🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Five Nations Cup
Easton Aréna, Piešťany 🇸🇰
Saturday, 08 November 2025
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1st Period
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IIHF Confirms Women’s World Championships Moving To November As Of 2026
At today’s IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in Nice, France, it was confirmed that the 2026 Women’s World Championships would be hosted by Denmark, but more consequentially would be held in November, confirmed to be a permanent shift in moving the typical spring tournament to early November going forward, just prior to the start of the Professional Women’s Hockey League pro seasons.
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🇨🇭 2026 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, with the host Eisgenossen looking to finally conquer the tournament after consecutive Silver medal finishes, only three months after the conclusion of the 2026 Olympics in Milan.
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🇸🇰 Jaroslav Halák Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 40
Journeyman Slovak goaltender Jaroslav Halák, who backstopped seven different NHL teams and the Slovakian national squad for twenty pro seasons, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, two years after his last professional game.
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🇺🇸 2026 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the United States looking to “three-peat” as world champions for the first time in history, looking to do some on home ice in Minnesota, with the Americans hosting the tournament’s fiftieth edition for the first time since 2018.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2025
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2025 on 10 November, with long-time nominee Alexander Mogilny finally getting the call, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Brianna Decker, and first-time nominees Zdeno Chára, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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Provisional Men’s Rosters Named For 2026 Winter Olympics
With eight months to go until the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics after a twelve year absence, the provisional rosters for each of the twelve participating men’s nations were revealed today by each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster that will face off in Milan in February 2026.
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🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts
The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Captures First Gagarin Cup
One year after being swept in the Gagarin Cup finals, today Lokomotiv Yaroslavl reversed their fortunes with a Game Five overtime win over Traktor Chelyabinsk, winning the club’s first ever Gagarin Cup title.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 09 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 09 May 2025
Sweden opened its IIHF World Championship with an impressive 5-0 win over Slovakia tonight at a jam-packed, yellow-sweater wearing, sold-out crowd at Avicii Arena. The victors scored three goals in the first period and never looked back.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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🇦🇹 🇩🇰 Austria, Denmark Promoted To 2026 Women’s World Championship
At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Shenzhen, China today, it was Austria and Denmark that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2026, to be hosted in Canada.
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🇭🇺 🇳🇴 Hungary, Norway Relegated From 2025 Women’s Worlds
After clawing their way back to the Top Division in 2024, it was a sudden relegation back to Division IA for both Norway and Hungary, who were officially both relegated with one day left in competition in České Budějovice.
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World Cup Of Hockey Set To Return In 2028
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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🇯🇵 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 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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