German Olympic team honoured
On Thursday Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured the players of the German Olympic men’s ice hockey team that surprisingly won silver in PyeongChang 2018. The players were...
View ArticleMatjaz Kopitar returns
After three years Matjaz Kopitar will be back as head coach of the Slovenian national team. This was announced by the leadership of the Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia following the re-election...
View ArticleIce Times
Summer is here and we have officially concluded an action-packed international ice hockey season! In this Ice Times we recap the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, the IIHF Annual Congress, and...
View ArticleTre Kronor’s winning ways
After clinching back-to-back World Championships in Copenhagen in May, Swedish hockey is indisputably on top of the world. With two contrasting rosters at the last two tournaments, plus medals at this...
View ArticleReindl re-elected
The board of the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB) has been re-elected by the members on Saturday. DEB President Franz Reindl was unanimously re-elected and Daniel Hopp, Berthold Wipfler and Marc...
View ArticleNew President for Norway
The assembly of the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association has elected Tage Pettersen as new President on Sunday. Pettersen, who joined the board as a Vice President last year, succeeds Nils Gerhard Nilsen....
View ArticleJersey auction for charity
Also this year the IIHF is auctioning the jerseys of the IIHF Hall of Fame inductees. These are authentic Nike jerseys with a special IIHF Hall of Fame patch and signed by each inductee on 20 May 2018...
View ArticleWe Are One
Since the Koreans, from north and south, had a joint delegation at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games including the Unified Korean women's ice hockey team as the strongest message, a lot of political...
View ArticleFollowing Dad
Kristian Reichel was just three-years-old when his father Robert joined the Maple Leafs for the final three seasons of his NHL career, but the experience in Toronto is one he still looks at fondly as...
View ArticleToronto champion
His coach calls him a difference maker and on Thursday night Andreas Johnsson proved why scoring twice and assisting on another as the Toronto Marlies defeated the Texas Stars 6-1 capturing the...
View ArticleJim Paek continues
Jim Paek will continue with the Korean national team program. He signed a new three-year contract with the Korea Ice Hockey Association. Paek will continue to oversee the entire national team program...
View ArticleNew World Juniors tickets
New tickets packages have been launched for the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship in Canada’s western province of British Columbia. As hockey fans begin the six-month countdown to the annual holiday...
View Article“It’s amazing what sport can do”
It doesn’t matter what side of the face-off spot, border or world you’re on, “athletes are athletes and people are people,” says four-time Olympic gold medallist and seven-time IIHF world champion...
View ArticleFashion Forward
It started out as an idea to earn a little money to use transit in Toronto, but now Akil Thomas’ clothing line, Zale Apparel, is setting him apart from his peers set to have their name called at the...
View ArticleTardif re-elected in France
Luc Tardif was re-elected as President of the French Ice Hockey Federation (FFHG) for a fourth and last term. Tardif is the founding president of the organization when ice hockey split from the ice...
View ArticleReturn to the motherland
The Polish Ice Hockey Association (PZHL) has signed a two-year contract with Tomek Valtonen as new head coach of the Polish men’s national team. The signing comes one month after the decision to part...
View ArticleFinnish threat
While most expert see Rasmus Dahlin from Sweden as number-one pick in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft, there’s also a Rasmus from Finland expected to have his name called in the first round. Growing up...
View ArticlePousse to coach U20
Last month the players organized an emotional farewell when retiring head coach Dave Henderson and his assistant Pierre Pousse had their last game with the French men’s national team during the 2018...
View ArticleThe Tkachuk Way
Brady Tkachuk is at his best when he’s agitated and playing on the edge, skills he honed at the proven training ground: his home. Known as a power forward with a balance of finesse and physicality,...
View ArticleMcDavid named top NHLer
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas was the scene of the 2017-18 NHL Awards last night, and there were many winners the world over. Half of the 12 top trophies went to Europeans, and half...
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