IIHF World Championships
Heartlanders Forward Departs for Europe
Coralville, Iowa- On May 27th, the Nybro Vikings of HockeyAllsvenskan in Sweden announced the signing of French International forward Louis Boudon. The Nybro Vikings, located in Nybro, Sweden, are known as a staple in the second tier of the Swedish Professional Hockey system. Following a 47-point season split between the Iowa Heartlanders and Iowa Wild, […]
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Seattle Kraken in the IIHF Men’s Worlds 2024
Seven of the Seattle Kraken headed over to Prague to play in the IIHF World Championships shortly after the season ended. The World Championships are an annual international men’s ice hockey tournament that is organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. This tournament typically takes place at the same time as the Stanley Cup Playoffs, […]
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IIHF Men’s World Championship Tournament Game Recap: Team USA vs Team Latvia | 05/21/2024
Regardless of the result of the upcoming seventh and final preliminary round match against Latvia, Team USA has guaranteed a place in the quarterfinals for the 13th consecutive year. The opponent for Team USA in the quarterfinals, along with the game’s location, will only be determined after all of Tuesday’s matches have concluded. The United […]
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IIHF Men’s World Championship Tournament Game Recap: Team USA vs Team Kazakhstan | 05/19/2024
The United States and Kazakhstan have only crossed paths a mere four times, with Team USA claiming victory in all encounters, including two hard-fought matches that had gone into overtime. Their most recent clash was during the preliminary round of the 2021 men’s world championship, resulting in a decisive 3-0 win for the U.S. Team […]
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IIHF Men’s World Championship Tournament Game Recap: Team USA | 05/16-17/2024
On Thursday, May 16th, the U.S. Men’s National Team was set to compete against France in the fourth preliminary round of the 2024 IIHF Men’s World Championship in Ostrava, Czechia. After a narrow 5-4 overtime loss to Slovakia earlier this week, the U.S. team went into the game looking to rebound from that loss. In […]
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Catching Up With Blue Jacket’s Players in the IIHF World Championship
You may already know that there are nine different Columbus Blue Jacket‘s players or personnel at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Czechia, but in case you haven’t been able to follow it here’s a few things to catch you up! Here’s a reminder of what players are at the tournament and the country […]
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Predicting Team Canada’s 2024 World Junior Roster
With November slowly coming to a close and the Christmas festivities already starting to begin, for certain hockey fans, that only means one thing. The annual World Juniors tournament, which usually opens up just after Christmas, is just around the corner! After a thrilling tournament last season, which saw Connor Bedard lead Team Canada to […]
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Arizona Coyotes Extend Coach Andre Tourigny
Head coach Andre “Bear” Tourigny has reached a three-year contract extension. Tourigny will continue to lead the Coyotes as they embark on the next phase of their rebuild as perhaps their most important piece. Tourigny’s record as the Coyotes coach (53-90-21) doesn’t tell the full story, as he joined the team at the start of […]
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Winnipeg Jets Defenseman Named to Team USA for 2023 World Championships
The Winnipeg Jets might not be playing, but their players have found a way to continue playing. Around 1:00 pm CST, the Winnipeg Jets announced that Dylan Samberg would be named to Team USA for the 2023 World Championship tournament. Samberg found his break this year, staying full-time with the Winnipeg Jets this season. Across […]
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Riika Sallinen: Finn of Fame
Riika Sallinen is not the first European-born female player to get inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, but she is the first female from a European national team to be inducted. She has a career so impressive that the Hall was almost a given. To say that Sallinen was a fixture in professional women’s […]
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