After nearly two year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Luxembourg and China in November 2019, four rounds of play, 36 teams competing and a global pandemic in between, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Beijing, with the spots being clinched locked up by Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Tag Archives: Germany
IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 7-0 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช – 28 Aug 2021
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 7-0 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
Womenโs World Championship Quarterfinal
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Canada defeated Germany tonight by a 7-0 score to advance to the semi-finals on Monday. They will play either Switzerland or Czechia, depending on the outcome of the final game tonight. With the loss, Germany will head to the 5th-8th placement games grouping which begins tomorrow.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 Women’s World Championship
Following an eighteen month delay of no major international women’s hockey thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw one World Championships cancelled and another delayed, the puck is finally set to drop on the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the twentieth edition of the tournament, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, bringing the world’s top ten women’s nations in their first major competition since early 2020.
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๐ซ๐ฎ 2022 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, returning to the nation for the first time since Helsinki hosted consecutively in 2012-13.
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๐จ๐ฆ Revised 2021 Womenโs World Championship Schedule Released
After having to delay for a year following the 2019-20 outbreak of the COVID-19 virus across the world, delaying another month to meet Canadian quarantine protocols, and finally delaying another three months due to a last-minute cancellation by the Nova Scotia government, today the IIHF announced the schedule for the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, set to open up on 20 August after no international women’s hockey tournaments for two and a half years.
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IHLC Results โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช โ 05 Jun 2021
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
World Championship Semifinal
Arฤna Rฤซga, Rฤซga ๐ฑ๐ป
Saturday, 05 June 2021
Germany put up a mighty challenge, but the champion still reigns for another day as Finland built up a 2-0 first-period lead and held on to win an emotional semi-final game 2-1.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 World Championship
After a year away during one of the most tumultuous years in human history, with a pandemic and political strife seeing a year-long delay and a change in venue, the international hockey calendar sees some sense of normalcy return with the resurgence of the IIHF World Championship, set to take place this year in Rฤซga, Latvia.
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๐จ๐ฆ 2021 Womenโs World Championship Schedule Released
After having to delay for a year following the 2019-20 outbreak of the COVID-19 virus across the world, and delaying another month to meet Canadian quarantine protocols, today the IIHF announced the schedule for the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, who will host after postponing the 2020 edition of the tournament.
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๐ฑ๐ป 2021 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Rฤซga, Latvia, marking the return of the World Championship after its historic cancellation last year, returning to Latvia for the first time in 15 years.
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IHLC 2020 In Review โ Junior
The International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw two champions hold the title thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with defending champions Canada holding the title for all but five days in 2020. Continue reading
IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 16-2 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช โ 26 Dec 2020
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 16-2 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 26 December 2020
Defending champions Canada stormed out of the gates, scoring early and often in a 16-2 victory over Germany in its first game of the 2021 World Juniors.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 World Junior Championship
The first IIHF “bubble” tournament is set to begin in Edmonton, Canada, with the 2020 calendar year coming to a close with the start of the 2021 World Junior Championship, being held in a contained Rogers Place with the top nations in the hockey world looking to earn glory in the midst of a pandemic.
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๐จ๐ฟ Tomรกลก Rolinek Retires From Pro Hockey At Age 40
Czech forward Tomรกลก Rolinek, who captained the national team at three World Championships and to a Gold Medal in 2010, announced his retirement from pro hockey at age 40, after his final five seasons with Dynamo Pardubice of the Czech Extraliga.
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๐จ๐ฆ 2021 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with all teams playing in a quarantined bubble without spectators in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with the tournament set to begin on Christmas Day, while host nation and defending champions Canada opening on the more traditional Boxing Day.
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๐ฉ๐ช ๐บ๐ธ IHLC Classics: Wunder von Innsbruck
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 the thirtieth anniversary of German Unity Day (also known as Tag der Deutschen Einheit), we feature Trรคger der Adler’s surprising Bronze medal victory at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics.
๐ฉ๐ช West Germany 4-1 United Statesย ๐บ๐ธ
Olympic Final Round
Olympiahalle, Innsbruck ๐ฆ๐น
Saturday, 14 February 1976
As in previous years, the ice hockey tournament at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck started with an elimination round. The pairings then resulted from the positions of the teams at the world championships from the previous year.
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Draisaitl Leads The Pack At Virtual 2020 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the pandemic-delayed 2019-20 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals in Edmonton, with twelve IHLC holders representing nine countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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๐จ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐น NHL, NHLPA Agrees To Olympic Return In 2022 & 2026
With both the National Hockey League and NHL Players Association today ratifying both their return to play proposal to complete the 2019-20 NHL season, as well as extend their latest Collective Bargaining Agreement, one major clause of the plan is the return of NHL players to the Winter Olympics, marking the return of the world’s top professional players for the first time since 2014, pending IOC and IIHF approval.
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๐จ๐ฟ Czechia Announces Cancellation Of Euro Hockey Challenge, Carlson Hockey Games Postponement
Away from the multitude of IIHF cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, today two independently-organized tournaments between European federations were officially cancelled, as the Czech Ice Hockey Association today confirmed that both April’s Euro Hockey Challenge and May’s Czech Hockey Games in Brno would be cancelled.
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๐ฉ๐ช Marcel Goc Announces Retirement From Adler Mannheim
Marcel Goc, the longtime centre who was part of the first wave of German NHL stars during his NHL career from 2004-15, announced his retirement from Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, capping a 22 season pro hockey career.
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๐ฐ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐น Kazakhstan Relegated, Austria Promoted From World Junior Championship
After managing to force a third and decisive final game in their relegation series, Kazakhstan today was dispatched by Germany to be relegated to Division IA in 2021, returning to the lower division after a two-year stay in the Top Division.
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