On the eve of the inaugural (and potentially only) Four Nations Face-Off, the NHL and NHLPA today announced the return of the World Cup Of Hockey, set to debut in February 2028 as a mid-season, rather than preseason, tournament, and recurring every four years thereafter.
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Tag Archives: Slovakia
🇯🇵 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Japan, Sweden, Germany Clinch Final Milan 2026 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After three months of Olympic qualifiers, with 24 teams competing across two rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Japan, Sweden and Germany for the 2026 Olympics.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2025 Inductees
The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2025, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Stockholm, with five different nationalities and a pair of Swedish goaltenders highlighting the class.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
The Arena At TD Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Thursday, 02 January 2025
Powered by three first-period goals, Finland held on for a 5-3 quarter-final win over Slovakia on Thursday night in Ottawa.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior
The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 21 Dec 2024
🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Exhibition Game
Slush Puppie Place, Kingston 🇨🇦
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Ryan Leonard had two goals and an assist, while Cole Hutson added three assists to help the U.S. National Junior Team to a 6-2 victory over Slovakia here tonight at Slush Puppie Place in pre-tournament action ahead of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.
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🇨🇦 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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🇱🇻 🇩🇰 🇸🇰 Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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🇩🇰 🇸🇪 2025 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 23 May 2024
🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Quarterfinal
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Thursday, 23 May 2024
There was never much doubt. Canada got goals from five different players to defeat Slovakia 6-3 in Thursday’s early Prague quarter-final at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior
The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 31 Dec 2023
🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Sunday, 31 December 2023
In the New Year’s Eve showdown for first place in Group B, the U.S. left no doubt, hammering Slovakia 10-2 at Frölundaborg. Captain Rutger McGroarty set the tone with a hat trick and goalie Trey Augustine shone when tested with 38 stops.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s
The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship
With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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🇺🇸 Paul Stastny Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 37
American centre Paul Stastny, the son of hockey royalty who carved out his own illustrious career that spanned nearly two decades, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, having last played for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2022-23 NHL season.
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🇺🇸 Derek Stepan Announces Retirement From Hockey At 33
American centre Derek Stepan, a seasoned NHL veteran with a recurring presence on Team USA, today announced his retirement from hockey due to recurring injuries at age 33.
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🇨🇳 🇩🇰 China, Denmark Promoted To 2024 Women’s World Championship
At the conclusion of the delayed Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Shenzhen, China today, it was hosts China and Denmark that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2024, solidifying for good the 2023-24 international hockey calendar.
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