🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Sweden beat Switzerland 4-2 for its second straight Bell Centre win on Wednesday. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek scored twice, including the third-period winner.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 2016
The opening game of the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship was a smashing success for Sweden, which beat Denmark 6-1 at Montréal’s Bell Centre on Boxing Day.
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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 Finnish Independence Day, we look back at the 1995 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the long overdue first title for the Leijonat, over their Swedish rivals on Swedish ice.
🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 07 May 1995
Finally, Finland wins the IIHF World Championship for the first time. And the victory couldn’t have been sweeter. They won the gold medal game against their fiercest rival Sweden, in Sweden and with a Swedish head coach. To really rub it in, the Finnish team celebrated the win in downtown Stockholm, this while also “stealing” the Swedish tune designated for a home-team victory.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Russia 🇷🇺
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Sunday, 06 November 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Alexeyev, holding
06:16 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Chebykin, interference
06:29 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Andersson (Bernhardt, Pettersson)
06:48 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Shvyryov (Veryayev)
07:44 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Brännström, hooking
10:03 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Pettersson (Andersson, Grundström)
16:32 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Karlström, high sticking
16:32 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Voronkov, roughing
16:32 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ohlsson, roughing
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
Four Nations Cup
Frölundaborg Isstadion, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Saturday, 05 November 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
18:45 – 🇫🇮 PEN – team, too many players
19:06 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Pettersson (Brännström)
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🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Vierumäki Ice Arena, Vierumäki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 01 November 2016
Twelve different players tallied points as the U.S. Women’s National Team topped Sweden, 6-0, here tonight in the opening game of the 2016 Four Nations Cup.
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For the 21st time, the top nations in international women’s hockey will meet, this time in Vierumäki, Finland, to contend for the 2016 Four Nations Cup, pitting hosts Finland against Canada, Sweden, and the defending champion United States.
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While the notion of the Team Europe and North America squads at the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey were seen as gimmicky by many, they have served as not only a pleasant surprise to fans around the world, but as now one of the top two teams in international hockey.
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The top international hockey players in the world are assembled in Toronto, to resuscitate the World Cup Of Hockey after a twelve year absence to crown the top team on the planet.
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The schedule for the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Plymouth, Michigan, USA, once again with opening night ending once again with a rematch of Canada vs. USA, for a likely preview of the Gold Medal Game.
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🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Václava Nedomanského, Hodonín 🇨🇿
Friday, 26 August 2016
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:28 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kaprizov (Polunin)
00:50 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zaitsev, hooking
03:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Li (Chebykin, Belyayev)
03:05 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Volkov, tripping
06:27 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Li, hooking
18:01 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kvartalnov (Kudako, Volkov)
19:18 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Wahlgren, holding
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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2017 World Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany, with defending champions Canada opening the tournament against Czechia, while hosts Germany open the tournament against the United States on opening day, and France hosts Norway on day two.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
National Junior Evaluation Camp
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 06 August 2016
Joel Eriksson-Ek scored the decisive shootout winning goal as Sweden topped Finland, 3-2, in the day’s earlier tilt at the 2016 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan.
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The National Hockey League handed out its hardware to the best players in the world Wednesday night in the newest NHL city, Las Vegas, with ten IHLC holders representing four countries taking home trophies.
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They may not have been able to take the title on home ice for the first time in franchise history, but the Pittsburgh Penguins capitalized on the heroics of Kris Letang and Matt Murray to capture their fourth Stanley Cup title from the San Jose Sharks in six games.
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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 National Day (“Sveriges Nationaldag”) in Sweden, we look back at Sweden’s first Olympic Gold Medal, capped off by Peter Forsberg’s legendary shootout winner over Canada.
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Håkons Hall, Lillehammer 🇳🇴
Sunday, 27 February 1994
In Sweden, this is one of the most replayed sports highlights on television. Peter Forsberg was only 20 years old when he pulled the most daring move on Canada’s goaltender Corey Hirsch in the Olympic gold medal game in Lillehammer in 1994. A classic sports moment which became immortalized on a stamp.
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The remaining seven spots for each World Cup Of Hockey roster today were finalized, and the 184 players set to represent their six countries and two multinational squads are now set for the tournament in Toronto that begins this September.
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The KHL today handed out its awards to the best players in the league at the KHL VIII ceremony in Moscow, with Metallurg sniper Sergei Mozyakin leading the night with four trophies (including league MVP), and five IHLC winners taking home hardware.
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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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