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IHLC 2018 In Review – Junior

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The International Hockey Lineal Championship saw a fair amount of movement in its 13 junior tilts in 2018, with four nations sharing title reigns across three tournaments, including the elimination round of the 2018 World Junior Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦 – 23 Dec 2018

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Exhibition Game
Rogers Arena, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Sunday, 23 December 2018

Morgan Frost and Barrett Hayton scored goals, but special-teams doomed Canada’s National Junior Team in a 5-2 loss to Finland in its final pre-tournament game Sunday ahead of the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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2019 World Junior Championship Schedule Released

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The schedule for the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia has been released, with host nations and defending champions Canada opening the tournament on Boxing Day against Denmark, and facing Russia in their New Year’s tilt to end the group round.
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🇨🇦 Jarome Iginla Ends Illustrious Career After 20 Seasons

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Canadian power forward Jarome Iginla, who racked up a great number of personal awards and was revered as a powerful leader on the ice, today formally retired as a Calgary Flame, spending 16 of his 20 pro seasons in Calgary. Continue reading →

🇸🇰 Marián Hossa Confirms Hockey Career Is Over

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Marián Hossa, sidelined for the entire 2017-18 NHL season due to a skin disorder, confirmed today to a Slovakian newspaper that his hockey career was over, and he will formally retire once his current contract expires in 2020.
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NHL Confirms Players Will Not Attend 2018 PyeongChang Olympics

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After months of speculation and negotiations, the National Hockey League today announced that they will not actively participate in the 2018 Olympics in Korea, ending a 20-year span of NHL participation in the Games.
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🇨🇦 Corey Perry Enters Triple Gold Club

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Just a year after Canada’s captain, Sidney Crosby, joined the Triple Gold Club at the 2015 World Championships, the 2016 captain became the 27th player and tenth Canadian to join the club, with Corey Perry adding to his Stanley Cup and two Olympic Gold Medals.
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🇫🇮 Wrist Injury Forces Sami Salo To Retire At Age 40

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After a nagging wrist injury forced him to sit out the entire 2014-15 NHL season, Sami Salo today officially announced his NHL retirement, after a 15 year NHL career with Ottawa, Vancouver and Tampa Bay, along with stints with Turku, Jokerit and Frölunda in Scandinavia.
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🇨🇦 Sidney Crosby Joins Triple Gold Club

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With Team Canada’s victory over Russia to capture the 2015 IIHF World Championship, Canada’s captain, Sidney Crosby, became just the 26th player in international hockey history, and the ninth Canadian, to enter the prestigious Triple Gold Club, adding Gold to his two Stanley Cups and two Olympic Gold Medals.
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🇨🇦 Robyn Regehr Set To Retire From NHL

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Canadian defenceman Robyn Regehr, a sixteen-year veteran of the National Hockey League, has announced he will be retiring from the Los Angeles Kings following their disappointing season, just short of his 35th birthday.
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🇨🇦 Martin Brodeur Announces Retirement From Blues

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After perhaps the most illustrious goaltending career in NHL, if not all hockey, history, Martin Brodeur has announced that he will retire from the game after 22 seasons, after limited playing time this season for the St. Louis Blues. Brodeur will join the Blues’ front office to finish his contract before considering a return to the New Jersey Devils, the club he spent all but seven games of his brilliant career with.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 28 Feb 2010

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸 – 25 Feb 2010

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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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 24 Feb 2010

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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Quarterfinal
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Slovakia knocked defending Olympic champion Sweden out of the Olympic men’s hockey tournament Wednesday night with a 4-3 victory in the quarter-finals.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 22 Feb 2010

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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Semifinal
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Monday, 22 February 2010

A spontaneous, but abbreviated ‘O Canada’ broke out just minutes before the buzzer sounded on Canada’s 5-0 semifinal win over Finland in Olympic women’s hockey Monday.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮 – 21 Feb 2010

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🇸🇪 Sweden 3-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Olympic Preliminary Round
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Sunday, 21 February 2010

Loui Eriksson scored power-play goals in each of the first two periods as Sweden beat Finland 3-0 on Sunday night in a rematch of the Turin Games final.
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