For the second straight Olympics, the men’s hockey tournament will not feature NHL superstars (although this time due to COVID-19), making the Olympic tournament not necessarily a true “best on best,” but still a showcase of some of the world’s top talent looking to capture Gold and Olympic glory in Beijing.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Winter Olympics (Women’s)
The seventh ever women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Thursday, with an anticipated showdown once again between Canada and the United States likely to highlight the Gold Medal Match for the sixth time.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Men’s
With the international hockey calendar returning (relatively) to normal in 2021, the IHLC saw a flurry of activity throughout the year, bookended with stops on the Euro Hockey Tour, and a relocated World Championship in between. Continue reading
๐ท๐ธ ๐ฒ๐ฝ IIHF Cancels January 2022 Tournaments, Including Junior Division IIB & III
Thanks to the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant across the globe, the IIHF today announced that all tournaments set to begin in January 2022 will be cancelled, including the entire Under-18 Women’s World Championship, and the two bottom Divisions in the World Junior Championship.
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๐จ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช Czechia, Denmark, Sweden Clinch Final 2022 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After just three months Olympic qualifiers that were set to begin nearly a year ago, but delayed due to COVID-19, the three final qualification spots for a trip to Beijing were today clinched by Czechia, Denmark and Sweden for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Provisional Olympians Named For Beijing 2022
As part of the NHL’s re-entry into the Olympics with the upcoming games in Beijing this February, the NHL and IIHF collectively announced provisional NHL players for each team, naming three active professionals to each roster.
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๐จ๐ณ 2022 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 09 February, with defending champions the Russian Olympic Committee starting their title defence on the opening day, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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๐จ๐ณ 2022 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, China were released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 03 February.
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IIHF Congress Approves Women’s World Championships In Olympic Years
After over twenty years of not holding the IIHF Women’s World Championship in years when the Olympics are taking place, today the IIHF Congress voted to allow for both tournaments to be held the same calendar year every four years, with the tournament moving from April to August in Olympic years, starting in 2022.
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๐จ๐ณ NHL, IIHF Reach Agreement On 2022 Olympic Participation
After the NHL and NHL Player’s Association came to an agreement last summer to participate at both the 2022 and 2026 Olympics, pending negotiations with the International Olympic Committee and IIHF, today it was announced that NHL players will in fact participate at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, marking their return to the Games after skipping the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
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๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฉ๐ฐ Slovakia, Latvia, Denmark Clinch Final Beijing 2022 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly two year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Luxembourg and China in November 2019, four rounds of play, 36 teams competing and a global pandemic in between, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Beijing, with the spots being clinched locked up by Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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๐ซ๐ฎ 2022 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, returning to the nation for the first time since Helsinki hosted consecutively in 2012-13.
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๐จ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐น NHL, NHLPA Agrees To Olympic Return In 2022 & 2026
With both the National Hockey League and NHL Players Association today ratifying both their return to play proposal to complete the 2019-20 NHL season, as well as extend their latest Collective Bargaining Agreement, one major clause of the plan is the return of NHL players to the Winter Olympics, marking the return of the world’s top professional players for the first time since 2014, pending IOC and IIHF approval.
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Major Announcements Made At 2019 IIHF Congress
The IIHF Annual Congress today was held on the off day at the 2019 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, with a number of major announcements voted on to impact the future of international hockey in the coming years.
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๐จ๐ณ China Granted Automatic Berths At 2022 Beijing Olympics
In a similar vein to the IIHF’s decision four years ago to allow Korea automatic berths to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, the IIHF today confirmed at their Annual Congress that the next Winter Olympic hosts, China, will gain automatic berths for the men’s and women’s tournaments in Beijing for the 2022 Games.
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IIHF Confirms 2022 Olympic Women’s Tournament Expanding To Ten Teams
Following a similar mandate made for the IIHF Women’s World Championships last year, the IIHF today confirmed that the 2022 Olympic women’s tournament in Beijing, China, will expand to ten teams, in order to accommodate both the host country and a new contender in an ever-increasing talent pool in international women’s hockey.
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๐จ๐ณ Beijing Announced As Host Of 2022 Winter Olympics
After a two-city race between Asian powers to host the XXIV Olympiad, it was today announced in Kuala Lumpur that Beijing, China will host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, after defeating Almaty, Kazakhstan by a vote of 44-40.
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IHLC Team Profiles – ๐จ๐ณ China (Men’s)
๐จ๐ณ CHINA (CHN) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1972-)
An emerging hockey nation just by virtue of its sheer size, the Chinese men’s team will look to replicate the success of the women’s side before the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. With the world watching, China had a respectable appearance at their first Olympics, showing that there is great potential for homegrown talent to flourish in China. Continue reading
IHLC Team Profiles – ๐จ๐ณ China (Women’s)
๐จ๐ณ CHINA (CHN) Womenโs National Ice Hockey Team (1992-)
China has been a unique contender for the women’s IHLC, emerging as an unlikely threat at the 1992 World Championship – but more remarkable has been their ability to stay competitive in a nation not known for its hockey prowess. China has nearly upset the dominant Canadian squad on two occasions, at the 1996 Pacific Rim Championship and 1998 Nagano Olympics. China has played nearly twenty games but has yet to win the IHLC, and will surely continue to compete to win their elusive first title.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 13-1 China ๐จ๐ณ – 04 Apr 2009
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 13-1 China ๐จ๐ณ
Women’s World Championshipย Preliminary Round
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Saturday, 04 April 2009
Canada opened the 2009 Women’s World Hockey Championship with a 13-1 win against overmatched China on Saturday.
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