๐บ๐ธ United States 4-1 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Rivalry Series, Game 4
Rogers Place,ย Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 13 December 2025
Canada improved, but not enough to beat the United States in the fourth and final game of their women’s hockey Rivalry Series.
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After a two-year stint in Division IA, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, thanks to a late Kazakh comeback victory over Austria, locking up their spot in the Top Division even before their final match against hosts Slovenia at the Division IA tournament in Bled.
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๐บ๐ธ United States 10-4 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Rogers Place,ย Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
The United States feasted on Canada’s porous defence in a 10-4 thrashing to take the women’s hockey Rivalry Series on Wednesday.
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Canadian phenom Connor Bedard, whose historic performance at the 2023 World Junior Championship sealed his fate as the presumptive #1 overall pick at this year’s NHL Entry Draft, was today awarded the IIHF’s inaugural Male Player Of The Year Award for the 2022-23 season.
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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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 20 August 2022
Kent Johnson knocked in a loose puck at 3:20 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over Finland and take the Gold medal at the 2022 World Junior Championship.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-2 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
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. Theyโll play the winners of tonightโs Sweden–Finland semi-finals. It will be their fifth appearance in the ultimate game in the last six years.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-3 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Propelled by a four-goal first period, Canada defeated Switzerland 6-3 in Thursday’s marquee quarter-final in front of a happy Rogers Place crowd. Coach Dave Cameron’s team will face either the Finns or the Czechs in the semi-finals on Friday.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-3 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Monday, 15 August 2022
Canada scored three goals on 10 first-period shots en route to a 6-3 victory over rival Finland to stay perfect at Rogers Place and clinch first place in Group A. The result gives the host nation a quarter-final matchup with Switzerland on Wednesday.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 9-3 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 4-3 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Kasper Simontaival scored the shootout winner to break a 3-3 tie and send Finland on to victory over Czechia this afternoon at Rogers Place. The win keeps Finland perfect (2-0) and drops the Czechs to 1-1 so far.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 6-1 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Tuesday, 09 August 2022
It’s been a stellar year for Finnish hockey, and the U20 boys did their part to maintain that tone on Tuesday, kicking off with a 6-1 win over Latvia at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton.
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After playing the 2021 World Junior Championship in a bubble, and having to cancel the original iteration of the 2022 tournament in December after just nine games due to an outbreak of COVID-19, the second attempt at the 2022 Championship will begin on 09 August in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, hoping to complete the tournament successfully with fans in the stands for the first time since 2020.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 5-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Friday, 05 August 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:15 – ๐บ๐ธ PEN – Stramel, slashing
13:33 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL – Simontaival (Mรครคttรค, Jรคrventie)
15:58 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Rafkin, cross checking
17:25 – ๐บ๐ธ PP GOAL – Cooley (Peart, McKown)
19:17 – ๐บ๐ธ GOAL – Savage (Kleven, Mazur)
19:54 – ๐ซ๐ฎย PEN – Hirvonen, cross checking
20:00 – ๐บ๐ธ PEN – Bordeleau, butt-ending double minor
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Thursday, 04 August 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:43 – ๐ธ๐ช PEN – Edvinsson, hooking
02:13 – ๐ธ๐ช SH GOAL – Grans (Olsson, Stjernborg)
13:02 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Rafkin, tripping
16:24 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Jรคrventie, high sticking
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The schedule for the rescheduled 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, restarting the tournament in Edmonton, Canada following the cancellation of December’s tournament due to an outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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Just under three weeks after announcing that Russia and Belarus were banned from IIHF participation after the Russian-led and Belarusian-backed invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February, today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced replacement clubs for upcoming participation in the upcoming 2022 Men’s, Women’s and Junior World Championships.
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Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw seven games of competition this year on the junior side, nearly a year apart, all in Edmonton, and cut short thanks to the outright cancellation of the 2022 World Junior Championship thanks to the Omicron variant.
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After the third game in two days needed to be cancelled due to positive cases on an individual team, today the IIHF announced that the remainder of the 2022 World Junior Championships in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada would be cancelled.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 1-0 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ (FF)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Due to a mandated team quarantine following a positive test result of one of its players, Team Czechia will be unable to participate in its 29 December preliminary round game against Finland at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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