🇨🇦 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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🇨🇦 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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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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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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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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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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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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Vladimir Petrov, the Soviet centreman and IIHF Hall of Famer who, alongside Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Kharlamov, formed one of the most productive and fearsome lines in history, lost his battle with cancer in Moscow at the age of 69.
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Czech hockey pioneer Josef Augusta, who after a tremendous playing career with the national team later became their coach, died today in Jihlava at the age of 70, after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
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After two seasons of a consistent format, the Euro Hockey Challenge has undergone yet another change for the 2017 iteration, leading up to the IIHF World Championships the following month in Cologne and Paris.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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The International Hockey Lineal Championship doubled up on champions in 2016, with six different nations taking hold of the IHLC over a span of 23 games, leaving an unlikely country the incumbent champion heading into 2017.
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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 Finnish Independence Day, we look back at the 1995 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the long overdue first title for the Leijonat, over their Swedish rivals on Swedish ice.
🇫🇮 Finland 4-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 07 May 1995
Finally, Finland wins the IIHF World Championship for the first time. And the victory couldn’t have been sweeter. They won the gold medal game against their fiercest rival Sweden, in Sweden and with a Swedish head coach. To really rub it in, the Finnish team celebrated the win in downtown Stockholm, this while also “stealing” the Swedish tune designated for a home-team victory.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2016 Class, inducting four world-class players to their ranks with a number of tremendous international achievements.
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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 Czech Independence Day, we look back at the 2005 World Championships Gold Medal Game, the first true “best on best” final in 75 years of Worlds history.
🇨🇿 Czechia 3-0 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Sunday, 15 May 2005
The Czech Republic has ended Canada’s two-year streak as gold medalists with a thoroughly convincing 3-0 win. Tomáš Vokoun recorded the shutout for the victors. Three different players scored for the Czechs, who were clearly the better team at the Stadthalle in Vienna on 15 May 2005.
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Forward Matti Hagman, the first Finnish born and trained player to ever play in an NHL game, passed away in Espoo yesterday at the age of 61, after a long illness.
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Canadian defensive stalwart Dan Boyle, who spent the last two seasons in New York after illustrious tenures in Tampa and San Jose, today retired as a member of the Sharks, signing a one-day contract to end his career at the age of 40.
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After failing to join a new club for the first time in over 20 seasons, Czech defensive anchor Tomáš Kaberle today announced his retirement from professional hockey at the age of 38.
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Finnish power defender Jere Karalahti today announced his retirement from the Swedish club HV71, ending a sometimes tumultuous career in the NHL, KHL, and Finnish, Swedish and German premier leagues at the age of 41.
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The IIHF has released the full schedule for the 2017 World Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany, with defending champions Canada opening the tournament against Czechia, while hosts Germany open the tournament against the United States on opening day, and France hosts Norway on day two.
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