IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Aug 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 05 August 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:15 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Stramel, slashing
13:33 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Simontaival (Määttä, Järventie)
15:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, cross checking
17:25 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Cooley (Peart, McKown)
19:17 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Savage (Kleven, Mazur)
19:54 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hirvonen, cross checking
20:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Bordeleau, butt-ending double minor
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🇺🇸 Dani Cameranesi Announces Retirement From Hockey At 27


American forward Dani Cameranesi today officially announced her retirement from professional hockey at the age of 27, capping an over-decade long career highlighted by two NCAA Championships, two World Championships and an Olympic Gold Medal.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Knight Leads USA To Three-peat

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, we feature the 2011 World Championship final, where the United States captured their third consecutive Gold medal, thanks to the overtime heroics of star forward Hilary Knight.

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 25 April 2011

The United States has won Gold at the World Women’s Championship after an overtime goal by Hilary Knight at 7:48 of the 4-on-4 extra period.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Crosby’s Golden Goal

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 not only Canada Day, but Roberto Luongo’s recent induction to the Hockey Hall of Fame, we feature the historic 2010 Olympic Gold Medal Game, where the heroics of Sidney Crosby and “Bobby Lu” won Canada their eighth Olympic Gold medal.

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Sunday, 28 February 2010

Canada has capped the Golden Games with the medal that matters, beating the United States 3-2 in an Olympic hockey overtime thriller at Canada Hockey Place.
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🇺🇸 Colorado Avalanche Capture Third Stanley Cup Championship


After finishing dead last in the National Hockey League just five years ago, the Colorado Avalanche have come back to the top of the mountain in the hockey world, capturing the Stanley Cup in six games against the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
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🇨🇦 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 Women’s 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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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 28 May 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Semifinal
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 28 May 2022

In a hard-fought, back-and-forth semi-final clash, Finland defeated the U.S. 4-3 on Saturday afternoon in Tampere to advance to the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 IIHF Names Tampere & Rīga As 2023 World Championship Hosts


After stripping Saint Petersburg, Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the IIHF announced at their annual Congress that hosting rights would now be split between to the last two hosts of the World Championships, with 2021 hosts Rīga, Latvia and current 2022 hosts Tampere, Finland hosting next year, from 12-28 May 2023.
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Relegated From World Championship Top Division


A day before the group round came to a close at the 2022 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2023 were clinched, with Italy and Great Britain gaining the dubious distinction of being sent down, at the hands of Kazakhstan and Austria, respectively.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 23 May 2022


🇨🇿 Czechia 1-0 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Monday, 23 May 2022

Czechia has secured a spot in the quarter-finals of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship thanks to a 1-0 win over the USA in both teams’ penultimate game in the group stage.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 21 May 2022


🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Nokia Arena, Tampere 🇫🇮
Saturday, 21 May 2022

A packed program of Saturday hockey in Tampere got off to a flying start as Team USA went the full distance against Group B’s unbeaten team, Sweden. Both teams held the lead during a 2-2 tie in regulation before Adam Gaudette won it for the U.S. with 11.4 seconds remaining in overtime.
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🇺🇸 Dustin Brown Retires Following Kings Playoff Elimination


American power forward Dustin Brown, who captained the Los Angeles Kings to two Stanley Cup titles, tonight formally ended his nineteen year hockey career at the age of 37, following the Kings’ elimination from the NHL playoffs at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 World Championship


The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere and Helsinki, Finland starting this Friday, 13 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2022 IIHF World Championship.
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🇺🇸 Boston Pride Capture Second Consecutive Isobel Cup


After an improbable season, marred once again by COVID delays, the Boston Pride improbably escaped the quarterfinals, upset the Toronto Six 5-1 in the semifinals, and tonight notched a come from behind victory over the PHF’s top seed, the Connecticut Whale, winning the Isobel Cup Final 4-2 to win their second straight, and third overall, Cup title.
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IIHF Announces Tournament Updates Following Russia, Belarus Suspensions


Just under three weeks after announcing that Russia and Belarus were banned from IIHF participation after the Russian-led and Belarusian-backed invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February, today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced replacement clubs for upcoming participation in the upcoming 2022 Men’s, Women’s and Junior World Championships.
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🇨🇦 Five Canadian Players Join Triple Gold Club


By virtue of Canada’s dominant Gold Medal victory in Beijing, five new players from Team Canada have now joined the women’s version of the Triple Gold Club, all adding Olympic Gold to their World Championship Gold and Clarkson Cup titles.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Thursday, 17 February 2022

Talk about revenge and rising to the occasion. Legendary captain Marie-Philip Poulin stepped up with two goals and an assist as Canada beat the U.S. 3-2 to win the 2022 Olympic women’s hockey Gold medal on Thursday. Utterly relentless, the Canadians regained the title they lost to the Americans in PyeongChang four years ago.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 08 Feb 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Preliminary Round
Cadillac Arena, Beijing 🇨🇳
Tuesday, 08 February 2022

It is one of the greatest rivalries in sports, and when Canada defeated the U.S. 4-2 to lock up first place in Group A, it was the most exciting hockey we’ve seen yet at these 2022 Olympics.
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