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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Tag Archives: Paris
IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 16 May 2017
๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 5-2ย Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Canada finishes in first, Finland fourth. Canada will play Germany, the Finns will play the U.S. in the quarter-finals.
Mitch Marner, a natural passer of great skill but often reluctant shooter, scored two goals in the first period and assisted on another to lead Canada to an impressive win over Finland in the final round-robin game in Paris.
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๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐น Slovenia, Italy Relegated From World Championship
Still with a dayย until the end of the 2017 World Championship group round, the two relegated teams for 2018 have already been determined, with both Slovenia and Italy, who only gained promotion in 2016, set to return to Division IA next season.
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IHLC Results – ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 3-2 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ (OT) – 14 May 2017
๐ซ๐ฎ Finlandย 3-2 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญย (OT)
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Sunday, 14 May 2017
Valtteri Filppula scored on a bad-angle deke at 2:24 of overtime to complete Finland’s comeback from 2-0 down.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ (OT) – 13 May 2017
๐จ๐ญ Switzerlandย 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆย (OT)
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Fabrice Herzog scored twice, including the overtime winner at 3:40, as Switzerland rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit to stun Canada 3-2 on Saturday.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 France ๐ซ๐ท – 11 May 2017
๐จ๐ฆย Canadaย 3-2ย France ๐ซ๐ท
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Canada led 1-0. France led 2-1. Canada went ahead 3-2. The sold-out crowd of 14,510 was rockin’ all night as David and Goliath played evenly for 60 minutes.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-0 Belarus ๐ง๐พ – 08 May 2017
๐จ๐ฆย Canadaย 6-0ย Belarus ๐ง๐พ
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Monday, 08 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon kept his hot hand going, scoring two more goals and adding a great assist. Mitch Marner added two signature helpers of his own.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 7-2 Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ – 07 May 2017
๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 7-2ย Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Sunday, 07 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon made it look easy–the whole team did–beating a game Slovenia, 7-2, despite some fine goaltending from a beleaguered Gasper Kroลกelj.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ – 05 May 2017
๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 4-1ย Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
World Championship Preliminaryย Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris ๐ซ๐ท
Friday, 05 May 2017
In many cities over many decades have Canada and the Czechs played hockey, but until tonight never Paris.
The massively pro-Czech crowd of 8,834 left disappointed, though, because their team was beaten by a superior, but sloppy, Canada, 4-1.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 World Championship
The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 05 May in both Cologne and Paris, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting to compete at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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๐ท๐บ ๐จ๐ญ Russia Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Switzerland Wins Euro Hockey Challenge
With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge, as the season ends to ring in the start of the 2017 World Championships in Paris and Cologne, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2016-17 season.
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2017 Euro Hockey Challenge Schedule Confirmed
After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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2017 World Championship Schedule Released
The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2017 World Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany, with defending champions Canada opening the tournament against Czechia, while hosts Germany open the tournament against the United States on opening day, and France hosts Norway on day two.
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๐ฎ๐น ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia Promoted To 2017 Worlds, Italy Likely As Well
After Slovenia edged out Austria 2-1 and Italy defeated an upstart Korean squad by the same score on the last day of competition, the qualifiers for the 2017 World Championships in Cologne and Paris became more clear, although Slovenia is the only one with a guarantee of playing for now.
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