🇸🇪 Sweden 8-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Monday, 04 May 2015
Buoyed by a three-goal performance from star forward Loui Eriksson, Sweden stayed undefeated in Group A with a 8-1 thrashing of Latvia on Monday.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 03 May 2015
Filip Forsberg scored three goals and added an assist as Sweden waltzed past Austria 6-1 in Sunday’s early game at the O2 arena. The Swedes remain undefeated.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-5 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Friday, 01 May 2015
Oliver Ekman-Larsson got the shootout winner as Sweden blew a 4-2 third-period lead but beat the Czechs 6-5 to send the host team’s fans home disappointed.
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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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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 Czechia, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2014-15 season.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
Euro Hockey Tour
Mytischi Arena, Mytischi 🇷🇺
Saturday, 25 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
17:31 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Johansson (Sjögren, Petersson)
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 Russia 🇷🇺
Euro Hockey Tour
Mytischi Arena, Mytischi 🇷🇺
Friday, 24 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:25 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Lindholm (Klefbom, Rask)
08:44 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Danielsson (Lander, Rahimi)
13:27 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Ekman-Larsson (Lindström)
15:22 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Plotnikov, charging
15:22 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rahimi, holding
18:05 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Petersson (Johansson)
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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Euro Hockey Tour
E.ON Arena, Timrå 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:50 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Sobotka (Mozík, Birner)
17:21 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Smoleňák, slashing
18:41 – 🇨🇿 PEN – team, too many players
19:14 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Andersson (Petersson, Thuresson)
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After storming back from a 3-0 series deficit to defeat their oldest rivals, CSKA Moscow, in seven games in the KHL Semifinals, SKA Saint Petersburg needed only five games to defeat Ak Bars Kazan to win the 2015 Gagarin Cup.
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🇨🇿 Czechia 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Tour
T3 Center, Umeå 🇸🇪
Friday, 17 April 2015
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:55 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Zaťovič (Radil, Koukal)
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As a result of their 3-0 win over Denmark, improving them to 4-0 at the Division I Group A tournament in Rouen, France, the Czech women’s team has secured the eighth and final spot at the 2016 Women’s World Championship next spring in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, taking the spot from the German squad that was relegated at this year’s Championship in Malmö, Sweden.
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Swedish defensive centre Samuel “Sammy” Påhlsson today announced his retirement from professional hockey at the age of 37, after returning to Sweden to captain his first team, MODO, capping a 20 year pro career in Boston, Anaheim, Chicago, Columbus, Vancouver, along with MODO and Frölunda of the Swedish League.
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Swedish forward Mikael Samuelsson, who held a nearly perfect international playing record and joined the elite Triple Gold Club in 2008 with the Detroit Red Wings, announced his retirement from pro hockey at the age of 38.
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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, we take a look at one of the biggest upsets in Olympic hockey history, the “Miracle at Salt Lake.”
🇧🇾 Belarus 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Quarterfinal
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 20 February 2002
The 2002 Olympics were rounding into shape quite nicely during the Final Round. Germany and Belarus, the two weakest teams which had advanced from the Preliminary Round, finished in fourth and last place of their respective groups, and the world’s top six nations had each played three games to get to know each other.
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After months of speculation, the NHL today confirmed during the All-Star Weekend in Columbus, Ohio that the World Cup Of Hockey would officially return in 2016, being hosted solely in Toronto from 17 September – 01 October 2016. As expected, six national teams (Canada, United States, Russia, Czechia, Sweden and Finland) and two “all star” teams (a team of under-23 stars from Canada and the United States, and a team made up of European players without teams playing in the tournament, such as Slovakia, Norway and Switzerland) will make up the tournament.
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After a fan vote to set the starting lineup, and a media vote to set the second lines, the Kontinental Hockey League today announced the rosters for the 2015 KHL All Star Game in Sochi, Russia on 25 January.
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After a fan vote to decide the first six participants, the National Hockey League today announced the participants for the 2015 NHL All Star Game in Columbus, Ohio on 25 January, with rosters to be determined in a fantasy draft on 23 January.
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Former winners of the International Hockey Lineal Championship played a large role in the NHL’s marquee Winter Classic event, with Canadian IHLC holder Troy Brouwer scoring the winning goal with just 13 seconds remaining to propel the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
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2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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