After making the Canadian roster for the 2015 World Championships only by virtue of an injury to Haley Irwin, decorated Olympian and World Champion Caroline Ouellette played her final game for Canada in their 7-5 Gold Medal loss to the United States, after confirming prior to the tournament that these World Championships would be her last time putting on the red and white.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-5 Canada 🇨🇦 – 04 Apr 2015
🇺🇸 United States 7-5 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 04 April 2015
Brianna Decker scored the third-period winner as the U.S. beat Canada 7-5 in a wild World Women’s Gold medal game that saw both starting goalies pulled.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 28 Mar 2015
🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 28 March 2015
In Saturday’s marquee matchup, the United States staked an early claim to bragging rights in Group A with a 4-2 triumph over Canada at the Malmö Isstadion.
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IHLC Preview – 2015 Women’s World Championship
Five months after the last women’s hockey showdown at the 2014 Four Nations Cup, the top eight teams in international women’s hockey will reconvene in Malmö, Sweden, for the 2015 IIHF World Women’s Championship, two years since the last Worlds that ended in a stunning American victory in Canada’s capital.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Wins The First Olympic 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 the Clarkson Cup, we look at the first ever Olympic Gold Medal Game in women’s hockey at the Nagano Olympics.
🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena, Nagano 🇯🇵
Tuesday, 17 February 1998
The 1998 Olympics was historic for two reasons. For the men, it was the first time full NHL participation occurred. For the women, it was the first time they were playing Olympic hockey at all. The excitement of the women’s event was all the more palatable because it was virtually certain that Canada and USA were headed towards a gold medal showdown.
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🇨🇦 Martin Brodeur Announces Retirement From Blues
After perhaps the most illustrious goaltending career in NHL, if not all hockey, history, Martin Brodeur has announced that he will retire from the game after 22 seasons, after limited playing time this season for the St. Louis Blues. Brodeur will join the Blues’ front office to finish his contract before considering a return to the New Jersey Devils, the club he spent all but seven games of his brilliant career with.
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IHLC Plays Big Part In All-Star Extravaganzas
Separated by nearly 10,000 kilometres, the best hockey players in the world gathered both in Sochi, Russia and Columbus, Ohio to showcase the game’s top stars in the All-Star Games for the KHL and NHL, respectively, with International Hockey Lineal Champions abound showing off their skills.
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World Cup Of Hockey Return Announced For 2016
After months of speculation, the NHL today confirmed during the All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio that the World Cup Of Hockey would officially return in 2016, being hosted solely in Toronto from 17 September – 01 October 2016. As expected, six national teams (Canada, United States, Russia, Czechia, Sweden and Finland) and two “all star” teams (a team of under-23 stars from Canada and the United States, and a team made up of European players without teams playing in the tournament, such as Slovakia, Norway and Switzerland) will make up the tournament.
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🇨🇦 “The Wizard” Hanging It Up After 23 Seasons
One of the most underrated forwards in NHL history, Ray “The Wizard” Whitney, has decided to retire from the NHL after 23 seasons, finishing his career with the Dallas Stars after stints in San Jose, Edmonton, Florida, Columbus, Detroit, Carolina and Phoenix.
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2015 KHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to set the starting lineup, and a media vote to set the second lines, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for the 2015 KHL All Star Game in Sochi, Russia on 25 January.
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2015 NHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to decide the first six participants, the National Hockey League today announced the participants for the 2015 NHL All Star Game in Columbus, Ohio on 25 January, with rosters to be determined in a fantasy draft on 23 January.
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🇨🇦 J.P. Parisé: 1941-2015
Former NHL star J.P. Parisé, who rose to notoriety as a member of Team Canada at the 1972 Summit Series, has died after a year-long battle with lung cancer at the age of 73.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺 – 05 Jan 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Monday, 05 January 2015
Canada twice had the Russians on the ropes, and twice the Russians got back into the game, falling just short in a dramatic and tense Gold medal showdown.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 04 Jan 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Sunday, 04 January 2015
Canada has booked a date with Russia for the Gold medal tomorrow night after defeating a determined Slovak team 5-1 at the Air Canada Centre tonight.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 02 Jan 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Friday, 02 January 2015
Canada has booked the final spot in the semi-finals with a dominant 8-0 win over Denmark before a raucous crowd of 18,448 at the Air Canada Centre tonight.
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IHLC Features Prominently At 2015 Winter Classic
Former winners of the International Hockey Lineal Championship played a large role in the NHL’s marquee Winter Classic event, with Canadian IHLC holder Troy Brouwer scoring the winning goal with just 13 seconds remaining to propel the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 31 Dec 2014
🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
In the preliminary round’s most hotly anticipated matchup, Canada defeated the U.S. 5-3 to capture first place in Group A on New Year’s Eve in Montréal.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Men’s
2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Women’s
2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2015 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2015, to be inducted this May at the IIHF World Championships in Czechia. All four players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments, for the Czechs (Dominik Hašek and Robert Reichel), Canada (Scott Niedermayer) and Sweden (Maria Rooth), including all having held the International Hockey Lineal Championship at one point or another.
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