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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IHLC Preview – 2015 Women’s World Championship
Five months after the last women’s hockey showdown at the 2014 Four Nations Cup, the top eight teams in international women’s hockey will reconvene in Malmö, Sweden, for the 2015 IIHF World Women’s Championship, two years since the last Worlds that ended in a stunning American victory in Canada’s capital.
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World Cup Of Hockey Return Announced For 2016
After months of speculation, the NHL today confirmed during the All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio that the World Cup Of Hockey would officially return in 2016, being hosted solely in Toronto from 17 September – 01 October 2016. As expected, six national teams (Canada, United States, Russia, Czechia, Sweden and Finland) and two “all star” teams (a team of under-23 stars from Canada and the United States, and a team made up of European players without teams playing in the tournament, such as Slovakia, Norway and Switzerland) will make up the tournament.
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2015 NHL All Star Game Rosters Announced
After a fan vote to decide the first six participants, the National Hockey League today announced the participants for the 2015 NHL All Star Game in Columbus, Ohio on 25 January, with rosters to be determined in a fantasy draft on 23 January.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Men’s
2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Women’s
2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 26 Dec 2014
🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Friday, 26 December 2014
Chase De Leo scored the shootout winner as the United States beat Finland 2-1 to kick off the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship in Montréal on Friday.
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IHLC Preview – 2014 Channel One Cup
After sweeping the Karjala Tournament, going undefeated against Russia, Finland and the Czechs and winning the International Hockey Lineal Championship in the process, Sweden looks to win the second leg of the Euro Hockey Tour at the Channel One Cup in Sochi, a year removed from the Czechs winning the trophy.
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2015 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
Due to the myriad of changes to this year’s Euro Hockey Tour, the Euro Hockey Challenge has been impacted as well, with only two legs in this year’s competition, rather than the usual three. The participants of the Euro Hockey Tour (Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czechia) will face off against four rising European squads (Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and Norway) in a series of two-game challenges, giving the lower ranked squads the chance to compete against the top teams in Europe.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Ruutu Retires From Jokerit
Yet another mainstay of the Leijonat has decided to hang up his skates. Following earlier retirements of Saku Koivu and Teemu Selänne, it is now power forward Jarkko Ruutu, a 12-year NHL, six year SM-liiga and Finnish national team veteran, retiring from the sport. Ruutu laced up for HIFK and Jokerit in the SM-liiga, as well as for Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Ottawa and Anaheim in the NHL.
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🇫🇮 The Finnish Flash Retires: Teemu Selänne Not Returning To Jokerit
After a brilliant 21-year NHL career, an impressive start with his hometown Jokerit, and one of the greatest international careers in hockey history, Teemu Selänne has confirmed that he will not be making a “victory lap” with Jokerit, after retiring from the Anaheim Ducks at the end of last season.
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World Cup Update: Euro, Rookie All-Star Teams To Compete?
As first reported by Sportsnet, representatives from the NHL and IIHF met in Toronto in advance of the Hockey Hall Of Fame Class of 2014 induction ceremony to discuss the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey logistics, mainly the status of the two final spots to round out a field of eight teams to play in Toronto.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 09 Nov 2014
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Karjala Tournament
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Sunday, 09 November 2014
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:43 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundqvist, holding
14:26 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
17:58 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Klasen (Fransson)
19:17 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Axelsson, slashing
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 07 Nov 2014
🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Friday, 07 November 2014
If it weren’t for Meeri Räisänen, Canada might have ran up the score against Finland in the Four Nations Cup round-robin finale at Interior Savings Centre on Friday, 07 November.
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