🇫🇷 France 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Chyzhouka-Arena, Minsk 🇧🇾
Friday, 09 May 2014
In a stunning upset, France opened the 2014 Worlds with a 3-2 shootout win over Canada at Chizhovka Arena. Pierre-Édouard Bellemare got the lone shootout goal.
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 5-4 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
France needed a win in regulation time to clinch a spot in the quarter-finals. Slovakia just needed a point.
It was a hard fought game, and in the end Slovakia got what it wanted, a 5-4 win, the points, and a spot in the quarter-finals.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 1-0 France 🇫🇷 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Steel Aréna, Košice 🇸🇰
Friday, 29 April 2011
It took a while for someone to generate an offensive spark in the tournament opener for both France and Switzerland, but when it came it was electrifying. Julien Vauclair’s goal at 1:46 of overtime gave Switzerland a 1-0 victory over France.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 1-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
PostFinance Arena, Bern 🇨🇭
Friday, 24 April 2009
Backed by a capacity crowd of 11,417, Switzerland did what had to be done – not much more – as it beat France 1-0 in its opening game of the 2009 World Championship.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Sazka Arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 25 April 2004
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:11 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Zwikel, hooking
09:10 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Vauclair, elbowing
09:59 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Paterlini, high sticking
15:30 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Fischer, interference
18:01 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Coqueux, interference
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 02 May 1998
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:46 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemoine, interference
04:05 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Modin (Sundström)
04:46 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Falk (Hävelid)
05:24 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Bergqvist (Johansson)
05:49 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Jönsson (Renberg)
11:19 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Aimonetto, roughing
12:38 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Bergqvist, interference
18:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hävelid, high sticking
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🇨🇿 Czechia 9-2 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Group Round
Albert-Schultz-Eishalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Saturday, 27 April 1996
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:39 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bonk, roughing
08:39 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Briand, roughing
09:55 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Pouget, cross checking
10:43 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kaberle (Patera, Procházka)
12:12 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bonk, high sticking
13:43 – 🇫🇷 PP GOAL – Dubé (Zytynsky, F. Rozenthal)
16:53 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Kučera (Ujčík, Turek)
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 6-2 France 🇫🇷
Olympic Preliminary Round
Gjøvik Olympiske Fjellhall, Gjøvik 🇳🇴
Monday, 21 February 1994
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:53 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Kontšek, tripping
05:25 – 🇸🇰 SH GOAL – Šatan (Petrovický)
08:40 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Petrovický (Švehla, Jánoš)
11:11 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemarque, elbowing
15:33 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Šatan
17:29 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Pousse (Girard, Guennelon)
17:41 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Briand, hooking
18:09 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Šatan (Petrovický, Smerciak)
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🇫🇷 France 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Relegation Round
Olympiahalle, Munich 🇩🇪
Thursday, 25 April 1993
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:34 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Tschumi
04:52 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perez
06:17 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Hollenstein (Lüthi, Wäger)
08:18 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Dunn
13:56 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Almasy
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🇷🇺 Russia 8-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Sportovní Hala, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 03 May 1992
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:30 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perez
09:28 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zhitnik
13:33 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Byakin (Bautin)
13:50 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Poudrier
17:59 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Bautin
19:42 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Kovalenko (Butsayev, Yushkevich)
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷
Olympic Preliminary Round
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Saturday, 08 February 1992
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:18 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dahl, cross checking
01:27 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tippett, charging
07:05 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Juneau (Brost)
11:06 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemoine, cross checking
17:11 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Barin (Dunn, Laporte)
17:47 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Guennelon, holding
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🇬🇧 Great Britain 9-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship First Round
Empress Hall, London 🇬🇧
Monday, 13 March 1950
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:00 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Nicholson (B. Smith)
16:10 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Carlyle (Rolland)
17:45 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Quales (B. Smith)
19:10 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Neil (Nicholson)
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🇧🇪 Belgium 3-0 France 🇫🇷
Exhibition Game
Le Pôle Nord, Brussels 🇧🇪
Saturday, 04 March 1905
In what is recognized as the first ever international hockey game in history by the International Ice Hockey Federation, Belgium faced off against France at the Pôle Nord rink in central Brussels on 4 March 1905, to capture the first ever unofficial International Hockey Lineal Championship in a 3-0 victory.
International Hockey Lineal Championship 