IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 21 Dec 2014

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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Channel One Cup
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Sunday, 21 December 2014

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:42 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Antipin, tripping
12:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Polášek, hooking
14:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kutuzov (Zubov, Parshin)
19:30 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Grigorenko (Parshin, Zubov)
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 20 Dec 2014

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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 20 December 2014

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:50 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sjögren, hooking
04:57 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Belov (Kovalchuk, Chudinov)
06:51 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Burström, hooking
11:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Medvedev, holding
17:28 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Shipachyov, hooking
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🇸🇪 Lingering Back Injury Forces Daniel Alfredsson Into Retirement

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Ending months of speculation on whether he would return for a final season with the Detroit Red Wings, 18-year NHL veteran and longtime Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson has opted to retire, with a nagging back injury ending his career at the age of 41, resigning with Ottawa for the day to retire as a Senator.
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🇫🇮 The Finnish Flash Retires: Teemu Selänne Not Returning To Jokerit

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After a brilliant 21-year NHL career, an impressive start with his hometown Jokerit, and one of the greatest international careers in hockey history, Teemu Selänne has confirmed that he will not be making a “victory lap” with Jokerit, after retiring from the Anaheim Ducks at the end of last season.
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🇸🇪 Bäckström Awarded Olympic Silver in Sweden

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As was first reported earlier in the month, the International Olympic Committee and IIHF righted a big wrong committed at the Gold Medal Game in Sochi this past February, awarding a silver medal to Swedish forward Nicklas Bäckström, who was barred from the game just prior to puck drop over testing positive for pseudoephedrine in an allergy medication, which was later discovered to be prescribed to him, and not ingested maliciously.
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🇸🇪 Bäckström To Receive 2014 Olympic Silver Medal

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One of the most intriguing story lines of the 2014 Gold Medal Game between Canada and Sweden, in which Canada won 3-0 to win its second straight Olympic Gold and retain the International Hockey Lineal Championship, was not the players in the game, but the one player who was not in the game: Nicklas Bäckström.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 23 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Toews repeats Vancouver; Crosby scores beauty; Weber-Keith sensational on the blue line. Canada had it all, and Sweden had no response to relentless pressure.

There was no last-minute blown lead, no golden goal, no host nation heroics, no high drama.

Tonight, Canada played a perfect game of hockey and skated to a thoroughly deserved 3-0 win over Sweden at the Bolshoy Ice Dome, closing the 2014 Olympics with an efficiency Sweden could not match.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 1-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 21 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 1-0 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Semifinal
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Friday, 21 February 2014

Sidney Crosby was dangerous all night and the Weber-Doughty duo were remarkable, but Jamie Benn was the hero in leading Canada to the Gold medal game on Sunday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 20 Feb 2014


🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Marie-Philip Poulin scored her second goal of the night on the power play at 8:10 of overtime to give Canada its fourth straight Olympic Gold.

The loss was stunning for the Americans who led 2-0 with less than four minutes to play in regulation time.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 19 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
Olympic Quarterfinal
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Patient Canada got a power-play goal off a blistering one timer from Shea Weber at 13:06 of the third period to give Canada a 2-1 win over Latvia.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 17 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Olympic Semifinal
Shayba Arena, Sochi 🇷🇺
Monday, 17 February 2014

Canada scored three times in the first period and coasted to a 3-1 win over Switzerland to set up a Gold medal game against the United States on Wednesday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 16 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Olympic Preliminary Round
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Sunday, 16 February 2014

Drew Doughty’s second goal of the night at 2:32 of overtime gave Canada a 2-1 win over Finland. Canada finishes third, Finland fourth in the overall standings.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Norway 🇳🇴 – 14 Feb 2014

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🇫🇮 Finland 6-1 Norway 🇳🇴
Olympic Preliminary Round

Shayba Arena, Sochi 🇷🇺
Friday, 14 February 2014

Teemu Selänne scored the first goal and Finland never looked back in a 6-1 romp over Norway. The Finns will face Canada for top seed in Group B on Sunday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 12 Feb 2014

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Preliminary Round
Shayba Arena, Sochi 🇷🇺
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

A goal and assist from Hayley Wickenheiser in the third gave Canada a 3-2 win over the U.S. and earn home-team status for Canada in a possible Gold medal game.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 10 Feb 2014

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🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Olympic Preliminary Round
Shayba Arena, Sochi 🇷🇺
Monday, 10 February 2014

Switzerland was buried under a 55-second avalanche as the Americans power to a second successive victory in Group A.

A record-breaking blast midway through the opening session saw USA skate to a comfortable 9-0 win over Switzerland in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 08 Feb 2014

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🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
Shayba Arena, Sochi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 08 February 2014

The United States beat Finland 3-1 to open the Olympic women’s hockey tourney on Friday. Hilary Knight shone with two points for the 2010 Silver medalists.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 22 Dec 2013

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🇫🇮 Finland 4-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Channel One Cup

Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Sunday, 22 December 2013

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:24 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundqvist, hooking
09:12 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hersley, tripping
15:37 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ericsson, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 – 21 Dec 2013

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🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺
Channel One Cup
Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 21 December 2013

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:26 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Radulov, slashing
00:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Salmela, cross checking
04:30 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Jaakola, slashing
09:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Perezhogin, slashing
17:37 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Karalahti, hooking
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