After a year away during one of the most tumultuous years in human history, with a pandemic and political strife seeing a year-long delay and a change in venue, the international hockey calendar sees some sense of normalcy return with the resurgence of the IIHF World Championship, set to take place this year in Rīga, Latvia.
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Tag Archives: United States
🇺🇸 Ryan Miller Announces Retirement Following 2020-21 NHL Season
American goaltender Ryan Miller, whose nearly 20 season career set a number of records for U.S.-born goaltenders, today announced he will retire from the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks at the end of this current season, at the age of 40.
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🇷🇺 Avangard Omsk Captures First Gagarin Cup Title
On the backs of a lone goal from Cup MVP Sergei Tolchinski, and a shutout from Šimon Hrubec, Avangard Omsk defeated CSKA Moscow 1-0 to complete their Gagarin Cup series victory in six games, capturing their first ever KHL championship.
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🇨🇦 2021 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
After having to delay for a year following the 2019-20 outbreak of the COVID-19 virus across the world, and delaying another month to meet Canadian quarantine protocols, today the IIHF announced the schedule for the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, who will host after postponing the 2020 edition of the tournament.
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🇺🇸 Boston Pride Capture 2021 Isobel Cup In Home-Ice Bubble
Despite entering the delayed NWHL playoffs as the fourth and final seed, the Boston Pride used unique pandemic circumstances to capitalize on home ice and capture their second Isobel Cup Saturday night, defeating the Minnesota Whitecaps in Boston to win the NWHL championship.
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🇺🇸 Mark Pavelich: 1958-2021
American forward Mark Pavelich, who played an integral role in the 1980 “Miracle On Ice” for Team USA before embarking on an NHL career, was today found dead at a Minnesota treatment facility at the age of 63.
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🇺🇸 Lamoureux Twins Announce Joint Retirement From Hockey
At only the age of 31, American team mainstays and identical twin sisters Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux today announced their joint retirement, after an illustrious 14 year career with Team USA.
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🇱🇻 2021 World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Rīga, Latvia, marking the return of the World Championship after its historic cancellation last year, returning to Latvia for the first time in 15 years.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 05 Jan 2021
🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Trevor Zegras had a goal and assist and Spencer Knight was terrific in goal for the Americans as they won their fifth all-time gold medal with a flawless 2-0 win over Canada. It was a game of tight checking and stifling defence, blocked shots, great saves, and few great scoring chances.
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IHLC 2020 In Review – Junior
The International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw two champions hold the title thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with defending champions Canada holding the title for all but five days in 2020. Continue reading
🇺🇸 Back Injury Forces Ryan Callahan Into Retirement At Age 35
Due to a lingering back injury that sidelined him the entire 2019-20 NHL season, American forward Ryan Callahan today announced his retirement from hockey at the age of 35.
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IHLC 2020 In Review – Women’s
After one of the most dramatic years in international women’s hockey history, with both a thrilling World Championship final and an off-ice reckoning over women’s equality in the game, 2020 was set to be a watershed year in women’s hockey.
Then COVID-19 shut down the planet.
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IHLC Preview – 2021 World Junior Championship
The first IIHF “bubble” tournament is set to begin in Edmonton, Canada, with the 2020 calendar year coming to a close with the start of the 2021 World Junior Championship, being held in a contained Rogers Place with the top nations in the hockey world looking to earn glory in the midst of a pandemic.
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🇺🇸 Art Berglund: 1940-2020
Art Berglund, the American hockey administrator who helped build the U.S. international men and junior squads, today passed away at the age of 80.
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🇨🇦 2021 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with all teams playing in a quarantined bubble without spectators in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with the tournament set to begin on Christmas Day, while host nation and defending champions Canada opening on the more traditional Boxing Day.
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🇺🇸 Meghan Duggan Announces Formal Retirement From Team USA
American forward Meghan Duggan, who has captained Team USA to Olympic and World Championship Gold success for over a decade, today formally announced her retirement from pro hockey at age 33.
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🇩🇪 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Wunder von Innsbruck
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 thirtieth anniversary of German Unity Day (also known as Tag der Deutschen Einheit), we feature Träger der Adler’s surprising Bronze medal victory at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics.
🇩🇪 West Germany 4-1 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Final Round
Olympiahalle, Innsbruck 🇦🇹
Saturday, 14 February 1976
As in previous years, the ice hockey tournament at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck started with an elimination round. The pairings then resulted from the positions of the teams at the world championships from the previous year.
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🇺🇸 Tampa Bay Lightning Capture Stanley Cup In Edmonton Bubble
In front of an empty Rogers Place in Edmonton, the Tampa Bay Lightning avenged their shocking 2019 playoff exit with a Stanley Cup victory, defeating the Dallas Stars in six games on the backs of a 2-0 win.
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Draisaitl Leads The Pack At Virtual 2020 NHL Awards
The National Hockey League completed its awards distribution for the pandemic-delayed 2019-20 season with the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals in Edmonton, with twelve IHLC holders representing nine countries taking home trophies handed out over the past month.
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🇺🇸 Zoe Hickel Retires From Team USA To Coach At Ohio State
American winger Zoe Hickel, a two-time World Champion and holding the rare distinction of winning both the Clarkson and Isobel Cups, today confirmed her retirement from playing, joining Ohio State University’s coaching staff at age 28.
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