🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Thursday, 29 December 2022
Ludvig Jansson scored at 1:35 of overtime to give Sweden a 3-2 win over Czechia and stay undefeated to remain in first place of Group A. The loss was Czechia’s first of the tournament.
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After 2021’s tournament was played in a bubble, and 2022’s tournament had to be cancelled and restarted, all due to COVID-19, the International Ice Hockey Federation will attempt the first full tournament in front of fans since 2020 will start on 26 December in Atlantic Canada, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick serving as co-hosts.
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🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg 🇨🇭
Sunday, 18 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:56 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Košťálek, holding
14:03 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Olofsson (Tömmernes)
15:57 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundberg, interference
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For the first time since 2014, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, after defeating Kazakhstan today 5-3 on home ice in Asker, capturing the Division IA title and booking a trip to next year’s tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Today the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that the Canadian city to host the 2023 Women’s World Championships would be the Toronto-area suburb of Brampton, Ontario, running from 05-16 April 2023.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2023, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Tampere, Finland, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Henrik Zetterberg, Brian Leetch, Caroline Ouellette, Cristobal Huet and Jimmy Foster to the Hall.
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Less than two weeks after being honoured in front of his adopted hometown of Toronto, Börje Salming, the legendary Swedish defenceman who helped clear the path for European-trained players to star as professionals in the National Hockey League, today succumbed to ALS at the age of 71 in his native Sweden.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2022 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Sunday, 13 November 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:12 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Möller, cross checking
11:14 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Björninen (Antonen, Lehtonen)
15:41 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Karjalainen, slashing
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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
Karjala Tournament
Gatorade Center, Turku 🇫🇮
Saturday, 12 November 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:31 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Petersson (Lindholm, Brännström)
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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thursday, 04 August 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:43 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Edvinsson, hooking
02:13 – 🇸🇪 SH GOAL – Grans (Olsson, Stjernborg)
13:02 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, tripping
16:24 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Järventie, high sticking
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Swedish centre Mattias Sjögren today announced his retirement from pro hockey, retiring with a pair of league championships from Sweden and Switzerland, a World Championship Silver and Bronze medal, and capping his career with the 2021-22 Champions Hockey League title.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2022 on 14 November, with a trio of Swedish forwards, anchored by a Finnish defender and a Canadian goaltender, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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After finishing dead last in the National Hockey League just five years ago, the Colorado Avalanche have come back to the top of the mountain in the hockey world, capturing the Stanley Cup in six games against the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
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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), and in light of Finland winning the most recent World Championship on home ice, we feature the last time the home team took home Gold, when Tre Kronor triumphed in Stockholm in 2013.
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Ericsson Globe, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Switzerland scored first, but hosts Sweden dominated the last 55 minutes to become the first home team to win Gold since 1986. It is the nation’s ninth World Championship Gold medal.
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The schedule for the rescheduled 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, restarting the tournament in Edmonton, Canada following the cancellation of December’s tournament due to an outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will take place in an Olympic year, with the world’s top ten women’s teams convening in Denmark on 25 August to compete for the title of the world’s best, just six months after wrapping up the Olympics in Beijing.
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