🇷🇺 Russia 7-0 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Royal Arena, Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Sunday, 06 May 2018
Russia roared to another convincing victory against one of the outsiders at this championship, following up its 7-0 win over France with a similar scoreline against Austria.
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🇷🇺 Russia 7-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Royal Arena, Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Friday, 04 May 2018
Russia scored three first-period goals in just 3:14 and never looked back in a 7-0 romp over France to kick off the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Copenhagen.
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The finish of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 4 May in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, with the top sixteen hockey countries in the world meeting to compete at the 2018 IIHF World Championship.
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For just the second time in history, the same nation has captured both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge titles, with Finland today edging out Sweden to lock up the 2017-18 Tour, becoming the second team after Czechia in 2012 to achieve the double.
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Ak Bars Kazan made KHL history on home ice, upending the expected champion CSKA Moscow in only five games to win the 2018 Gagarin Cup, becoming the first team in the league’s decade-long history to win three titles (2008, 2009, 2018).
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🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 07 April 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:33 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Höfflin, tripping
03:41 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Khokhlachyov (Kagarlitski, Semyonov)
06:23 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Semyonov, high sticking
06:58 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Sezemsky, tripping
07:23 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Michaelis (Bender, Nowak)
13:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vereshagin, tripping
18:04 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Loibl, tripping
18:59 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Nowak, roughing
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🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Friday, 06 April 2018
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:47 – 🇩🇪 PEN – team, too many players
09:11 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Ilyenko (Padakin)
19:32 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Wagner, kneeing
19:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kraskovski, roughing
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The only male skater eligible to join at this year’s Games, Pavel Datsyuk punched his ticket to the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his Olympic Gold with the Olympic Athletes From Russia, becoming the 29th male and seventh Russian to join the club, adding to his two Stanley Cups and IIHF World Championship.
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🇷🇺 Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Kirill Kaprizov’s overtime goal gave the OAR team a thrilling 4-3 Gold medal win over underdog Germany. It’s the first Russian Olympic Gold since 1992.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Semifinal
Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Monday, 19 February 2018
As expected, Canada exactly matched what the Americans did earlier today, defeating their semi-finals opponent 5-0.
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Preliminary Round
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium, Gangneung 🇰🇷
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Team Canada began its quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold with a speedy 5-0 win over the Olympic Athletes From Russia.
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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, in honour of the upcoming Olympics, and in light of Russia playing under the Olympic flag, we look back on the last Russian team to play under the same flag at the 1992 Albertville Games.
🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 23 February 1992
The days of the Soviet hockey superiority were over. Even the Soviet Union as a country had ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, when the USSR dissolved and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
During the 1992 IIHF World U20 Championship in Germany, the Soviet team had to change its name from Soviet Union to CIS midway through the tournament, on 01 January 1992.
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The sixth ever women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Saturday, with an anticipated showdown between Canada and the United States set to highlight the Gold Medal Match for the fifth time.
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🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 02 January 2018
Kieffer Bellows scored a Production Line-type goal to break a 2-2 tie midway through the third, putting the U.S. in the semis. Russia goes home in 5th place.
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After the IOC’s landmark decision to ban Russia outright from the 2018 Olympics, but still allow individual athletes to compete under the Olympic flag if they pass IOC drug tests, the IOC today announced that members of Russia’s women’s team at the 2014 Sochi Games failed their tests, and are thus banned for life from the Olympics.
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The International Olympic Committee today announced an outright ban on the Russian delegation at the upcoming Olympic Games this February in Pyeongchang, South Korea, although athletes that are cleared of a controversial state-sponsored doping program are allowed to participate under the Olympic flag.
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The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 14 February, while both hosts Korea and defending champions Canada begin the tournament the following day.
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The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea were released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Saturday, 10 February.
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The full schedule for the 2017-18 Euro Hockey Tour has been announced, the highlights being the moving of the Sweden Hockey Games to April (due to this year’s Olympics in February), and the addition of teams from Canada, Switzerland and Korea, all preparing for the Games in PyeongChang.
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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2018 World Championship in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark, with defending champions Sweden opening the tournament against Belarus, while hosts Denmark open the tournament against Germany on opening day.
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