🇨🇦 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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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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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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🇺🇸 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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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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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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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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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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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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The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, the first tournament set to play at its intended host cities and arenas since 2019, following concerns over COVID-19, political unrest in Belarus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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A day before the group round came to a close at the 2023 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2023 were confirmed, with Hungary and Slovenia gaining the dubious distinction of being sent down after both gained promotion in 2022, with Slovenia finishing winless while Hungary was eliminated in a sudden-death shootout to Austria.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Switzerland remains Group B’s only perfect team with 12 points after four games following a 4-2 victory over Slovakia.
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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia starting this Friday, 12 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
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Following a near collapse at the hands of Ak Bars Kazan after a 3-1 series lead, CSKA Moscow captured their second straight Gagarin Cup in Moscow, upending the Leopards 3-2 in the finals.
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In the final day of competition at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the final two Group B matchups dictated which teams would be relegated to Division IA in 2024, with Hungary and France drawing the unfortunate distinction.
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The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 (OT)
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2023
Connor Bedard scored at 5:17 of three-on-three overtime to give Canada a thrilling 4-3 win over Slovakia and advance to the semi-finals on Wednesday against the United States.
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After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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