IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 26 May 2024


🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Gold Medal Game
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 26 May 2024

Dreams do come true. David Pastrňák scored the third-period winner at 9:13 as the Czechs blanked Switzerland 2-0 in the 2024 Gold medal game in Prague. Amid a wild atmosphere, Czechia becomes just the fifth nation ever to win the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on home ice.
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🇫🇷 2024 IIHF Congress Names France As 2028 World Championship Hosts


The 2024 IIHF Congress today in Prague, Czechia formally announced the hosts of the 2028 World Championship, with the French cities of Paris and Lyon awarded hosting duties for 12-28 May 2028, winning as the sole candidate after withdrawn bids from Norway and Kazakhstan.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT) – 21 May 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Tuesday, 21 May 2024

In a nail-biter that stayed scoreless until a wild third period, Dylan Cozens tallied twice, including the overtime winner, as Canada beat Czechia 4-3 to top Group A.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title


By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship


The Division IA World Championship tournament in Bolzano, Italy saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2025 World Championship in Sweden and Denmark locked up on the final day of competition, with Slovenia and Hungary both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇳🇴 🇭🇺 Norway, Hungary Promoted To 2025 Women’s World Championship


At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Klagenfurt, Austria today, it was Norway and Hungary that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2025, to be hosted in České Budějovice, Czechia.
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🇨🇿 Jakub Voráček Confirms Retirement, Shift To Coaching


Czech winger Jakub Voráček, sidelined by injuries for the last two seasons after a decorated fourteen season career both in the NHL and with the national team, today announced his formal retirement from hockey at age 34, opting instead to join his hometown club Rytíři Kladno in a coaching position. Continue reading

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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