The good game
In 2013, Swedish Hockey League team Brynas from Gavle realized it needed a new sponsorship strategy. The focus of their strategy was based on ads on the jerseys but as was and is the case with many...
View Article2019 WJC tickets
The province of British Columbia is getting ready to welcome hockey fans from around the for the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver and Victoria. In the year since Hockey Canada announced...
View ArticleZarley Zalapski passes away
Zarley Zalapski, who played for Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, died on Tuesday at age 49. The cause of death was undisclosed. The puck-moving defenceman from Edmonton, Alberta made headlines...
View ArticleSemi-final picture complete
There was drama, there were comebacks. On Tuesday night the two Czech teams Ocelari Trinec and Bili Tygri Liberec as well as JYP Jyvaskyla from Finland and the Vaxjo Lakers from Sweden qualified for...
View ArticleMedia accreditation
ZURICH – Media accreditation for the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Denmark can now be requested until 29 January.
View ArticleMaking up for lost season
Donat Szita and the Hungarian U20 national team look to turn heads at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group A in France where six teams battle for promotion to the 2019 IIHF...
View ArticleNorway holds its nerve
BLED, Slovenia – Norway edged Poland in a tournament-deciding shootout to seal top spot in the IIHF World Under-20 Championship Division IB on Friday. The teams met in the final game of the tournament...
View ArticleJapan’s juniors rise
DUMFRIES, Great Britain – After an absence of two years, the Japanese U20 national team returns to the Division I thanks to an almost flawless week in Dumfries, Scotland, at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey...
View ArticleCentury of the NHL
OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens celebrated the NHL’s centennial in style on Saturday with an outdoor game in the Canadian capital that was as chilly as it was spectacular. The...
View ArticleKazakhs go to BC
COURCHEVEL/MERIBEL, France – Kazakhstan won the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group A and will play at the World Junior Championship for the first time since 2009. Every year,...
View ArticleMalaysian juniors win
KUALA LUMPUR – For the first time in this format an IIHF Ice Hockey U20 Challenge Cup of Asia was held and the winner is... Malaysia! The Southeast Asian nation won the tournament at its new home, the...
View ArticleRussia wins on home ice
MOSCOW – Host Russia won the last big men’s senior tournament before the 2018 Olympic Winter Games with the six-team Channel One Cup in Moscow. With Canada ambitious to test its European-based players,...
View ArticleRussian women impress in Finland
Russia’s women tuned up for their Olympic campaign with victory in a five-nation Pre-Olympic tournament in Finland over the weekend. Alexei Chistyakov’s team won three out of four games in Rauma, only...
View ArticleRasanen making strides
It’s not hard to spot Eemeli Rasanen on the ice. At six-foot-seven and 225-pounds the hulking Finnish blue liner already has NHL size. Now, as he looks to represent Finland at the upcoming IIHF World...
View ArticleFrom Brest to Buffalo
Belarus is back in the top division at the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo and the team is looking to stay there. After having been relegated from the 2016 tournament, they earned their...
View ArticleHard work pays for Moverare
Playing for the Swedish U20 national team at the upcoming IIHF World Junior Championship is a goal for Jacob Moverare he has been working on. The Mississauga Steelheads defenceman already has...
View ArticleGuide & Record Book 2018
ZURICH – The new edition of the IIHF Guide & Record Book is here and can now be ordered on IIHF.com. It can soon also be bought at the World Juniors in Buffalo and on Amazon.
View ArticleFamiliar territory
Roger Hunt first got to know Nico Gross last year when the Swiss U20 national team set up its camp in Oshawa in preparation for the 2017 World Juniors. Hunt, the general manager of the Ontario Hockey...
View ArticlePre-event
Find here a list and scores of exhibition games prior to the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship.
View ArticleIce Times
The holidays are upon us and so too is the international hockey season, kicking off with the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. In this issue we profile the newest induction class to the...
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