🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-0 Norway 🇳🇴
World Championship Semifinal
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 30 May 2026
Saturday’s first semi-final brought more joy for Switzerland. Six different players scored as the host nation trounced Norway 6-0 to advance to the Gold medal game at the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
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The 2026 IIHF Congress concluded today in Zürich, Switzerland, with a number of major announcements made, the main one being the surprising reversal on the status of Russia and Belarus’ team participation following the original extension of their competition ban, which has been in place since 2022.
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Claude Lemieux, the pesky forward with a penchant for clutch performances, a multitude of trophies and medals, and one of a handful of players to win the Stanley Cup with three different clubs, sadly passed away today at the age of 60, just days after appearing in Montréal during the Canadiens’ current playoff run.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Quarterfinal
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Thursday, 28 May 2026
It was a hard fought battle but the Swiss came out on top. The hosts secured their semifinal berth with a 3-1 win over Sweden.
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Russian winger Sergei Shirokov, a mainstay of both the KHL and Russian national team, announced his retirement at the 2026 KHL Awards ceremony in Moscow during his acceptance speech for the Gimayev Prize, leaving the game after nearly two decades in pro hockey, capped with a Gagarin Cup, two World Championships and an Olympic Gold medal.
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The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their eighteenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with six former IHLC winners taking home trophies.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Switzerland landed a last-gasp Jäger bomb to see off Finland and clinch first place in Group A at the 2026 IIHF World Championship.
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Division IA relegation at the 2026 World Championships came a full day before the end of group round competition, with Great Britain and Italy being relegated after a single year back up at the Top Division, meaning they will miss the 2027 Worlds in Germany.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 9-0 Hungary 🇭🇺
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 23 May 2026
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Zürich, do as Roman Josi does.
Switzerland’s captain scored a hat-trick as the host nation rolled to another comfortable victory. Along the way, Josi moves to 53 (16+37) points from his 70 World Championship games, moving in front of Alexei Kasatonov to become the third most productive defender of all time.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-1 Great Britain 🇬🇧
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Switzerland eased to a fifth successive victory, dominating winless Great Britain to stay out in front in Group A at the 2026 IIHF World Championship.
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Two years removed from being swept in their Gagarin Cup finals debut, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is now in the midst of building a dynasty, repeating as champions with a 3-2 victory over Ak Bars in Game Six of the finals in Kazan.
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Following the Montréal Victoire’s first Walter Cup championship, and the first title for a Canadian club, there are now five new members of the unofficial Women’s Triple Gold Club, as Canadians Marie-Philip Poulin, Laura Stacey, Ann-Renée Desbiens and Erin Ambrose, along with American Hayley Scamurra, have now added a Walter Cup to their existing Olympic and World Championship Gold medals.
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After two disappointing consecutive semifinal losses in the PWHL playoffs, the Montréal Victoire finally climbed the proverbial mountain, defeating the Ottawa Charge in four games to win the club’s, and Canada’s, first ever Walter Cup championship.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 9-0 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Austria came into the game riding a historic high. Never before had they won all three of their first three games at an IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
That streak ended today when Switzerland rolled to a convincing 9-0 win.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Monday, 18 May 2026
Three was tonight’s magic number for Switzerland. Three goals in 3:33 blew this game open in the second period, and took the host nation to three wins from three games.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 4-2 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 16 May 2026
Switzerland secured a second win in two days at the 2026 IIHF World Championship. But while the tournament host took the points in Zürich, Latvian goalie Kristers Gudļevskis collected many of the plaudits.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-1 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Preliminary Round
Swiss Life Arena, Zürich 🇨🇭
Friday, 15 May 2026
The hosts of the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship got off to a great start in Zürich. Switzerland beat the US 3-1.
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After announcing before the 2025-26 PWHL season that it would be her last in order to focus on her studies, Hannah Brandt made her retirement from hockey official at the age of 32, following an illustrious career capped with one Olympic and three World Championship Gold medals, but falling short of the Triple Gold Club after the Boston Fleet were eliminated from the Walter Cup postseason by Ottawa.
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The top teams in international hockey will converge on Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, starting this Friday 15 May, kicking off the premiere event of the annual global hockey calendar, the 2026 IIHF World Championship.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪
Exhibition Game
SAP Arena, Mannheim 🇩🇪
Sunday, 10 May 2026
The U.S. Men’s National Team used goals from five different players on the way to a 5-2 win over Germany here tonight in its lone pre-tournament game ahead of the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship. The content was played before a lively and capacity crowd of 12,909 at SAP Arena.
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