Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen, whose seventeen season pro career spanned five countries and multiple international tournaments, today confirmed his retirement from the game at age 35, following his club HC Lugano’s elimination from the Swiss NLA playoffs.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship
The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 30 Mar 2024
🇨🇦 Canada 8-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Slush Puppie Place, Kingston 🇨🇦
Saturday, 30 March 2024
Offence wasn’t a problem for Canada’s national team on Saturday as the squad flattened Finland 8-2 in its lone exhibition tune-up before next month’s IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
The NHL, who will be staging a “light” version of the World Cup Of Hockey with the Four Nations Face-Off in February 2025, has unveiled its projected lineups for the four national squads partaking next year in Montréal and Boston, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2024, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Prague, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, including a trio of native Czechoslovak legends heading the class.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Jan 2024
🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 04 January 2024
Cutter Gauthier’s late power-play goal gave the United States a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Finland to earn the team a spot in the Gold medal game tomorrow night against hosts Sweden.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s
The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Women’s
The 2023 calendar year saw another fourteen heavyweight matchups between the United States and Canada on the international hockey stage, with both nations fighting for Gold medals, world supremacy, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship
With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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An IHLC Lineage Correction – 1992 Olympics
As part of our continuous improvement to always refine the International Hockey Lineal Championship, we came across an improper lineage in the 1992 season that has now been corrected, impacting in particular lineage during the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France.
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🇫🇮 Sanni Hakala Forced Into Retirement At 26 After On-Ice Paralysis
Finnish winger Sanni Hakala, who suffered a horrific injury in a Swedish League matchup less than a week ago which stunned the hockey world, today announced the end of her playing career at age 29, with the injury leaving her paralyzed from the chest down, with limited mobility in her arms and legs.
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🇺🇸 2024 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Utica, New York, United States, with the hosts looking to repeat as champions for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🇨🇿 2024 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, the first tournament set to play at its intended host cities and arenas since 2019, following concerns over COVID-19, political unrest in Belarus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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🇫🇮 Sami Lepistö Announces Retirement At Age 38
Finnish defender Sami Lepistö, a journeyman player across multiple leagues around the world, but always a mainstay on the backend of the Leijonat, today announced his retirement from hockey at the age of 38.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia starting this Friday, 12 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
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🇵🇱 🇬🇧 Poland, Great Britain Promoted To 2024 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Nottingham, England saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2024 World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czechia locked up on the final day of competition, with hosts Great Britain and Poland both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Victory Clinches 2022-23 Euro Hockey Tour Title
By virtue of their 3-0 victory over Switzerland to kick off the 2023 Czech Hockey Games in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tre Kronor officially clinched their sixth Euro Hockey Tour title, and second straight, by moving eight points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just two games to go.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Apr 2023
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Euro Hockey Challenge
Winpos Arena, Umeå 🇸🇪
Saturday, 29 April 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:57 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Li. Johansson (Folin, Alsing)
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 27 Apr 2023
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Winpos Arena, Umeå 🇸🇪
Thursday, 27 April 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:57 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pakarinen, tripping
18:07 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Rasmussen (Karlkvist, Lindberg)
19:47 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Li. Johansson, slashing
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🇫🇮 Petri Kontiola To Retire Following Ilves Season
Finnish centre Petri Kontiola, a mainstay in the Leijonat system for two decades, today confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 38, following Ilves’ bronze medal victory over HIFK in the Liiga playoffs.
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