🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts


The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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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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🇷🇺 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Gold For A Team With No Name

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 the upcoming Olympics, and in light of Russia playing under the Olympic flag, we look back on the last Russian team to play under the same flag at the 1992 Albertville Games.

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🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 23 February 1992

The days of the Soviet hockey superiority were over. Even the Soviet Union as a country had ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, when the USSR dissolved and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.

During the 1992 IIHF World U20 Championship in Germany, the Soviet team had to change its name from Soviet Union to CIS midway through the tournament, on 01 January 1992.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 23 Feb 1992

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🇷🇺 Unified Team 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 23 February 1992

The days of the Soviet hockey superiority were over. Even the Soviet Union as a country had ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, when the USSR dissolved and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.

During the 1992 IIHF World U20 Championship in Germany, the Soviet team had to change its name from Soviet Union to CIS midway through the tournament, on 01 January 1992.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Unified Team 5-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 21 Feb 1992

🇷🇺 Unified Team 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Semifinal
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Friday, 21 February 1992

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kovalyov, tripping
11:08 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kovalyov (Yushkevich)
12:09 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Hill
13:11 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Donato, high sticking
15:36 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Bykov (Petrenko, Yushkevich)
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Unified Team 6-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 19 Feb 1992

🇷🇺 Unified Team 6-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Quarterfinal
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Wednesday, 19 February 1992

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:42 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Borshevski (Boldin, Prokhorov)

06:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kovalyov, interference
 08:25 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Tuomisto (Eloranta, Lindroos)
10:29 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Summanen, high sticking
16:47 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Sirén, holding
17:36 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Khomutov (Bykov, Davydov)
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Unified Team 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 – 16 Feb 1992

🇷🇺 Unified Team 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Preliminary Round
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Sunday, 16 February 1992

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:18 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tippett, holding
08:05 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Mironov (Bykov, Kravchuk)
09:07 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Malakhov, hooking
10:13 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Juneau, roughing
11:03 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Archibald (Hynes)
13:18 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hannan, roughing
13:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Yushkevich, roughing
13:22 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Lindros
14:35 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Borshevski (Prokhorov)
15:20 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Petrenko (Zhamnov, Mironov)
19:38 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tippett, high sticking
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