🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Finland finished the preliminary round with a 3-0 win over Latvia this afternoon in Ottawa. Petteri Rimpinen stopped 28 shots for the shutout, while Benjamin Rautiainen had a goal and assist for the winners.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Saturday, 28 December 2024
The United States won their 10th straight World Junior Championship game (stretching over three tournaments) this afternoon in Ottawa, defeating a beleaguered Latvian team by a 5-1 count.
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With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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Latvian forward Kaspars Daugaviņš, who captained his country to their historic first ever World Championship medal in 2023, today announced his sudden retirement from the sport at age 36, ending a 20+ year pro career spanning teams across seven countries, citing family issues as the reason for the sudden, mid-season announcement.
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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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Capping their thirtieth season in the National Hockey League, the Florida Panthers today avoided an epic, historic collapse in Game Seven the Stanley Cup Final, capturing their first Stanley Cup over the Edmonton Oilers, who forced the decisive game after coming back from a 3-0 series deficit, with a narrow 2-1 victory on home ice.
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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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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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🇺🇸 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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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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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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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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Only six years after becoming the NHL’s 31st franchise, the Vegas Golden Knights have captured the Stanley Cup in five games against the stalwart Florida Panthers, winning their first championship on home ice in a 9-3 blowout victory.
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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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🇱🇻 Latvia 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Quarterfinal
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Team Latvia is going to Finland to play for a medal!
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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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🇨🇭 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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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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