The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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Tag Archives: Switzerland
IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Junior Championship
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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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ โ 19 Dec 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Exhibition Game
Avenir Centre, Moncton ๐จ๐ฆ
Monday, 19 December 2022
In the first of three test runs before the World Junior Hockey Championship opens next week, Canada cruised past Switzerland 6-0 at the Avenir Centre on Monday.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 2-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ – 17 Dec 2022
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 2-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Swiss Ice Hockey Games
BCF Arena, Fribourg ๐จ๐ญ
Saturday, 17 December 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:31 – ๐จ๐ญ PEN – Fora, holding
13:54 – ๐จ๐ฟ PEN – Zohorna, high sticking
19:42 – ๐จ๐ฟย PEN – Jandus, tripping
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๐จ๐ฆ IIHF Names Brampton As 2023 Women’s World Championship Host
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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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
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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IHLC Results – ๐ธ๐ช Sweden 3-2 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ (OT) – 12 Nov 2022
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 3-2 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ (OT)
Karjala Tournament
Gatorade Center, Turku ๐ซ๐ฎ
Saturday, 12 November 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:31 – ๐ธ๐ช GOAL – Petersson (Lindholm, Brรคnnstrรถm)
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ (SO) – 10 Nov 2022
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland 3-2 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ (SO)
Karjala Tournament
Gatorade Center, Turku ๐ซ๐ฎ
Thursday, 10 November 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
09:20 – ๐จ๐ญ GOAL – Andrighetto (Ambรผhl, Bertschy)
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๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ป 2023 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rฤซga, 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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๐จ๐ฆ 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
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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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 10-1 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ – 03 Sep 2022
๐บ๐ธ United States 10-1 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
Womenโs World Championship Semifinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Saturday, 03 September 2022
Team USA scored six goals in the first period to put the game out of reach with speed and seeming ease, defeating Czechia by a 10-1 count and advancing to the Gold medal game tomorrow night. They will face the winner of tonightโs Canada–Switzerland tilt.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 9-0 Japan ๐ฏ๐ต – 28 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 9-0 Japan ๐ฏ๐ต
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Sunday, 28 August 2022
Japan knew life in Group A of the Womenโs Worlds would be radically different from Group B, and today they got a reminder of just how different. Canada stormed their goal for 60 minutes and skated to a 9-0 win this afternoon to re-join the United States at the top of the Group A standings.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ – 27 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Saturday, 27 August 2022
Sarah Fillier, the โNext Oneโ whose time appears to be now, scored her first two goals of the tournament to lead Canada to a 4-1 win over Switzerland in Group A action in Herning tonight.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship
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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IHLC Results โ ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-3 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ โ 17 Aug 2022
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-3 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Rogers Place, Edmonton ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Propelled by a four-goal first period, Canada defeated Switzerland 6-3 in Thursday’s marquee quarter-final in front of a happy Rogers Place crowd. Coach Dave Cameron’s team will face either the Finns or the Czechs in the semi-finals on Friday.
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IHLC Results โ ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ โ 26 Jul 2022
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland 2-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Exhibition Game
Vierumรคki Ice Arena, Vierumรคki ๐ซ๐ฎ
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:57 – ๐จ๐ญ PEN – Taibel, high sticking
08:06 – ๐ซ๐ฎ PEN – Ottavainen, holding
14:12 – ๐ซ๐ฎ GOAL – Kemell (Puutio, Rรคty)
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๐ธ๐ช ๐จ๐ญ IHLC Classics: Tre Kronor Sparkles In Stockholm
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.
๐ธ๐ช Sweden 5-1 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
World Championshipย Gold Medal Game
Ericsson Globe, Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช
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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๐จ๐ฆ Restarted 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
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 Womenโs World Championship Schedule Released
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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