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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off

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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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Florida Panthers Avoid Collapse, Capture Stanley Cup

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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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🇨🇦 Natalie Spooner Named 2024 IIHF Female Player Of The Year

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Canadian forward Natalie Spooner, who only one week ago was crowned as the PWHL’s inaugural MVP, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season, capping off a spectacular campaign that saw Spooner capture her third World Championship title.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 2025 Four Nations Face-Off Schedule Released

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The schedule for the NHL’s mid-season 2025 tournament, the Four Nations Face-Off, was announced today prior to the start of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, with Boston, United States and Montréal, Canada set to host their respective host nations, along with Sweden and Finland, next February, a tune-up to the NHL’s Olympic return at the 2026 Olympics.
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🇸🇪 🇫🇮 IHLC Classics: Tre Kronor Captures Scoreless Gold

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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 Swedish Sveriges nationaldag (National Day), we look back at Sweden’s triumph at the 1998 World Championships in Zürich, winning their seventh world title, ironically enough, in a scoreless tie with Finland.


🇸🇪 Sweden 0-0 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Final, Game 2
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Sunday, 17 May 1998

Sweden tied Olympic Bronze medalist Finland 0-0 yesterday in the second game of a two-leg final at the World Hockey Championship to win the title and gain revenge over its arch-rival.
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🇺🇸 Minnesota Captures Inaugural Walter Cup, Five Join Triple Gold Club

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In the dramatic finale of the 2024 PWHL playoffs, a shutout performance from Nicole Hensley led PWHL Minnesota to capture the inaugural Walter Cup, defeating PWHL Boston 3-0 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 18 May 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 18 May 2024

Brandon Hagel scored the third-period winner as Canada rallied to beat Finland 5-3 in one of the most-anticipated preliminary-round matchups of the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42

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Finnish centre Jarkko Immonen, whose pro career spanned over two decades across eight pro teams in four countries, today announced his retirement from the sport at age 42, following the conclusion of the 2023-24 Finnish Liiga season.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title

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By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Apr 2024

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 04 April 2024

Ella Shelton’s goal and pair of assists powered Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, New York on Thursday night.
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🇫🇮 Mikko Koskinen Confirms Retirement From Hockey

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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

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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

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🇨🇦 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

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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

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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

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🇺🇸 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

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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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