Fourth gold for Spain
Spain’s golden season continues with the men’s national team winning the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group B on home ice in Granada. The senior team’s success means the...
View ArticleItalians are EBEL champion
Wow! What a week of finals central Europe has experienced. The Bolzano Foxes from the South Tyrol region in Italy for the second time won the Austrian-based cross-border league EBEL. Earlier this week,...
View ArticleQuinn coaches U.S. U20
David Quinn (Boston University) has been named head coach of the 2019 U.S. National Junior Team that will compete at the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. The U.S. National Junior Team will take...
View ArticleSwedes struggle but succeed
Sweden hasn't played to its potential, but hasn't paid the price either. Adam Boqvist had three points as the Swedes edged Belarus 4-3 on Saturday in U18 play. David Gustafsson scored the eventual...
View ArticleSurvival of the Motherland
Pavel Dorofeyev’s third-period game winner gave Russia a hard-fought victory in its second game of the IIHF U18 World Championship. We have paid them back for the Hlinka Memorial, said Alexander...
View ArticleSweet success
Ukraine won the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group B on home ice in Kyiv and will for the first time since 2007 be among the top-16 ice hockey nations in an IIHF category next...
View ArticleJapan ekes out OT win
Despite emphatically winning the shots 42-12, Japan needed overtime to down the valiant Estonians 2-1 as Div. 1B gets underway. 53 seconds into overtime, Takuma Kawai reacted quickest to a rebound from...
View ArticleThriller in Tractor City
With two third-period goals, Finland duplicated its last-year success against Russia, scoring an exhilarating 5-4 victory on hostile ice in Chelyabinsk. Niklas Nordgren scored two goals for Finland,...
View ArticleSwedes take down U.S.
Lukas Wernblom scored twice, including the late third-period winner, and had an assist as Sweden topped the U.S. 3-1 on Sunday. The Swedes had the better of the play for most of the third period. With...
View ArticleBig Great Britain win
Great Britain came back to the second tier of ice hockey with a bang by opening the World Championship Division IA with a 3-1 win against top seed Slovenia. The British ice hockey fans celebrated long...
View ArticleUkraine blanks Romania
Newly relegated vs. newly promoted contest ends with convincing victory for promotion-chasing Ukraine. A second period brace by Dmytro Nimenko and Nikita Butsenko leads the way for Ukraine as they get...
View ArticleSlovaks to the Max
Maxim Cajkovic took over the No. 1 spot among tournament scorers as Slovakia handily defeated France, 7-1, for its second IIHF World U18 Championship win. So, this was probably unexpected. With three...
View ArticleCanada stays perfect
After defeating Switzerland 5-0 for its third straight win on Sunday, Canada will battle Sweden on Tuesday for first place in Group A. Magnitogorsk is a city founded on steel and iron, and it’s time to...
View ArticleLate luck for Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan started the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A with a win thanks to three unanswered third-period goals against Hungary. 18-year-old rookie defenceman Valeri Orekhov...
View ArticleHosts off to winning ways
Having receiving a rapturous heroes welcome even before the puck was dropped, Lithuania did not disappoint in a comfortable opener as Croatia were blanked 3-0. With Darius Kasparaitis and captain...
View ArticleHelfer’s helping hand
Italy, one of two teams that came down from the top division, started the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A with a 3-1 win over Poland. After an unlucky start the Italians came...
View ArticleKazan triumphs in KHL
In a tight final series, one moment decided the outcome of the 10th season of KHL action. Early in the third period, with Ak Bars Kazan on a power play, Rob Klinkhammer got to the CSKA net in front of...
View ArticleReturnees boost Estonia
Waterproof defense and clinical finishing lifts Estonia to a surprise 2-0 win with promotion hopefuls Ukraine blanked. Two first period strikes settled matters for Estonia. Boosted by the return of...
View ArticleBelarus bliss, Swiss miss
Vladimir Alistrov scored with 12 seconds left to give Belarus a 5-4 win over the Swiss. Belarus makes the quarter-finals, while the Swiss will play relegation. It was Alistrov's fifth point of the...
View ArticleCzechs get angry, romp
France was finally able to enjoy, however briefly, its first lead in U18 World Championship history, but the Czechs managed to assert themselves in a 9-2 win. Karel Plasek scored twice and added an...
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