🇷🇺 Russia 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
Zimný Štadión Ondreja Nepelu, Bratislava 🇸🇰
Monday, 13 May 2019
Great goaltending and committed team defence can take you a long way. That isn’t always Russia’s formula for success, but the Sbornaya withstood a stiff Czech test on Monday in Bratislava, prevailing 3-0 with a stellar shutout from Andrei Vasilevski.
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The finish of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 10 May in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia, with the top sixteen hockey countries in the world meeting to compete at the 2019 IIHF World Championship.
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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge, as the season ends to ring in the start of the 2019 World Championship in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2018-19 season.
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🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Carlson Hockey Games
DRFG Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Sunday, 05 May 2019
In the last game of the 2018-2019 Euro Hockey Tour, the senior Russian national team defeated the Czech Republic 4-1 in Brno.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Carlson Hockey Games
DRFG Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Saturday, 04 May 2019
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:04 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jaškin (Sklenička)
09:24 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lander, hooking
15:12 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Rousek, holding
17:29 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Gudas, holding
17:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Jaškin, roughing
17:41 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hörnqvist, roughing
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Just days after the death of Ján Starší, who built the Czechoslovak national team into a dominant force in the 1970’s, the man who helped carry the Czechoslovakian team through the 1980’s and Czech team in the 1990’s has also passed away, as Luděk Bukač today died at the age of 83.
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Just days after France and Sweden were relegated to Division IA at the 2020 Women’s World Championship, their spots were claimed by long-time returnees Denmark and first-timers Hungary for the Top Division in 2020.
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In one unsurprising development, and in another very surprising development, France and Sweden have been relegated to Division IA of the 2020 Women’s World Championship, with France going back down after their first trip to the Top Division, while Sweden is relegated for the first time in their history.
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For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will expand to a 10-team field when the best women’s players in the world face off in Espoo, Finland, for the 2019 edition of the championship, the 19th edition of the tournament.
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The schedule for the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ostrava and Třinec, Czechia has been released, with the host nation opening the tournament against rivals Russia, while defending champion Finland opens their defence against border rival Sweden.
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The Euro Hockey Challenge will return with a new, shorter format in 2019, with national teams preparing for the 2019 World Championship in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia this May.
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In a surprising twist at the World Junior Championship, Kazakhstan swept Denmark in their relegation series to stay in the Top Division for 2020, sending Denmark back to Division IA for the first time since 2014.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 02 January 2019
It was the first upset of the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship, and it was a biggie. Switzerland defeated Sweden 2-0 on Wednesday in Victoria to advance to the semi-finals.
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The International Hockey Lineal Championship again saw eight countries carry the title throughout 2018, with the Olympics being added to the calendar seeing 31 different matchups, with the IHLC being defended at five tournaments in seven different countries.
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🇷🇺 Russia 7-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Saturday, 15 December 2018
In Moscow, the senior Russian national team took on the Czech Republic in the second match of the 2018 Channel One Cup.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
Channel One Cup
Tampereen jäähalli, Tampere 🇫🇮
Thursday, 13 December 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
12:29 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Palve, hooking
18:53 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Hakulinen (Virtanen, Rajala)
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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Russia 🇷🇺
Karjala Tournament
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Sunday, 11 November 2018
In the concluding match of the 2018 Karjala Cup, the senior Russian national team lost to the Czech Republic 2-5, however the result didn’t prevent our players from winning the competition.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Karjala Tournament
Tipsport Arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Thursday, 08 November 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:34 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Arnesson, cross checking
08:30 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Lilja (Larsson)
10:31 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Doudera (Kubalík)
10:54 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Krejčík, tripping
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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 Czech Independence Day, we feature their third consecutive World Championship Gold from 2001, capping off an unprecedented half-decade of international hockey success.
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Preussag Arena, Hanover 🇩🇪
Sunday, 13 May 2001
The Czech Republic won its first IIHF World Championship as a new nation in 1996. This started an era of unprecedented success in Czech hockey history. The 1996 gold medal game against Canada was decided after Martin Procházka scored the winner with 19 seconds left to play of a 4-2 victory. Two years later, the Dominik Hašek-led Czechs won their first Olympic gold after the Dominator stunned all five Canadian shooters in a shootout in the semi-final and blanked Russia 1-0 in the final.
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After a career plagued by injuries, recent releases from Winnipeg and the New York Rangers, and failing to be signed by an NHL club, Ondřej Pavelec today announced his retirement from hockey, a surprising development due to only being 31 years old. Continue reading
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