🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 14 May 2017
Valtteri Filppula scored on a bad-angle deke at 2:24 of overtime to complete Finland’s comeback from 2-0 down.
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The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 05 May in both Cologne and Paris, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting to compete at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge, as the season ends to ring in the start of the 2017 World Championships in Paris and Cologne, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2016-17 season.
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After falling to Switzerland in a best-of-three relegation series, Czechia has been demoted to Division I Group A in 2018, while Japan, victors of 2017 Group IA in Graz, Austria, will be promoted for the 2019 Women’s World Championships, with no tournament being held in 2018 due to the PyeongChang Olympics.
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SKA Saint Petersburg roared back from an early deficit to win Game 5 of the Gagarin Cup finals 5-3 over Metallurg Magnitogorsk, capturing their second Cup in three seasons, with goals from five different scorers and a 42 save performance by Mikko Koskinen locking up the title.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Monday, 03 April 2017
Hilary Knight scored two power-play goals; the Finns rallied from a 3-1 deficit; Hannah Brandt broke a 3-3 tie with a goal midway through the third period.
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A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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Finnish sniper Olli Jokinen, an NHL mainstay since being drafted third overall in 1997, formally retired as a member of his longest-tenured team, the Florida Panthers, after an illustrious 17-year professional career.
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After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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After overhauling their All-Star Game format to match that of the NHL’s, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for all four divisions to partake in the 2017 KHL All Star Game, made up of a 4-on-4 tournament in Ufa, Russia on 22 January.
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Looking to repeat the magic of the 2015 midseason classic in Nashville, today the National Hockey League announced the 11-man rosters for all four divisions in the 2017 NHL All-Star Game 3-on-3 tournament, taking place in Los Angeles on 29 January.
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Many of the top players in the game took their talents outside this past weekend, with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings highlighting the inaugural Centennial Classic on 01 January, followed a day later with the St. Louis Blues hosting the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2017 Winter Classic.
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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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Unlike 2015, which was “the year of Team USA” in women’s hockey, there was a little more parity in the later months of 2016, with Canada finally striking multiple blows to Team USA’s dominance, ultimately ending the calendar year with the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Finland’s dreams of repeating as champs are fading, while Sweden is dialled in so far. With a 3-1 win over Finland, the Swedes wrapped up first place in Group A.
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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, in honour of Finnish Independence Day, we look back at the 1995 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the long overdue first title for the Leijonat, over their Swedish rivals on Swedish ice.
🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 07 May 1995
Finally, Finland wins the IIHF World Championship for the first time. And the victory couldn’t have been sweeter. They won the gold medal game against their fiercest rival Sweden, in Sweden and with a Swedish head coach. To really rub it in, the Finnish team celebrated the win in downtown Stockholm, this while also “stealing” the Swedish tune designated for a home-team victory.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Saturday, 05 November 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
18:45 – 🇫🇮 PEN – team, too many players
19:06 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Pettersson (Brännström)
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 04 November 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:48 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Parikka, hooking
09:57 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Salo, high sticking
16:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vesalainen, high sticking
19:37 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ruotsalainen, cross checking
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🇺🇸 United States 4-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Keravan Jäähalli, Kerava 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 02 November 2016
Four different players netted goals and Brianna Decker tallied three points as the U.S. Women’s National Team defeated Finland, 4-0, here tonight in the team’s second game at the 2016 Four Nations Cup.
International Hockey Lineal Championship 