Czech forward Roman Červenka, who as captain led Czechia to their first World Championship title in fourteen years on home ice last month, was today awarded the IIHF’s Male Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season.
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Tag Archives: Ostrava
🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Great Britain, Poland Sent Back Down From 2024 World Championship
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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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship
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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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title
By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship
🇨🇿 2024 World Championship Schedule Released
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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🇵🇱 🇬🇧 Poland, Great Britain Promoted To 2024 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Nottingham, England saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2024 World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czechia locked up on the final day of competition, with hosts Great Britain and Poland both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 May 2022
🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Sunday, 01 May 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:48 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Söderblom (Roos, Pudas)
14:08 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Manninen, holding
16:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lang, roughing
16:55 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vatanen, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹 – 30 Apr 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹
Czech Hockey Games
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Saturday, 30 April 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
12:00 – 🇦🇹 PEN – Hackl, hooking
13:27 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Innala (Aaltonen, Lehtonen)
15:22 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Pesonen (Sallinen)
18:42 – 🇦🇹 PEN – Kragl, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 28 Apr 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
Czech Hockey Games
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Thursday, 28 April 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pesonen, high sticking double minor
13:56 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Budík, holding
15:20 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Hartikainen (Manninen)
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IHLC 2020 In Review – Junior
The International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw two champions hold the title thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with defending champions Canada holding the title for all but five days in 2020. Continue reading
IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 05 Jan 2020
🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Sunday, 05 January 2020
Akil Thomas chased down a loose puck just as he and it got to the top of the goal crease. He managed to backhand the puck in the far side as he fell, breaking a 3-3 tie at 16:02 and giving Canada a dramatic come-from-behind victory in another classic Canada-Russia Gold medal game at the World Juniors.
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🇰🇿 🇦🇹 Kazakhstan Relegated, Austria Promoted From World Junior Championship
After managing to force a third and decisive final game in their relegation series, Kazakhstan today was dispatched by Germany to be relegated to Division IA in 2021, returning to the lower division after a two-year stay in the Top Division.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Jan 2020
🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Saturday, 04 January 2020
Canada defeated the team that beat it last year at the U20, and now it will face the team that handed it its worst loss in U20 history, a 6-0 pasting just last week. Will vengeance be theirs, or will Russia continue its roll this year?
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT) – 30 Dec 2019
🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Monday, 30 December 2019
Cole Caufield scored his first goal of the tournament at 3:14 of overtime to give the Americans a 4-3 win over the Czechs.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 29 Dec 2019
🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Sunday, 29 December 2019
Team USA scored two goals six seconds apart late in the second period to break a 0-0 deadlock and skated to a 3-1 win over Russia tonight in Ostrava.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 28 Dec 2019
🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Saturday, 28 December 2019
It was one of those nights when everything went well for one team – Russia – and nothing went well for the other – Canada. The result was a well-earned 6-0 pasting by the former over the latter.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-4 United States 🇺🇸 – 26 Dec 2019
🇨🇦 Canada 6-4 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Thursday, 26 December 2019
Alexis Lafrenière intercepted a midair pass in the U.S. end, controlled it, and deked Spencer Knight with 3:11 left to play to break a 4-4 tie and give Canada a 6-4 win over arch-rivals U.S. in the opening game of the 2020 World Juniors.
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IHLC Preview – 2020 World Junior Championship
The finish of the holiday season, year 2019 and junior international hockey calendar is set to begin on Boxing Day in Czechia, with the top ten hockey nations on Earth meeting to compete at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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