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A 2008 Russian stamp commemorating the championship team. The 2008 IIHF World Championship was played between May 2 and May 18, 2008 in the Canadian cities of Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Quebec City . The two venues were the Halifax Metro Centre and the Colisée Pepsi. The tournament was won by Russia which claimed its first gold medal since 1993
The 2008 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships was the 72nd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams representing 48 countries participated in four levels of competition. The competition also served as qualification for division placements in the 2009 competition.
The 2026 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2026 WJC) will be the 50th Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It will begin on December 26, 2025, and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2026.
The 2026 IIHF World Championship will be hosted by Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland from 15 to 31 May 2026, as the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) announced on 27 May 2022 in Tampere, Finland.
The new rule almost immediately changed the game for the better. The 1999 IIHF World Championship in Norway was a stark contrast to the finals the year before with many more goals scored and with end-to-end action – not defence – dominating play." [124] The current IIHF rules differ slightly from the rules used in the NHL. [125]
Since NHL players were unavailable, USA Hockey and Hockey Canada used rosters made up of players from international leagues, collegians and minor leaguers, as they did for 2018. 2026 men's ...
"World Juniors–medal Winners Since 1974". TSN. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02 "Team Canada > National Junior Team > Past Results". Hockey Canada. Archived from the original on 2007-04-28 "Medal standings". worldjuniors2008.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-06; Specific
A player is eligible to play in the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships if: [24] the player is eligible to compete as a male athlete the player has his 20th birthday in the year of the tournament's ending (e.g. born in 1994 for 2014 tournament), and at latest, the fifth year after the tournament's ending (e.g. born in 1999 for 2014 tournament);