🇸🇪 🇨🇿 Sweden Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Czechs Win Euro Hockey Challenge

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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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🇰🇿 🇭🇺 Kazakhstan, Hungary Promoted To 2016 Worlds

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After Poland failed to defeat Hungary in regulation in front of their hometown fans, Hungary clinched the second and final promotion to the 2016 World Championships in Russia, following an undefeated Kazakhstan who punched their ticket on Thursday.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Euro Hockey Tour
E.ON Arena, Timrå 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:50 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Sobotka (Mozík, Birner)
17:21 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Smoleňák, slashing
18:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – team, too many players
19:14 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Andersson (Petersson, Thuresson)
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🇨🇿 🇩🇪 Czechs Promoted, Germany Relegated For Women’s Worlds

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As a result of their 3-0 win over Denmark, improving them to 4-0 at the Division I Group A tournament in Rouen, France, the Czech women’s team has secured the eighth and final spot at the 2016 Women’s World Championship next spring in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, taking the spot from the German squad that was relegated at this year’s Championship in Malmö, Sweden.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 10 Apr 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Euro Hockey Challenge
Horácký Zimní Stadion, Jihlava 🇨🇿
Friday, 10 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:46 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zaťovič (Nakládal, Růžička)
07:34 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Simon (Radil, Mozík)
08:24 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Marcinko, holding
11:02 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Haščák, roughing
17:17 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Nagy, high sticking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (SO) – 09 Apr 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (SO)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Horácký Zimní Stadion, Jihlava 🇨🇿
Thursday, 09 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:58 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Vandas, interference
08:51 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Novotný, interference
11:17 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Krejčík, holding
12:40 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Bartovič (Jaroš)
14:06 – 🇨🇿 EA GOAL – Kolář (Novotný)
19:57 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Graňák, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Norway 🇳🇴 – 03 Apr 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Norway 🇳🇴
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kristins Hall, Lillehammer 🇳🇴
Friday, 03 April 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:44 – 🇳🇴 PEN – Espeland, kneeing
09:32 – 🇳🇴 PEN – team, too many players
16:07 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Svačina (Simon)
18:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 07 Feb 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 07 February 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
07:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Vondrka (Zohorna, Koukal)
09:52 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zohorna (Roman, Zaťovič)
10:22 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Slepyshev (Grigoriev)
11:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Lazarev (Loktionov)
13:46 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
14:53 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Klesla, interference
17:30 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Gulaš, interference
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World Cup Of Hockey Return Announced For 2016

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After months of speculation, the NHL today confirmed during the All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio that the World Cup Of Hockey would officially return in 2016, being hosted solely in Toronto from 17 September – 01 October 2016. As expected, six national teams (Canada, United States, Russia, Czechia, Sweden and Finland) and two “all star” teams (a team of under-23 stars from Canada and the United States, and a team made up of European players without teams playing in the tournament, such as Slovakia, Norway and Switzerland) will make up the tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 21 Dec 2014

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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Sunday, 21 December 2014

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:42 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Antipin, tripping
12:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Polášek, hooking
14:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kutuzov (Zubov, Parshin)
19:30 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Grigorenko (Parshin, Zubov)
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 18 Dec 2014

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Thursday, 18 December 2014

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:31 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kolář, interference
13:04 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jan Kovář (Radil, Zaťovič)
13:56 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Birner (Horák)
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IHLC Preview – 2014 Channel One Cup

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After sweeping the Karjala Tournament, going undefeated against Russia, Finland and the Czechs and winning the International Hockey Lineal Championship in the process, Sweden looks to win the second leg of the Euro Hockey Tour at the Channel One Cup in Sochi, a year removed from the Czechs winning the trophy.
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🇨🇿 Injuries Force Tomáš Vokoun Into Retirement

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Unable to return to the ice following surgery to remove a blood clot from his pelvis nearly a year ago, goalie veteran Tomáš Vokoun has decided to call it a career, after 16 seasons in the NHL playing for Montréal, Nashville, Florida, Washington and Pittsburgh.
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World Cup Update: Euro, Rookie All-Star Teams To Compete?

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As first reported by Sportsnet, representatives from the NHL and IIHF met in Toronto in advance of the Hockey Hall Of Fame Class of 2014 induction ceremony to discuss the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey logistics, mainly the status of the two final spots to round out a field of eight teams to play in Toronto.
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