The Euro Hockey Challenge will return in the lead-up to the 2018 World Championships this season, with yet another scheduling reformat thanks to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, with national teams fine-tuning their rosters before heading to Copenhagen and Herning.
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Tag Archives: Russia
2018 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York is highlighted by the first ever outdoor game in IIHF competition, a tilt between defending champs Team USA and their cross-border rivals, Canada, on 29 December, at New Era Field in nearby Orchard Park.
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Introducing…The World Junior IHLC!
In the heat of a quiet, hockey-free summer, we are proud to introduce the next iteration of the International Hockey Lineal Championship – the Junior IHLC!
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IHLC Winners Pick Up 2017 NHL Awards Hardware
The National Hockey League handed out its hardware to the best players in the world for the 2016-17 season in Las Vegas, with seven IHLC holders representing three countries taking home trophies.
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🇷🇺 Sergei Mylnikov: 1958-2017
Former Soviet netminder Sergei Mylnikov, the backstop of the Red Machine in the late 1980’s, has died at the age of 58, according to the Russian ice hockey federation.
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Penguins Repeat As Stanley Cup Champions On Backs Of IHLC Winners
The Pittsburgh Penguins were able to tune out the chanting, the media and the determined Nashville Predators to capture the Stanley Cup in six games, avoiding overtime on a late Patric Hörnqvist goal to become repeat champions.
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KHL IX Gala Hands Out Awards To IHLC Winners
The KHL tonight handed out its awards to the best players in the league at the KHL IX ceremony in Moscow, with Metallurg star Sergei Mozyakin once again dominating the ceremony, taking home four trophies (including league MVP), along with nine other IHLC winners from four countries also winning awards.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺 – 20 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺
World Championship Semifinal
Lanxess Arena, Cologne 🇩🇪
Saturday, 20 May 2017
Down 2-0 after 40 minutes and looking overwhelmed, Canada scored four goals in the third – three late – to beat Russia, 4-2, and advance to the Gold medal game.
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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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🇷🇺 🇨🇭 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 22 Apr 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Challenge
Tissot Arena, Biel 🇨🇭
Saturday, 22 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
09:02 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Malgin, Ambühl)
11:45 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Loeffel, high sticking
14:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Namestnikov, slashing
17:10 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Golyshev, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 21 Apr 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Challenge
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Friday, 21 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:47 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Gennazi, slashing
05:26 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Burdasov (Lyubushkin, Arzamastsev)
17:03 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ozhiganov, hooking
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SKA Wins Second Gagarin Cup On Backs Of IHLC Winners
SKA Saint Petersburg roared back from an early deficit to win Game 5 of the Gagarin Cup finals 5-3 over Metallurg Magnitogorsk, capturing their second Cup in three seasons, with goals from five different scorers and a 42 save performance by Mikko Koskinen locking up the title.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 France 🇫🇷 – 15 Apr 2017
🇷🇺 Russia 6-0 France 🇫🇷
Euro Hockey Challenge
Traktor Ice Arena, Chelyabinsk 🇷🇺
Saturday, 15 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:05 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Mironov (Telegin)
07:01 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Treille, hooking
07:38 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Kiselevich (Shalunov)
11:48 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Valier, tripping
13:10 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Shalunov (Sannikov, Shumakov)
15:29 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perret, holding
19:26 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Andronov, hooking
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇷 France 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT) – 13 Apr 2017
🇫🇷 France 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Challenge
Traktor Ice Arena, Chelyabinsk 🇷🇺
Thursday, 13 April 2017
BOXSCORE
1st Period
12:03 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Blazhiyevski, boarding
19:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Shumakov, tripping
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NHL Confirms Players Will Not Attend 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
After months of speculation and negotiations, the National Hockey League today announced that they will not actively participate in the 2018 Olympics in Korea, ending a 20-year span of NHL participation in the Games.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-0 Russia 🇷🇺 – 01 Apr 2017
🇺🇸 United States 7-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 01 April 2017
Team USA scored three goals in the second period–two by Jocelyn Lamoureux-Davidson–en route to an impressive 7-0 win over Russia.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 Women’s World Championship
A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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🇷🇺 Vladimir Petrov: 1947-2017
Vladimir Petrov, the Soviet centreman and IIHF Hall of Famer who, alongside Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Kharlamov, formed one of the most productive and fearsome lines in history, lost his battle with cancer in Moscow at the age of 69.
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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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International Hockey Lineal Championship 