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🇸🇪 🇫🇮 IHLC Classics: Youth Movement Brings Tre Kronor Second Straight Gold

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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 Swedish Sveriges nationaldag (National Day), we look back at Sweden’s first ever back-to-back World Championships, capturing their second straight title in 1992 over their border rivals Finland.


🇸🇪 Sweden 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Sportovní Hala, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 10 May 1992

Sweden, which barely made the final round, won its second straight World hockey Championship yesterday with a 5-2 victory over Finland.
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🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts

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The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 20 May 2025

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Canada’s relentless puck pursuit and finish around the goal proved too much for Jacob Markström and Tre Kronor tonight.

The Canadians won the game, 5-3, and with it finished in first place to play Denmark in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
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🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship

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On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷 – 17 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 17 May 2025

Sweden kept rolling along this afternoon at a loud and sold out Avicii Arena, skating to a dominant 4-0 win over France and maintaining a perfect record, now 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 16 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 16 May 2025

Sweden fired puck after puck at Slovenian goalie Lukáš Horák, but try as he might he couldn’t prevent Tre Kronor from skating away with a convincing 4-0 win tonight at Avicii Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 14 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 14 May 2025

What was expected to be one of the loudest games of the entire tournament was certainly wildly entertaining.

While the Latvian fans can claim a win in the stands, on the ice, it was the home team that bagged the victory, as Sweden beat Latvia 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Monday, 12 May 2025

Playing near flawless hockey, Tre Kronor skated to an impressive 2-1 victory over Finland tonight at Avicii Arena in what was a very much one-sided game.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹 – 10 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 10 May 2025

Austria was so close to getting their own “Miracle on Ice,” but Sweden scored twice within 12 seconds with less than three minutes remaining and added an empty-netter to win the game 4-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 09 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 09 May 2025

Sweden opened its IIHF World Championship with an impressive 5-0 win over Slovakia tonight at a jam-packed, yellow-sweater wearing, sold-out crowd at Avicii Arena. The victors scored three goals in the first period and never looked back.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark starting this Friday 09 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2025 IIHF World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Sunday, 04 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:28 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Ruohomaa (Saarijärvi, Erholtz)
08:38 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sörensen (Heed, Edvinsson)
13:11 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Steen, hooking
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship

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The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland locked up on the final day of competition, with Italy and Great Britain both clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 May 2025

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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Czechia 🇨🇿
Czech Hockey Games
Winning Group Arena, Brno 🇨🇿
Saturday, 03 May 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:10 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hájek, boarding
01:53 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – L. Carlsson (Zibanejad, Andersson)
05:04 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kučeřík, delay of game
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Larsson, tripping
16:16 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Beránek, roughing
16:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hartmann, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 25 Apr 2025

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🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Friday, 25 April 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:50 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Merelä (Järvinen, Pesonen)
18:28 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Leino, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 24 Apr 2025

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🇫🇮 Finland 5-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Euro Hockey Challenge
Kivikylän Areena, Rauma 🇫🇮
Thursday, 24 April 2025

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:27 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Merelä (Järvinen, Virtanen)
01:41 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lindberg, holding
02:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hämeenaho, high sticking
04:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
12:35 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pulli, tripping
17:05 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lindberg, kneeing
18:28 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Leppänen (Kiiskinen, Puistola)
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Women’s World Championship

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The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming to Czechia for the first time in its history, as the reigning world champions Canada will look to conquer České Budějovice for their second straight Gold medal in the 24th edition of the tournament from 09-20 April, with all games held at Budvar Aréna.
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