The Hockey Hall Of Fame today announced the newest members that will join as the Class of 2025 on 10 November, with long-time nominee Alexander Mogilny finally getting the call, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Brianna Decker, and first-time nominees Zdeno Chára, Duncan Keith and Joe Thornton, all to join the ranks of the Hall in Toronto.
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Tag Archives: World Junior Championship
🇨🇭 King Of The Worlds: Andres Ambühl Formally Retires At 41
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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🇨🇦 Flower Out: Marc-André Fleury Retires At Age 40
The “Flower” has bloomed for the last time – after confirming his retirement at the beginning of the 2024-25 NHL season, Marc-André Fleury has officially played in his final NHL game at the age of 40, following Minnesota’s elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs, ending a remarkable 21-season career spanning stops in Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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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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🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT) – 05 Jan 2025
🇺🇸 United States 4-3 Finland 🇫🇮 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Sunday, 05 January 2025
Teddy Stiga took a breakaway pass from Zeev Buium and beat Petteri Rimpinen between the pads at 8:04 of overtime to give the United States the Gold medal at the 2025 World Junior Championship. This is the first time the Americans have won back-to-back Gold.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT) – 04 Jan 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪 (OT)
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Saturday, 04 January 2025
Benjamin Rautiainen scored with 38 seconds left in overtime as Finland defeated Sweden 4-3 in the first semi-final of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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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 Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 02 Jan 2025
🇫🇮 Finland 5-3 Slovakia 🇸🇰
World Junior Championship Quarterfinal
The Arena At TD Place, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Thursday, 02 January 2025
Powered by three first-period goals, Finland held on for a 5-3 quarter-final win over Slovakia on Thursday night in Ottawa.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Relegated From World Junior Championship
For the second straight year, Germany narrowly avoided relegation at the World Junior Championship, this time eliminating Kazakhstan in a 4-3 victory to send the Kazakhs back down to Division IA in 2026, after only one year in the Top Division.
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IHLC 2024 In Review – Junior
The 2024 international junior calendar saw the United States dominate throughout the year, capturing Gold in early January 2024 and looking to repeat as world champions again, for the first time ever, in 2025.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 31 Dec 2024
🇫🇮 Finland 3-0 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Finland finished the preliminary round with a 3-0 win over Latvia this afternoon in Ottawa. Petteri Rimpinen stopped 28 shots for the shutout, while Benjamin Rautiainen had a goal and assist for the winners.
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IHLC Results – 🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT) – 29 Dec 2024
🇫🇮 Finland 4-3 United States 🇺🇸 (OT)
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Sunday, 29 December 2024
The plot thickens. On the strength of Tuomas Uronen’s overtime winner, Finland beat the U.S. 4-3 on Sunday at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. It was the first American loss at this tournament after two regulation-time wins.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Latvia 🇱🇻 – 28 Dec 2024
🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Saturday, 28 December 2024
The United States won their 10th straight World Junior Championship game (stretching over three tournaments) this afternoon in Ottawa, defeating a beleaguered Latvian team by a 5-1 count.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Germany 🇩🇪 – 26 Dec 2024
🇺🇸 United States 10-4 Germany 🇩🇪
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Thursday, 26 December 2024
On Thursday, the defending champion U.S. hammered Germany 10-4 to kick off the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa. Living up to its advance billing, the top American line dazzled as James Hagens and Gabe Perreault led the way with two goals and two assists apiece. Blueliner Cole Hutson racked up five assists.
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IHLC Preview – 2025 World Junior Championship
With the holidays approaching, this means that immediately after Christmas ends, the IIHF World Junior Championship will begin, this time being hosted in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario, with the world’s top under-20 teams convening for the title of global supremacy.
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🇩🇰 Denmark Promoted To World Junior Top Division In 2026
For the first time since 2019, Denmark will be returning to the World Junior Championship Top Division, after being pushed to the brink by Austria before upsetting them in a do-or-die final showdown in Bled, Slovenia, winning 5-4 in regulation to capture the Division IA tournament and book their ticket to Minnesota in 2026.
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🇫🇮 🇷🇺 IHLC Classics: Hagman’s Helsinki Heroics
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 (itsenäisyyspäivä), we look back at the Leijonat’s thrilling home ice Gold Medal victory at the 1998 World Junior Championships, with Niklas Hagman’s overtime snipe securing the title in Helsinki.
🇫🇮 Finland 2-1 Russia 🇷🇺 (OT)
World Junior Championship Gold Medal Game
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Saturday, 03 January 1998
Finland achieved its first World Junior Championship Gold in 1987, but at that time the rankings were decided by playing in series.
The playoffs only entered the World Junior Championship program for the 1995-96 Games, and what would be more comfortable than to settle World Cup Gold at home in extra time of the final?
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