🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Budvar Aréna, České Budějovice 🇨🇿
Thursday, 10 April 2025
Canada kicked off its 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship in world-class form. The defending champions jumped out to a three-goal first-period lead en route to a 5-0 win over Finland on Thursday evening.
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The IIHF Women’s World Championship is coming to Czechia for the first time in its history, as the reigning world champions Canada will look to conquer České Budějovice for their second straight Gold medal in the 24th edition of the tournament from 09-20 April, with all games held at Budvar Aréna.
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Following an IIHF Council meeting, the International Ice Hockey Federation today confirmed that their ban on Russian and Belarusian teams, dating back to their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was extended through the 2025-26 hockey season.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2025, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Stockholm, with five different nationalities and a pair of Swedish goaltenders highlighting the class.
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The 2024 calendar year saw a reduction in international competition due to the rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, but there was still plenty of drama between the United States and Canada all throughout North America over the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2024 Class, inducting five legendary players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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With details around the 2024-25 PWHL season set to be revealed soon, a major part of the American women’s game for the past nearly two decades confirmed she will not take part, as Gigi Marvin today announced her retirement from hockey at the age of 37.
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The schedule for the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been released, being hosted for the first time by Czechia in the Bohemian city of České Budějovice, with defending champions Canada looking to win their fourth Gold medal in five years.
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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 revisit Team USA’s second Women’s World title fifteen years later, with Jessie Vetter and Caitlin Cahow powering them to their second straight Gold Medal.
🇺🇸 United States 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hämeenlinnan jäähalli, Hämeenlinna 🇫🇮
Sunday, 12 April 2009
The U.S. won its second straight Women’s World Hockey Championship with a 4-1 win over Canada on Sunday. The Americans have won back-to-back titles for the first time after beating Canada 4-3 in last year’s final in Harbin, China.
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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 Canada Day, we revisit Canada’s 2004 Women’s World title twenty years later, where Kim St-Pierre shut out Team USA on home ice in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
🇨🇦 Canada 2-0 United States 🇺🇸
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 06 April 2004
The Halifax Metro Centre was transformed into a sea of red and white Tuesday night, as 10,506 hockey fans filled the Halifax arena to watch Team Canada face-off against Team USA in the Gold medal game of the 2004 IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2024 on 11 November, with Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick and Shea Weber representing the male players, while Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell become the first pair of women to be inducted in the same year since 2010, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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Canadian forward Natalie Spooner, who only one week ago was crowned as the PWHL’s inaugural MVP, was today awarded the IIHF’s Female Player Of The Year Award for the 2023-24 season, capping off a spectacular campaign that saw Spooner capture her third World Championship title.
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Canadian winger Mélodie Daoust, who debuted with Team Canada at age 22, announced today she is leaving pro hockey just a decade later, leaving the game for a coaching position at age 32, capping a career highlighted by two Olympic Gold medals, a World Championship Gold and Bronze medal, along with two tournament MVP titles and a CIS championship. Continue reading
In the dramatic finale of the 2024 PWHL playoffs, a shutout performance from Nicole Hensley led PWHL Minnesota to capture the inaugural Walter Cup, defeating PWHL Boston 3-0 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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At the conclusion of the Women’s World Championship Division IA tournament in Klagenfurt, Austria today, it was Norway and Hungary that finally scooped up the last promotion spots to the Top Division in 2025, to be hosted in České Budějovice, Czechia.
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🇨🇦 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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🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Adirondack Bank Center, Utica 🇺🇸
Saturday, 13 April 2024
The United States are headed to the Gold medal game.
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🇺🇸 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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In the final day of competition at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship, the final game on the calendar dictated which teams would be relegated to Division IA in 2025, with China and Denmark drawing the unfortunate distinction.
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🇺🇸 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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International Hockey Lineal Championship 