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The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Council has announced that "it is not yet safe" to reincorporate Russian and Belarusian teams back into IIHF competitions for the 2024-25 championship season
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National Hockey League (NHL) players are set to return to the Winter Olympic Games for the first time since Sochi 2014 after a participation deal was struck covering the next two editions, while the League has further strengthened its commitment to national team play by launching a new tournament.
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Media

Latvia’s public broadcaster has retained rights to ice hockey’s IIHF World Championship in a long-term agreement with the Infront agency.
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Governance

The National Hockey League (NHL) is to meet with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) next week as all stakeholders continue to push for an agreement that would result in the return of the sport's…
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Events

Germany has been awarded hosting rights to the 2027 edition of the men’s Ice Hockey World Championship.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Škoda has announced a five-year extension of its long-standing role as ‘Official Main Sponsor’ of the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship for the next five years, from 2023 to 2027.
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Events

The executive board of the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championship is seeking a general secretary for the event, which will take place in Switzerland
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Events

Champions Hockey League, the pan-European ice hockey competition, has released details of its new format with a reduced number of 24 teams that it says will create a “balanced, attractive and entertaining c…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

North American sports drink brand BioSteel has signed a three-year sponsorship of the IIHF World Championship in an agreement running until 2024
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Mobile phone brand Nokia and kitchen fittings company Puustelli have signed as Official Partners of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship to be staged in Tampere and Helsinki, Finland, next month
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Governance

The International Ice Hockey Federation has announced that it has asked its independent Ethics Board to launch investigations into both its former president René Fasel and the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, …
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Events

The International Ice Hockey Federation has confirmed a new venue in Helsinki for its forthcoming 2022 World Championship, with the original venue connected to Russians on the international sanctions list…
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Governance

René Fasel, the former president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, has denied he has signed a contract to join the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League in a strategic advisory role.
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Events

The International Ice Hockey Federation has stripped its 2023 World Junior Championship from Russia as part of the latest sporting sanctions placed against the country following its invasion of Ukraine
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The International Ice Hockey Federation has appointed Chinese actor and director Wu Jing as a global ambassador, as it looks to increase the popularity of the sport in China
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The board of directors of the multi-purpose arena in the city of Tampere in Finland, the venue for the 2022 IIHF World Championships, has decided to terminate the arena's naming rights agreement with technology…
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Governance

Newly-elected International Ice Hockey Federation president, Luc Tardif, has admitted that China’s men’s national team faces possible exclusion from its home winter Olympic Games next year due to its “in…
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Governance

Luc Tardif has been elected as the first new president of the International Ice Hockey Federation for nearly three decades, seeing off the claims of four rivals to succeed René Fasel.