IHLC 2016 In Review – Men’s

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The International Hockey Lineal Championship doubled up on champions in 2016, with six different nations taking hold of the IHLC over a span of 23 games, leaving an unlikely country the incumbent champion heading into 2017.
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IHLC 2016 In Review – Women’s

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Unlike 2015, which was “the year of Team USA” in women’s hockey, there was a little more parity in the later months of 2016, with Canada finally striking multiple blows to Team USA’s dominance, ultimately ending the calendar year with the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 19 Dec 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Progressive Auto Sales Arena, Sarnia 🇨🇦
Monday, 19 December 2016

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored 52 seconds into overtime to give Canada’s National Women’s Team a 3-2 win over the United States and a sweep of the inaugural two-game December Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Dec 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 17 December 2016

Rebecca Johnston scored a hat trick as Canada’s National Women’s Team erased a two-goal deficit to defeat the United States 5-3 in Game 1 of the December Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 05 Nov 2016

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🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Four Nations Cup Gold Medal Game
Järvenpää Arena, Järvenpää 🇫🇮
Saturday, 05 November 2016

Brianna Decker tallied three points (one goal, two assists) and Hilary Knight added two goals to help the U.S. Women’s National Team defeat Canada, 5-3, and claim its seventh Four Nations Cup Championship. Nine players had at least one point in the victory.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Nov 2016

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Deutschland Cup
Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, Augsburg 🇩🇪
Saturday, 05 November 2016

Kevin Clark and Greg Scott contributed a goal and an assist each, but Canada’s National Men’s Team ended up on the wrong end of a 4-3 shootout decision against Slovakia on Saturday at the 2016 Deutschland Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Nov 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Vierumäki Ice Arena, Vierumäki 🇫🇮
Friday, 04 November 2016

Haley Irwin’s power play goal six minutes into the third period lifted Canada’s National Women’s Team to a 3-2 win over the United States at the 2016 Four Nations Cup on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 Nov 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Deutschland Cup
Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, Augsburg 🇩🇪
Friday, 04 November 2016

Mat Robinson and Geoff Kinrade scored on the power play to lead Canada’s National Men’s Team to a 3-0 win over Switzerland in the 2016 Deutschland Cup opener on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Hungary 🇭🇺 – 01 Nov 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Hungary 🇭🇺
Exhibition Game
Tüskecsarnok, Budapest 🇭🇺
Tuesday, 01 November 2016

BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:49 – 🇭🇺 PEN – Wehrs, delay of game
11:06 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Buck, high sticking double minor
13:26 – 🇭🇺 PP GOAL – Sofron (Kóger)
13:53 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Holzapfel (Parkes, Genoway)
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🇨🇿 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Vokoun Shuts Out Canada For Gold

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 look back at the 2005 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the first true “best on best” final in 75 years of Worlds history.

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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-0 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Sunday, 15 May 2005

The Czech Republic has ended Canada’s two-year streak as gold medalists with a thoroughly convincing 3-0 win. Tomáš Vokoun recorded the shutout for the victors. Three different players scored for the Czechs, who were clearly the better team at the Stadthalle in Vienna on 15 May 2005.
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🇪🇺 Team Europe Advances To World Cup Final, Ends IHLC Defence

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While the notion of the Team Europe and North America squads at the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey were seen as gimmicky by many, they have served as not only a pleasant surprise to fans around the world, but as now one of the top two teams in international hockey.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 20 Sep 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Cup Of Hockey Group Round
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Two games into the World Cup of Hockey 2016, Canada has clinched a spot in the semifinals and the competitive portion of Team USA’s tournament is over.

Canada advanced to the final four by scoring four consecutive goals in a 4-2 win against Team USA at Air Canada Centre on Tuesday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 17 Sep 2016

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🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Cup Of Hockey Group Round
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Saturday, 17 September 2016

Canada defeated the Czech Republic 6-0 in its first game of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre on Saturday.
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2017 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Plymouth, Michigan, USA, once again with opening night ending once again with a rematch of Canada vs. USA, for a likely preview of the Gold Medal Game.
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