For the 20th season, the top four nations in women’s hockey will face off in Sundsvall, Sweden, when Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland face off in the Four Nations Cup.
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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 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced in the host city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, with the tournament kicking off with a rematch of last year’s final (and every Gold Medal Game in tournament history), between the bitter rivals Canada and the United States.
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NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2016 World Cup
The NHL, who will be restarting the World Cup Of Hockey after a twelve-year absence, has unveiled the last of its projected lineups for the six national and two pan-national teams partaking next September in Toronto, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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2016 World Cup Of Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey leaked today, confirming the already reported Group structure from earlier this year, along with the full tally of games in Toronto next fall to crown the newest World Cup of Hockey global champion.
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🇸🇪 Rundqvist Retires From Damkronorna
Danijela Rundqvist, a mainstay on the Swedish women’s national hockey team for over a decade, has decided to hang up her skates following a solid career with the Damkronorna, retiring with a handful of international medals in-hand.
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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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🇫🇮 Wrist Injury Forces Sami Salo To Retire At Age 40
After a nagging wrist injury forced him to sit out the entire 2014-15 NHL season, Sami Salo today officially announced his NHL retirement, after a 15 year NHL career with Ottawa, Vancouver and Tampa Bay, along with stints with Turku, Jokerit and Frölunda in Scandinavia.
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Euro Hockey Tour Schedule Released, Format Same As 2014-15
After a new format for the Euro Hockey Tour was unveiled last season, eliminating the Oddset and Czech Hockey Games and replacing the second half of the tournament with a round-robin format between Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia, the tournament details have been confirmed to follow the same format for 2015-16.
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2015 Four Nations Cup Details Released
As per the Swedish Hockey Federation, details around the 2015 Four Nations Cup have finally been revealed, including news that Sweden, the host nation for the 2015 World Championships, will also host the annual tournament in November, in and around the city of Sundsvall.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 IHLC Classics: The 2004 World Cup Final
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 Canada’s 148th birthday, and with the World Cup of Hockey returning to Canada in just over a year, we look back at the last World Cup game to be played, the 2004 Final.
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Cup Of Hockey Final
Air Canada Centre, Toronto 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 14 September 2004
Canada rules the World and now they have the trophy to prove it.
Team Canada won the 2004 World Cup of Hockey Tuesday night, posting an emotional 3-2 victory over a very good Team Finland at the Air Canada Centre before a raucous sellout crowd that basked in the glow of their heroes’ triumph.
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Blackhawks Led To Stanley Cup By IHLC Champions
In an era where hockey dynasties were considered extinct thanks to the salary cap, the Chicago Blackhawks defied the odds, winning their third Stanley Cup in six seasons from the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
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🇫🇮 Kimmo Timonen Retires As Champion From Blackhawks
As first announced in March, and with his Chicago Blackhawks ending their season with a Stanley Cup victory, Finnish defenceman Kimmo Timonen has retired from his professional career after sixteen NHL seasons with Nashville, Philadelphia and Chicago, and eight Liiga seasons with KalPa, TPS and HIFK, in addition to 20+ years representing the Leijonat internationally.
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Groups Confirmed For 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
According to a report by Sovsport.ru in an interview with Soviet hockey legend and current Russian Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak, the groups for the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey in Toronto have been confirmed.
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World Championship Sets Fields For 2016 Worlds, 2018 Olympics
With the dust settled over Prague, and Canada returning to North America with World Championship Gold in tow, we can not only look back on a tremendous (and record-breaking) 2015 tournament, but to future tournaments in men’s hockey, particularly next year’s Worlds and the 2018 Olympics.
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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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🇸🇪 🇨🇿 Sweden Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Czechs Win Euro Hockey Challenge
With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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IHLC Winners Major Key To SKA Gagarin Cup Victory
After storming back from a 3-0 series deficit to defeat their oldest rivals, CSKA Moscow, in seven games in the KHL Semifinals, SKA Saint Petersburg needed only five games to defeat Ak Bars Kazan to win the 2015 Gagarin Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Mar 2015
🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Sunday, 29 March 2015
As the old Nintendo ad said: “Now you’re playing with power.” Hilary Knight had two goals and an assist to pace the U.S. to a 4-1 win over Finland on Sunday.
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