On the eve of the inaugural (and potentially only) Four Nations Face-Off, the NHL and NHLPA today announced the return of the World Cup Of Hockey, set to debut in February 2028 as a mid-season, rather than preseason, tournament, and recurring every four years thereafter.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
For the first time in nearly a decade, the NHL will be presenting a true “best on best” international tournament, but in a smaller format than usual, with teams from Canada, Sweden, Finland and the United States facing off in the inaugural Four Nations Face-Off.
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🇯🇵 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Japan, Sweden, Germany Clinch Final Milan 2026 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After three months of Olympic qualifiers, with 24 teams competing across two rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Japan, Sweden and Germany for the 2026 Olympics.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 09 Feb 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Beijer Hockey Games
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 09 February 2025
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:43 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Erholtz (Björninen, Mäntykivi)
09:17 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Viitasalo, hooking
11:04 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Mäntykivi, embellishment
11:04 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hartmann, holding
14:35 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Pulli (Kossila, Nättinen)
15:09 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sörensen, hooking
17:13 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Dahlbeck, high sticking double minor
18:10 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Kapanen, roughing
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 IHLC To Be Contended At Four Nations Face-Off
By virtue of a 20-save shutout from Oskari Salminen and a three point game from Julius Nättinen in Stockholm earlier today, the IHLC will officially be brought to the inaugural Four Nations Face-Off next week, as Finland’s win over Czechia guarantees that Finland or Sweden will bring the title across the Atlantic to Montréal.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 08 Feb 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Beijer Hockey Games
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 08 February 2025
BOXSCORE
1st Period
none
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 05 Jan 2025
🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Sunday, 05 January 2025
Teddy Stiga took a breakaway pass from Zeev Buium and beat Petteri Rimpinen between the pads at 8:04 of overtime to give the United States the Gold medal at the 2025 World Junior Championship. This is the first time the Americans have won back-to-back Gold.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 04 Jan 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Saturday, 04 January 2025
Benjamin Rautiainen scored with 38 seconds left in overtime as Finland defeated Sweden 4-3 in the first semi-final of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2025 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2025, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Stockholm, with five different nationalities and a pair of Swedish goaltenders highlighting the class.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
The Arena At TD Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Thursday, 02 January 2025
Powered by three first-period goals, Finland held on for a 5-3 quarter-final win over Slovakia on Thursday night in Ottawa.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior
The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 31 Dec 2024
🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Finland finished the preliminary round with a 3-0 win over Latvia this afternoon in Ottawa. Petteri Rimpinen stopped 28 shots for the shutout, while Benjamin Rautiainen had a goal and assist for the winners.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Women’s
The 2024 calendar year saw a reduction in international competition due to the rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, but there was still plenty of drama between the United States and Canada all throughout North America over the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 29 Dec 2024
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Sunday, 29 December 2024
The plot thickens. On the strength of Tuomas Uronen’s overtime winner, Finland beat the U.S. 4-3 on Sunday at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. It was the first American loss at this tournament after two regulation-time wins.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 23 Dec 2024
🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Ed Lumley Arena, Cornwall 🇨🇦
Monday, 23 December 2024
Gabe Perreault and James Hagens each registered three assists to help the U.S. National Junior Team to a 5-2 victory over Finland here today before a capacity crowd at the Cornwall Civic Complex in pre-tournament action ahead of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 Dec 2024
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
Enteria arena, Pardubice 🇨🇿
Thursday, 12 December 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:47 – 🇨🇿 PEN SHOT – Kovařčík stopped
16:10 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Kubalík (Smejkal, Zábranský)
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🇫🇮 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Hagman’s Helsinki Heroics
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 (itsenäisyyspäivä), we look back at the Leijonat’s thrilling home ice Gold Medal victory at the 1998 World Junior Championships, with Niklas Hagman’s overtime snipe securing the title in Helsinki.
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 03 January 1998
Finland achieved its first World Junior Championship Gold in 1987, but at that time the rankings were decided by playing in series.
The playoffs only entered the World Junior Championship program for the 1995-96 Games, and what would be more comfortable than to settle World Cup Gold at home in extra time of the final?
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off
The remaining spots for each Four Nations Face-Off roster today were finalized, and the 92 players set to represent Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States are now set for the tournament in Montréal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 