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Germany and France will co-host 2017 World Championship

(17 May 2013, 16:17) | Today the delegates of IIHF's annual congress decided to give the tournament which takes place in four years to the central European neighbours with the host cities Cologne and Paris. Read more»

Pettersson’s shootout goal takes Sweden to semi final

(16 May 2013, 22:53) | After a big drama Sweden was heroic and managed to beat a stronger Team Canada 3-2 after a penalty shootout. Read more»

Slovakia lacks luck to proceed to the semis

(16 May 2013, 21:30) | As early as 1:31 into the game, Finland got the first lead of the game through Ossi Vaananen and the Finns looked as if they had secured the semifinals spot. In the end, Juhamatti Aaltonen sees his game winning goal at 48:13 to take his team to Stockholm. Read more»

Swiss success!

(16 May 2013, 17:48) | Switzerlands beats the Czech Republic 2-1 and qualifies for their third semi final ever, the first since 1998. Read more»

Russian nightmare

(16 May 2013, 14:41) | In the "Cold War classic" between Russia and the USA a large number of individual mistakes and terrible defending on the Russian side led to a more than huge 8-3 quarterfinal win by Team USA. Read more»

Finland wins the Helsinki Group

(15 May 2013, 00:13) | Will face Slovakia in quarter finals after Pihlström's overtime winner against Latvia. Read more»

Sweden wins it in the third period

(15 May 2013, 00:03) | Sweden concluded the preliminary round by beating Denmark 4-2 after a weak performance for two periods saved by three goals in the third period. Martin Thörnberg had two goals and the Sedin twins scored one goal each in their first game. Read more»

Ovechkin coming to the Worlds

(14 May 2013, 19:53) | Russia will add Alexander Ovechkin as their last player. Read more»

Czechs runs over Norway to qualify for quarter final

(14 May 2013, 19:08) | The Czech Republic made the process short with Norway and won 7-0 to move on to a quarter final against Switzerland on Thursday. Read more»

Germany gets happy end with OT win over France

(14 May 2013, 17:40) | France and Germany finished their World Championships 2013 in a meaningless game in Helsinki. When Slovakia beat USA there was no chance left for Germany to get into the quarters. However they managed to beat France by 3-2 in OT. Read more»

Switzerland wins Stockholm group

(14 May 2013, 17:13) | Switzerland skates through the first round unbeaten after finishing it with 4-1 win against Belarus. Julian Walker score twice in the third period. Read more»

Slovaks clinched a place in quarterfinals

(14 May 2013, 11:49) | Slovakia played a solid and clever game and took a 4-1 win over USA in both teams final game of the preliminary round. Read more»

Canada needs overtime to beat Slovenia

(13 May 2013, 22:29) | Slovenia knew already before the game that not even a win against Canada would keep them in the top division. That didn't stop them from challenging the super stars. Read more»

Russia sends Austria to Division 1

(13 May 2013, 21:39) | Austria fought bravely and manage to keep up with Russia for half the game. The Russian team scored four unanswered goals during the second half to win the game 8-4 and send Austria down one level. Read more»

First period performance ensures Denmark the win

(13 May 2013, 20:59) | In the first half of the game it was all over, Denmark were up by three and Belarus couldn't come back despite scoring twice before the end of the second period. Read more»