The exhibition schedule in advance of the 2016 World Cup in Toronto has been unveiled, with 12 games on tilt the week before the tournament in 10 cities across six nations on two continents.
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2016 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
After a major overhaul to the Euro Hockey Challenge in the 2014-15 season, this year’s EHC will retain the current format, in the lead-up to the 2016 World Championships in Russia.
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🇨🇿 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: The 1998 Olympic Gold Medal Game
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 this Wednesday, we look back at the Czech’s first Olympic title, shocking the world at the first “open” Olympics for NHL players.
🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena, Nagano 🇯🇵
Sunday, 22 February 1998
Although the Czech Republic could not have won gold at the 1998 Olympics without goalie Dominik Hašek, it was Petr Svoboda of the Czech Republic who was the final hero of the tournament, the first Olympics which included full participation of NHL players.
Hašek had led the team to the Gold medal game by stopping all five Canadian players in a semi-finals shootout win, but it was Svoboda who scored the lone goal in the final game of the Olympics against Russia.
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2016 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced in the host city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, with the tournament kicking off with a rematch of last year’s final (and every Gold Medal Game in tournament history), between the bitter rivals Canada and the United States.
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NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2016 World Cup
The NHL, who will be restarting the World Cup Of Hockey after a twelve-year absence, has unveiled the last of its projected lineups for the six national and two pan-national teams partaking next September in Toronto, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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2016 World Cup Of Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey leaked today, confirming the already reported Group structure from earlier this year, along with the full tally of games in Toronto next fall to crown the newest World Cup of Hockey global champion.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 30 Aug 2015
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Sunday, 30 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:52 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ottosson, interference
04:32 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Andres (Gřeš)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 29 Aug 2015
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Saturday, 29 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jašek (Kaše)
12:40 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Ordoš
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 04 Aug 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
2015 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medallists Brayden Point and Jake Virtanen put on a show at the Markin MacPhail Centre on Tuesday, combining for eight points in a 7-1 Canadian win; Point had five points and Virtanen added three.
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🇨🇿 Martin Ručinský Retires After 27 Pro Seasons
After nearly thirty years in professional hockey, journeying through clubs across North America and Europe, Czech mainstay winger Martin Ručinský has announced his retirement at the age of 44, ending his career with three World Championships and one Olympic title.
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2016 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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Euro Hockey Tour Schedule Released, Format Same As 2014-15
After a new format for the Euro Hockey Tour was unveiled last season, eliminating the Oddset and Czech Hockey Games and replacing the second half of the tournament with a round-robin format between Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia, the tournament details have been confirmed to follow the same format for 2015-16.
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Blackhawks Led To Stanley Cup By IHLC Champions
In an era where hockey dynasties were considered extinct thanks to the salary cap, the Chicago Blackhawks defied the odds, winning their third Stanley Cup in six seasons from the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
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🇨🇿 Růžička Resigns From Czech National Team Amidst Scandal
Embroiled in a scandal over allegedly bribing parents of players to join his pro squad that he both co-owns and coaches, Vladimír Růžička, the star Czech forward turned coach, has stepped down both from his club, HC Slavia Praha, as well as from the Czech national side.
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🇨🇿 Pavel Patera Retires After 24 Year Career
Czech forward Pavel Patera, who after an illustrious 24 year career all across European leagues, and highlighted by key stints with the Czech national team, has retired at the age of 43 after a final season captaining HC Olomouc.
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Groups Confirmed For 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
According to a report by Sovsport.ru in an interview with Soviet hockey legend and current Russian Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak, the groups for the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey in Toronto have been confirmed.
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🇨🇿 Jágr Retires From Czech National Team…Again
After a disappointing fourth place finish in front of their home crowd, Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr, named tournament MVP of the 2015 World Championships, has said for the second straight season that he is done with the Czech national team.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 16 May 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Semifinal
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Canada scored once in each of the first two periods and then played a dangerous game of sitting on the lead in the third, but the 2-0 score held up.
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First Nine Nations Qualified For 2018 Olympic Men’s Tournament
Following Belarus‘ failure to finish in the top four at the 2015 World Championships, Slovakia scooped up the ninth and final automatic qualification spot for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, joining defending champions Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Czechia, Switzerland and the host nation Korea.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 01 May 2015
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Friday, 01 May 2015
Oliver Ekman-Larsson got the shootout winner as Sweden blew a 4-2 third-period lead but beat the Czechs 6-5 to send the host team’s fans home disappointed.
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