The 2025 international junior calendar saw the United States capture their first back-to-back world title in 2025, followed by the emergence of Sweden dominating across three tournaments, capping the calendar year off with a commanding performance at the 2026 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 31 Dec 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Sweden scored four goals in a wild second period to race away to a 6-3 win over the United States tonight at Grand Casino Arena.
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IHLC 2025 In Review – Men’s
The 2025 international hockey men’s calendar saw the title competed over in six different countries over two continents in five tournaments, with seven different countries capturing the International Hockey Lineal Championship in only a three month-span of competition.
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IHLC 2025 In Review – Women’s
2025 saw a continuation of closer parity in international women’s hockey, with the juggernauts of the United States and Canada continuing to set the tone in the lead-up to the 2026 Milan Olympics, competing for World Championship, Rivalry Series and International Hockey Lineal Championship glory.
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IHLC Preview – 2026 World Junior Championship
The eyes of the hockey world are looking just beyond the holiday season, with Boxing Day marking the kickoff of the fiftieth annual IIHF World Junior Championship, this time being hosted by the defending champion Americans in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the home team looking to “three-peat” for the first time in history.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 13 Dec 2025
🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 4
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Saturday, 13 December 2025
Canada improved, but not enough to beat the United States in the fourth and final game of their women’s hockey Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Canada 🇨🇦 – 10 Dec 2025
🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
The United States feasted on Canada’s porous defence in a 10-4 thrashing to take the women’s hockey Rivalry Series on Wednesday.
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🇫🇮🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Kakko’s Dagger Captures Junior Gold
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, Today, in honour of Finnish Independence Day (itsenäisyyspäivä), we feature Finland’s most recent World Junior Championship title, a stunning victory over the Americans on the back of a late Kaapo Kakko game winning goal.
🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Arena, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Saturday, 05 January 2019
Kaapo Kakko scored the winner with 1:26 left as Finland edged the U.S. 3-2 in the 2019 World Junior Gold medal game on Saturday night.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2025
The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2025 Class, inducting six legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 08 Nov 2025
🇺🇸 United States 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 2
KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🇺🇸
Saturday, 08 November 2025
It took a mere two exhibition games in Hilary Knight’s lead up to what will be her fifth and final Winter Games for the face of U.S. women’s hockey to show she hasn’t lost her scoring touch.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 06 Nov 2025
🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Rocket Arena, Cleveland 🇺🇸
Thursday, 06 November 2025
Abbey Murphy scored three times, Taylor Heise had a goal and three assists, and the United States women’s national hockey team defeated Canada 4-1 in Thursday’s opening game of the 2025-26 Rivalry Series.
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IIHF Confirms Women’s World Championships Moving To November As Of 2026
At today’s IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in Nice, France, it was confirmed that the 2026 Women’s World Championships would be hosted by Denmark, but more consequentially would be held in November, confirmed to be a permanent shift in moving the typical spring tournament to early November going forward, just prior to the start of the Professional Women’s Hockey League pro seasons.
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🇺🇸 Amanda Pelkey Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 32
American forward Amanda Pelkey confirmed her retirement from pro hockey at the age of 32, following spending the inaugural two seasons of the PWHL in Boston, capping a career highlighted by two World Championship and one Olympic Gold medals for Team USA.
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🇨🇭 2026 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, with the host Eisgenossen looking to finally conquer the tournament after consecutive Silver medal finishes, only three months after the conclusion of the 2026 Olympics in Milan.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 30 Jul 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Summer Showcase
Ridder Arena, Minneapolis 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
The fourth day of games at the 2025 World Junior Summer Showcase were played here today at Ridder Arena, as Sweden defeated the U.S. 6-3.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Team USA Conquers Gold In Olympic Valley
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 American Independence Day, and in light of Team USA’s first World Championship title in decades, we look back at the last time the Americans were crowned World Champions, at the 1960 Olympics – the aftermath of the original “Miracle On Ice.”
🇺🇸 United States 9-4 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Olympic Medal Round
Blyth Memorial Ice Arena, Olympic Valley 🇺🇸
Sunday, 28 February 1960
The Americans had no time to celebrate (their previous day’s victory over the Soviet Union) because they were scheduled to be on the ice at eight the next morning to face the Czechs for the Gold medal.
Organizers expected the Canada–Soviet Union game to be for the Gold, so the USA-Czech game was scheduled for early Sunday.
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🇺🇸 2026 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
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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Marie-Philip Poulin, Victoire Big Winners At 2025 PWHL Awards
The Professional Women’s Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the 2025 season at an awards ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario, with eight IHLC holders representing Canada and the United States taking home trophies following the league’s sophomore season.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2025
The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2025 on 10 November, with long-time nominee Alexander Mogilny finally getting the call, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Brianna Decker, and first-time nominees Zdeno Chára, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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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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