The International Hockey Lineal Championship stayed with Team USA for the majority of 2017, with the 2017 World Junior champions holding the IHLC for eight of a possible twelve games in 2017, including carrying the title into the medal round of the current 2018 tournament.
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Tag Archives: Montréal
🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: The Red Army Shocks The World
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.” Today, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, we feature the opening game of the tournament, a stunning Soviet victory in Montréal.
🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 1
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 02 September 1972
The withdrawal of Canada from international hockey in 1970 was the result of an increasingly bitter feud between that country and other top European countries, notably the Soviet Union. Canada had long believed that Iron Curtain countries used professional players in World Championship and Olympic competition because their players did nothing but play hockey eleven months of the year.
The withdrawal, though, did have one benefit—it produced the Summit Series in September 1972, an eight-game showdown between Canada’s professionals from the NHL and the best from the Soviet Union (essentially their World Championship / Olympic team).
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 05 Jan 2017
🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 05 January 2017
Troy Terry has done it again. He was the only scorer of ten shootout shooters tonight, giving the USA the gold medal in an incredible 5-4 win over Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 04 Jan 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Canada rallied from a shaky start and deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 to defeat Sweden, 5-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2017
🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2017
Sweden took a 3-0 first-period lead and pounded Slovakia 8-3 in the early Montréal quarter-final. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek and Tim Söderlund each scored twice.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 31 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Jonathan Dahlén starred with a hat trick as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to complete a perfect round-robin. Goalie Filip Gustavsson debuted with a win.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Finland’s dreams of repeating as champs are fading, while Sweden is dialed in so far. With a 3-1 win over Finland, the Swedes wrapped up first place in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Sweden beat Switzerland 4-2 for its second straight Bell Centre win on Wednesday. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek scored twice, including the third-period winner.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 26 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2016
The opening game of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was a smashing success for Sweden, which beat Denmark 6-1 at Montréal’s Bell Centre on Boxing Day.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Team USA Shocks The World
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.” Today, in honour of American Independence Day, we look back at the final tilt between Team USA and Canada at the 1996 World Cup Of Hockey, where the Americans won their first ever “best on best” world title.
🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Cup Of Hockey Final, Game 3
Centre Molson, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 14 September 1996
By 1996, the United States had replaced the Soviet Union / Russia as Canada’s principle international rivalry. In part this was because the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 had rendered the Russians more vulnerable and not as dominant. In part, the rivalry had been as political as it was sporting, so without the cloak of the Iron Curtain, the two countries weren’t nemeses any more.
And, in part, it was because of the emergence of the U.S. as a true hockey power. Canada had defeated the Americans — not the Soviets — in the 1991 Canada Cup, and the core American players from that team were now in their prime in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
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