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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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 21 Dec 2022
🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Exhibition Game
Avenir Centre, Moncton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
As the World Junior Championship approaches, Canada continued to look impressive in pre-tournament play with a 6-1 win over Slovakia on Wednesday at the Avenir Centre.
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🇸🇰 Zdeno Chára Announces Retirement Following Illustrious 25 Year Career
Slovakian defenceman Zdeno Chára, whose towering presence (the tallest player in NHL history at 6’9) and dominating play terrorized NHL offences for a quarter century, today announced his retirement from hockey at the age of 45, following 25 pro seasons with Ottawa, Boston, Washington and the New York Islanders, ending his career signing a one-day contract with the Boston Bruins.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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🇸🇰 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Šatan’s Pair Sends Naši chlapci To Finals
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 Slovakia’s Constitution Day (Deň Ústavy Slovenskej republiky), we look back at Slovakia’s unlikely run to the 2012 World Championship Gold Medal Game, where they knocked off neighbouring Czechia to punch their ticket to the finals.
🇸🇰 Slovakia 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Semifinal
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Miroslav Šatan’s second goal of the game, a beautiful short-handed marker early in the third, broke a 1-1 tie and led Slovakia to a 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic to give his team a place in the Gold medal game tomorrow.
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🇭🇺 Hungary Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender In 12 Years
In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, a wild series of events on the final day of group play at the 2022 Women’s World Championship means that Hungary will contend for the IHLC, making the Magyars the first women’s team in over a decade to contend for the IHLC.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 14 Aug 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 9-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 14 August 2022
Rule of thumb: if you can’t kill penalties, they will kill you. The Slovaks learned that the hard way on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Place. Brimming with confidence, Finland converted five times with the power play in a 9-3 dismantling of Slovakia.
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🇸🇰 Andrej Sekera Announces Retirement From Hockey At Age 36
Slovakian defender Andrej Sekera today officially announced his retirement from the Dallas Stars, ending a sixteen year NHL career that saw him journey across five NHL clubs, along with a World Championship and World Cup Silver medal. Continue reading
🇨🇦 Restarted 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the rescheduled 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, restarting the tournament in Edmonton, Canada following the cancellation of December’s tournament due to an outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 26 May 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Quarterfinal
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Finnish cult hero Marko Anttila produced another big display in World Championship knock-out play, leading the host nation’s fightback to beat Slovakia 4-2.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere and Helsinki, Finland starting this Friday, 13 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2022 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 15 Apr 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 5-1 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Příbram, Příbram 🇨🇿
Friday, 15 April 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:18 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Hirvonen (Mäenpää)
12:28 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Krajcovic, holding
15:58 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Koponen
20:00 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Stripai, holding
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IIHF Announces Tournament Updates Following Russia, Belarus Suspensions
Just under three weeks after announcing that Russia and Belarus were banned from IIHF participation after the Russian-led and Belarusian-backed invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February, today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced replacement clubs for upcoming participation in the upcoming 2022 Men’s, Women’s and Junior World Championships.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 18 Feb 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 2-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Olympic Semifinal
National Indoor Stadium, Beijing 🇨🇳
Friday, 18 February 2022
On the strength of Sakari Manninen’s first-period winner, Finland advanced to its second Olympic Gold medal game in history with a hard-fought 2-0 victory over Slovakia on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 10 Feb 2022
🇫🇮 Finland 6-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Olympic Preliminary Round
National Indoor Stadium, Beijing 🇨🇳
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Sakari Manninen scored three goals and Miro Aaltonen scored two goals and one assist for Finland and Juraj Slafkovský scored twice for Slovakia in Finland’s 6-2 win in the first game for both teams at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Winter Olympics (Men’s)
For the second straight Olympics, the men’s hockey tournament will not feature NHL superstars (although this time due to COVID-19), making the Olympic tournament not necessarily a true “best on best,” but still a showcase of some of the world’s top talent looking to capture Gold and Olympic glory in Beijing.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Junior
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw seven games of competition this year on the junior side, nearly a year apart, all in Edmonton, and cut short thanks to the outright cancellation of the 2022 World Junior Championship thanks to the Omicron variant.
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IHLC 2021 In Review – Men’s
With the international hockey calendar returning (relatively) to normal in 2021, the IHLC saw a flurry of activity throughout the year, bookended with stops on the Euro Hockey Tour, and a relocated World Championship in between. Continue reading
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