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🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Great Britain, Poland Sent Back Down From 2024 World Championship

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A day before the group round came to a close at the 2024 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2024 were confirmed, with Great Britain and Poland, who both gained promotion to Czechia just last year, will head back down to Division IA next season.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 02 Jan 2024

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🇺🇸 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 – Men’s

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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 Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship

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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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🇨🇿 2024 World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, the first tournament set to play at its intended host cities and arenas since 2019, following concerns over COVID-19, political unrest in Belarus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 27 May 2023

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Semifinal
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 27 May 2023

Adam Fantilli scored perhaps the nicest goal of the tournament midway through the third period to break a 2-2 tie and send Canada on its way to a 4-2 victory over Latvia.
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IHLC Results – 🇱🇻 Latvia 4-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT) – 23 May 2023

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🇱🇻 Latvia 4-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Rūdolfs Balcers one-timed a pass from Uvis Balinskis to score a power-play goal in overtime, giving Latvia a 4-3 victory over Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 21 May 2023

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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Sunday, 21 May 2023

Andres Ambühl, the 39-year-old wonder of the Swiss team, scored two goals less than five minutes apart in the second period to break a 1-1 tie and send his team to a 4-2 win over Czechia in Group B action tonight.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia starting this Friday, 12 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
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🇵🇱 🇬🇧 Poland, Great Britain Promoted To 2024 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Nottingham, England saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2024 World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czechia locked up on the final day of competition, with hosts Great Britain and Poland both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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🇸🇪 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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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

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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

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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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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s

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The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship

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After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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