The International Hockey Lineal Championship stayed with Team USA for the majority of 2017, with the 2017 World Junior champions holding the IHLC for eight of a possible twelve games in 2017, including carrying the title into the medal round of the current 2018 tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Finland 🇫🇮 – 31 Dec 2017
🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Sunday, 31 December 2017
Adam Fox broke a 4-4 tie with a goal at 18:23 of the third period to give the United States a dramatic 5-4 win over Finland. The U.S. led at one point, 3-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 30 Dec 2017
🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Saturday, 30 December 2017
Aleksi Heponiemi got the third-period winner as Finland temporarily passed the U.S. for second place in Group A with a hard-working 5-2 win over Slovakia.
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🇫🇮 Niklas Hagman Retires After 20 Professional Seasons
Finnish winger Niklas Hagman today announced his retirement from professional hockey at age 38, ending a 20 year career spent in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Russia and his native Finland, where he spent his last four seasons.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 13 Dec 2017
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Channel One Cup
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Koukal, tripping
04:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koskiranta, tripping
05:45 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Manninen
18:42 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kundrátek, holding
19:09 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Kemppainen (Junttila)
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🇫🇮 🇸🇪 IHLC Classics: Unelmafinaali
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, to commemorate Finland’s centennial as a nation, we look back on just the second World Championship for the Leijonat in history, their 2011 triumph over rival Sweden, considered by Finns to be the “unelmafinaali” – the dream final.
🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Orange Aréna, Bratislava 🇸🇰
Sunday, 15 May 2011
It is a great day in Finnish hockey history. In the latest chapter of hockey’s classic Nordic rivalry, Finland demolished Sweden 6-1 in the gold medal game of the 2011 IIHF World Championship. Petteri Nokelainen scored the first of five third-period Finnish goals, and it stood up as the winner.
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IIHF Announces 2018 Hall Of Fame Class
The IIHF announced the newest class of inductees to the Hall of Fame, highlighted by a quartet of international superstars – Daniel Alfredsson, Rob Blake, Jere Lehtinen and Chris Chelios, who will have their numerous achievements, both professionally and internationally, recognized in Denmark this May.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2017
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2017 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 12 Nov 2017
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Karjala Tournament
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Gilbert Brulé and Maxim Noreau scored to give Canada’s National Men’s Team a pair of one-goal leads, but it dropped a 4-3 decision to Finland to close out the 2017 Karjala Cup on Sunday.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 11 Nov 2017
🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 11 November 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:20 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Tolvanen (Kontiola)
05:01 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Högström, holding
05:42 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hartikainen, tripping
14:54 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Everberg, interference
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IHLC Preview – 2017 Four Nations Cup
As one of the final tuneups before the 2018 Olympics in Korea, the top women’s hockey nations on Earth will reconvene in sunny western Florida, to face off for the 2017 Four Nations Cup, the 22nd annual invitational.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 05 Nov 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Florida Hospital Center Ice, Wesley Chapel 🇺🇸
Sunday, 05 November 2017
Five different players scored goals and nine recorded at least a point as Canada’s National Women’s Team earned a 5-1 pre-tournament win over Finland on Sunday ahead of the 2017 Four Nations Cup.
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🇰🇷 2018 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 14 February, while both hosts Korea and defending champions Canada begin the tournament the following day.
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🇰🇷 2018 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea were released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Saturday, 10 February.
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2017-18 Euro Hockey Tour Schedule Released
The full schedule for the 2017-18 Euro Hockey Tour has been announced, the highlights being the moving of the Sweden Hockey Games to April (due to this year’s Olympics in February), and the addition of teams from Canada, Switzerland and Korea, all preparing for the Games in PyeongChang.
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2018 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2018 World Championship in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, with defending champions Sweden opening the tournament against Belarus, while hosts Denmark open the tournament against Germany on opening day.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Aug 2017
🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 04 August 2017
Adam Fox scored twice and David Farrance netted the game-winner with 6:10 to play as Team USA erased a two-goal deficit to beat Finland, 4-3, here tonight at the 2017 World Junior Summer Showcase at USA Hockey Arena.
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2018 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
The Euro Hockey Challenge will return in the lead-up to the 2018 World Championships this season, with yet another scheduling reformat thanks to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, with national teams fine-tuning their rosters before heading to Copenhagen and Herning.
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2018 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York is highlighted by the first ever outdoor game in IIHF competition, a tilt between defending champs Team USA and their cross-border rivals, Canada, on 29 December, at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park.
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Introducing…The World Junior IHLC!
In the heat of a quiet, hockey-free summer, we are proud to introduce the next iteration of the International Hockey Lineal Championship – the Junior IHLC!
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