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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship

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With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off

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The remaining spots for each Four Nations Face-Off roster today were finalized, and the 92 players set to represent Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States are now set for the tournament in Montréal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇷🇺 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2024

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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2024 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 10 Nov 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Idaho Central Arena, Boise 🇺🇸
Sunday, 10 November 2024

Jocelyne Larocque scored less than four minutes into the game, Sarah Nurse added a goal midway through the first period and Canada cruised to a 4-1 win over the United States in Boise, Idaho on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-game Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (SO) – 08 Nov 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (SO)
Rivalry Series, Game 2
Maverik Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Friday, 08 November 2024

Marie-Phillip Poulin scored the go-ahead goal and 17-year-old Chloe Primerano scored her first career goal to clinch a 2-0 shootout win for Team Canada to even the Rivalry Series with the U.S. at a win apiece on Friday night.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 06 Nov 2024

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🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Tech CU Arena, San Jose 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 06 November 2024

A five-goal first period led Team USA past Canada, 7-2, in the opening contest of the 2024-25 Rivalry Series in San Jose, California on Wednesday night.
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🇨🇦 Lauriane Rougeau Announces Retirement, Shift To Hockey Ops

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Canadian defender Lauriane Rougeau, a key cog of Team Canada’s blueline for the past decade and a half, today confirmed her retirement from the game after just one season in the PWHL, at the age of 34, announcing a move to hockey operations with her former club in Toronto.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The Second Summit Series At Fifty

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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, to commemorate the historic fiftieth anniversary of the second and final Summit Series in 1974, we look back at the oft-forgotten Series between the top Soviet players facing off against the best Canadian players from the upstart World Hockey Association.

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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 8
Luzhniki Palace Of Sports, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 06 October 1974

Unlike in 1972, there would be no climatic Game 8 in 1974. Team Canada had lost the series.
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🇨🇿 2025 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted for the first time by Czechia in the Bohemian city of České Budějovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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🇨🇦 Tyler Ennis Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 34

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After injuries hampered his NHL prospects, sending him to two seasons in Europe, Canadian journeyman winger Tyler Ennis today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 34, following a 15 year pro career with seven different teams, along with a pair of Gold medals won with Team Canada.
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🇨🇦 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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🇱🇻 🇩🇰 🇸🇰 Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots

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After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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🇩🇰 🇸🇪 2025 World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 03 Aug 2024

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🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 03 August 2024

Team USA took down Canada in dramatic fashion with Brodie Ziemer’s goal in the sixth round of the shootout giving the U.S. a 5-4 victory.
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🇨🇦 Eric Staal Signs One Day Contract, Retires From Pro Hockey

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After going a year without playing professionally, today Eric Staal signed a one-day contract with the Carolina Hurricanes to formalize his retirement, officially stepping away from the game just a few months shy of his 40th birthday.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Cruises To Second Straight Gold

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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 revisit Team USA’s second Women’s World title fifteen years later, with Jessie Vetter and Caitlin Cahow powering them to their second straight Gold Medal.

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🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Sunday, 12 April 2009

The U.S. won its second straight Women’s World Hockey Championship with a 4-1 win over Canada on Sunday. The Americans have won back-to-back titles for the first time after beating Canada 4-3 in last year’s final in Harbin, China.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: St-Pierre Shuts Out Team USA For Gold

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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 Canada Day, we revisit Canada’s 2004 Women’s World title twenty years later, where Kim St-Pierre shut out Team USA on home ice in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 06 April 2004

The Halifax Metro Centre was transformed into a sea of red and white Tuesday night, as 10,506 hockey fans filled the Halifax arena to watch Team Canada face-off against Team USA in the Gold medal game of the 2004 IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off

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With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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