After an odd year for the Euro Hockey Tour with the 2018 Olympics smack dab in the middle of the schedule, the 2018-19 Euro Hockey Tour schedule has returned to a similar format, with the core four teams of Czechia, Russia, Finland and Sweden starting up this season’s tournament in November.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Eberle’s Heroic Hat Trick
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 Canada’s 151st birthday, we feature one of the most thrilling games in World Junior Championship history, the 2009 Semifinal that put Canada on the path to their fifth straight World Junior Gold Medal in Ottawa.
🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Russia 🇷🇺 (SO)
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scotiabank Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Saturday, 03 January 2009
Canada’s drive for five is alive.
Jordan Eberle scored twice in regulation time, including the equalizer with five seconds left in the third period, and then had another goal in the shootout to pace Canada to a 6-5 triumph over Russia in Saturday’s semifinal at the 2009 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2018
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2018 on 12 November, with a pair of Canadian Martins (Brodeur and St-Louis), Alexander Yakushev and Jayna Hefford entering the players wing of the Hall, bringing their professional and international accolades (along with their International Hockey Lineal Championship reigns) to Toronto.
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Hall, Rinne, Hedman Highlight First-Time IHLC Winners At 2018 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League handed out its hardware to the best players in the world for the 2017-18 season in Las Vegas, with ten IHLC holders representing five countries taking home trophies.
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Washington Capitals Make Stanley Cup History With IHLC Help
The Washington Capitals finally shook their reputation as playoff chokers, capturing the Stanley Cup over the Vegas Golden Knights with four straight wins in five games to win their first championship in team history.
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KHL Closing Ceremony Awards KHL’s Best, IHLC Winners
The KHL formally closed their tenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with finalists SKA Saint Petersburg and Ak Bars Kazan drawing in the biggest haul and thirteen IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 10 May 2018
🇨🇿 Czechia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Royal Arena, Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Adding David Pastrňák and David Krejčí paid off immediately. Not only did the Czechs break Russia’s three-game shutout streak with the magic of the two Boston Bruins stars, but they also triumphed 4-3 on Thursday on Pastrňák’s overtime winner.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 07 May 2018
🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾
World Championship Preliminary Round
Royal Arena, Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Monday, 07 May 2018
Russia retained first place in Group A with its third consecutive shutout win on Monday, blanking Belarus 6-0. The Russians, who won Gold at the PyeongChang Olympics in February, have not conceded a goal so far at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Copenhagen.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 7-0 Austria 🇦🇹 – 06 May 2018
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 7-0 France 🇫🇷 – 04 May 2018
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Preview – 2018 World Championship
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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🇫🇮 Finland Wins 2018 Euro Hockey Tour & Challenge
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 Wins Historic Third Gagarin Cup With 16 IHLC Winners
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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IHLC Results – 🇩🇪 Germany 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 07 Apr 2018
🇩🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 06 Apr 2018
🇷🇺 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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🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk Joins Triple Gold Club
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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 Germany 🇩🇪 (OT) – 25 Feb 2018
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 19 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Olympic Athletes From Russia 🇷🇺 – 11 Feb 2018
🇨🇦 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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🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Gold For A Team With No Name
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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