Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 game marked the first time that Russia and Canada met in the final of a World Championship. It was Russia's third finals appearance, and the first since 2002. It was Canada's fifth appearance in the finals in six years, and having won the 2007 World Championship in Russia, they were the defending champions.
She is the fifth women's hockey player to achieve 200 points with Hockey Canada. Poulin scored her 100th goal for Team Canada on April 7, 2023, in the team's second preliminary round game at the 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship, and scored her 101st later in the same game. She was the fourth Canadian women's player to reach the triple digit ...
The 2008 IIHF World Championship rosters consisted of 399 players on 16 national ice hockey teams. In honour of the International Ice Hockey Federation 's (IIHF) 100th anniversary, the World Championship was hosted in Canada for the first time.
2008 IIHF World U18 Championships Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 2008 World Ice Hockey Championships .
The 2008 IIHF World U20 Championship, commonly referred to as the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2008 WJHC), was the 32nd edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. The tournamement was held in Pardubice and Liberec , Czech Republic , between 26 December 2007 and 5 January 2008.
TSN is a major broadcaster of ice hockey in Canada; it holds rights to Hockey Canada tournaments, which includes the Allan Cup, Centennial Cup, Telus Cup and Esso Cup, as well as IIHF tournaments such as the Men's and Women's World Championships, the IIHF World Junior Championships (a tournament whose profile was notably raised by TSN), [63 ...