After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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Tag Archives: Czechia
IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT) – 29 Dec 2022
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2022
Ludvig Jansson scored at 1:35 of overtime to give Sweden a 3-2 win over Czechia and stay undefeated to remain in first place of Group A. The loss was Czechia’s first of the tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹 – 27 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 27 December 2022
Jiří Kulich scored three goals en route to a one-sided Czechia 9-0 win over Austria tonight in Halifax. The win moves Czechia to 2-0 and keeps them tied for first place in the Group A standings with Sweden.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 26 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2022
Czechia scored three goals in the second period and came away with their first win against Canada at the World Juniors since 2013 (8 losses), stunning the favoured hosts by a 5-2 score tonight in Halifax.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 18 Dec 2022
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Sunday, 18 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:56 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Košťálek, holding
14:03 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Olofsson (Tömmernes)
15:57 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundberg, interference
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 17 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Saturday, 17 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Fora, holding
13:54 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Zohorna, high sticking
19:42 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Jandus, tripping
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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 15 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 15 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:37 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Tyrväinen, tripping
03:09 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Stránský (Chlapík, Špaček)
04:03 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Němeček, tripping
05:15 – 🇨🇿 SH GOAL – Beránek (Černoch, Jandus)
08:00 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Stránský, delay of game
18:27 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ikonen, hooking
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NHL Announces Postponement Of World Cup Of Hockey
The National Hockey League and NHL Players Association today announced that the World Cup Of Hockey, which was being planned to return in February 2024, would be delayed until at least 2025, if not potentially longer.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 Sep 2022
🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Saturday, 03 September 2022
Team USA scored six goals in the first period to put the game out of reach with speed and seeming ease, defeating Czechia by a 10-1 count and advancing to the Gold medal game tomorrow night. They will face the winner of tonight’s Canada–Switzerland tilt.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender
Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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🇸🇰 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Šatan’s Pair Sends Naši chlapci To Finals
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 Slovakia’s Constitution Day (Deň Ústavy Slovenskej republiky), we look back at Slovakia’s unlikely run to the 2012 World Championship Gold Medal Game, where they knocked off neighbouring Czechia to punch their ticket to the finals.
🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Semifinal
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Miroslav Šatan’s second goal of the game, a beautiful short-handed marker early in the third, broke a 1-1 tie and led Slovakia to a 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic to give his team a place in the Gold medal game tomorrow.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship
After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Aug 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 19 August 2022
Wearing their snazzy, red, throwback sweaters, Canada blasted past the underdog Czechs by a 5-2 score this afternoon to advance to the gold medal game Saturday night, 6pm local time. They’ll play the winners of tonight’s Sweden–Finland semi-finals. It will be their fifth appearance in the ultimate game in the last six years.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 14 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 14 August 2022
Rule of thumb: if you can’t kill penalties, they will kill you. The Slovaks learned that the hard way on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Place. Brimming with confidence, Finland converted five times with the power play in a 9-3 dismantling of Slovakia.
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