IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 14 Apr 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Sunday, 14 April 2024

Another chapter was scripted in the intense rivalry between Canada and the United States on Sunday evening at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship.

In the Gold medal game, it took overtime for Canada to defeat the United States 6-5.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 11 Apr 2024


🇺🇸 United States 10-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Thursday, 11 April 2024

The United States gave the home crowd something to cheer about as the team earned a 10-0 shutout victory over Japan in their quarter-final game at the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship in Utica, New York.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 08 Apr 2024


🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Monday, 08 April 2024

Kirsten Simms scored at 3:38 of overtime to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Canada and first place in the Group A standings with a perfect 4-0 record.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 Women’s World Championship


The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming back to upstate New York for the first time in three decades, as the reigning world champion Team USA will host the world’s top women’s players in the 23rd edition of the tournament from 03-14 April, with all games held at the Adirondack Bank Centre in Utica.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 11 Feb 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 6-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 7
Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul 🇺🇸
Sunday, 11 February 2024

Natalie Spooner and Emma Maltais each scored twice, Ann-Renée Desbiens made 24 saves and Canada routed the United States 6-1 on Sunday in the decisive seventh game of the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 09 Feb 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 3-0 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Brandt Centre, Regina 🇨🇦
Friday, 09 February 2024

Natalie Spooner opened the scoring on a power play 58 seconds into the third period and Canada won its third straight to send the Rivalry Series to a decisive seventh game, beating the United States 3-0 on Friday night.
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🇨🇦 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 NHL Releases Roster Projections For 2025 Four Nations Face-Off


The NHL, who will be staging a “light” version of the World Cup Of Hockey with the Four Nations Face-Off in February 2025, has unveiled its projected lineups for the four national squads partaking next year in Montréal and Boston, speculating on who will wear their nation’s colours for the first best-on-best global tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 07 Feb 2024


🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 5
SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 07 February 2024

Ashton Bell and Renata Fast scored in a 2:38 span of the third period and Canada stayed alive in the Rivalry Series, rallying to beat the United States 4-2 on Wednesday night in Game 5.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees


The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2024, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Prague, with five different nationalities highlighting the class, including a trio of native Czechoslovak legends heading the class.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 05 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 6-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 05 January 2024

The United States made the most of their chances and skated to an almost flawless 6-2 victory over Sweden to capture their sixth all-time Gold medal. They won their first in 2004 and most recent one in 2021, and have won those six in a 21-year span.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 04 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 04 January 2024

Cutter Gauthier’s late power-play goal gave the United States a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Finland to earn the team a spot in the Gold medal game tomorrow night against hosts Sweden.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 02 Jan 2024


🇺🇸 United States 7-2 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 02 January 2024

The American offence went into high gear in Tuesday’s 7-2 quarter-final romp over Latvia. The all-18-year-old line of Will Smith, Ryan Leonard and Gabe Perreault dominated, combining for six points. Blueliner Seamus Casey chipped in three assists.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Junior


The story of the world junior calendar year of 2023 came down really to two countries, with Canada dominating the top of the calendar, while it was American dominance nearly a full calendar year later setting the stage for a thrilling finish to the 2024 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 31 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 10-2 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Sunday, 31 December 2023

In the New Year’s Eve showdown for first place in Group B, the U.S. left no doubt, hammering Slovakia 10-2 at Frölundaborg. Captain Rutger McGroarty set the tone with a hat trick and goalie Trey Augustine shone when tested with 38 stops.
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IHLC 2023 In Review – Women’s


The 2023 calendar year saw another fourteen heavyweight matchups between the United States and Canada on the international hockey stage, with both nations fighting for Gold medals, world supremacy, and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO) – 29 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Czechia 🇨🇿 (SO)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Friday, 29 December 2023

Isaac Howard got the shootout winner as the U.S. beat Czechia 4-3 in Group B action on Friday.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 28 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 11-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 28 December 2023

Jimmy Snuggerud scored a hat trick in the first period as the U.S. trounced Switzerland 11-3 on Thursday at Frölundaborg. It was a showcase of the skill and speed that the USA Hockey National Team Development Program preaches in Plymouth, Michigan.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Norway 🇳🇴 – 26 Dec 2023


🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Norway 🇳🇴
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Frölundaborg, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Newly promoted Norway surprisingly kept it scoreless with the stacked Americans until Jimmy Snuggerud scored at the midway mark. That sparked the U.S. to a 4-1 win on Day One of the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship in Gothenburg.
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IHLC Preview – 2024 World Junior Championship


With the season upon us, this means the inevitable return of the IIHF World Junior Championship, which will return to Europe for the first time since January 2020, with Gothenburg, Sweden hosting the world’s top under-20 teams starting on 26 December.
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