The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2023 on 13 November, with a trio of goaltenders, and a pair of Canadian forwards and builders, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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Vegas Golden Knights Capture First Stanley Cup
Only six years after becoming the NHL’s 31st franchise, the Vegas Golden Knights have captured the Stanley Cup in five games against the stalwart Florida Panthers, winning their first championship on home ice in a 9-3 blowout victory.
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🇺🇸 Hilary Knight Named Inaugural IIHF Female Player Of The Year
American star forward Hilary Knight, who just a few months ago scored twice in 27 seconds with less than five minutes remaining in regulation to give Team USA their tenth World Championship title, was today awarded the IIHF’s inaugural Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2022-23 season.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇿 Jaškin Big Winner At 2023 KHL Awards
The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their fifteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with eleven IHLC winners from Russia and Czechia taking home trophies.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 World Championship
The top teams in international hockey will converge on Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia starting this Friday, 12 May, kicking off the premiere event of the global hockey calendar, the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
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🇺🇸 Megan Bozek Announces Retirement At Age 32
American defender Megan Bozek, a mainstay in both the premier North American women’s pro leagues and the Team USA roster for over a decade, today formally announced her retirement from the sport at the age of 32.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 6-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 16 Apr 2023
🇺🇸 United States 6-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Hilary Knight scored three goals including two near the end of the third period on power plays to break a 3-3 tie and send the United States on their way to a 6-3 win and a Gold Medal at Canada’s expense. Canada had three leads in the game, but each time the resilient Americans came back.
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🇺🇸 IIHF Names Utica As 2024 Women’s World Championship Host
On the final day of the 2023 Women’s World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed the next host of the tournament, with the 2024 Women’s World Championships to be hosted in Utica, New York, running from 04-14 April 2023.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (SO) – 10 Apr 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (SO)
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
CAA Centre, Brampton 🇨🇦
Monday, 10 April 2023
In likely the craziest finish in the storied Canada-United States rivalry, Jamie Lee Rattray scored in the 9th round of the penalty-shot shootout to give Canada a 4-3 win over the United States before a rowdy crowd of 4,322 at CAA Centre.
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IHLC Preview – 2023 Women’s World Championship
For the first time since 2017, the IIHF Women’s World Championship will return to North America in front of fans, with the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, Canada hosting the 22nd edition of the tournament from 05-16 April, with all games held at the CAA Centre.
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🇨🇦 Toronto Six Capture 2023 Isobel Cup In OT Thriller
Following years of instability for the Premier Hockey Federation, largely due to COVID-19 restrictions and delays, the 2022-23 successful season, which introduced a seventh expansion team in Montréal, came to a thrilling conclusion tonight in Tempe, Arizona, with the Toronto Six capturing the Isobel Cup with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Minnesota Whitecaps.
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🇺🇸 Brianna Decker Retires From Pro Hockey
American forward Brianna Decker, a six-time World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, NCAA champion and unofficial member of the women’s Triple Gold Club with two Clarkson Cups and an Isobel Cup, today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 31, moving into a full-time coaching capacity.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 22 Feb 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 7
Place Bell, Laval 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Blayre Turnbull led all scorers with two goals as Canada used a four-goal second period to fuel a 5-0 win over the U.S. to claim the Rivalry Series.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 20 Feb 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 United States 🇺🇸
Rivalry Series, Game 6
Colisée Vidéotron, Trois-Rivières 🇨🇦
Monday, 20 February 2023
Circle Wednesday on the calendar if you enjoy do-or-die showdowns between acrimonious rivals.
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🇸🇪 2024 World Junior Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with Sweden hosting for the first time in a decade, Gothenburg hosting the World Juniors for the first time ever, and marking the first post-pandemic tournament to be held outside of Canada.
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🇨🇦 2023 Women’s World Championship Schedule Released
The schedule for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with the hosts looking to “three-peat” as champions for the first time in nearly two decades.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Jan 2023
🇨🇦 Canada 6-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Scotiabank Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 04 January 2023
Canada fought off a sluggish start and a 2-0 deficit to beat the United States 6-2 and advance to the Gold Medal game tomorrow against Czechia. The U.S. will play Sweden earlier in the day for Bronze.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Junior
After the year 2022 started with complete uncertainty in the world of junior hockey, the calendar stabilized with the re-playing of the 2022 World Junior Championship in August, and the (thus far) successful completion of the 2023 World Juniors in December, bringing an unusually busy year for junior hockey and the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Men’s
The international hockey season saw a relative return to normal 2022, with both the Olympics and World Championships taking place amidst a pandemic, political turmoil, and a number of major swings in the balance of global hockey power.
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IHLC 2022 In Review – Women’s
After a relative return to normalcy in the international hockey calendar, the women’s circuit saw two major tournaments in the same year for the first time ever, with the IHLC contended at both the Olympics and Women’s World Championship, and twenty one games total over the course of 2022.
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