With both the National Hockey League and NHL Players Association today ratifying both their return to play proposal to complete the 2019-20 NHL season, as well as extend their latest Collective Bargaining Agreement, one major clause of the plan is the return of NHL players to the Winter Olympics, marking the return of the world’s top professional players for the first time since 2014, pending IOC and IIHF approval.
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Tag Archives: Russia
KHL Hands Out Truncated 2019-20 Awards
Despite being forced to cancel the remainder of the 2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced a handful of award winners based on the 2019-20 regular season. Continue reading
๐ท๐บ Andrei Markov Retires Following KHL Season Cancellation
Andrei Markov, the Russian workhorse defenceman who anchored top bluelines for over 20 seasons in both Canada and his native Russia, today announced his retirement from Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL at age 41, three weeks after the KHL season was suspended over COVID-19.
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๐ท๐บ ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฟ KHL Suspends 2019-20 Season, Gagarin Cup Playoffs
After multiple attempts to resuscitate the 2020 Gagarin Cup playoffs, today the Kontinental Hockey League announced that they would suspend the remainder of their season due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with no Gagarin Cup winner to be crowned in 2020.
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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 4-3 Russia ๐ท๐บ (SO) โ 09 Feb 2020
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 4-3 Russia ๐ท๐บ (SO)
Beijer Hockey Games
Ericsson Globe, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
Sunday, 09 February 2020
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:03 – ๐จ๐ฟ PEN – team, delay of game
11:24 – ๐ท๐บ PP GOAL – Kayumov (Zernov, Golyshev)
12:45 – ๐ท๐บ PEN – Sergeyev, cross checking
17:11 – ๐ท๐บ PEN – Mironov, checking from behind minor + 10 min. misconduct
19:14 – ๐จ๐ฟ GOAL – Flek (Hyka, ล ulรกk)
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IHLC Results โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 3-0 Russia ๐ท๐บ โ 06 Feb 2020
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 3-0 Russia ๐ท๐บ
Beijer Hockey Games
Helsingin jรครคhalli, Helsinki ๐ซ๐ฎ
Thursday, 06 February 2020
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:37 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL – Pulkkinen
05:43 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL –ย Nรคttinen (Koivisto)
06:54 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL –ย Junttila (Vittasmรคki, Karjalainen)
10:15 – ๐ท๐บ PEN – Svetlakov, tripping
17:35 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Pulkkinen, tripping
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๐ท๐บ Alexander Skvortsov: 1954-2020
Alexander Skvortsov, a Soviet winger part of the Red Army juggernaut that dominated international hockey throughout the late 1970’s and 1980’s, passed away in Moscow on 04 February at the age of 65.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2020 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2020, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Zรผrich, Switzerland, with two native Swiss players highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Ryan Smyth, Alexei Yashin, Kimmo Timonen and countrymen Mark Streit and Mathias Seger to the Hall.
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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-3 Russia ๐ท๐บ โ 05 Jan 2020
๐จ๐ฆย Canada 4-3 Russia ๐ท๐บ
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Ostravar Arรฉna, Ostrava ๐จ๐ฟ
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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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-0 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ โ 04 Jan 2020
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-0 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Ostravar Arรฉna, Ostrava ๐จ๐ฟ
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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