Tag Archives: Sweden

🇸🇪 Mattias Sjögren Retires From Rögle At Age 34

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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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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇮 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2022

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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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🇺🇸 Colorado Avalanche Capture Third Stanley Cup Championship

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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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🇸🇪 🇨🇭 IHLC Classics: Tre Kronor Sparkles In Stockholm

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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.

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🇸🇪 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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🇨🇦 Restarted 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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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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2022 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released

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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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 21 May 2022

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 21 May 2022

A packed program of Saturday hockey in Tampere got off to a flying start as Team USA went the full distance against Group B’s unbeaten team, Sweden. Both teams held the lead during a 2-2 tie in regulation before Adam Gaudette won it for the U.S. with 11.4 seconds remaining in overtime.
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2022 KHL Awards Ceremony Held In Moscow

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The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their fourteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with Gagarin Cup champions CSKA Moscow coming away as the big winners, and ten IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO) – 18 May 2022

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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

It took a shootout to give Sweden the verdict after these two great Nordic rivals shared a 2-2 tie in regulation. Emil Bemström was the only player to hit the target in the shootout, ending Finland’s unbeaten start on home ice at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and moving Sweden to the Group B summit after four wins in four games.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Great Britain 🇬🇧 – 17 May 2022

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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Sweden is the second team in Group B to reach nine points in three games following a 6-0 victory over Great Britain in Tampere at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Championship

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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere and Helsinki, Finland starting this Friday, 13 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2022 IIHF World Championship.
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🇨🇿 🇫🇮 🇨🇭 🇸🇪 Switzerland Confirmed As Russian Replacement On Euro Hockey Tour Through 2023-24

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After participating as a replacement for Russia at this weekend’s Beijer Hockey Games in Stockholm, it was today confirmed that Switzerland will replace Russia on the Euro Hockey Tour for at least the next two seasons, due to Russia being kicked off the tour for their invasion of Ukraine.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 01 May 2022

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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Hockey Games
Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava 🇨🇿
Sunday, 01 May 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:48 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Söderblom (Roos, Pudas)
14:08 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Manninen, holding
16:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lang, roughing
16:55 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Vatanen, roughing
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 7-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 16 Apr 2022

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🇫🇮 Finland 7-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup
Zimní stadion Příbram, Příbram 🇨🇿
Saturday, 16 April 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:54 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Dower Nilsson, hooking
13:26 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Juhola, interference
15:42 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rajaniemi, slashing
19:06 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Dower Nilsson, hooking
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🇺🇸 Boston Pride Capture Second Consecutive Isobel Cup

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After an improbable season, marred once again by COVID delays, the Boston Pride improbably escaped the quarterfinals, upset the Toronto Six 5-1 in the semifinals, and tonight notched a come from behind victory over the PHF’s top seed, the Connecticut Whale, winning the Isobel Cup Final 4-2 to win their second straight, and third overall, Cup title.
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IIHF Announces Tournament Updates Following Russia, Belarus Suspensions

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Just under three weeks after announcing that Russia and Belarus were banned from IIHF participation after the Russian-led and Belarusian-backed invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February, today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced replacement clubs for upcoming participation in the upcoming 2022 Men’s, Women’s and Junior World Championships.
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🇷🇺 🇧🇾 Russia, Belarus Suspended From IIHF Competition, Hosting Rights

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After a sweeping recommendation from the International Olympic Committee to remove Russia and Belarus from international sporting competitions, following their invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February, today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced a number of updates regarding their respective participation and hosting of future competitions.
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