IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 28 May 2026


🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Quarterfinal
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Thursday, 28 May 2026

It was a hard fought battle but the Swiss came out on top. The hosts secured their semifinal berth with a 3-1 win over Sweden.
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🇨🇦 Montréal Victoire Win 2026 Walter Cup, First For Canada


After two disappointing consecutive semifinal losses in the PWHL playoffs, the Montréal Victoire finally climbed the proverbial mountain, defeating the Ottawa Charge in four games to win the club’s, and Canada’s, first ever Walter Cup championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2026 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, starting this Friday 15 May, kicking off the premiere event of the annual global hockey calendar, the 2026 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 19 Apr 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Five Nations Tournament
Kungsbacka ishall, Kungsbacka 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 April 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:30 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Goos, delay of game
07:13 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Funck (Håkansson, Holmertz)
13:36 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Záhejský, roughing
13:36 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Höglund, roughing
17:50 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Jansa, high sticking
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🇸🇪 Linus Omark Confirms Retirement Following Luleå Elimination


Swedish winger Linus Omark, a mainstay on the Swedish national team for over a decade with a World Championship Gold, Swedish and Swiss League title to his name, confirmed his retirement from the game at the age of 39, following his club, Luleå, being eliminated in the semifinals of the Swedish Hockey League playoffs.
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🇨🇦 🇨🇿 Edmonton, Calgary & Prague Named As 2028 World Cup Hosts


Making its return for the first time in twelve years, the NHL today announced the host cities for the World Cup of Hockey, with group play to be split between Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Prague, Czechia, with the semifinal and final to be hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 18 Feb 2026


🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Olympic Quarterfinal
Unipol Dome, Milan 🇮🇹
Wednesday, 18 February 2026

Team USA is through to the semifinal after an 2-1 overtime win over Sweden. The Americans’ hero was Quinn Hughes who scored the game-winner at 3:27.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 16 Feb 2026


🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Semifinal
Unipol Dome, Milan 🇮🇹
Monday, 16 February 2026

Powered by four second-period goals, the ultra-dominant U.S. blanked Sweden 5-0 to advance to the Gold medal game at the 2026 Olympic women’s hockey tournament.
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🇮🇹 Italy Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender Since 2022


On the biggest stage in international hockey, the host nation that nobody expected to make a splash has done just that, with Italy officially locking up their spot in the Quarterfinals, and becoming the first nation since Hungary and Czechia, both in 2022, to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2026 Winter Olympics (Men’s)


For the first time since Sochi 2014, NHL professionals will return to the Olympic Games, marking the first true “best on best” tournament in over a decade (and for only the sixth time ever), with the world’s top players across twelve national teams converging on Milan, Italy.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 07 Feb 2026


🇨🇿 Czechia 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Five Nations Tournament
PKS Areena, Joensuu 🇫🇮
Saturday, 07 February 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:47 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Švančara, hooking
09:46 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Vehovský (Peroutka)
19:28 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lev, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 06 Feb 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Five Nations Tournament
PKS Areena, Joensuu 🇫🇮
Friday, 06 February 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
11:23 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sundqvist (Klingsell, Carpenhammar)
16:05 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Lehmann, delay of game
16:39 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Nilsson (Hallquisth, Sundqvist)
19:56 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Moret, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 04 Feb 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Five Nations Tournament
PKS Areena, Joensuu 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 04 February 2026

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:10 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Boije, tripping
03:25 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Langvardt, holding
12:25 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Skarby, hooking
14:43 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hemström, boarding
14:52 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Reinwald, holding
14:56 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Langvardt (Hillström)
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IHLC Preview – 2026 Winter Olympics (Women’s)


The eighth quadrennial women’s Olympic tournament is set to kick off this Thursday, with an anticipated showdown once again between Canada and the United States likely to highlight the Gold Medal Match once again – but like the previous tournament hosted in Italy, the potential for an upset is more likely now than perhaps ever before.
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Full 2026 Men’s Olympic Rosters Released


Starting with France being the first to release their roster on 23 December, and capped by the host Italians releasing their final roster today (20 January), the final roster selections for all twelve Olympic men’s hockey teams are now complete.
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Full 2026 Women’s Olympic Rosters Released


Starting with France being the first to release their roster on 23 December, and to be capped by the host Italians releasing their final roster today (20 January), the final roster selections for all ten Olympic women’s hockey teams are now complete.
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Triple Gold Club: Who Can Join In Milan?


With the calendar finally turning over to 2026, and final rosters for the 2026 Milan Olympics being released daily, there has emerged a select field of fourteen men and three women from five countries who, if successful in winning Gold at next month’s Games, will gain the unique distinction of joining the Triple Gold Club.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 05 Jan 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Monday, 05 January 2026

Sweden slowly and surely built a 3-0 lead by the early part of the third period and barely withstood a wild Czech rally in the dying minutes to win World Junior Championship Gold with a thrilling 4-2 win.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 04 Jan 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Sunday, 04 January 2026

Anton Frondell scored the shootout winner as Sweden beat Finland 4-3 in the early 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship semi-final.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 02 Jan 2026


🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Friday, 02 January 2026

It was business as usual. Undefeated Sweden employed a balanced attack to down Latvia 6-3 in the first quarter-final of the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship on Friday.
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