After just three months Olympic qualifiers that were set to begin nearly a year ago, but delayed due to COVID-19, the three final qualification spots for a trip to Beijing were today clinched by Czechia, Denmark and Sweden for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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๐จ๐ฆ 2022 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, returning to the originally planned hosts of Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, which was set for the 2021 tournament but instead played in a quarantine bubble only in Edmonton, in front of no fans.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 25 Oct 2021
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 2
XL Center, Hartford ๐บ๐ธ
Monday, 25 October 2021
Amanda Kessel isn’t panicking after the United States women’s hockey team opened its pre-Olympic series with two straight losses to rival Canada.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 22 Oct 2021
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Rivalry Series, Game 1
PPL Center, Allentown ๐บ๐ธ
Friday, 22 October 2021
Emily Clark scored twice, including the go-ahead goal 5:05 into the third period, and Canada beat the United States 3-1 in Game 1 of a nine-game pre-Olympic Rivalry Series between the national womenโs hockey teams Friday night.
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Provisional Olympians Named For Beijing 2022
As part of the NHL’s re-entry into the Olympics with the upcoming games in Beijing this February, the NHL and IIHF collectively announced provisional NHL players for each team, naming three active professionals to each roster.
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๐จ๐ณ 2022 Men’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The IIHF today released the schedule for the men’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, with the tournament beginning on Wednesday, 09 February, with defending champions the Russian Olympic Committee starting their title defence on the opening day, in the first tournament since 2014 to feature NHL players on Olympic rosters.
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๐จ๐ณ 2022 Women’s Olympic Hockey Schedule Released
The schedule for the women’s tournament at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, China were released by the IIHF today, kicking off hockey at the Olympics on Thursday, 03 February.
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IIHF Congress Approves Women’s World Championships In Olympic Years
After over twenty years of not holding the IIHF Women’s World Championship in years when the Olympics are taking place, today the IIHF Congress voted to allow for both tournaments to be held the same calendar year every four years, with the tournament moving from April to August in Olympic years, starting in 2022.
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๐บ๐ธ American Forward David Backes Retires As Blue At Age 37
American forward David Backes, who has seen limited playing time over the past two seasons due to recurring injuries, today officially signed with St. Louis for a day to retire as a Blue, ending his career at the age of 37.
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๐จ๐ณ NHL, IIHF Reach Agreement On 2022 Olympic Participation
After the NHL and NHL Player’s Association came to an agreement last summer to participate at both the 2022 and 2026 Olympics, pending negotiations with the International Olympic Committee and IIHF, today it was announced that NHL players will in fact participate at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, marking their return to the Games after skipping the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ (OT) – 31 Aug 2021
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 United States ๐บ๐ธ (OT)
Womenโs World Championship Gold Medal Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Marie-Philip Poulin scored the golden goal at 7:22 of the first overtime period to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States. It was Canada’s first Gold medal at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship since 2012 and ended a run of five in a row for their adversaries.
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๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฉ๐ฐ Slovakia, Latvia, Denmark Clinch Final Beijing 2022 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Spots
After nearly two year of Olympic qualifiers that began in Luxembourg and China in November 2019, four rounds of play, 36 teams competing and a global pandemic in between, came to a conclusion today for the final three spots in Beijing, with the spots being clinched locked up by Slovakia, Latvia and Denmark for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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IHLC Results – ๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ – 26 Aug 2021
๐จ๐ฆ Canada 5-1 United States ๐บ๐ธ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Canada scored early and often and defeated the United States emphatically, 5-1, to claim first place in Group A. They did it without their captain, Marie-Philip Poulin, but Jamie Lee Rattray stepped up and contributed two goals in the win.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ – 24 Aug 2021
๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Itโs all history, all the time in Calgary. Hilary Knight scored her 45th career Womenโs Worlds goal to surpass fellow American legend Cammi Granato for the all-time tournament record as the unbeaten U.S. thrashed the ROC team 6-0 on Tuesday.
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๐บ๐ธ Jimmy Hayes: 1989-2021
The hockey world today was again struck with tragic news, as the news of 31 year old American forward Jimmy Hayes, a former NHL and international player who recently became a new father, had unexpectedly passed away in his home state of Milton, Massachusetts, USA.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ – 22 Aug 2021
๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Sunday, 22 August 2021
So, we meet again! The defending champion U.S. blanked 2019 Silver medalist Finland 3-0 in Sundayโs late game at Calgaryโs WinSport Arena.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ – 20 Aug 2021
๐บ๐ธ United States 3-0 Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
Womenโs World Championship Preliminary Round
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Friday, 20 August 2021
With a dazzling 55-save performance, Swiss goalie Andrea Brรคndli made sure it wasn’t a cakewalk for the U.S. on Day One. The defending champions had to work hard for their 3-0 victory over Switzerland in the third game at Calgaryโs WinSport Arena.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 Women’s World Championship
Following an eighteen month delay of no major international women’s hockey thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw one World Championships cancelled and another delayed, the puck is finally set to drop on the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the twentieth edition of the tournament, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, bringing the world’s top ten women’s nations in their first major competition since early 2020.
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IHLC Results – ๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ – 18 Aug 2021
๐บ๐ธ United States 6-0 Russian Olympic Committee ๐ท๐บ
Exhibition Game
WinSport Arena, Calgary ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The U.S. Womenโs National Team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee 6-0 in its lone pre-tournament matchup ahead of the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation Womenโs World Championship at WinSport Arena this afternoon.
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๐ซ๐ฎ 2022 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2022 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, returning to the nation for the first time since Helsinki hosted consecutively in 2012-13.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 