After a two-year stint in Division IA, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, thanks to a late Kazakh comeback victory over Austria, locking up their spot in the Top Division even before their final match against hosts Slovenia at the Division IA tournament in Bled.
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Tag Archives: Ukraine
🇷🇺 In Memoriam – Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2011-12
Today marks the anniversary of the tragic air disaster of Yak-Service Flight 9633 on 07 September 2011, that crashed near Yaroslavl, Russia, and killed the entire roster and staff of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL, and all but one of the flight crew members, when a pilot error caused the aircraft to fail its takeoff, running off the runway and crashing into a tower mast.
Then-IIHF president René Fasel declared the crash as “the darkest day in the history of our sport,” as fans from across the world, and in particular Russia and the eight other nations represented by team players and staff, mourned for the shocking and tragic loss. On this sad anniversary, TheIHLC.com commemorates this deep loss, and remember those who perished in the accident.
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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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🇱🇻 🇩🇰 🇸🇰 Latvia, Denmark, Slovakia Clinch Final Milan 2026 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly a year of Olympic qualifiers that began last December, with 30 teams competing across three rounds of play, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Milan, with the spots being clinched locked up by Latvia, Denmark and Slovakia for the 2026 Olympics, in a carbon copy clinching scenario from three years earlier.
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🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Great Britain, Poland Sent Back Down From 2024 World Championship
A day before the group round came to a close at the 2024 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2024 were confirmed, with Great Britain and Poland, who both gained promotion to Czechia just last year, will head back down to Division IA next season.
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🇸🇮 🇭🇺 Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2025 World Championship
Major Announcements Made At 2019 IIHF Congress
The IIHF Annual Congress today was held on the off day at the 2019 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, with a number of major announcements voted on to impact the future of international hockey in the coming years.
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian Players Caught Up In Division IA Bribery Scandal
A bribery scandal has struck the hockey world, with news coming from Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that two Ukrainian players were caught accepting bribes to throw the 2017 World Championship Division IA, which clinched Korea their first promotion in history to the 2018 World Championships, putting the legitimacy of their win, along with Korea’s future, in potential doubt.
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🇯🇵 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 Japan, Poland & Italy Advance To Olympic Final Qualification
The second leg of Olympic Qualification is in the books, with Japan, Poland and Italy emerging victorious in the Pre-Qualification Round to advance to the Final Qualification round in September, with the winners moving on to Korea in 2018.
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IHLC Winners Major Key To SKA Gagarin Cup Victory
After storming back from a 3-0 series deficit to defeat their oldest rivals, CSKA Moscow, in seven games in the KHL Semifinals, SKA Saint Petersburg needed only five games to defeat Ak Bars Kazan to win the 2015 Gagarin Cup.
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A Note On Cyrillic Spelling
When this site launched, as more and more boxscores (which now number over 700 on this site, and is continually growing) were added, a noticeable trend was noticed among scores featuring teams from the Soviet Union, and the states formed in the former’s dispersal after 1991, such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. As the sources would vary for where the boxscore information was coming from, so to were different variations and spellings of names from one game to the next: Aleksander to Alexander, Myshkin or Mishkin, Valeri, Valery or Valeriy, and so on.
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IHLC Team Profiles – 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Men’s)
🇺🇦 UKRAINE (UKR) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1992-)
Following the split of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian squad emerged in 1992, and first competed for the IHLC in 2001. After nearly winning the title following a 1-1 tie with the United States at the 2005 World Championship, the Ukraine has dropped off from the IHLC map for now, after being relegated to Division I in 2008, where they have yet to climb back into the Championship pool.
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IHLC Team Profiles – 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Junior)
🇺🇦 UKRAINE (UKR) Men’s Junior National Ice Hockey Team (1992-)
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian junior squad saw some initial success in Division I, qualifying for the Top Division in 1995 and 1996, returning in 2000 and 2004. However, since 2005 Ukraine has been stuck in Division I, even dropping to Division II in 2012, looking to claw their way back to the Top Division.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 09 May 2005
🇺🇸 United States 1-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Championship Qualifying Round
Olympiahalle, Innsbruck 🇦🇹
Monday, 09 May 2005
After 40 minutes of play, Team USA was in a hole. Down 1-0 to Ukraine and unable to find the right combination to make things happen, they needed to shake off their lethargy in order to win.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 14-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 30 Dec 2003
🇫🇮 Finland 14-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 30 December 2003
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:50 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Tukonen (Oksa)
09:02 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Oksa, interference
11:13 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Kontiola (Tukonen)
12:34 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Lepistö (Filppula, Bergenheim)
18:16 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Lepistö (Immonen, Marjamäki)
19:05 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Shamanskyy, holding
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 8-0 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 26 Dec 2003
🇨🇿 Czechia 8-0 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Helsingin jäähalli, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Friday, 26 December 2003
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:31 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Barinka, hooking
03:09 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Hruška
06:07 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Bogdanov, holding
08:21 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Hromas (Koreis)
13:14 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Polák (Olesz)
14:14 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Bogdanov, interference
18:11 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Barinka (Hruška)
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 02 May 2003
🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Championship Second Round
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Friday, 02 May 2003
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:59 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Protsenko, hooking
06:29 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kadlec, holding
09:13 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Richter, holding
13:47 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Gnydenko, interference
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 01 May 2001
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Championship Preliminary Round
Kölnarena, Cologne 🇩🇪
Tuesday, 01 May 2001
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:07 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Shakhraichuk, roughing
05:07 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Oletski, hooking
10:36 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Matvichuk, hooking
11:02 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Alfredsson (Nord)
15:25 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Tjärnqvist, kneeing
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 8-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 31 Dec 1995
🇨🇦 Canada 8-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Junior Championship Group Round
Matthews Arena, Boston 🇺🇸
Sunday, 31 December 1995
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:44 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – McCauley (Domenichelli, Gordon)
09:06 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Warrener
10:35 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Bakunenko
13:07 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Revenko
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦 – 26 Dec 1994
🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Ukraine 🇺🇦
World Junior Championship Group Round
The Centrium, Red Deer 🇨🇦
Monday, 26 December 1994
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:56 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Jovanovski
03:08 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Karpenko
04:02 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Friesen (Allison, McCabe)
05:38 – 🇺🇦 PEN – Mukhanov
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