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 โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 3-0 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป – 31 Dec 2024
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 3-0 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa ๐จ๐ฆ
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 โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 4-3 United States ๐บ๐ธ (OT) – 29 Dec 2024
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 4-3 United States ๐บ๐ธ (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa ๐จ๐ฆ
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 โ ๐บ๐ธ United States 5-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ โ 23 Dec 2024
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๐บ๐ธ United States 5-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Exhibition Game
Ed Lumley Arena, Cornwall ๐จ๐ฆ
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 – ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 3-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 12 Dec 2024
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 3-1 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
Enteria arena, Pardubice ๐จ๐ฟ
Thursday, 12 December 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:47 – ๐จ๐ฟ PEN SHOT – Kovaลฤรญk stopped
16:10 – ๐จ๐ฟ GOAL – Kubalรญk (Smejkal, Zรกbranskรฝ)
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๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ท๐บ 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 (itsenรคisyyspรคivรค), we look back at theย 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.
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Russia ๐ท๐บ (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki ๐ซ๐ฎ
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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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ 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 Montrรฉal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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IHLC Results – ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 5-4 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช – 10 Nov 2024
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 5-4 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
Karjala Tournament
Helsingin jรครคhalli, Helsinki ๐ซ๐ฎ
Sunday, 10 November 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – ๐ธ๐ช GOAL – Sellgren (Friberg, Lang)
05:02 – ๐ธ๐ช PEN – Andreasson, tripping
15:15 – ๐ธ๐ช GOAL – Steen (Pettersson, Peterson)
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IHLC Results – ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 4-0 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ – 09 Nov 2024
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 4-0 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
Karjala Tournament
Helsingin jรครคhalli, Helsinki ๐ซ๐ฎ
Saturday, 09 November 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:52 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL – Pesonen
10:56 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Larmi, delay of game
19:36 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL – Rajala
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๐จ๐ฆ 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช 2025 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-6 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ โ 02 Aug 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 8-6 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth ๐บ๐ธ
Friday, 02 August 2024
Propelled by three power-play goals, Canada skated to an 8-6 win over Finland in the first game of the day.
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IHLC Results โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 5-3 United States ๐บ๐ธ โ 31 Jul 2024
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 5-3 United States ๐บ๐ธ
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth ๐บ๐ธ
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the lone game of the day here today at the 2024 World Junior Summer Showcase, Team USA dropped a 5-3 decision to Finland at USA Hockey Arena.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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Nathan MacKinnon Captures Top Honours At 2024 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League officially closed the 2023-24 season with their NHL Awards ceremony at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, with eleven IHLC holders representing four countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month, culminating with tonight’s gala.
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Florida Panthers Avoid Collapse, Capture Stanley Cup
Capping their thirtieth season in the National Hockey League, the Florida Panthers today avoided an epic, historic collapse in Game Seven the Stanley Cup Final, capturing their first Stanley Cup over the Edmonton Oilers, who forced the decisive game after coming back from a 3-0 series deficit, with a narrow 2-1 victory on home ice.
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