltending from a beleaguered Gasper Krošelj.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Friday, 05 May 2017
In many cities over many decades have Canada and the Czechs played hockey, but until tonight never Paris.
The massively pro-Czech crowd of 8,834 left disappointed, though, because their team was beaten by a superior, but sloppy, Canada, 4-1.
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The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 05 May in both Cologne and Paris, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting to compete at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva 🇨🇭
Tuesday, 02 May 2017
Wayne Simmonds and Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist apiece, helping Canada’s National Men’s Team to a 4-1 win over Switzerland on Tuesday in exhibition action ahead of the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 07 April 2017
Hilary Knight blocked a shot inside her blue line, moved the puck up to Kendall Coyne, and converted Coyne’s drop shot to give the U.S. a 3-2 win over Canada.
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🇺🇸 United States 11-0 Germany 🇩🇪
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Thursday, 06 April 2017
The Germans have made an impressive splash here in Plymouth, but in tonight’s semi-finals they weren’t up to the task of competing with the reigning champions.
The final score of 11-0 was suitable representation of what transpired tonight. Kendall Coyne had two goals and an assist for the U.S., while four teammates had a goal and two assists and Brianna Decker and Amanda Kessel each had three assists.
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🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 31 March 2017
The Americans may have been a few practises shy of being fully game ready, but they showed no signs of rust, and their rivalry with Canada was just the ticket.
Nicole Hensley stopped all 18 shots from Canada in only her second career start in World Women’s Championship play, backstopping the host United States to a huge 2-0 win over Canada to start the tournament for both countries.
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A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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The Buffalo Beauts, avenging their 2016 Isobel Cup loss to the Boston Pride in the inaugural Cup finals, today clinched the 2017 and second-ever Isobel Cup with a 3-2 victory over the Pride in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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The Montréal Canadiennes, avenging their 2016 Clarkson Cup loss to Calgary and avoiding a third straight Cup defeat, today clinched the 2017 Clarkson Cup with a 3-1 victory over the Inferno in Ottawa, Ontario.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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After overhauling their All-Star Game format to match that of the NHL’s, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for all four divisions to partake in the 2017 KHL All Star Game, made up of a 4-on-4 tournament in Ufa, Russia on 22 January.
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The most decorated player in women’s hockey history today announced her retirement from professional hockey, with Hayley Wickenheiser stepping down from the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno and Team Canada, which she joined in 1994 at the age of 15.
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Looking to repeat the magic of the 2015 midseason classic in Nashville, today the National Hockey League announced the 11-man rosters for all four divisions in the 2017 NHL All-Star Game 3-on-3 tournament, taking place in Los Angeles on 29 January.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2017
Troy Terry has done it again. He was the only scorer of ten shootout shooters tonight, giving the USA the Gold medal in an incredible 5-4 win over Canada.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Canada rallied from a shaky start and deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 to defeat Sweden, 5-2.
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Many of the top players in the game took their talents outside this past weekend, with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings highlighting the inaugural Centennial Classic on 01 January, followed a day later with the St. Louis Blues hosting the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2017 Winter Classic.
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