Denmark survives for 2019
Denmark edged Belarus 3-2 in a shootout to sweep their best-of-three relegation series on Thursday at KeyBank Center. Denmark will return to the elite division for the fifth consecutive year at the...
View ArticleA medal at stake
No one wanted to play for bronze the day before the game, but on this day the players should be motivated and ready to go. The U.S. couldn’t get it done against Sweden, and the Czechs were blown out by...
View ArticleThe winner takes it all
As KISS likes to say: “You wanted the best, you got the best!” Canada and Sweden, who won their preliminary round groups, deserve to be facing off for gold. Every World Junior final in the 2010’s has...
View ArticleKatchouk learns from mom
Boris Katchouk learned from an early age the importance and significance of representing his country on the international stage. Katchouk’s mother Yelena Tumanova was an Olympic speed skater and...
View ArticleBronze blowout
Trent Frederic's four goals led the U.S. to a 9-3 bronze medal victory over the Czechs on Friday. It's the third straight U.S. World Junior medal. "You want to sit in your room and feel sad, but you’ve...
View ArticleMittelstadt named MVP
U.S. forward Casey Mittelstadt was voted the Most Valuable Player of the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship by the media. The 19-year-old centre from Edina, Minnesota had 11 points for the...
View ArticleGroups for 2019 known
With the end of the 2018 World Juniors, the proposed groups for the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver and Victoria have been announced. For the first time since 2006 the World Juniors...
View ArticleU18 women ready
The day after the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship ends in Buffalo is the day the U18 Women’s World Championship begins in Dmitrov in the Moscow Region. Russia is hosting the event for the first...
View ArticleCanada wins thriller
Tyler Steenbergen scored the biggest goal of his life, and Canada won the gold medal by defeating Sweden, 3-1. Steenbergen had played just 3:17 through two periods, had but four shots in the entire...
View ArticleWW18 begins
The 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship has started with a bang. 2,281 spectators saw host Russia beat Canada 3-2. Team USA needed overtime against Sweden; the Czechs and Finns also...
View ArticleU.S. girls move to top
In a clash between the undefeated teams of Day 1, Team USA edged host Russia 5-3 at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship. Canada got its first win against Sweden, 4-0, while Germany...
View ArticleLeading by example
Taylor Heise is chasing a third gold medal in her final year with Team USA's u18s. And her impressive performances in Dmitrov point to a successful future. Not many players get to feature in three u18...
View ArticleAll up for grabs
It's an unusually tight Group A line-up as the first phase comes to an end in Dmitrov - but Canada is refusing to worry about the prospect of playing a QF. After two games for each team in Group A,...
View ArticleSwede sensation
Another capacity crowd in Dmitrov saw Sweden produce a defensive master-class to snatch a 2-0 victory and leap into second place in Group A in the last game. That means USA and Sweden get a bye to the...
View ArticlePlay-off round ready
The play-offs get underway in Dmitrov on Wednesday - and history is in the making. For the first time ever, a European team will play for gold. The 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship...
View ArticleCity of captains
Russia's captain, Alina Orlova, is the second in recent years from Ukhta's Arktik-Universitet club. She told us a little about hockey in Russia's frozen north Think of Russia’s hockey heartlands, and...
View ArticlePizza party!
A pizza-fuelled Switzerland team powered to a 7-3 victory over Germany at the start of the relegation round, with Lisa Ruedi helping herself to a hat-trick. After losing all three games in Group B, the...
View ArticleCanada strikes back
A trio of second-period goals sees off a spirited Czech team and keeps Canada on the World Championship medal trail in Dmitrov. Canada dominated from start to finish in a convincing quarter-final...
View ArticleAlexandrova the Great
Maria Alexandrova ended Russia's goal drought after four blank periods and helped to fire her country into a match-up with Sweden in Friday's semi-final. Sometimes, a goal makes all the difference....
View ArticleMinsk’s Max Power
At the age of 25, Maxim Parfeyevets is both young enough to entertain big hopes for the future and experienced enough to be the lynchpin of Yunost Minsk. The KHL call-up may have been overdue, seeing...
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