IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 Apr 2019


🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo 🇫🇮
Thursday, 04 April 2019

The Swiss are famous for their banking acumen, but they were unable to deposit any goals in Canada’s net in a tournament-opening 6-0 loss on Thursday at Espoo’s Metro Areena.
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IHLC Preview – 2019 Women’s World Championship


For the first time in its history, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will expand to a 10-team field when the best women’s players in the world face off in Espoo, Finland, for the 2019 edition of the championship, the 19th edition of the tournament.
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2020 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ostrava and Třinec, Czechia has been released, with the host nation opening the tournament against rivals Russia, while defending champion Finland opens their defence against border rival Sweden.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Calgary Inferno Wins 2019 Clarkson Cup, Alex Rigsby Joins Triple Gold Club


The top-tier Canadian women’s hockey league today awarded their champion, a week after the American Isobel Cup was awarded to the Minnesota Whitecaps, with the Calgary Inferno defeating the Canadiennes de Montréal 5-2 in Toronto to win their second Clarkson Cup in four seasons. Continue reading

🇺🇸 Minnesota Whitecaps Capture Isobel Cup In Inaugural NWHL Season


The first of two women’s hockey championships in a one week span has been crowned, with the expansion Minnesota Whitecaps defeating the Buffalo Beauts on home ice in a 2-1 overtime victory to capture the 2019 Isobel Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 17 Feb 2019


🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Little Caesars Arena, Detroit 🇺🇸
Sunday, 17 February 2019

Shannon Szabados made 38 saves in a spectacular shutout performance, and Canada’s National Women’s Team blanked the United States 2-0 on Sunday afternoon to win the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 – 14 Feb 2019


🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 2
Scotiabank Arena, Toronto 🇨🇦
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Marie-Philip Poulin and Jamie Lee Rattray led the way with a goal and an assist each, and Canada’s National Women’s Team held off a late push to edge the United States 4-3 on Thursday night and square up the Rivalry Series at a win apiece.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 12 Feb 2019


🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Budweiser Gardens, London 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Hilary Knight scored the game-winning goal and Alex Rigsby recorded a 33-save shutout as the U.S. Women’s National Team topped Canada, 1-0, here tonight at the Budweiser Gardens in London to open up play in the 2019 Rivalry Series.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2019 Inductees


The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2019, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, with two native Slovaks and the top women’s player in history highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Miroslav Šatan, Žigmund Pálffy, Hayley Wickenheiser, Jörgen Jönsson and Mike Modano to the Hall. Continue reading

IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Jan 2019


🇫🇮 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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IHLC 2018 In Review – Junior


The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw a fair amount of movement in its 13 junior tilts in 2018, with four nations sharing title reigns across three tournaments, including the elimination round of the 2018 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC 2018 In Review – Men’s


The International Hockey Lineal Championship again saw eight countries carry the title throughout 2018, with the Olympics being added to the calendar seeing 31 different matchups, with the IHLC being defended at five tournaments in seven different countries.
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IHLC 2018 In Review – Women’s


The International Hockey Lineal Championship continued to see-saw between Canada and the United States in international women’s hockey, with each nation winning five games in 2018, but the Americans winning crucial Gold medals at both the PyeongChang Olympics and Four Nations Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 29 Dec 2018


🇸🇪 Sweden 5-4 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria 🇨🇦
Saturday, 29 December 2018

The U.S. rallied from a 4-0 third-period deficit, but Adam Boqvist scored the overtime winner for a 5-4 victory to extend Sweden’s preliminary-round winning streak alive at 47 games.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 10 Nov 2018


🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Four Nations Cup Gold Medal Game
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon 🇨🇦
Saturday, 10 November 2018

Hilary Knight scored twice and 10 other U.S. skaters registered points as the U.S. Women’s National Team topped Canada, 5-2, here tonight in Saskatoon to win the 2018 Four Nations Cup.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 09 Nov 2018


🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon 🇨🇦
Friday, 09 November 2018

Nine different U.S. skaters registered points as the U.S. Women’s National Team defeated Sweden, 5-1, here tonight in its final preliminary round game of the 2018 Four Nations Cup at SaskTel Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 07 Nov 2018


🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 07 November 2018

Sydney Brodt scored the game-winner with 1:38 remaining in the third period to lift the U.S. Women’s National Team over Canada, 2-1, here tonight in its second preliminary round game of the 2018 Four Nations Cup at SaskTel Centre.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 06 Nov 2018


🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 06 November 2018

The U.S. Women’s National Team scored five unanswered goals in the second period and 11 players registered points to power the U.S. past Finland, 5-1, here today in the opening game of the 2018 Four Nations Cup at SaskTel Centre.
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🇺🇸 Brian Gionta Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey


After nearly a full year without playing professional hockey, only with appearances captaining Team USA at the 2018 Olympics and a short stint in Boston shortly thereafter, Brian Gionta today announced in Buffalo that he would be retiring from hockey and joining the Sabres in a non-playing role, ending a nearly 20-year pro career at age 39.
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2019 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Espoo, Finland, which for the first time in history sees the field of contenders expand to ten, welcoming both Japan and France into the fold.
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