The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender
Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 25 Aug 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and assist in the opening period to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Finland tonight at KVIK Arena in Herning.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship
After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 20 Aug 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Saturday, 20 August 2022
Kent Johnson knocked in a loose puck at 3:20 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over Finland and take the Gold medal at the 2022 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Aug 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 19 August 2022
Wearing their snazzy, red, throwback sweaters, Canada blasted past the underdog Czechs by a 5-2 score this afternoon to advance to the gold medal game Saturday night, 6pm local time. They’ll play the winners of tonight’s Sweden–Finland semi-finals. It will be their fifth appearance in the ultimate game in the last six years.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 15 Aug 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Monday, 15 August 2022
Canada scored three goals on 10 first-period shots en route to a 6-3 victory over rival Finland to stay perfect at Rogers Place and clinch first place in Group A. The result gives the host nation a quarter-final matchup with Switzerland on Wednesday.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 14 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 14 August 2022
Rule of thumb: if you can’t kill penalties, they will kill you. The Slovaks learned that the hard way on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Place. Brimming with confidence, Finland converted five times with the power play in a 9-3 dismantling of Slovakia.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 11 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Kasper Simontaival scored the shootout winner to break a 3-3 tie and send Finland on to victory over Czechia this afternoon at Rogers Place. The win keeps Finland perfect (2-0) and drops the Czechs to 1-1 so far.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 09 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 09 August 2022
It’s been a stellar year for Finnish hockey, and the U20 boys did their part to maintain that tone on Tuesday, kicking off with a 6-1 win over Latvia at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 05 August 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:15 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Stramel, slashing
13:33 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Simontaival (Määttä, Järventie)
15:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, cross checking
17:25 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Cooley (Peart, McKown)
19:17 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Savage (Kleven, Mazur)
19:54 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hirvonen, cross checking
20:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Bordeleau, butt-ending double minor
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 04 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 04 August 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:43 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Edvinsson, hooking
02:13 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Grans (Olsson, Stjernborg)
13:02 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, tripping
16:24 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Järventie, high sticking
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 27 Jul 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Vierumäki Ice Arena, Vierumäki 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:23 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Karvinen (Rafkin, Viro)
18:16 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Gut, tripping
18:24 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Järventie, high sticking
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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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Matthews, Makar Highlight 2022 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2021-22 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals, with thirteen IHLC holders representing seven countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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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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International Hockey Lineal Championship 