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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🇺🇸 IIHF Names Utica As 2024 Women’s World Championship Host
On the final day of the 2023 Women’s World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed the next host of the tournament, with the 2024 Women’s World Championships to be hosted in Utica, New York, running from 04-14 April 2023.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 Women’s World Championship
For the first time since 2017, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will return to North America in front of fans, with the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, Canada hosting the 22nd edition of the tournament from 05-16 April, with all games held at the CAA Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Gale Centre, Niagara Falls 🇨🇦
Saturday, 01 April 2023
Brianne Jenner, Emily Clark and Marie-Philip Poulin each scored, and Canada outshot Finland 23-19 to post a 3-1 win on Saturday in exhibition women’s hockey action at the Gale Centre.
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🇸🇪 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 Feb 2023
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Sunday, 12 February 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:25 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Tikka, tripping
11:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Lennström (Pudas, Sörensen)
12:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rasmussen, delay of game
16:20 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Innala, high sticking
19:00 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lander, tripping
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 11 Feb 2023
🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Beijer Hockey Games
Malmö Arena, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 11 February 2023
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:46 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Flynn, slashing
11:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Matinpalo (Aaltonen, Sallinen)
14:56 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Aaltonen (Sallinen, Kossila)
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🇨🇦 2023 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Junior
After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 23 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Exhibition Game
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
After a couple easy tune-up tests, Canada had to battle from start to finish on Friday night to defeat Finland 5-3 in the final exhibition game ahead of the World Junior men’s hockey championship.
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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 15 Dec 2022
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 15 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:37 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Tyrväinen, tripping
03:09 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Stránský (Chlapík, Špaček)
04:03 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Němeček, tripping
05:15 – 🇨🇿 SH GOAL – Beránek (Černoch, Jandus)
08:00 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Stránský, delay of game
18:27 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ikonen, hooking
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