🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Yubileyniy Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
Saturday, 14 May 2016
Timely scoring and clutch goaltending result in Canada’s fifth straight win of the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on May 6 in Russia, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting in Russia to compete at the 80th IIHF World Championship.
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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Russia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2015-16 season.
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The six federations and two conglomerate squads participating at September’s World Cup Of Hockey today announced their preliminary 16 man rosters, with the final seven spots each to be filled by 1 June.
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Slovak mainstay defenceman Ľubomír Višňovský announced his retirement from HC Slovan following a 4-0 sweep at the hands of CSKA Moscow, wrapping up a 20+ year career in both Slovakia and the NHL.
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After a fan vote to set the starting lineup, and a media vote to set the second lines, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for the 2016 KHL All Star Game in Moscow, Russia on 23 January.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 02 January 2016
Sweden was simply too strong for Slovakia. Led by goaltender Linus Soderstom and forward Adrian Kempe, Sweden won its quarter-final game 6-0.
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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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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Exhibition Game
Kisakallio jäähalli, Kisakallio 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Kessler, Heldner)
09:37 – 🇨🇭 GOAL – Suter (Kindschi, Kessler)
10:22 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Kindschi, tripping
12:54 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Koch, holding
13:13 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Kessler (Suter)
18:57 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Privet, cross checking
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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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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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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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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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Following what many saw as a controversial reelection of Igor Nemeček as the head of the Slovak Ice Hockey Association (SZHL), a number of prominent Slovakian players have pledged to boycott the national team under Nemeček’s leadership.
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In an era where hockey dynasties were considered extinct thanks to the salary cap, the Chicago Blackhawks defied the odds, winning their third Stanley Cup in six seasons from the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
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With the dust settled over Prague, and Canada returning to North America with World Championship Gold in tow, we can not only look back on a tremendous (and record-breaking) 2015 tournament, but to future tournaments in men’s hockey, particularly next year’s Worlds and the 2018 Olympics.
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Following Belarus‘ failure to finish in the top four at the 2015 World Championships, Slovakia scooped up the ninth and final automatic qualification spot for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, joining defending champions Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Czechia, Switzerland and the host nation Korea.
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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge as the season winds down leading up to the World Championships in Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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