After a two-year stint in Division IA, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, thanks to a late Kazakh comeback victory over Austria, locking up their spot in the Top Division even before their final match against hosts Slovenia at the Division IA tournament in Bled.
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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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Hellebuyck Captures Trophy Trio At 2025 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2024-25 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals, with eight IHLC holders representing six countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship
On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 16 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 16 May 2025
Sweden fired puck after puck at Slovenian goalie Lukáš Horák, but try as he might he couldn’t prevent Tre Kronor from skating away with a convincing 4-0 win tonight at Avicii Arena.
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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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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Relegated From World Junior Championship
For the second straight year, Germany narrowly avoided relegation at the World Junior Championship, this time eliminating Kazakhstan in a 4-3 victory to send the Kazakhs back down to Division IA in 2026, after only one year in the Top Division.
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🇩🇰 Denmark Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2026
For the first time since 2019, Denmark will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, after being pushed to the brink by Austria before upsetting them in a do-or-die final showdown in Bled, Slovenia, winning 5-4 in regulation to capture the Division IA tournament and book their ticket to Minnesota in 2026.
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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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🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Great Britain, Poland Sent Back Down From 2024 World Championship
A day before the group round came to a close at the 2024 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2024 were confirmed, with Great Britain and Poland, who both gained promotion to Czechia just last year, will head back down to Division IA next season.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship
🇷🇺 Metallurg Magnitogorsk Sweeps To 2024 Gagarin Cup Victory
After a near-elimination in the conference finals, Metallurg Magnitogorsk today completed a four-game sweep of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 2024 Gagarin Cup finals, capturing their third title and first in eight years.
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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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McDavid Makes History At 2023 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2022-23 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals, with nine IHLC holders representing four countries taking home trophies handed out over the past two weeks.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Relegated From 2023 World Championship
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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 13 May 2023
🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Saturday, 13 May 2023
In their first game of the 2023 IIHF World Championship, the Swiss were solid in a 7-0 win over Slovenia. Denis Malgin and Gaëtan Haas led the offence with three points each, while veteran Leonardo Genoni made 14 saves for the shutout.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Championship
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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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 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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