🇺🇸 🇨🇦 IHLC Classics: Knight Leads USA To Three-peat

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 American Independence Day, we feature the 2011 World Championship final, where the United States captured their third consecutive Gold medal, thanks to the overtime heroics of star forward Hilary Knight.

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 25 April 2011

The United States has won Gold at the World Women’s Championship after an overtime goal by Hilary Knight at 7:48 of the 4-on-4 extra period.
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🇫🇮 🇱🇻 IIHF Names Tampere & Rīga As 2023 World Championship Hosts


After stripping Saint Petersburg, Russia of hosting duties for the 2023 World Championship due to their ongoing invasion in Ukraine, today the IIHF announced at their annual Congress that hosting rights would now be split between to the last two hosts of the World Championships, with 2021 hosts Rīga, Latvia and current 2022 hosts Tampere, Finland hosting next year, from 12-28 May 2023.
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🇱🇻 2021 World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2021 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Rīga, Latvia, marking the return of the World Championship after its historic cancellation last year, returning to Latvia for the first time in 15 years.
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IHLC 2020 In Review – Men’s


Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Hockey Lineal Championship only saw nine games of competition this year on the men’s side, staying completely within the confines of the Euro Hockey Tour, due to May’s World Championships being cancelled in Switzerland.
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🇨🇭 Men’s Top Division World Championship Cancelled By IIHF


The final tournament on the International Ice Hockey Federation calendar, the last hope of any semblance of international hockey this season, today was officially cancelled, as the Top Division of the Men’s World Championship was officially cancelled over COVID-19 concerns.
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IIHF Hall Of Fame Announces 2020 Inductees


The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2020, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Zürich, Switzerland, with two native Swiss players highlighting the class, as the IIHF will induct Ryan Smyth, Alexei Yashin, Kimmo Timonen and countrymen Mark Streit and Mathias Seger to the Hall.
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2020 World Championship Schedule Released


The schedule for the 2020 IIHF World Championship was today announced for the tournament taking place in Lausanne and Zürich, Switzerland, returning to the nation for the first time since Bern and Kloten hosted in 2009.
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🇺🇸 Set Of Six U.S. Women’s Players Join Triple Gold Club


By virtue of the United States’ first Olympic Gold medal in 20 years, six new skaters from Team USA have joined the women’s version of the Triple Gold Club, all adding Olympic Gold to their World Championship Gold and Clarkson Cup titles.
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IHLC 2014 In Review – Men’s

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2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT) – 25 Apr 2011

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🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 25 April 2011

The United States has won Gold at the World Women’s Championship after an overtime goal by Hilary Knight at 7:48 of the 4-on-4 extra period.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 23 Apr 2011

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🇺🇸 United States 5-1 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 23 April 2011

Team USA recovered from an early 1-0 deficit to cruise to a 5-1 victory over Russia and advance to a Gold medal date with Canada on Monday night at the Hallenstadion. It’s the 13th straight meeting between the women’s teams for Gold, the Americans having won the last two and three of the last four.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 13-1 Russia 🇷🇺 – 18 Apr 2011

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🇺🇸 United States 13-1 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 18 April 2011

Team USA scored five goals in the middle part of the first period and coasted to a 13-1 win over Russia this afternoon at Hallenstadion.
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IHLC Results – 🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰 – 17 Apr 2011

🇺🇸 United States 5-0 Slovakia 🇸🇰
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Sunday, 17 April 2011

On paper, it was no contest. On ice, it wasn’t close. But on the scoresheet, it was, indeed, surprisingly close for a long time.

Led by second-period goals from rookies Kendall Coyne and Josephine Pucci, the United States defeated a Slovak team, 5-0, whose best player – by far – is, fortunately, their goalie.
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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭 – 04 Nov 2003

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Exhibition Game
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Tuesday, 04 November 2003

BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:31 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Hirschi
10:30 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bélanger
11:07 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Plüss
17:26 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Steiner
17:26 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bélanger
19:52 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Wirz
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 7-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 10 May 1998

🇸🇪 Sweden 7-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Second Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Sunday, 10 May 1998

BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:40 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Renberg
06:24 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gratton, slashing
08:33 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gratton, high sticking double minor
10:35 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Renberg (Forsberg, Sundin)
16:32 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Jovanovski (Gélinas)
17:51 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Tornberg, slashing
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 United States 🇺🇸 – 06 May 1998

🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship First Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Wednesday, 06 May 1998

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:25 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Johansson (Kjellberg)
11:59 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Cullen, tripping
12:42 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Johnsson (Olsson, Dahlen)
13:31 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Iafrate, cross checking
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