Czech winger Martin Erat, who spent twenty years professionally in the NHL, KHL and Czech leagues, as well as representing the Narodnitym many times, today announced his retirement from his final club, HC Kometa Brno.
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CSKA Moscow, one of the most decorated clubs in Russian hockey history, today made history again by capturing just their first Gagarin Cup, sweeping Avangard Omsk with an overtime victory in their third final in four seasons.
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The International Hockey Lineal Championship again saw eight countries carry the title throughout 2018, with the Olympics being added to the calendar seeing 31 different matchups, with the IHLC being defended at five tournaments in seven different countries.
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🇷🇺 Russia 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Channel One Cup
Gazprom Arena, Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
Sunday, 16 December 2018
In Saint Petersburg, the senior Russian national team took on Finland in the concluding match of the 2018 Channel One Cup match, with the Hockey Classic game taking place at the large Gazprom Arena.
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🇷🇺 Russia 7-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
CSKA Arena, Moscow 🇷🇺
Saturday, 15 December 2018
In Moscow, the senior Russian national team took on the Czech Republic in the second match of the 2018 Channel One Cup.
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The Florida Panthers confirmed that Czech forward Radim Vrbata would sit out the Panthers’ season finale in Boston, putting his 17 season career to an end, with stops in Colorado, Carolina, Chicago, Phoenix, Tampa Bay, Vancouver and Florida, along with stints with Liberec and Mladá Boleslav of his native Czech league.
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The International Hockey Lineal Championship increased the number of champions yet again from a previous year, with eight different countries holding the title over 28 games in the lead-up to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 17 December 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:50 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Mertl, holding
12:18 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Mozík (Vondrka, Kovář)
14:37 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Stålberg, holding
15:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Řepík (Mozík, Vondrka)
18:22 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, holding
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Channel One Cup
VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 15 December 2017
Matt Ellison opened the scoring on a second-period power play, but Canada’s National Men’s Team dropped a 4-1 decision to the Czech Republic on Friday at the 2017 Channel One Cup.
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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.” Today, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series finale, we look back on perhaps the most influential goal in international hockey history, Paul Henderson’s series-winning tally past Vladislav Tretyak.
🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 8
Luzhniki Palace Of Sports, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 28 September 1972
Both Canada and the Soviet Union had pushed each other to their limit in this grueling eight-game Summit Series, heading into the decisive eighth and final game in Moscow, the series tied at 3-3-1. Each team knew the ins-and-outs of each other’s game, and were completely prepared to avoid any surprises.
That is, until the final minute of the game – when Paul Henderson pounced on a rare Vladislav Tretyak rebound to score what was touted “The Goal Of The Century,” winning the epic Summit Series, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship, for Canada.
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