๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-2 Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Monday, 05 January 2026
Sweden slowly and surely built a 3-0 lead by the early part of the third period and barely withstood a wild Czech rally in the dying minutes to win World Junior Championship Gold with a thrilling 4-2 win.
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Russian forward Sergei Andronov, a KHL veteran with two Gagarin Cups and an Olympic title under his belt, today confirmed his retirement from hockey at the age of 36 after his release from Salavat Yulaev Ufa this past August, following a fifteen-year pro career.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-3 Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ (SO)
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Sunday, 04 January 2026
Anton Frondell scored the shootout winner as Sweden beat Finland 4-3 in the early 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship semi-final.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 6-3 Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Friday, 02 January 2026
It was business as usual. Undefeated Sweden employed a balanced attack to down Latvia 6-3 in the first quarter-final of the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship on Friday.
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For the third straight year, Germany once again avoided relegation at the World Junior Championship, this time eliminating Denmark in an 8-4 victory to send the Lions back down to Division IA in 2027 in their relegation match-up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 6-3 United States ๐บ๐ธ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Sweden scored four goals in a wild second period to race away to a 6-3 win over the United States tonight at Grand Casino Arena.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 8-1 Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Monday, 29 December 2025
Captain Jack Berglund, Anton Frondell, and Viggo Bjรถrck scored two goals apiece to pace Sweden to a 8-1 thumping of Germany in Monday’s early Group A action.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 4-2ย Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Sunday, 28 December 2025
Sweden scored two goals early in the third period to erase a 2-1 Switzerland lead en route to a 4-2 win this afternoon at Grand Casino Arena.
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden 3-2 Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Grand Casino Arena, Saint Paul ๐บ๐ธ
Friday, 26 December 2025
Ivar Stenberg scored the winner with 3:57 left and added an assist as Sweden defeated Slovakia 3-2 at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The hard-working, youthful Slovaks rallied from a two-goal second-period deficit, but fell short.
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The eyes of the hockey world are looking just beyond the holiday season, with Boxing Day marking the kickoff of the fiftieth annual IIHF World Junior Championship, this time being hosted by the defending champion Americans in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the home team looking to “three-peat” for the first time in history.
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Today the International Ice Hockey Federation announced that hosting rights for the 2028 World Juniors have been awarded to Tampere and Turku, Finland, with the tournament set to begin on 26 December 2027.
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After a two-year stint in Division IA, Norway will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, thanks to a late Kazakh comeback victory over Austria, locking up their spot in the Top Division even before their final match against hosts Slovenia at the Division IA tournament in Bled.
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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.”ย Today, Today, in honour of Finnish Independence Day (itsenรคisyyspรคivรค), we feature Finland’s most recent World Junior Championship title, a stunning victory over the Americans on the back of a late Kaapo Kakko game winning goal.
๐ซ๐ฎย Finlandย 3-2ย United Statesย ๐บ๐ธ
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Rogers Arena, Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
Saturday, 05 January 2019
Kaapo Kakko scored the winner with 1:26 left as Finland edged the U.S. 3-2 in the 2019 World Junior Gold medal game on Saturday night.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2026, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Zรผrich, with six players from four different nationalities highlighting the class.
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The Hockey Hall Of Fame tonight inducted their 2025 Class, inducting six legendary 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.”ย Today, in honour of Czech Independence Day, we feature Czechia’s first ever World Junior Championship title, captured in 2000 amidst the “Golden era” of Czech hockey at the turn of the 21st century.
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia 1-0 Russia ๐ท๐บ (SO)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Skellefteรฅ Kraft Arena, Skellefteรฅ ๐ธ๐ช
Tuesday, 04 January 2000
The Czech Republic won the World Junior Hockey Championship for the first time ever with a 1-0 shootout win over defending champion Russia yesterday.
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Journeyman Slovak goaltender Jaroslav Halรกk, who backstopped seven different NHL teams and the Slovakian national squad for twenty pro seasons, today confirmed his retirement from hockey, two years after his last professional game.
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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 look back at Canada’s unprecedented fourth straight World Juniors medal, captured by the overtime heroics of Matt Halischuk.
๐จ๐ฆ Canadaย 3-2ย Sweden ๐ธ๐ชย (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
ฤEZ Arรฉna, Pardubice ๐จ๐ฟ
Saturday, 05 January 2008
Color Canada Gold for a fourth straight year at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
Matt Halischuk jammed the puck into the net at 3:36 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 triumph over Sweden on Saturday in the Gold medal game.
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Pentti Matikainen, the long-time coach of numerous clubs across Finland’s Liiga, as well as a multi-event medalist in leading the Finnish national team, passed away from cancer at the age of 74 in Helsinki.
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The schedule for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship has been released, with the United States looking to “three-peat” as world champions for the first time in history, looking to do some on home ice in Minnesota, with the Americans hosting the tournament’s fiftieth edition for the first time since 2018.
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