🇨🇿 Jágr Retires From Czech National Team…Again

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After a disappointing fourth place finish in front of their home crowd, Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr, named tournament MVP of the 2015 World Championships, has said for the second straight season that he is done with the Czech national team.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 17 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Russia 🇷🇺
World Championship Gold Medal Game
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 17 May 2015

Canada got its first two goals from the fourth line and skated to a near flawless gold medal win, crushing Russia 6-1 and finishing with a perfect 10-0 record.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 16 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Semifinal
Oarena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 16 May 2015

Canada scored once in each of the first two periods and then played a dangerous game of sitting on the lead in the third, but the 2-0 score held up.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 14 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Belarus 🇧🇾
World Championship Quarterfinal
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Thursday, 14 May 2015

It wasn’t one thing. It was everything. Relentless puck pressure. Dominant puck movement. Tenacious defence. Finish around the goal. Tyler Seguin hat trick.

In all, 13 players recorded points in the game. To go along with Seguin’s three goals, defenceman Brent Burns had two goals and two assists and forward Ryan O’Reilly had two goals and one helper.
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🇦🇹 🇸🇮 Austria, Slovenia Relegated From World Championship

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For the fourth straight World Championship in which they are participating, Austria and Slovenia have been relegated back to Division IA for 2016, failing to clinch spots at next year’s World Championship in Russia.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 10-1 Austria 🇦🇹 – 12 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 10-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Canada scored early and often to finish the round robin with a perfect 7-0 record and 49 goals scored. Canada played the game without incurring a penalty.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 10 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 10 May 2015

Canada got goals from seven scorers and motored to a 7-2 win over Switzerland to clinch Group A. Five of the goals came from the crease area via rebounds.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 France 🇫🇷 – 09 May 2015

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🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 09 May 2015

Last year, Canada opened the Worlds with a shocking shootout loss to France. On Saturday, the Canadians staved off a third-period French rally to prevail 4-3.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 04 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Monday, 04 May 2015

Buoyed by a three-goal performance from star forward Loui Eriksson, Sweden stayed undefeated in Group A with a 8-1 thrashing of Latvia on Monday.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Austria 🇦🇹 – 03 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 03 May 2015

Filip Forsberg scored three goals and added an assist as Sweden waltzed past Austria 6-1 in Sunday’s early game at the O2 arena. The Swedes remain undefeated.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 01 May 2015

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Friday, 01 May 2015

Oliver Ekman-Larsson got the shootout winner as Sweden blew a 4-2 third-period lead but beat the Czechs 6-5 to send the host team’s fans home disappointed.
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IHLC Preview – 2015 World Championship

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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇿 Sweden Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Czechs Win Euro Hockey Challenge

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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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🇨🇿 Jágr To Reportedly Join Czech World Championship Team

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After his Florida Panthers failed to make the NHL playoffs, legendary Czech forward Jaromír Jágr, who claimed he was retired from international competition following last year’s World Championships in Belarus, is now considering rejoining the Czechs for this year’s Worlds, on home ice in his native Prague.
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IIHF Announces 2018 Olympic Qualification Format

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In advance of the men’s 2015 World Championships in Czechia and women’s 2016 World Championships in Canada, the IIHF today announced the tournament structure and qualification format for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, with the big news being that the format will remain the same for both men and women as in Sochi 2014.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 07 Feb 2015

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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 07 February 2015

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
07:38 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Vondrka (Zohorna, Koukal)
09:52 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zohorna (Roman, Zaťovič)
10:22 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Slepyshev (Grigoriev)
11:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Lazarev (Loktionov)
13:46 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, tripping
14:53 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Klesla, interference
17:30 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Gulaš, interference
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Men’s

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2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 18 Dec 2014

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Thursday, 18 December 2014

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:31 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kolář, interference
13:04 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jan Kovář (Radil, Zaťovič)
13:56 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Birner (Horák)
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