The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the United States looking to “three-peat” as world champions for the first time in history, looking to do some on home ice in Minnesota, with the Americans hosting the tournament’s fiftieth edition for the first time since 2018.
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🇨🇭 Sven Andrighetto Named 2025 IIHF Male Player Of The Year
Swiss forward Sven Andrighetto, who captured the Swiss National League title, Champions League title and a World Championship Silver medal to cap his 2024-25 season, was today awarded the IIHF’s Male Player Of The Year Award.
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🇮🇹 2026 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 11 February, with defending champions Finland starting their title defence in the opening match, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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🇮🇹 2026 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy was released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 05 February.
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Provisional Men’s Rosters Named For 2026 Winter Olympics
With eight months to go until the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics after a twelve year absence, the provisional rosters for each of the twelve participating men’s nations were revealed today by each nations’ respective international association, naming six active professionals to each roster that will face off in Milan in February 2026.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT) – 25 May 2025
🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Tage Thompson scored at 2:02 of overtime to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Switzerland to win the Gold medal.
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🇨🇭 King Of The Worlds: Andres Ambühl Formally Retires At 41
Swiss forward Andres Ambühl, the six-time Swiss champion and all-time leader in IIHF World Championship tournaments and games played, today played his 151st and final World Championship game following Switzerland’s Gold Medal overtime loss, formalizing his retirement from the sport at the age of 41 after a two decade-plus professional career.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 24 May 2025
🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Championship Semifinal
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Switzerland is heading to the Gold medal game for the second year in a row.
Propelled by three first-period goals, the Swiss thumped underdog Denmark 7-0 in Saturday’s late semi-final in Stockholm.
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🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship
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 Preview – 2025 World Championship
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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🇨🇿 Czechia Captures 2024-25 Euro Hockey Tour Title
As a result of Finland‘s loss to Switzerland on day two of the Czech Hockey Games, hosts Czechia officially clinched their fourth Euro Hockey Tour title, by staying five points ahead of the Finns, with just one day of competition left in Brno.
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship
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 – 🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 15 Apr 2025
🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Hilary Knight broke Hayley Wickenheiser’s all-time record for assists at the Women’s World Championship as the USA shot down Switzerland 5-0 to wrap up the preliminary round.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 11 Apr 2025
🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Friday, 11 April 2025
Canada erupted for three second-period goals in a span of 2:32 and downed Switzerland 4-0 at the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship on Friday.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 Women’s World Championship
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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World Cup Of Hockey Set To Return In 2028
On the eve of the inaugural (and potentially only) Four Nations Face-Off, the NHL and NHLPA today announced the return of the World Cup Of Hockey, set to debut in February 2028 as a mid-season, rather than preseason, tournament, and recurring every four years thereafter.
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🇯🇵 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Japan, Sweden, Germany Clinch Final Milan 2026 Women’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After three months of Olympic qualifiers, with 24 teams competing across two rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Japan, Sweden and Germany for the 2026 Olympics.
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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 2024 In Review – Women’s
The 2024 calendar year saw a reduction in international competition due to the rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, but there was still plenty of drama between the United States and Canada all throughout North America over the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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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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