🇵🇱 🇬🇧 Poland, Great Britain Promoted To 2024 World Championship


The Division IA World Championship tournament in Nottingham, England saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2024 World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czechia locked up on the final day of competition, with hosts Great Britain and Poland both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Victory Clinches 2022-23 Euro Hockey Tour Title


By virtue of their 3-0 victory over Switzerland to kick off the 2023 Czech Hockey Games in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tre Kronor officially clinched their sixth Euro Hockey Tour title, and second straight, by moving eight points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just two games to go.
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🇺🇸 IIHF Names Utica As 2024 Women’s World Championship Host


On the final day of the 2023 Women’s World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed the next host of the tournament, with the 2024 Women’s World Championships to be hosted in Utica, New York, running from 04-14 April 2023.
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🇨🇿 Ondřej Němec Retires From Pro Hockey At 38


Czech journeyman defender Ondřej Němec, a mainstay of both the Czech Extraliga and national teams, today confirmed his retirement from the sport, finishing his final pro season captaining VHK Vsetín of the Czech second division.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 07 Apr 2023


🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Friday, 07 April 2023

Canada defeated Czechia 5-1 tonight in a rough-and-tumble game before a raucous crowd of 4,036 at CAA Centre. It was a solid win challenged by an impressive effort from coach Carla MacLeod’s Czechs.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 Women’s World Championship


For the first time since 2017, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will return to North America in front of fans, with the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, Canada hosting the 22nd edition of the tournament from 05-16 April, with all games held at the CAA Centre.
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🇨🇦 Toronto Six Capture 2023 Isobel Cup In OT Thriller


Following years of instability for the Premier Hockey Federation, largely due to COVID-19 restrictions and delays, the 2022-23 successful season, which introduced a seventh expansion team in Montréal, came to a thrilling conclusion tonight in Tempe, Arizona, with the Toronto Six capturing the Isobel Cup with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Minnesota Whitecaps.
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🇸🇪 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 11 Feb 2023


🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 11 February 2023

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:46 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Flynn, slashing
11:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Matinpalo (Aaltonen, Sallinen)
14:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Aaltonen (Sallinen, Kossila)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 09 Feb 2023


🇨🇿 Czechia 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Thursday, 09 February 2023

BOXSCORE
1st Period
17:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – de la Rose, cross checking
17:57 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kovář (Lakatoš, Zámorský)
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🇨🇦 2023 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT) – 05 Jan 2023


🇨🇦 Canada
3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2023

Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the game at 6:22 of the unlimited three-on-three overtime to give Canada the Gold Medal at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship in Halifax.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Junior


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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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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