The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2017 on 13 November, with Teemu Selänne, Paul Kariya, Mark Recchi, Dave Andreychuk and Danielle Goyette entering the Hall, bringing their professional and international accolades (along with their International Hockey Lineal Championship reigns) to Toronto.
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🇸🇪 Nils Nilsson: 1936-2017
Swedish hockey giant Nils Nilsson, one of the first true superstars of the Tre Kronor, died today in Sweden after an illness at the age of 81.
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🇷🇺 Sergei Mylnikov: 1958-2017
Former Soviet netminder Sergei Mylnikov, the backstop of the Red Machine in the late 1980’s, has died at the age of 58, according to the Russian ice hockey federation.
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🇫🇮 Niko Kapanen Retires From HPK After 22 Year Pro Career
Finnish forward Niko Kapanen, a long-time veteran of the NHL, KHL and Leijonat, today announced his retirement from HPK of the Finnish Liiga at the age of 39.
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🇸🇪 🇫🇮 IHLC Classics: Lidström’s Golden Goal
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 celebrate National Day (Sveriges nationaldag) in Sweden, we focus on Sweden’s second and most recent Olympic Gold Medal, won from rivals Finland at the 2006 Turin Games.
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Palasport Olimpico, Turin 🇮🇹
Sunday, 26 February 2006
The hockey world changed most dramatically and recently in the 1990s. First, the Soviet Union crumbled, after which Czechoslovakia split in two, and then NHLers started to compete at the Olympics. The result produced an astounding parity among the top teams. Consider that the “Canadian era” lasted from 1920 to 1961 and the “Soviet era” from 1962 to 1990.
That is, these countries dominated those periods of time in a way that is unimaginable today.
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🇫🇷 🇩🇰 2017 World Championship Spell Retirement For Huet, Meunier, Green
Three legends of emerging squads both played their final international matches today at the 2017 World Championship, as French goalie Cristobal Huet, French captain Laurent Meunier and Danish captain Morten Green played their final games of the tournament, finalizing their retirements that were announced before the tournament began.
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🇦🇹 🇰🇷 Austria, South Korea Promoted To 2018 World Championship
The two teams that narrowly missed promotion to the 2017 World Championship today both punched their tickets to the 2018 tournament in Denmark, with Austria and South Korea locking up their spots at the World Championship Division IA finals in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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🇯🇵 🇨🇿 Japan Promoted, Czechia Relegated At Women’s Worlds
After falling to Switzerland in a best-of-three relegation series, Czechia has been demoted to Division I Group A in 2018, while Japan, victors of 2017 Group IA in Graz, Austria, will be promoted for the 2019 Women’s World Championships, with no tournament being held in 2018 due to the PyeongChang Olympics.
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NHL Confirms Players Will Not Attend 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
After months of speculation and negotiations, the National Hockey League today announced that they will not actively participate in the 2018 Olympics in Korea, ending a 20-year span of NHL participation in the Games.
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🇨🇿 Patrik Eliáš Announces Retirement After 20 Seasons With Devils
Czech winger Patrik Eliáš, a career member of the New Jersey Devils who was their offensive star and all-time leading scorer, today announced his formal retirement after 20 seasons, spending the entire 2016-17 season attempting to come back from injury.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team, USA Hockey Strike New Agreement
In a good news story after weeks of bad blood between the U.S. Women’s National Team and USA Hockey, a new four year agreement has been agreed upon by both parties, ensuring that the U.S. team will suit up for the Women’s World Championships, which begin in just three days time in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 Women’s World Championship
A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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🇺🇸 Buffalo Beauts Capture Second-Ever Isobel Cup
The Buffalo Beauts, avenging their 2016 Isobel Cup loss to the Boston Pride in the inaugural Cup finals, today clinched the 2017 and second-ever Isobel Cup with a 3-2 victory over the Pride in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Women’s Team Vows Boycott Of World Championship, USA Hockey Responds
In a shocking development less than a month before the 2017 Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, the U.S. women’s national team today announced, in solidarity, that they will sit out the Worlds in protest of a lack of support from USA Hockey, the culmination of a year’s worth of legal proceedings with the American hockey body.
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🇫🇮 Olli Jokinen Retires As Florida Panther After 17 Seasons
Finnish sniper Olli Jokinen, an NHL mainstay since being drafted third overall in 1997, formally retired as a member of his longest-tenured team, the Florida Panthers, after an illustrious 17-year professional career.
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🇨🇦 Canadiennes Win Clarkson Cup, Labonté Joins Triple Gold Club
The Montréal Canadiennes, avenging their 2016 Clarkson Cup loss to Calgary and avoiding a third straight Cup defeat, today clinched the 2017 Clarkson Cup with a 3-1 victory over the Inferno in Ottawa, Ontario.
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🇷🇺 Vladimir Petrov: 1947-2017
Vladimir Petrov, the Soviet centreman and IIHF Hall of Famer who, alongside Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Kharlamov, formed one of the most productive and fearsome lines in history, lost his battle with cancer in Moscow at the age of 69.
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🇨🇿 Josef Augusta: 1946-2017
Czech hockey pioneer Josef Augusta, who after a tremendous playing career with the national team later became their coach, died today in Jihlava at the age of 70, after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
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🇺🇸 Anne Schleper Retires From NWHL, U.S. Women’s National Team
U.S. women’s team defender Anne Schleper, an 11-year veteran of the national team and player in both the CWHL and NWHL, today announced her retirement at the age of 27.
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🇨🇭 🇯🇵 Switzerland And Japan Clinch Final Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly half a year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Mexico last October, four rounds of play and 22 teams competing for a mere two spots in PyeongChang, the final qualification spots were today clinched by Japan and Switzerland for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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