The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2018 on 12 November, with a pair of Canadian Martins (Brodeur and St-Louis), Alexander Yakushev and Jayna Hefford entering the players wing of the Hall, bringing their professional and international accolades (along with their International Hockey Lineal Championship reigns) to Toronto.
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Tag Archives: Olympics
๐ซ๐ฎ Tomi Kallio Announces TPS Retirement At Age 41
Finnish winger Tomi Kallio, a veteran of the NHL, SHL and Liiga, as well as the Leijonat, today announced his retirement from TPS of the Liiga at the age of 41, bringing his career to an end where it started over 20 years earlier.
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KHL Closing Ceremony Awards KHL’s Best, IHLC Winners
The KHL formally closed their tenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with finalists SKA Saint Petersburg and Ak Bars Kazan drawing in the biggest haul and thirteen IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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๐ธ๐ฐ Mariรกn Hossa Confirms Hockey Career Is Over
Mariรกn Hossa, sidelined for the entire 2017-18 NHL season due to a skin disorder, confirmed today to a Slovakian newspaper that his hockey career was over, and he will formally retire once his current contract expires in 2020.
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๐จ๐ณ China Granted Automatic Berths At 2022 Beijing Olympics
In a similar vein to the IIHF’s decision four years ago to allow Korea automatic berths to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, the IIHF today confirmed at their Annual Congress that the next Winter Olympic hosts, China, will gain automatic berths for the men’s and women’s tournaments in Beijing for the 2022 Games.
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IHLC Preview – 2018 World Championship
The finish of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 4 May in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, with the top sixteen hockey countries in the world meeting to compete at the 2018 IIHF World Championship.
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๐จ๐ญ Mathias Seger Retires After Sixth Swiss National League Title
Longtime ZSC Lions and Swiss national team star Mathias Seger, a member of the Eisgenossenย since 1996, confirmed his retirement at age 40 after winning his sixth and latest National title with the Lions.
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Ak Bars Kazan Wins Historic Third Gagarin Cup With 16 IHLC Winners
Ak Bars Kazan made KHL history on home ice, upending the expected champion CSKA Moscow in only five games to win the 2018 Gagarin Cup, becoming the first team in the league’s decade-long history to win three titles (2008, 2009, 2018).
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๐ฐ๐ท South Korea Becomes First New Men’s IHLC Contender In 15 Years
In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, Slovakia’s IHLC win over Latvia today confirmed their next opponent will be South Korea (Korea Republic), making the Koreans the first new team in 15 years to contend for the IHLC.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ken Hitchcock Retires After 30+ Year Coaching Career
Longtime NHL coach Ken Hitchcock, who spent over three decades coaching many of the world’s top players on both the professional and international stage, announced his retirement from coaching the Dallas Stars on Friday, ending his career as the third winningest coach in NHL history (823 wins).
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๐ธ๐ช Sedin Twins Announce Dual Retirement After 18 NHL Seasons
Swedish twin forwards Henrik and Daniel Sedin, proverbially joined at the hip for nearly two decades both with the Vancouver Canucks andย Tre Kronor, formally ended their career tonight with the Canucks in Edmonton, closing out a historic 18-season NHL career spent side by side.
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๐จ๐ฆ Patrick Sharp Announces Retirement From Blackhawks
Canadian winger Patrick Sharp announced his sudden retirement from the NHL just prior to his Chicago Blackhawks’ final game of the 2017-18 season, capping his illustrious sixteen season career with three teams, three Stanley Cups, and an Olympic Gold Medal.
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๐ฉ๐ช Christian Ehrhoff Retires After Twenty Season Career
Christian Ehrhoff, fresh off a shocking German silver medal win at the PyeongChang Olympics, has decided to retire from hockey at the age of 35, following Kรถlner Haie’s elimination from the Deutsche Eishockey Liga playoffs, capping a 20 season career split between the NHL and Germany.
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๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ธ Clarkson & Isobel Cups Awarded, Fortino & Larocque Join Triple Gold Club
The biggest day of the year in women’s club hockey has come and gone, with the Clarkson and Isobel Cups being awarded and two Canadian defenders joining the unofficial women’s Triple Gold Club.
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๐ท๐บ Pavel Datsyuk Joins Triple Gold Club
The only male skater eligible to join at this year’s Games, Pavel Datsyuk punched his ticket to the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his Olympic Gold with the Olympic Athletes From Russia, becoming the 29th male and seventh Russian to join the club, adding to his two Stanley Cups and IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – ๐ท๐บ Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช (OT) – 25 Feb 2018
๐ท๐บ Olympic Athletes From Russiaย 4-3 Germany ๐ฉ๐ชย (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung ๐ฐ๐ท
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Kirill Kaprizov’s overtime goal gave the OAR team a thrilling 4-3 Gold medal win over underdog Germany. It’s the first Russian Olympic Gold since 1992.
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IHLC Results – ๐ฉ๐ช Germany 4-3 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ – 23 Feb 2018
๐ฉ๐ช Germanyย 4-3ย Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Olympic Semifinal
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung ๐ฐ๐ท
Friday, 23 February 2018
Germany has defeated Canada for the first time in Olympic hockey history after suffering 15 straight losses dating back to 1932 (including East and West).
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๐บ๐ธ Set Of Six U.S. Women’s Players Join Triple Gold Club
By virtue of the United States’ first Olympic Gold medal in 20 years, six new skaters from Team USA have joined the women’s version of the Triple Gold Club, all adding Olympic Gold to their World Championship Gold and Clarkson Cup titles.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ (SO) – 22 Feb 2018
๐บ๐ธ United States 3-2ย Canada ๐จ๐ฆย (SO)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung ๐ฐ๐ท
Thursday, 22 February 2018
After 80 minutes of end-to-end action, the women’s Olympic Gold medal was decided by a shootout. And even that went to overtime before the U.S. won, 3-2.
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IHLC Results – ๐ฉ๐ช Germany 4-3 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช (OT) – 21 Feb 2018
๐ฉ๐ช Germanyย 4-3ย Sweden ๐ธ๐ชย (OT)
Olympic Quarterfinal
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneungย ๐ฐ๐ท
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Sweden rallies from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits but loses in overtime. The loss is the greatest upset in Olympic hockey since 2002 when Belarus beat Sweden, also 4-3.
Patirck Reimer drove hard to the goal, skated around three Swedes in the process, and banged his own rebound past goalie Viktor Fasth just 90 seconds into a 10-minute four-on-four overtime to give Germany an improbable 4-3 victory over Sweden.
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