The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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Tag Archives: Germany
🇫🇮 Wrist Injury Forces Sami Salo To Retire At Age 40
After a nagging wrist injury forced him to sit out the entire 2014-15 NHL season, Sami Salo today officially announced his NHL retirement, after a 15 year NHL career with Ottawa, Vancouver and Tampa Bay, along with stints with Turku, Jokerit and Frölunda in Scandinavia.
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First Nine Nations Qualified For 2018 Olympic Men’s Tournament
Following Belarus‘ failure to finish in the top four at the 2015 World Championships, Slovakia scooped up the ninth and final automatic qualification spot for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, joining defending champions Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Czechia, Switzerland and the host nation Korea.
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IHLC Preview – 2015 World Championship
With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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🇨🇿 🇩🇪 Czechs Promoted, Germany Relegated For Women’s Worlds
As a result of their 3-0 win over Denmark, improving them to 4-0 at the Division I Group A tournament in Rouen, France, the Czech women’s team has secured the eighth and final spot at the 2016 Women’s World Championship next spring in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, taking the spot from the German squad that was relegated at this year’s Championship in Malmö, Sweden.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Germany 🇩🇪 – 28 Dec 2014
🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Germany 🇩🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Sunday, 28 December 2014
North America hasn’t been nice to Germany at this tournament. After opening with a 4-0 loss to host Canada, the Germans fell 6-0 to the U.S. on Sunday night.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪 – 21 Dec 2014
🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪
Exhibition Game
Rogers K-Rock Centre, Kingston 🇨🇦
Sunday, 21 December 2014
The U.S. used goals from five different players on the way to a 5-2 victory over Germany here tonight in a pre-tournament game in preparation for the upcoming 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.
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2015 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
Due to the myriad of changes to this year’s Euro Hockey Tour, the Euro Hockey Challenge has been impacted as well, with only two legs in this year’s competition, rather than the usual three. The participants of the Euro Hockey Tour (Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czechia) will face off against four rising European squads (Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and Norway) in a series of two-game challenges, giving the lower ranked squads the chance to compete against the top teams in Europe.
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🇪🇺 2016 World Cup “Euro All-Stars”: What If?
Amid reports of a European “All-Star” team making up a seventh team at the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey, which would be comprised of players from nations not already fielding full teams (Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia), much speculation has already begun about what that potential team would look like. Matt Larkin of The Hockey News took the speculation a step further, setting a full projected roster for 2016, which brings up a very unique and interesting looking squad.
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2015 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 Women’s World Championship in Malmö, Sweden, worldwomen2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in March and April.
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2015 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 World Championship in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, iihfworlds2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in May.
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2015 Women’s World Championship Groups Announced
Some more details on the 2015 Worlds in Malmö have been released – the all-important groupings! The teams break down as follows (current IIHF rankings in parentheses):
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2015 World Championship Groups Announced
Some more details on the 2015 Worlds in Prague and Ostrava have been released – the all-important groupings! The teams break down as follows (current IIHF rankings in parentheses):
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IHLC Team Profiles – 🇩🇪 Germany (Women’s)
🇩🇪 GERMANY (GER) Women’s National Ice Hockey Team (1991-)
played as WEST GERMANY (FRG), 1988-90
First competing as West Germany at the inaugural World Championship in 1990, the German women’s team has so far been unable to capture the IHLC in nine attempts – however, they are continuing to improve, competing for the IHLC as recently as 2009, and finishing as good as fifth in both their latest World Championship (2013) and Olympic Games (2006).
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IHLC Team Profiles – 🇩🇪 Germany (Junior)
🇩🇪 GERMANY (GER) Men’s Junior National Ice Hockey Team (1991-)
played as WEST GERMANY (FRG), 1976-90
The German junior team has been a constant at the World Junior Championship since the inaugural tournament in 1977, only missing the tournament three times between 1977 and 1998. But following relegation in 1998, the Träger der Adler have been on an elevator ride to and from the Top Division in alternating years, only staying for consecutive seasons from 2013-15 and 2021-26, but are looking to become a permanent mainstay in the future.
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IHLC Team Profiles – 🇩🇪 Germany (Men’s)
🇩🇪 GERMANY (GER) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1910-)
played as WEST GERMANY (FRG), 1949-90
played at Olympics as UNITED TEAM OF GERMANY (EUA), 1956-64
23 wins, 13 reigns, 24 games with IHLC – ranked 10th
IHLC last held 14 April 2018
Germany’s national hockey team, much like the country in the 20th century, has had a wild share of ups and downs – first winning the IHLC in 1909, the team suffered during years during and between both World Wars, and the division of Germany left the team’s successor, West Germany, weakened and less of a threat. While the West did manage to capture the IHLC on a few occasions, it was not until reunification that Träger der Adler has regained its footing again, with a smattering NHL stars helping Germany to win the IHLC in the modern era.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Germany 🇩🇪 (SO) – 27 Apr 2013
🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Germany 🇩🇪 (SO)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Diners Club Arena, Rapperswil-Jona 🇨🇭
Saturday, 27 April 2013
BOXSCORE
1st Period
09:09 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Ullmann, holding
15:10 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Suri, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT) – 26 Apr 2013
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kunsteisbahn Eishalle Schoren, Langenthal 🇨🇭
Friday, 26 April 2013
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:34 – 🇨🇭 PEN – von Gunten, slashing
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 04 May 2010
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Exhibition Game
O2 World Hamburg, Hamburg 🇩🇪
Tuesday, 04 May 2010
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:16 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Felski (Tripp, Barta)
09:09 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Greilinger, hooking
10:03 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Sulzer, delay of game
10:37 – 🇨🇦 PP2 GOAL – Perry (Tavares, Stamkos)
11:53 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tavares, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Germany 🇩🇪 – 19 Feb 2010
🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Germany 🇩🇪
Olympic Preliminary Round
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Friday, 19 February 2010
Teemu Selänne broke the Olympic record for career hockey points, setting up Kimmo Timonen on his second goal late in the second period as Finland beat Germany 5-0 Friday night.
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