🇫🇮🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Kakko’s Dagger Captures Junior Gold

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, Today, in honour of Finnish Independence Day (itsenäisyyspäivä), we feature Finland’s most recent World Junior Championship title, a stunning victory over the Americans on the back of a late Kaapo Kakko game winning goal.


🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Arena, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Saturday, 05 January 2019

Kaapo Kakko scored the winner with 1:26 left as Finland edged the U.S. 3-2 in the 2019 World Junior Gold medal game on Saturday night.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2025


The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2025 Class, inducting six legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇨🇦 Rebecca Johnston Announces Retirement From Hockey At Age 36


Canadian utility forward Rebecca Johnston, a nearly two-decade veteran of the CWHL, PWHPA and Canadian national team, today confirmed her retirement from pro hockey the day after her 36th birthday, capping her career with two Clarkson Cups, two World Championship titles and three Olympic Gold medals.
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🇸🇰 Jaroslav Halák Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 40

Journeyman Slovak goaltender Jaroslav Halák, who backstopped seven different NHL teams and the Slovakian national squad for twenty pro seasons, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, two years after his last professional game.
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🇨🇦 🇷🇺 🇸🇰 🇺🇸 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2025


The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2025 on 10 November, with long-time nominee Alexander Mogilny finally getting the call, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Brianna Decker, and first-time nominees Zdeno Chára, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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🇨🇦 Flower Out: Marc-André Fleury Retires At Age 40


The “Flower” has bloomed for the last time – after confirming his retirement at the beginning of the 2024-25 NHL season, Marc-André Fleury has officially played in his final NHL game at the age of 40, following Minnesota’s elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs, ending a remarkable 21-season career spanning stops in Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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🇫🇮 Valtteri Filppula Confirms Retirement At Age 41


Finnish forward Valtteri Filppula, the first Finn to become a member of the Triple Gold Club by virtue of his 2008 Stanley Cup, and Olympic and World Championship titles both in 2022, today confirmed his retirement following at the age of 41.
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🇸🇪 Loui Eriksson Confirms Retirement After Two Year Absence


Two years after his most recent game in the Swedish Hockey League semifinals, Loui Eriksson today confirmed his retirement from pro hockey, leaving the sport at age 39 after twenty pro seasons across three countries.
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🇨🇦 Eric Staal Signs One Day Contract, Retires From Pro Hockey


After going a year without playing professionally, today Eric Staal signed a one-day contract with the Carolina Hurricanes to formalize his retirement, officially stepping away from the game just a few months shy of his 40th birthday.
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🇺🇸 Joe Pavelski Formally Announces Retirement From Hockey


After announcing at the end of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs that he would step away from the game, today American forward Joe Pavelski officially announced his retirement from pro hockey just five days after turning 40, capping a remarkable 18-year career with over 1,000 points in over 1,300 career games.
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🇫🇮 Jarkko Immonen Retires From Hockey At Age 42


Finnish centre Jarkko Immonen, whose pro career spanned over two decades across eight pro teams in four countries, today announced his retirement from the sport at age 42, following the conclusion of the 2023-24 Finnish Liiga season.
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🇺🇸 Paul Stastny Confirms Retirement From Hockey At 37


American centre Paul Stastny, the son of hockey royalty who carved out his own illustrious career that spanned nearly two decades, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, having last played for the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2022-23 NHL season.
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🇨🇦 Joe Thornton Makes Retirement Official At Age 44


Canadian power forward Joe Thornton, the last remaining player in the NHL to have played in the 1990’s, officially confirmed his retirement after an illustrious 24-season NHL career, retiring at age 44 with an NHL MVP and scoring title, Swiss championship, Olympic Gold Medal, World Junior Gold Medal and two World Cup titles for Team Canada.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 IHLC Classics: Canada’s Olympic 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 not only Canada Day, but Caroline Ouellette’s recent induction to the Hockey Hall of Fame, we feature the historic 2010 Olympic Gold Medal Game, where she captured her, and Canada’s, third consecutive Gold Medal.


🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Thursday, 25 February 2010

Canada is golden again in women’s Olympic hockey.

The Canadian women’s hockey team defended the Gold medals won at the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games with a 2-0 win over arch-rival U.S. on Thursday at Canada Hockey Place.
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🇷🇺 Five-Time Gagarin Cup Champion Danis Zaripov Retires From Hockey


Russian winger Danis Zaripov, a three-time World champion and record five-time Gagarin Cup champion, today announced his retirement from pro hockey, following the final regular season matchup for his club Ak Bars Kazan, in advance of the 2023 Gagarin Cup Playoffs.
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Hockey Hall Of Fame Inducts Class Of 2022


The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2022 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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🇨🇦 Duncan Keith Retires From Edmonton Oilers At Age 38


Canadian ironman defender Duncan Keith today officially announced his retirement from the Edmonton Oilers, wrapping up a seventeen year NHL career highlighted by three Stanley Cups, along with a pair of Norris Trophies and Olympic Gold Medals.
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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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🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇮 Hockey Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2022


The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2022 on 14 November, with a trio of Swedish forwards, anchored by a Finnish defender and a Canadian goaltender, with numerous International Hockey Lineal Championships between them, joining the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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