🇨🇿 Czechia 6-1 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Preliminary Round
Elektrum Olimpiskais centrs, Rīga 🇱🇻
Saturday, 29 May 2021
The Czech Republic recorded its third straight victory with a comfortable 6-1 success over Great Britain in Saturday’s opening Group A game in Rīga. After losing the first two in this championship, the Czechs were under pressure. Since then, wins over Belarus, Sweden and now Britain have lifted Filip Pešán’s team firmly into the playoff picture.
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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 Rīga, Latvia.
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The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Rīga, 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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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.” To celebrate on what should have been the day of the 2020 World Championship Gold Medal final, instead we recap one of the biggest upsets in Olympic and World Championship history, the fall of Canada at the hands of Great Britain in 1936.
🇬🇧 Great Britain 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Second Round
Olympia-Kunsteis-Stadion, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪
Tuesday, 11 February 1936
It was an Olympics coated in sportive controversy and by the presence of Adolf Hitler, who used the global sports event as a propaganda tool, three years before the outbreak of the biggest catastrophe in the history of mankind.
In the end, history shows that Canada lost the Gold medal and Great Britain won. The process to that result, however, was anything but simple.
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The schedule for the 2020 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Lausanne and Zürich, Switzerland, returning to the nation for the first time since Bern and Kloten hosted in 2009.
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Both relegation games at the 2019 World Championship came down to thrilling and surprising finishes, with Great Britain and Italy, both promoted from Division IA in 2018, upsetting France and Austria respectively to send them down to Division IA in 2020, while each punching their ticket back to the Top Division in Switzerland.
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The finish of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 10 May in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia, with the top sixteen hockey countries in the world meeting to compete at the 2019 IIHF World Championship.
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The Division IA World Championship tournament saw the return of two powerhouses to the Top Division in 2020, with Belarus and hosts Kazakhstan clinching spots for next year in Switzerland at the 2019 tournament in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2019 World Championship in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia, with defending champions Sweden opening the tournament against the Czechs, while hosts Slovakia open the tournament against the United States.
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An expected team and a very unexpected team both clinched the unwanted spots of relegation to Division IA at the 2018 IIHF World Championship, with South Korea clinching the second relegation, after Belarus, with a day still remaining in group play at the tournament in Denmark.
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The Division IA World Championship tournament saw one expected and one very surprising participant both qualify for the 2019 World Championship top division in Slovakia, with Italy returning after a one-year absence, while Great Britain returns after a quarter century absence.
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Still with a day until the end of the 2017 World Championship group round, the two relegated teams for 2018 have already been determined, with both Slovenia and Italy, who only gained promotion in 2016, set to return to Division IA next season.
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The second leg of Olympic Qualification is in the books, with Japan, Poland and Italy emerging victorious in the Pre-Qualification Round to advance to the Final Qualification round in September, with the winners moving on to Korea in 2018.
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🇬🇧 GREAT BRITAIN (GBR) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1906-)
27 wins, 5 reigns, 30 games with IHLC – ranked 10th
IHLC last held 20 March 1950
One of the original contenders of the International Hockey Lineal Championship, Great Britain won the third ever IHLC from France in their first tilt in 1907. The Lions were a major competitor in the pre-war era, shocking the world with a Gold medal at the 1936 Olympics, followed up with back-to-back World Championship Silvers in 1937 and 1938. However, the outbreak of World War II put a damper on the team, as they fell out of contention shortly after the war, have not held the IHLC since 1950, and have only qualified for the Top Division five times since 1951 (1962, 1994, 2019, 2021-22).
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 7-1 Great Britain 🇬🇧
Olympic Qualification Round
Sheffield Arena, Sheffield 🇬🇧
Saturday, 04 September 1993
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:10 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Bača
08:45 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Švehla
11:46 – 🇬🇧 PEN – Lambert
13:39 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – A. Šťastný (P. Šťastný, Bača)
17:34 – 🇬🇧 PEN – team
18:09 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Kolník (Haščák, Cíger)
18:38 – 🇬🇧 PEN – Cranston
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🇸🇪 Sweden 17-0 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Final Round
Denver Coliseum, Denver 🇺🇸
Thursday, 15 March 1962
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:50 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nilsson (Sterner)
02:34 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – A. Andersson (Sterner)
08:50 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Härdin (Sterner)
09:52 – 🇬🇧 PEN – Lammin
14:42 – 🇸🇪 PEN – N. Johansson
14:52 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Sterner (A. Andersson)
16:22 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Öhrlund (Määttä)
18:32 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nilsson (N. Johansson)
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🇨🇦 Canada 17-1 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Final Round
Palais des Sports de Grenelle, Paris 🇫🇷
Tuesday, 13 March 1951
BOXSCORE
1st Period
18:07 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Crawford (B. Smith)
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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Final Round
Empire Pool, London 🇬🇧
Monday, 20 March 1950
BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:00 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Forbes (Nicholson)
17:10 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – R. Johnson
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🇬🇧 Great Britain 5-4 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Final Round
Empress Hall, London 🇬🇧
Saturday, 18 March 1950
BOXSCORE
1st Period
🇬🇧 PEN – Neil
🇸🇪 PEN – R. Johansson
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🇬🇧 Great Britain 4-3 Norway 🇳🇴
World Championship Final Round
Empire Pool, London 🇬🇧
Friday, 17 March 1950
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:15 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Nicholson (Neil)
🇬🇧 PEN – Sneddon
🇬🇧 PEN – J. Syme, minor + 10 min. misconduct
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