The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2025, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Stockholm, with five different nationalities and a pair of Swedish goaltenders highlighting the class.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior
The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 15 Dec 2024
🇨🇿 Czechia 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Sunday, 15 December 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:50 – 🇸🇪 PEN – de la Rose, tripping
08:51 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Chlapík (Zadina, Sedlák)
14:14 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Ollas Mattsson, hooking
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Final Roster Spots Announced For Four Nations Face-Off
The remaining spots for each Four Nations Face-Off roster today were finalized, and the 92 players set to represent Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States are now set for the tournament in Montréal and Boston that takes place this coming February.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-4 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 10 Nov 2024
🇫🇮 Finland 5-4 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Sunday, 10 November 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sellgren (Friberg, Lang)
05:02 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Andreasson, tripping
15:15 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Steen (Pettersson, Peterson)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 07 Nov 2024
🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
KV Arena, Karlovy Vary 🇨🇿
Thursday, 07 November 2024
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:02 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Gazda
10:02 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Pyrochta (Kovařčík)
15:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Weissbach, slashing
16:55 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kousal (Kaut, Kodýtek)
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🇸🇪 Anton Strålman Confirms Retirement From Hockey, Shift To Football
After a one-season return to the Swedish league, following a sixteen year NHL career, journeyman defender Anton Strålman today confirmed his retirement from hockey at age 38, surprisingly announcing a shift to coaching women’s football, following a two-decade plus career across twelve clubs in Canada, the United States and his native Sweden.
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🇸🇪 Alexander Edler Signs One-Day Contract To Retire As Canuck
Inactive for the past season, Swedish defender Alexander Edler today signed a one-day contract with the Vancouver Canucks in order to retire with the franchise, wrapping a nearly two-decade NHL career, marked with over 1,000 games played, and a trio of international medals won with his native Sweden.
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🇸🇪 Oscar Möller Confirms Retirement Following Long-Term Injury
Swedish winger Oscar Möller, whose long tenure with both the league’s top tier and national team was cut short due to injury, confirmed his retirement today at age 35, following Skellefteå capturing their fourth Le Mat Trophy to end last season, minus Möller on the active roster.
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🇨🇿 2025 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted for the first time by Czechia in the Bohemian city of České Budějovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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🇨🇦 2025 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the tournament returning to the city for the first time since 2009, and Canada’s twenty-first time hosting overall.
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🇱🇻 🇩🇰 🇸🇰 Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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🇩🇰 🇸🇪 2025 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2025 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark, with both hosts looking to repeat the luck of 2024’s hosts Czechia by capturing World Championship Gold on home ice.
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🇫🇷 🇺🇸 French Alps, Salt Lake City Announced As Hosts Of 2030 & 2034 Winter Olympics
Today, during the 142nd session of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, France, the next two Winter Olympic Games hosts were confirmed, with the French Alps winning the 2030 Games, while the 2034 Games will return to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 Provisional Rosters Named For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off
With eight months to go until the NHL debuts the Four Nations Face-Off tournament, the provisional rosters for each participating nation (Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States) were revealed today by the NHL and each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster.
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Florida Panthers Avoid Collapse, Capture Stanley Cup
Capping their thirtieth season in the National Hockey League, the Florida Panthers today avoided an epic, historic collapse in Game Seven the Stanley Cup Final, capturing their first Stanley Cup over the Edmonton Oilers, who forced the decisive game after coming back from a 3-0 series deficit, with a narrow 2-1 victory on home ice.
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🇨🇿 Roman Červenka Named 2024 IIHF Male Player Of The Year
Czech forward Roman Červenka, who as captain led Czechia to their first World Championship title in fourteen years on home ice last month, was today awarded the IIHF’s Male Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 2025 Four Nations Face-Off Schedule Released
The schedule for the NHL’s mid-season 2025 tournament, the Four Nations Face-Off, was announced today prior to the start of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, with Boston, United States and Montréal, Canada set to host their respective host nations, along with Sweden and Finland, next February, a tune-up to the NHL’s Olympic return at the 2026 Olympics.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 