
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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Tag Archives: Switzerland
🇨🇦 Natalie Spooner Named 2024 IIHF Female Player Of The Year

Canadian forward Natalie Spooner, who only one week ago was crowned as the PWHL’s inaugural MVP, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season, capping off a spectacular campaign that saw Spooner capture her third World Championship title.
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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 26 May 2024

🇨🇿 Czechia 2-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Gold Medal Game
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 26 May 2024
Dreams do come true. David Pastrňák scored the third-period winner at 9:13 as the Czechs blanked Switzerland 2-0 in the 2024 Gold medal game in Prague. Amid a wild atmosphere, Czechia becomes just the fifth nation ever to win the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on home ice.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 25 May 2024

🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Championship Semifinal
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 25 May 2024
Switzerland remains on course for a first ever IIHF World Championship Gold medal after a nerve-jangling victory over Canada in Saturday’s World Championship semi-final in Prague.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 19 May 2024

🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 19 May 2024
The drama intensifies. With a hard-fought 3-2 win over Switzerland, Canada put itself in the driver’s seat in the race for first place in Group A. The Canadians, whose three goals all came on the power play, currently lead the group with 17 points.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Championship

The top teams in international hockey will converge on Ostrava and Prague, Czechia starting this Friday, 10 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
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🇸🇪 Sweden Captures Third Consecutive Euro Hockey Tour Title

By virtue of their 2-0 victory over hosts Czechia in the middle tilt of the 2024 Betano Hockey Games (formerly Czech Hockey Games), Sweden officially clinched their seventh Euro Hockey Tour title, and third straight, by moving seven points ahead of Finland and Czechia in the tournament table with just one game to go tomorrow.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 05 Apr 2024

🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Friday, 05 April 2024
Natalie Spooner drove hard to the net in the first period, resulting in two goals that spurred Canada to a tight 3-0 win over Switzerland this afternoon in Utica at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championships.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship

The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior

The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Men’s

The 2023 international men’s hockey calendar was one full of surprises, with the emergence of competing Cinderella stories at the 2023 World Championship that captivating the hockey world, before a familiar face emerged as world champions once again.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Women’s

The 2023 calendar year saw another fourteen heavyweight matchups between the United States and Canada on the international hockey stage, with both nations fighting for Gold medals, world supremacy, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2023

🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 28 December 2023
Jimmy Snuggerud scored a hat trick in the first period as the U.S. trounced Switzerland 11-3 on Thursday at Frölundaborg. It was a showcase of the skill and speed that the USA Hockey National Team Development Program preaches in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship

With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 22 Dec 2023

🇨🇦 Canada 6-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exhibition Game
Catena Arena, Ängelholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 22 December 2023
Canada continued to ramp up ahead of the World Junior tournament, defeating Switzerland 6-3 on Friday morning for its second-straight pre-tournament victory.
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An IHLC Lineage Correction – 1992 Olympics

As part of our continuous improvement to always refine the International Hockey Lineal Championship, we came across an improper lineage in the 1992 season that has now been corrected, impacting in particular lineage during the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France.
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🇺🇸 2024 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released

The schedule for the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Utica, New York, United States, with the hosts looking to repeat as champions for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🇨🇿 2024 World Championship Schedule Released

The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, the first tournament set to play at its intended host cities and arenas since 2019, following concerns over COVID-19, political unrest in Belarus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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