Many of the top players in the game took their talents outside this past weekend, with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings highlighting the inaugural Centennial Classic on 01 January, followed a day later with the St. Louis Blues hosting the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2017 Winter Classic.
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Tag Archives: Sweden
IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2017
🇸🇪 Sweden 8-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 02 January 2017
Sweden took a 3-0 first-period lead and pounded Slovakia 8-3 in the early Montréal quarter-final. Captain Joel Eriksson Ek and Tim Söderlund each scored twice.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 31 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Jonathan Dahlén starred with a hat trick as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to complete a perfect round-robin. Goalie Filip Gustavsson debuted with a win.
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IHLC 2016 In Review – Women’s
Unlike 2015, which was “the year of Team USA” in women’s hockey, there was a little more parity in the later months of 2016, with Canada finally striking multiple blows to Team USA’s dominance, ultimately ending the calendar year with the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 29 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 Sweden 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Centre Bell, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Finland’s dreams of repeating as champs are fading, while Sweden is dialled in so far. With a 3-1 win over Finland, the Swedes wrapped up first place in Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 26 Dec 2016
🇸🇪 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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🇫🇮 🇸🇪 IHLC Classics: “Tupu, Hupu & Lupu” Golden For Finland
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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 Russia 🇷🇺 – 06 Nov 2016
🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 05 Nov 2016
🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 01 Nov 2016
🇺🇸 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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IHLC Preview – 2016 Four Nations Cup
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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🇪🇺 Team Europe Advances To World Cup Final, Ends IHLC Defence
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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IHLC Preview – 2016 World Cup Of Hockey
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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2017 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Russia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 26 Aug 2016
🇷🇺 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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2017 World Championship Schedule Released
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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 06 Aug 2016
🇸🇪 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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IHLC Winners Win Big At 2016 NHL Awards
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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Penguins Capture Stanley Cup With IHLC Support
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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