For just the second time in history, the same nation has captured both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge titles, with Finland today edging out Sweden to lock up the 2017-18 Tour, becoming the second team after Czechia in 2012 to achieve the double.
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Tag Archives: Czechia
Ak Bars Kazan Wins Historic Third Gagarin Cup With 16 IHLC Winners
Ak Bars Kazan made KHL history on home ice, upending the expected champion CSKA Moscow in only five games to win the 2018 Gagarin Cup, becoming the first team in the league’s decade-long history to win three titles (2008, 2009, 2018).
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🇰🇷 South Korea Becomes First New Men’s IHLC Contender In 15 Years
In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, Slovakia’s IHLC win over Latvia today confirmed their next opponent will be South Korea (Korea Republic), making the Koreans the first new team in 15 years to contend for the IHLC.
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🇫🇷 France Clinches Final Spot In 2019 World Women’s Championships
France’s women’s hockey team has made history in the Alps commune of Vaujany, as they became the tenth and final team to clinch a spot at the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship, becoming the first team to join the Top Division since the tournament expanded to ten teams in 2017.
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🇨🇿 Florida Panthers Confirm Radim Vrbata’s Retirement
The Florida Panthers confirmed that Czech forward Radim Vrbata would sit out the Panthers’ season finale in Boston, putting his 17 season career to an end, with stops in Colorado, Carolina, Chicago, Phoenix, Tampa Bay, Vancouver and Florida, along with stints with Liberec and Mladá Boleslav of his native Czech league.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 11 Feb 2018
🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Anyang Ice Arena, Anyang 🇰🇷
Sunday, 11 February 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:18 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Manninen, slashing
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 17 Dec 2017
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 17 December 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:50 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Mertl, holding
12:18 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Mozík (Vondrka, Kovář)
14:37 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Stålberg, holding
15:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Řepík (Mozík, Vondrka)
18:22 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Dec 2017
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 15 December 2017
Matt Ellison opened the scoring on a second-period power play, but Canada’s National Men’s Team dropped a 4-1 decision to the Czech Republic on Friday at the 2017 Channel One Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 13 Dec 2017
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Channel One Cup
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Koukal, tripping
04:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koskiranta, tripping
05:45 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Manninen
18:42 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kundrátek, holding
19:09 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Kemppainen (Junttila)
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 08 Nov 2017
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-3 Czechia 🇨🇿
Karjala Tournament
Behrn Arena, Örebro 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 08 November 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:34 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Cehlin, kneeing
12:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Nakládal (Nestrašil, Radil)
14:45 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Everberg (Ahnelöv, Lander)
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🇰🇷 2018 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 14 February, while both hosts Korea and defending champions Canada begin the tournament the following day.
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2017-18 Euro Hockey Tour Schedule Released
The full schedule for the 2017-18 Euro Hockey Tour has been announced, the highlights being the moving of the Sweden Hockey Games to April (due to this year’s Olympics in February), and the addition of teams from Canada, Switzerland and Korea, all preparing for the Games in PyeongChang.
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2018 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2018 World Championship in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, with defending champions Sweden opening the tournament against Belarus, while hosts Denmark open the tournament against Germany on opening day.
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2018 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
The Euro Hockey Challenge will return in the lead-up to the 2018 World Championships this season, with yet another scheduling reformat thanks to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, with national teams fine-tuning their rosters before heading to Copenhagen and Herning.
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2018 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York is highlighted by the first ever outdoor game in IIHF competition, a tilt between defending champs Team USA and their cross-border rivals, Canada, on 29 December, at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park.
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🇨🇿 František Ševčík: 1942-2017
Czech star forward František Ševčík, an integral part of the 1960’s teams that went toe-to-toe with the juggernaut Soviet Union, died today in Brno at the age of 75.
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KHL IX Gala Hands Out Awards To IHLC Winners
The KHL tonight handed out its awards to the best players in the league at the KHL IX ceremony in Moscow, with Metallurg star Sergei Mozyakin once again dominating the ceremony, taking home four trophies (including league MVP), along with nine other IHLC winners from four countries also winning awards.
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Major Announcements Made At 2017 IIHF Congress
The IIHF Annual Congress today was held on the off day at the 2017 World Championships in Cologne, Germany, with a number of major announcements voted on to impact the future of international hockey in the coming years.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Sweden’s Unique Double
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, while the ongoing World Championships take a day off, we look back to the final of the 2006 Worlds, where Sweden made history by being the first team to win Olympic and World Championship Gold in the same year.
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Sunday, 21 May 2006
The impossible dream has come true.
With a dazzling attack and air-tight defence, Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 Sunday night at a packed Arēna Rīga and became the first nation in history to capture Olympic and IIHF World Championship gold in the same year. A quick two-goal outburst in the opening period was enough to seal the fate of the Czechs.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 05 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Friday, 05 May 2017
In many cities over many decades have Canada and the Czechs played hockey, but until tonight never Paris.
The massively pro-Czech crowd of 8,834 left disappointed, though, because their team was beaten by a superior, but sloppy, Canada, 4-1.
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