For the second straight year, Germany narrowly avoided relegation at the World Junior Championship, this time eliminating Kazakhstan in a 4-3 victory to send the Kazakhs back down to Division IA in 2026, after only one year in the Top Division.
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Tag Archives: Canada
IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior
The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Women’s
The 2024 calendar year saw a reduction in international competition due to the rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, but there was still plenty of drama between the United States and Canada all throughout North America over the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
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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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off
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 Montrรฉal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2024
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 – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 10 Nov 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Idaho Central Arena, Boise ๐บ๐ธ
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 – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-4 United States ๐บ๐ธ (SO) – 08 Nov 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-4 United States ๐บ๐ธ (SO)
Rivalry Series, Game 2
Maverik Center, West Valley City ๐บ๐ธ
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 – ๐บ๐ธ United States 7-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ – 06 Nov 2024
๐บ๐ธ United States 7-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Tech CU Arena, San Jose ๐บ๐ธ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Lauriane Rougeau Announces Retirement, Shift To Hockey Ops
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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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ IHLC Classics: The Second Summit Series At Fifty
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.
๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐จ๐ฟ 2025 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
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 ฤeskรฉ Budฤjovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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๐จ๐ฆ Tyler Ennis Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 34
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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๐จ๐ฆ 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
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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๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
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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๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช 2025 World Championship Schedule Released
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 โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 5-4 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ (SO) โ 03 Aug 2024
๐บ๐ธ United States 5-4 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ (SO)
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth ๐บ๐ธ
Saturday, 03 August 2024
Team USA took down Canada in dramatic fashion with Brodie Ziemerโs goal in the sixth round of the shootout giving the U.S. a 5-4 victory.
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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-6 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ โ 02 Aug 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-6 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth ๐บ๐ธ
Friday, 02 August 2024
Propelled by three power-play goals, Canada skated to an 8-6 win over Finland in the first game of the day.
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๐จ๐ฆ Eric Staal Signs One Day Contract, Retires From Pro Hockey
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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