IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 26 Jul 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Vierumäki Ice Arena, Vierumäki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 26 July 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:57 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Taibel, high sticking
08:06 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ottavainen, holding
14:12 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Kemell (Puutio, Räty)
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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇮 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2022


The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2022 on 14 November, with a trio of Swedish forwards, anchored by a Finnish defender and a Canadian goaltender, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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🇺🇸 Colorado Avalanche Capture Third Stanley Cup Championship


After finishing dead last in the National Hockey League just five years ago, the Colorado Avalanche have come back to the top of the mountain in the hockey world, capturing the Stanley Cup in six games against the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
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🇨🇦 Restarted 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the rescheduled 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, restarting the tournament in Edmonton, Canada following the cancellation of December’s tournament due to an outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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2022 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will take place in an Olympic year, with the world’s top ten women’s teams convening in Denmark on 25 August to compete for the title of the world’s best, just six months after wrapping up the Olympics in Beijing.
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🇫🇮 Valtteri Filppula Joins Triple Gold Club


The only player eligible to join in this year’s World Championship, forward Valtteri Filppula tonight joined Triple Gold Club by virtue of winning his second Gold Medal in three months with the Leijonat, becoming the 31st male and first Finnish player to join the club, adding to his Stanley Cup and Olympic Gold medal.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 29 May 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Sunday, 29 May 2022

Sakari Manninen scored at 6:42 of the three-on-three unlimited overtime with a one-timer on a power play to give Finland a thrilling 4-3 win over Canada to win World Championship Gold.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 28 May 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Semifinal
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 28 May 2022

In a hard-fought, back-and-forth semi-final clash, Finland defeated the U.S. 4-3 on Saturday afternoon in Tampere to advance to the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 IIHF Names Tampere & Rīga As 2023 World Championship Hosts


After stripping Saint Petersburg, Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the IIHF announced at their annual Congress that hosting rights would now be split between to the last two hosts of the World Championships, with 2021 hosts Rīga, Latvia and current 2022 hosts Tampere, Finland hosting next year, from 12-28 May 2023.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 26 May 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Quarterfinal
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Thursday, 26 May 2022

Finnish cult hero Marko Anttila produced another big display in World Championship knock-out play, leading the host nation’s fightback to beat Slovakia 4-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 24 May 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Finland wrapped up an impressive Group B campaign with a 3-0 victory over Czechia in Tampere. Tuesday’s victory secures top spot in the preliminary round and gives Jukka Jalonen’s team a quarter-final match-up against Slovakia here on Thursday.
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2022 KHL Awards Ceremony Held In Moscow


The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their fourteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with Gagarin Cup champions CSKA Moscow coming away as the big winners, and ten IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 18 May 2022


🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

It took a shootout to give Sweden the verdict after these two great Nordic rivals shared a 2-2 tie in regulation. Emil Bemström was the only player to hit the target in the shootout, ending Finland’s unbeaten start on home ice at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and moving Sweden to the Group B summit after four wins in four games.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere and Helsinki, Finland starting this Friday, 13 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2022 IIHF World Championship.
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🇨🇿 🇫🇮 🇨🇭 🇸🇪 Switzerland Confirmed As Russian Replacement On Euro Hockey Tour Through 2023-24


After participating as a replacement for Russia at this weekend’s Beijer Hockey Games in Stockholm, it was today confirmed that Switzerland will replace Russia on the Euro Hockey Tour for at least the next two seasons, due to Russia being kicked off the tour for their invasion of Ukraine.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2023 World Championship


The Division IA World Championship tournament in Ljubljana saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2023 World Championship locked up a day before the tournament wrapped, with hosts Slovenia and Hungary both locking up returns to the Top Division.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 07 May 2022


🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Beijer Hockey Games
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 07 May 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:30 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Krejčí, hooking
09:48 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Krejčík, delay of game
18:20 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Palmu, slashing
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🇨🇦 IIHF Names Halifax & Moncton As 2023 World Junior Championship Hosts


After the IIHF stripped Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Junior Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the Federation announced that hosting rights were instead awarded to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2022.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 May 2022


🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Sunday, 01 May 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:48 –
🇸🇪 GOAL – Söderblom (Roos, Pudas)
14:08 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Manninen, holding
16:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lang, roughing
16:55 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vatanen, roughing
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