🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 05 January 2016
In a tense and thrilling climax to the 2016 World Juniors, Kasperi Kapanen’s overtime winner at 1:33 gave host Finland a 4-3 Gold medal victory over Russia.
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Former winners of the International Hockey Lineal Championship played a large role in the NHL’s marquee Winter Classic event, as the Montréal Canadiens scored early and often to elevate them to a 5-1 thumping over their hated rivals, the Boston Bruins.
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2015 was a wild year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, with the Euro Hockey Tour and World Championship providing much drama as the title changed through the hands of three world powers by the close of the 2015 Worlds in Czechia.
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The International Ice Hockey Federation announced their 2016 Hall Of Fame class, to be inducted during the 2016 World Championships in Russia. The class includes five players and two coaches from six different countries, including two posthumous inductions, that have held a myriad of World Championship, Olympic and World Cup medals, along with a number of International Hockey Lineal Championship titles.
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The exhibition schedule in advance of the 2016 World Cup in Toronto has been unveiled, with 12 games on tilt the week before the tournament in 10 cities across six nations on two continents.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2015 Class, inducting five world-class players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Tampereen jäähalli, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 07 November 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Siikonen, hooking
08:27 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vorobyov, high sticking
09:27 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Korshkov, high sticking
14:31 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Korshkov, roughing
17:01 – 🇷🇺 PEN SHOT GOAL – Korshkov
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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Four Nations Cup
Tampereen jäähalli, Tampere 🇫🇮
Friday, 06 November 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:13 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Kovacs, hooking
07:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kraskovski, hooking
13:29 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Orlov, delay of game
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After a major overhaul to the Euro Hockey Challenge in the 2014-15 season, this year’s EHC will retain the current format, in the lead-up to the 2016 World Championships in Russia.
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After much speculation following his failure to make the Pittsburgh Penguins roster for this season, veteran defenceman Sergei Gonchar today announced he is joining the Penguins as a defensive development coach, ending his illustrious 20 year playing career.
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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 Czech Independence Day this Wednesday, we look back at the Czech’s first Olympic title, shocking the world at the first “open” Olympics for NHL players.
🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena, Nagano 🇯🇵
Sunday, 22 February 1998
Although the Czech Republic could not have won gold at the 1998 Olympics without goalie Dominik Hašek, it was Petr Svoboda of the Czech Republic who was the final hero of the tournament, the first Olympics which included full participation of NHL players.
Hašek had led the team to the Gold medal game by stopping all five Canadian players in a semi-finals shootout win, but it was Svoboda who scored the lone goal in the final game of the Olympics against Russia.
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The schedule for the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced in the host city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, with the tournament kicking off with a rematch of last year’s final (and every Gold Medal Game in tournament history), between the bitter rivals Canada and the United States.
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The NHL, who will be restarting the World Cup Of Hockey after a twelve-year absence, has unveiled the last of its projected lineups for the six national and two pan-national teams partaking next September in Toronto, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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The schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey leaked today, confirming the already reported Group structure from earlier this year, along with the full tally of games in Toronto next fall to crown the newest World Cup of Hockey global champion.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Saturday, 29 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Jašek (Kaše)
12:40 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Ordoš
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🇷🇺 Russia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup
Dmitrov Sport Palace, Dmitrov 🇷🇺
Friday, 28 August 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:07 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Afonasyevski (Protapovich)
07:54 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Grundström (Ottosson)
17:54 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Davidsson (Kylington, Dahlström)
19:54 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Grundström, roughing
19:54 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Nazarkin, slashing
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After storming off the ice shortly after their World Championship Gold Medal loss to Canada, skipping the flag raising and the Canadian national anthem, the Russian national team was today fined 80,000 Swiss francs by the IIHF for the infraction.
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Molly Schaus, a mainstay both in the Massachusetts women’s hockey scene and in net for Team USA, today announced her retirement from professional hockey, following an illustrious career at the peak of the American women’s team’s rise to prominence.
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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 05 August 2015
Canada fell to Russia 3-2 in a hard-fought shootout Wednesday night in the penultimate game of Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Russia 🇷🇺
National Junior Evaluation Camp
Markin MacPhail Centre, Calgary 🇨🇦
Monday, 03 August 2015
A goal from Joe Hicketts in the first minute of the second period stood up as the winner as Canada topped Russia 4-1 in the opening game of the Sport Chek World Junior Showcase on Monday night.
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