IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 07 April 2024

Canada scored three goals in the first period to take control of a game they won in dominating fashion, beating Czechia 5-0 to stay a perfect 3-0 in Group A with the United States.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship


The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees


The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2024, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Prague, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, including a trio of native Czechoslovak legends heading the class.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior


The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s


The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Women’s


The 2023 calendar year saw another fourteen heavyweight matchups between the United States and Canada on the international hockey stage, with both nations fighting for Gold medals, world supremacy, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 29 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 29 December 2023

Isaac Howard got the shootout winner as the U.S. beat Czechia 4-3 in Group B action on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 28 December 2023

Jimmy Snuggerud scored a hat trick in the first period as the U.S. trounced Switzerland 11-3 on Thursday at Frölundaborg. It was a showcase of the skill and speed that the USA Hockey National Team Development Program preaches in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship


With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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🇨🇿 Roman Čechmánek: 1971-2023


Roman Čechmánek, the Olympic and three-time World Champion Czech goaltender who was part of the golden era of post-communist Czech hockey, was announced to have died at the age of 52 today in Czechia.
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🇺🇸 2024 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Utica, New York, United States, with the hosts looking to repeat as champions for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🇨🇿 Tomáš Plekanec Announces Retirement Just Short Of 41st Birthday


Czech centre Tomáš Plekanec, one of the top two-way forwards of his era, and a mainstay on both the Montréal Canadiens, HC Kladno and the Czech national team over the past two decades, today formally announced his retirement from Kladno just three days short of his 41st birthday.
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🇨🇿 2024 World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, the first tournament set to play at its intended host cities and arenas since 2019, following concerns over COVID-19, political unrest in Belarus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇿 David Krejčí Confirms Retirement From NHL


Czech centreman David Krejčí, a longtime mainstay of both the Boston Bruins and Narodnitym, today announced his retirement from professional hockey at the age of 37, after sixteen pro seasons in Boston, along with another two in the Czech league.
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🇩🇪 2023 IIHF Congress Names Germany As 2027 World Championship Hosts


The 2023 IIHF Congress today in Tampere, Finland announced the hosts of the 2027 World Championship, with the German cities of Düsseldorf and Mannheim awarded hosting duties for 14-30 May 2027, winning a vote over Kazakhstan.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 21 May 2023


🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Sunday, 21 May 2023

Andres Ambühl, the 39-year-old wonder of the Swiss team, scored two goals less than five minutes apart in the second period to break a 1-1 tie and send his team to a 4-2 win over Czechia in Group B action tonight.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia starting this Friday, 12 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 May 2023


🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Sunday, 07 May 2023

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:29 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Kempný (Smejkal, Chlapík)
05:24 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Beránek, checking from behind major + 20 min. misconduct
06:29 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Haas (Loeffel)
17:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Künzle, tripping
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 06 May 2023


🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Saturday, 06 May 2023

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:02 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kubalík, holding
04:05 – 🇸🇪 PEN – A. Lindholm, tripping
05:05 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Lindberg
06:43 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Persson, tripping
15:07 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Sedlák, roughing
15:07 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Pudas, roughing
15:51 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Košťálek, slashing
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