IHLC 2025 In Review – Men’s


The 2025 international hockey men’s calendar saw the title competed over in six different countries over two continents in five tournaments, with seven different countries capturing the International Hockey Lineal Championship in only a three month-span of competition.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior


The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 05 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 05 January 2024

The United States made the most of their chances and skated to an almost flawless 6-2 victory over Sweden to capture their sixth all-time Gold medal. They won their first in 2004 and most recent one in 2021, and have won those six in a 21-year span.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 04 January 2024

Cutter Gauthier’s late power-play goal gave the United States a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Finland to earn the team a spot in the Gold medal game tomorrow night against hosts Sweden.
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🇳🇴 Norway Relegated From World Junior Championship


For the first time in history, the World Junior Championship relegation round came down to a single game, with Germany defeating Norway 5-4 in overtime to send Norway back down to Division IA in 2025, after just one year in the Top Division.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 02 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 02 January 2024

The American offence went into high gear in Tuesday’s 7-2 quarter-final romp over Latvia. The all-18-year-old line of Will Smith, Ryan Leonard and Gabe Perreault dominated, combining for six points. Blueliner Seamus Casey chipped in three assists.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior


The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 31 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Sunday, 31 December 2023

In the New Year’s Eve showdown for first place in Group B, the U.S. left no doubt, hammering Slovakia 10-2 at Frölundaborg. Captain Rutger McGroarty set the tone with a hat trick and goalie Trey Augustine shone when tested with 38 stops.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s


The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 29 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 29 December 2023

Isaac Howard got the shootout winner as the U.S. beat Czechia 4-3 in Group B action on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 28 December 2023

Jimmy Snuggerud scored a hat trick in the first period as the U.S. trounced Switzerland 11-3 on Thursday at Frölundaborg. It was a showcase of the skill and speed that the USA Hockey National Team Development Program preaches in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Norway 🇳🇴 – 26 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Norway 🇳🇴
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Newly promoted Norway surprisingly kept it scoreless with the stacked Americans until Jimmy Snuggerud scored at the midway mark. That sparked the U.S. to a 4-1 win on Day One of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship in Gothenburg.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship


With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Victory Clinches 2022-23 Euro Hockey Tour Title


By virtue of their 3-0 victory over Switzerland to kick off the 2023 Czech Hockey Games in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tre Kronor officially clinched their sixth Euro Hockey Tour title, and second straight, by moving eight points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just two games to go.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 May 2023


🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Czech Hockey Games
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 04 May 2023

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:56 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Künzle, hooking
05:23 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Raymond (Sandin, Carlsson)
05:44 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Corvi, hooking
08:03 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Li. Johansson, tripping
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🇸🇪 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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🇦🇹 Austria Relegated From World Junior Championship


After consecutive losses of 5-2 and 4-2 in their relegation series against Latvia, Austria was today relegated to the World Junior Division IA in 2024, returning to the lower division for the first time since 2020.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Junior


After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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