IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 7-4 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 31 Aug 2025


🇨🇿 Czechia 7-4 Sweden 🇸🇪
Five Nations Cup
Rocknet Arena, Chomutov 🇨🇿
Saturday, 30 August 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:40 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Žemlička (Klíma, Dravecký)
03:40 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Davidsson
06:09 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Orrsten, tripping
06:19 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Poletín, roughing
06:19 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sterner, roughing
06:30 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Curran (Benák, Jiříček)
12:27 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hallquisth, elbowing
18:56 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Stockselius (Ihs-Wozniak)
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🇨🇭 2026 World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, with the host Eisgenossen looking to finally conquer the tournament after consecutive Silver medal finishes, only three months after the conclusion of the 2026 Olympics in Milan.
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🇺🇸 2026 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the United States looking to “three-peat” as world champions for the first time in history, looking to do some on home ice in Minnesota, with the Americans hosting the tournament’s fiftieth edition for the first time since 2018.
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🇨🇭 Sven Andrighetto Named 2025 IIHF Male Player Of The Year


Swiss forward Sven Andrighetto, who captured the Swiss National League title, Champions League title and a World Championship Silver medal to cap his 2024-25 season, was today awarded the IIHF’s Male Player Of The Year Award.
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🇮🇹 2026 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released


The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 11 February, with defending champions Finland starting their title defence in the opening match, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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Provisional Men’s Rosters Named For 2026 Winter Olympics


With eight months to go until the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics after a twelve year absence, the provisional rosters for each of the twelve participating men’s nations were revealed today by each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster that will face off in Milan in February 2026.
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🇨🇿 Petr Koukal Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching


Czech centre Petr Koukal today announced the end of his playing career at age 42 as part of a transition to coaching, ending a 20+ year career capped by three Czech Extraliga titles and a World Championship Gold medal.
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🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts


The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 May 2025


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Saturday, 03 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hájek, boarding
01:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – L. Carlsson (Zibanejad, Andersson)
05:04 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kučeřík, delay of game
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Larsson, tripping
16:16 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Beránek, roughing
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hartmann, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 May 2025


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Thursday, 01 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:02 –
🇨🇿 GOAL – Lauko (M. Kovařčík)
10:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Erholtz, tripping
12:20 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Puistola, holding
12:31 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Beránek (Černoch, Špaček)
12:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Chlapík
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2025


🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Saturday, 19 April 2025

A huge effort from Czechia pushed Team USA to the limit in Saturday’s first semi-final in České Budějovice. But the Americans survived the scare, cancelling out Tereza Plosová’s opening goal with efforts from Laila Edwards and Kelly Pannek to break home hearts at the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
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🇦🇹 🇩🇰 Austria, Denmark Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship


At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Shenzhen, China today, it was Austria and Denmark that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2026, to be hosted in Canada.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Women’s World Championship


The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming to Czechia for the first time in its history, as the reigning world champions Canada will look to conquer České Budějovice for their second straight Gold medal in the 24th edition of the tournament from 09-20 April, with all games held at Budvar Aréna.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 IHLC To Miss Four Nations Face-Off Final


Just as it was uncertain that the IHLC would even be contended at the Four Nations Face-Off to begin with, necessitating a Finland win with less than a week before the tournament began, the IHLC will now be leaving North America, by virtue of Sweden‘s 2-1 round robin final victory over the United States, meaning that the IHLC will not be paired with the Four Nations title.
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World Cup Of Hockey Set To Return In 2028


On the eve of the inaugural (and potentially only) Four Nations Face-Off, the NHL and NHLPA today announced the return of the World Cup Of Hockey, set to debut in February 2028 as a mid-season, rather than preseason, tournament, and recurring every four years thereafter.
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