The KHL tonight handed out its awards to the best players in the league at the KHL IX ceremony in Moscow, with Metallurg star Sergei Mozyakin once again dominating the ceremony, taking home four trophies (including league MVP), along with nine other IHLC winners from four countries also winning awards.
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Tag Archives: World Championship
IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO) – 21 May 2017
🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Lanxess Arena, Cologne 🇩🇪
Sunday, 21 May 2017
A tense, nervous, cautious game from start to finish produced two fluky goals, 20 minutes of overtime, and a decisive shootout. Final score, 2-1, Sweden.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺 – 20 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Russia 🇷🇺
World Championship Semifinal
Lanxess Arena, Cologne 🇩🇪
Saturday, 20 May 2017
Down 2-0 after 40 minutes and looking overwhelmed, Canada scored four goals in the third – three late – to beat Russia, 4-2, and advance to the Gold medal game.
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Major Announcements Made At 2017 IIHF Congress
The IIHF Annual Congress today was held on the off day at the 2017 World Championships in Cologne, Germany, with a number of major announcements voted on to impact the future of international hockey in the coming years.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪 – 18 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Championship Quarterfinal
Lanxess Arena, Cologne 🇩🇪
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Canada kept its dream of a three-peat alive, but Germany proved to be a pesky opponent in front of a partisan crowd in Cologne.
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🇸🇪 🇨🇿 IHLC Classics: Sweden’s Unique Double
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, while the ongoing World Championships take a day off, we look back to the final of the 2006 Worlds, where Sweden made history by being the first team to win Olympic and World Championship Gold in the same year.
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Arēna Rīga, Rīga 🇱🇻
Sunday, 21 May 2006
The impossible dream has come true.
With a dazzling attack and air-tight defence, Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 Sunday night at a packed Arēna Rīga and became the first nation in history to capture Olympic and IIHF World Championship gold in the same year. A quick two-goal outburst in the opening period was enough to seal the fate of the Czechs.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮 – 16 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Canada finishes in first, Finland fourth. Canada will play Germany, the Finns will play the U.S. in the quarter-finals.
Mitch Marner, a natural passer of great skill but often reluctant shooter, scored two goals in the first period and assisted on another to lead Canada to an impressive win over Finland in the final round-robin game in Paris.
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🇫🇷 🇩🇰 2017 World Championship Spell Retirement For Huet, Meunier, Green
Three legends of emerging squads both played their final international matches today at the 2017 World Championship, as French goalie Cristobal Huet, French captain Laurent Meunier and Danish captain Morten Green played their final games of the tournament, finalizing their retirements that were announced before the tournament began.
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🇸🇮 🇮🇹 Slovenia, Italy Relegated From World Championship
Still with a day until the end of the 2017 World Championship group round, the two relegated teams for 2018 have already been determined, with both Slovenia and Italy, who only gained promotion in 2016, set to return to Division IA next season.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT) – 14 May 2017
🇫🇮 Finland 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 14 May 2017
Valtteri Filppula scored on a bad-angle deke at 2:24 of overtime to complete Finland’s comeback from 2-0 down.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 13 May 2017
🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Fabrice Herzog scored twice, including the overtime winner at 3:40, as Switzerland rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit to stun Canada 3-2 on Saturday.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷 – 11 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Canada led 1-0. France led 2-1. Canada went ahead 3-2. The sold-out crowd of 14,510 was rockin’ all night as David and Goliath played evenly for 60 minutes.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾 – 08 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 6-0 Belarus 🇧🇾
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Monday, 08 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon kept his hot hand going, scoring two more goals and adding a great assist. Mitch Marner added two signature helpers of his own.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 07 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 7-2 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Sunday, 07 May 2017
Nathan MacKinnon made it look easy–the whole team did–beating a game Slovenia, 7-2, despite some fine goaltending from a beleaguered Gasper Krošelj.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿 – 05 May 2017
🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Preliminary Round
AccorHotels Arena, Paris 🇫🇷
Friday, 05 May 2017
In many cities over many decades have Canada and the Czechs played hockey, but until tonight never Paris.
The massively pro-Czech crowd of 8,834 left disappointed, though, because their team was beaten by a superior, but sloppy, Canada, 4-1.
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IHLC Preview – 2017 World Championship
The grand finale of the international hockey calendar is set to begin on 05 May in both Cologne and Paris, with the top 16 hockey nations on earth meeting to compete at the 2017 IIHF World Championship.
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🇷🇺 🇨🇭 Russia Wins Euro Hockey Tour, Switzerland Wins Euro Hockey Challenge
With the conclusion of both the Euro Hockey Tour and Euro Hockey Challenge, as the season ends to ring in the start of the 2017 World Championships in Paris and Cologne, the winners of both the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour and 12-nation Euro Hockey Challenge have been crowned for the 2016-17 season.
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🇦🇹 🇰🇷 Austria, South Korea Promoted To 2018 World Championship
The two teams that narrowly missed promotion to the 2017 World Championship today both punched their tickets to the 2018 tournament in Denmark, with Austria and South Korea locking up their spots at the World Championship Division IA finals in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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🇨🇿 Patrik Eliáš Announces Retirement After 20 Seasons With Devils
Czech winger Patrik Eliáš, a career member of the New Jersey Devils who was their offensive star and all-time leading scorer, today announced his formal retirement after 20 seasons, spending the entire 2016-17 season attempting to come back from injury.
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🇫🇮 Olli Jokinen Retires As Florida Panther After 17 Seasons
Finnish sniper Olli Jokinen, an NHL mainstay since being drafted third overall in 1997, formally retired as a member of his longest-tenured team, the Florida Panthers, after an illustrious 17-year professional career.
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