IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 20 Nov 2022


🇺🇸 United States 4-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Rivalry Series, Game 3
Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle 🇺🇸
Sunday, 20 November 2022

Canada’s rough start to the Rivalry Series continues as the United States won 4-2 on Sunday for its third consecutive victory.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 15 Nov 2022


🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
Rivalry Series, Game 1
Prospera Place, Kelowna 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Canada kicked off the seven-game Rivalry Series with a 4-3 shootout loss to the United States on Tuesday night at Prospera Place.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 2023 World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Tampere, Finland and Rīga, Latvia, with the two previous Worlds hosts stepping in to replace Saint Petersburg, Russia as the hosts, who were stripped as hosts after Russia was banned from IIHF competition for their continued invasion of Ukraine.
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🇨🇦 2023 World Junior Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the tournament set to return to being played during the holiday season in front of fans, with Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick hosting for Canada for the third straight year.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 04 Sep 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 04 September 2022

Brianne Jenner scored both of Canada’s goals and Ann-Renée Desbiens saved the Gold in the dying seconds, giving Canada their third straight major Gold with a 2-1 victory over the United States. It comes after the 2021 Women’s Worlds last August and Olympic Gold in Beijing this past February.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 03 Sep 2022


🇺🇸 United States 10-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Saturday, 03 September 2022

Team USA scored six goals in the first period to put the game out of reach with speed and seeming ease, defeating Czechia by a 10-1 count and advancing to the Gold medal game tomorrow night. They will face the winner of tonight’s CanadaSwitzerland tilt.
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🇨🇿 Czechia Becomes Newest Women’s IHLC Contender


Just two days after Hungary became the first women’s hockey team to compete for the IHLC in a dozen years, today history was made once again at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, with Czechia stunning Finland in overtime of the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinal (and IHLC) matchup against the United States.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 12-1 Hungary 🇭🇺 – 01 Sep 2022


🇺🇸 United States 12-1 Hungary 🇭🇺
Women’s World Championship Quarterfinal
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 01 September 2022

It’s not often that a team wins a playoff game to advance to the semi-finals of a tournament that that is of secondary importance, but that was the case this afternoon.
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🇭🇺 Hungary Becomes First New Women’s IHLC Contender In 12 Years


In an international hockey world that seldom sees new nations emerge to contend for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, a wild series of events on the final day of group play at the 2022 Women’s World Championship means that Hungary will contend for the IHLC, making the Magyars the first women’s team in over a decade to contend for the IHLC.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 30 Aug 2022


🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Canada opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the United States stormed back to claim a 5-2 win in the finale of the preliminary round of Group A.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵 – 28 Aug 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 9-0 Japan 🇯🇵
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Sunday, 28 August 2022

Japan knew life in Group A of the Women’s Worlds would be radically different from Group B, and today they got a reminder of just how different. Canada stormed their goal for 60 minutes and skated to a 9-0 win this afternoon to re-join the United States at the top of the Group A standings.
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IHLC Preview – 2022 Women’s World Championship


After over a year and a half of no international women’s hockey competition due to COVID-19, the puck is set to drop on a historic Women’s World Championship in Denmark, as the IIHF for the first time is hosting the tournament in the same year as an Olympic tournament.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 23 Aug 2022


🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
KVIK Hockey Arena, Herning 🇩🇰
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

After golden years for the United States, the last 12 months were Canada’s months in women’s hockey. Gold at the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship on home ice in Calgary last August, Olympic Gold in Beijing last February and again Gold at the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship on American ice in Madison, Wisconsin.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸 – 05 Aug 2022


🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
Rogers Place, Edmonton 🇨🇦
Friday, 05 August 2022

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:15 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Stramel, slashing
13:33 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Simontaival (Määttä, Järventie)
15:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rafkin, cross checking
17:25 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Cooley (Peart, McKown)
19:17 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Savage (Kleven, Mazur)
19:54 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hirvonen, cross checking
20:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Bordeleau, butt-ending double minor
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🇺🇸 Dani Cameranesi Announces Retirement From Hockey At 27


American forward Dani Cameranesi today officially announced her retirement from professional hockey at the age of 27, capping an over-decade long career highlighted by two NCAA Championships, two World Championships and an Olympic Gold Medal.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Knight Leads USA To Three-peat

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 American Independence Day, we feature the 2011 World Championship final, where the United States captured their third consecutive Gold medal, thanks to the overtime heroics of star forward Hilary Knight.

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 25 April 2011

The United States has won Gold at the World Women’s Championship after an overtime goal by Hilary Knight at 7:48 of the 4-on-4 extra period.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Crosby’s Golden Goal

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 not only Canada Day, but Roberto Luongo’s recent induction to the Hockey Hall of Fame, we feature the historic 2010 Olympic Gold Medal Game, where the heroics of Sidney Crosby and “Bobby Lu” won Canada their eighth Olympic Gold medal.

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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
Olympic Gold Medal Game
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Sunday, 28 February 2010

Canada has capped the Golden Games with the medal that matters, beating the United States 3-2 in an Olympic hockey overtime thriller at Canada Hockey Place.
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🇺🇸 Colorado Avalanche Capture Third Stanley Cup Championship


After finishing dead last in the National Hockey League just five years ago, the Colorado Avalanche have come back to the top of the mountain in the hockey world, capturing the Stanley Cup in six games against the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
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