🇺🇸 United States 3-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Ånäshallen, Kovland 🇸🇪
Thursday, 05 November 2015
Megan Bozek, Monique Lamoureux and Kendall Coyne scored and Jessie Vetter stopped all 31 shots she faced to help the U.S. Women’s National Team defeat Canada, 3-0, here today at the 2015 Four Nations Cup.
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🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Sundsvall Energi Arena, Sundsvall 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 04 November 2015
The U.S. Women’s National Team defeated Sweden, 6-2, here today at the 2015 Four Nations Cup.
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For the 20th season, the top four nations in women’s hockey will face off in Sundsvall, Sweden, when Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland face off in the Four Nations Cup.
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The schedule for the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship was today announced in the host city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, with the tournament kicking off with a rematch of last year’s final (and every Gold Medal Game in tournament history), between the bitter rivals Canada and the United States.
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The NHL, who will be restarting the World Cup Of Hockey after a twelve-year absence, has unveiled the last of its projected lineups for the six national and two pan-national teams partaking next September in Toronto, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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The schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey leaked today, confirming the already reported Group structure from earlier this year, along with the full tally of games in Toronto next fall to crown the newest World Cup of Hockey global champion.
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Danijela Rundqvist, a mainstay on the Swedish women’s national hockey team for over a decade, has decided to hang up her skates following a solid career with the Damkronorna, retiring with a handful of international medals in-hand.
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Molly Schaus, a mainstay both in the Massachusetts women’s hockey scene and in net for Team USA, today announced her retirement from professional hockey, following an illustrious career at the peak of the American women’s team’s rise to prominence.
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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2016 World Championship in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with defending champs Canada opening the tournament against their cross-border rivals the United States, while Russia aims to avenge its Silver medal finish by opening against their historical rivals Czechia.
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As per the Swedish Hockey Federation, details around the 2015 Four Nations Cup have finally been revealed, including news that Sweden, the host nation for the 2015 World Championships, will also host the annual tournament in November, in and around the city of Sundsvall.
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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 United States’ 239th birthday, we look back at the first ever American Olympic Gold Medal in ice hockey, the original “Miracle on Ice” against the more powerful Soviet Union.
🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Olympic Medal Round
Blyth Memorial Ice Arena, Olympic Valley 🇺🇸
Saturday, 27 February 1960
There was no colour television coverage, no announcer using a catch-phrase like “miracle on ice,” no celebration of the extraordinary over and above a remarkable gold medal. But make no mistake—when the United States won Olympic gold in 1960 in Olympic Valley, California, it was a much greater miracle than the one that occurred in Lake Placid 20 years later. In 1980, it was one game—a 4-3 win over the Soviet Union—that defined the American victory. In 1960, the U.S. had to defeat the top four teams in the world to win gold.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2015 in November, another diverse group who are legends in their own right not just professionally, but internationally as well. Nicklas Lidström, Chris Pronger, Sergei Fyodorov, Phil Housley and Angela Ruggiero have combined for over a dozen Olympic, World Championship and World Cup championships between them, in addition to all having held the International Hockey Lineal Championship on many occasions.
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In an era where hockey dynasties were considered extinct thanks to the salary cap, the Chicago Blackhawks defied the odds, winning their third Stanley Cup in six seasons from the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
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According to a report by Sovsport.ru in an interview with Soviet hockey legend and current Russian Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak, the groups for the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey in Toronto have been confirmed.
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With the dust settled over Prague, and Canada returning to North America with World Championship Gold in tow, we can not only look back on a tremendous (and record-breaking) 2015 tournament, but to future tournaments in men’s hockey, particularly next year’s Worlds and the 2018 Olympics.
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Following Belarus‘ failure to finish in the top four at the 2015 World Championships, Slovakia scooped up the ninth and final automatic qualification spot for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, joining defending champions Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the United States, Czechia, Switzerland and the host nation Korea.
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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Defensive powerhouse Hal Gill, who won a Stanley Cup and a World Championship Bronze medal in his 16 year career, announced his retirement from the Philadelphia Flyers at the age of 40.
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🇺🇸 United States 7-5 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Saturday, 04 April 2015
Brianna Decker scored the third-period winner as the U.S. beat Canada 7-5 in a wild World Women’s Gold medal game that saw both starting goalies pulled.
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🇺🇸 United States 13-1 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Malmö Isstadion, Malmö 🇸🇪
Friday, 03 April 2015
Brianna Decker and Hilary Knight combined for six first-period points to spark the U.S., the defending World Champions, to a 13-1 semi-final pounding of Russia.
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