Swiss forward Andres Ambühl, the six-time Swiss champion and all-time leader in IIHF World Championship tournaments and games played, today played his 151st and final World Championship game following Switzerland’s Gold Medal overtime loss, formalizing his retirement from the sport at the age of 41 after a two decade-plus professional career.
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🇷🇺 IIHF Confirms 2026 Russian Decision Falls To IOC, Future Tournament Hosts
The IIHF today, at their end-of-tournament press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, confirmed a number of items outlined at this week’s IIHF Congress, including the traditional awarding of tournament hosts for future events, and confirmation that the IIHF has submitted plans to the International Olympic Committee to proceed with excluding Russian men’s and women’s hockey teams from the 2026 Olympics, set to begin in nine months in Milan, Italy.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Denmark 🇩🇰 – 24 May 2025
🇨🇭 Switzerland 7-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
World Championship Semifinal
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Switzerland is heading to the Gold medal game for the second year in a row.
Propelled by three first-period goals, the Swiss thumped underdog Denmark 7-0 in Saturday’s late semi-final in Stockholm.
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IHLC Results – 🇩🇰 Denmark 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 22 May 2025
🇩🇰 Denmark 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Quarterfinal
Jyske Bank BOXEN, Herning 🇩🇰
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Denmark wrote hockey history with a sensational victory over Canada in the quarterfinals of the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 20 May 2025
🇨🇦 Canada 5-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Canada’s relentless puck pursuit and finish around the goal proved too much for Jacob Markström and Tre Kronor tonight.
The Canadians won the game, 5-3, and with it finished in first place to play Denmark in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
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🇫🇷 🇰🇿 France, Kazakhstan Relegated For 2026 IIHF World Championship
On the final day of group round action at the 2025 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2025 were confirmed, with France and Kazakhstan, set to head back down to Division IA next season, missing out on the 2026 Worlds in Switzerland.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷 – 17 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Sweden kept rolling along this afternoon at a loud and sold out Avicii Arena, skating to a dominant 4-0 win over France and maintaining a perfect record, now 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 16 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-0 Slovenia 🇸🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 16 May 2025
Sweden fired puck after puck at Slovenian goalie Lukáš Horák, but try as he might he couldn’t prevent Tre Kronor from skating away with a convincing 4-0 win tonight at Avicii Arena.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 14 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
What was expected to be one of the loudest games of the entire tournament was certainly wildly entertaining.
While the Latvian fans can claim a win in the stands, on the ice, it was the home team that bagged the victory, as Sweden beat Latvia 6-0.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Monday, 12 May 2025
Playing near flawless hockey, Tre Kronor skated to an impressive 2-1 victory over Finland tonight at Avicii Arena in what was a very much one-sided game.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹 – 10 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 4-2 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 10 May 2025
Austria was so close to getting their own “Miracle on Ice,” but Sweden scored twice within 12 seconds with less than three minutes remaining and added an empty-netter to win the game 4-2.
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 09 May 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Championship Preliminary Round
Avicii Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 09 May 2025
Sweden opened its IIHF World Championship with an impressive 5-0 win over Slovakia tonight at a jam-packed, yellow-sweater wearing, sold-out crowd at Avicii Arena. The victors scored three goals in the first period and never looked back.
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🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Italy, Great Britain Promoted To 2026 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland locked up on the final day of competition, with Italy and Great Britain both clinching their returns to the Top Division for the first time since 2022 and 2024, respectively.
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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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🇷🇺 It’s Officially Official – Ilya Kovalchuk Retires From Hockey At Age 41
After initially claiming his career was over in early March, soon correcting that to clarify he was simply a free agent, Russian winger Ilya Kovalchuk today made it official that, at the age of 41, he would be stepping away from hockey for good, following an illustrious career highlighted by one Olympic and two World Championship titles.
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🇨🇿 Jiří Kochta: 1946-2025
Jiří Kochta, the Czechoslovak winger who was a member of the historic 1972 World Championship Gold medal squad, and would capture eight international medals in his career, has passed away at the age of 78.
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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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🇷🇺 🇧🇾 IIHF Extends Russia, Belarus Ban Into 2025-26 Season
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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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2025 Inductees
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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IHLC 2024 In Review – Men’s
The 2024 international men’s hockey calendar saw four different nations capture the title throughout the year, with a European champion ensuring a more active back half of the year than Canada’s 2023 Gold medal victory originally allowed for.
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International Hockey Lineal Championship 