IHLC Preview – 2022 Winter Olympics (Women’s)


The seventh ever women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Thursday, with an anticipated showdown once again between Canada and the United States likely to highlight the Gold Medal Match for the sixth time.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Junior


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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IHLC 2021 In Review – Men’s


With the international hockey calendar returning (relatively) to normal in 2021, the IHLC saw a flurry of activity throughout the year, bookended with stops on the Euro Hockey Tour, and a relocated World Championship in between. Continue reading

IHLC 2021 In Review – Women’s


After a tumultuous year that saw the IIHF Women’s Championship be cancelled for the second straight year, then revived in August, the IHLC finally saw a return to relative normalcy in the second half of 2021, in the lead-up to the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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Remainder Of 2022 World Junior Championship Cancelled


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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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 1-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 (FF) – 29 Dec 2021


🇫🇮 Finland 1-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 (FF)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
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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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 7-1 Austria 🇦🇹 – 27 Dec 2021


🇫🇮 Finland 7-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Monday, 27 December 2021

Just another day at the office for the boys in blue and white. Finland stayed perfect in Group A with a 7-1 dismantling of underdog Austria on Monday at Rogers Place.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 26 Dec 2021


🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 26 December 2021

At long last, the excitement of the IIHF World Junior Championship is back. Finland kicked off the 2022 tournament in Edmonton with a hard-fought 3-1 win over Germany on Sunday.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Junior Championship


After COVID-19 forced the 2021 World Junior Championship into a bubble, the tournament returns to Alberta, Canada for 2022, with Edmonton and Red Deer hosting the world’s top under-20 hockey teams in front of fans for the first time since January 2020, just before the world changed forever.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 23 Dec 2021


🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 23 December 2021

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:17 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Simontaival (Hirvonen, Mäenpää)
04:49 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Mazur, delay of game
12:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, kneeing major + game misconduct
14:37 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Cooley, holding
17:57 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Dickinson
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia (OT) 🇷🇺 – 19 Dec 2021


🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 19 December 2021

In a dramatic battle, Russia only managed to claim one point against Finland in the concluding match of the 2021 Channel One Cup in Moscow, conceding a narrow 3-2 defeat in overtime.
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🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 Czechia, Denmark, Sweden Clinch Final 2022 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots


After just three months Olympic qualifiers that were set to begin nearly a year ago, but delayed due to COVID-19, the three final qualification spots for a trip to Beijing were today clinched by Czechia, Denmark and Sweden for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 14 Nov 2021


🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Sunday, 14 November 2021

Victoria Bach scored twice, Brianne Jenner had a goal and two assists, and Canada defeated hosts Finland 5-1 on Sunday in women’s hockey to sweep the countries’ three-game exhibition series.
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🇨🇦 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, returning to the originally planned hosts of Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which was set for the 2021 tournament but instead played in a quarantine bubble only in Edmonton, in front of no fans.
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Provisional Olympians Named For Beijing 2022


As part of the NHL’s re-entry into the Olympics with the upcoming games in Beijing this February, the NHL and IIHF collectively announced provisional NHL players for each team, naming three active professionals to each roster.
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🇫🇷🇨🇭 Tardif Named New IIHF President, Fasel Inducted To IIHF Hall Of Fame


After a four-round vote to replace IIHF President René Fasel after a 27-year term, Luc Tardif Sr. today was voted in as new President of the International Ice Hockey Federation, following stints as IIHF Treasurer and President of the French Ice Hockey Federation.
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🇨🇳 2022 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released


The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 09 February, with defending champions the Russian Olympic Committee starting their title defence on the opening day, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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