The International Hockey Lineal Championship doubled up on champions in 2016, with six different nations taking hold of the IHLC over a span of 23 games, leaving an unlikely country the incumbent champion heading into 2017.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 26 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2016
The opening game of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was a smashing success for Sweden, which beat Denmark 6-1 at Montréal’s Bell Centre on Boxing Day.
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🇳🇴 🇸🇮 🇩🇪 Norway, Slovenia, Germany Nab Final 2018 Olympic Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Bulgaria last October, three rounds of play and 28 teams competing for just three spots in PyeongChang, the final slots were today locked up by Norway, Slovenia and Germany for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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2017 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2017 World Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany, with defending champions Canada opening the tournament against Czechia, while hosts Germany open the tournament against the United States on opening day, and France hosts Norway on day two.
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IHLC Winners Win Big At 2016 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League handed out its hardware to the best players in the world Wednesday night in the newest NHL city, Las Vegas, with ten IHLC holders representing four countries taking home trophies.
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Final Roster Spots Announced For 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
The remaining seven spots for each World Cup Of Hockey roster today were finalized, and the 184 players set to represent their six countries and two multinational squads are now set for the tournament in Toronto that begins this September.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 19 May 2016
🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Championship Quarterfinal
Yubileyniy Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Finland calmly beat Denmark 5-1 in the early Saint Petersburg quarter-final on Thursday. The Finns will face the winner of Russia–Germany in Moscow on Saturday.
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🇰🇿 🇭🇺 Kazakhstan, Hungary Relegated From World Championship
With the medal rounds set at the 2016 World Championship in Russia, the two relegated squads are now determined as well, with newly promoted Kazakhstan and Hungary both falling back to Division IA in 2017 after failing to clinch their spots for the 2017 Top Division in France and Germany.
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IHLC Preview – 2016 World Championship
The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on May 6 in Russia, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting in Russia to compete at the 80th IIHF World Championship.
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Preliminary Rosters Announced For 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
The six federations and two conglomerate squads participating at September’s World Cup Of Hockey today announced their preliminary 16 man rosters, with the final seven spots each to be filled by 1 June.
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2016 KHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to set the starting lineup, and a media vote to set the second lines, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for the 2016 KHL All Star Game in Moscow, Russia on 23 January.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 30 Dec 2015
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Felix Sandström made ninesaves en route to a shutout in his first game in the tournament as Sweden beat Denmark 5-0.
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2016 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
After a major overhaul to the Euro Hockey Challenge in the 2014-15 season, this year’s EHC will retain the current format, in the lead-up to the 2016 World Championships in Russia.
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2016 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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First Nine Nations Qualified For 2018 Olympic Men’s Tournament
Following Belarus‘ failure to finish in the top four at the 2015 World Championships, Slovakia scooped up the ninth and final automatic qualification spot for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, joining defending champions Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Czechia, Switzerland and the host nation Korea.
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IHLC Preview – 2015 World Championship
With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 02 Jan 2015
🇨🇦 Canada 8-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Friday, 02 January 2015
Canada has booked the final spot in the semi-finals with a dominant 8-0 win over Denmark before a raucous crowd of 18,448 at the Air Canada Centre tonight.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Men’s
2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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🇪🇺 2016 World Cup “Euro All-Stars”: What If?
Amid reports of a European “All-Star” team making up a seventh team at the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey, which would be comprised of players from nations not already fielding full teams (Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia), much speculation has already begun about what that potential team would look like. Matt Larkin of The Hockey News took the speculation a step further, setting a full projected roster for 2016, which brings up a very unique and interesting looking squad.
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2015 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 World Championship in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, iihfworlds2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in May.
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