The USA U17 hockey team dominated Germany with an 8-1 victory, outshooting their opponents 57-21. Germany's only goal came on a power play in the second period. William Bent and Cole Bumgarner scored two goals each for USA.
Czechia overpowered Slovakia with a 6-1 win, dominating the game with 45 shots on goal compared to Slovakia's 21. Czechia's Simon Katolicky led the charge with two goals and an assist, while Slovakia's only goal came in the second period from Matej Beres.
(15 Aug 2024)
Russia beat Czech Republic, Slovakia and USA to win the 4-nation tournament for U17 teams in Piestany.
Results: Czech Republic - Russia 0-3, Slovakia - USA 2-5, USA - Czech Republic 4-1, Slovakia - Russia 2-5, Russia - USA 3-0 and Slovakia - Czech Republic 4-6.
(18 Dec 2021)
In Lonza Arena Visp Slovakia beat Latvia 6-2 in the 3-nation tournament that also include Switzerland.
(15 Dec 2021)
Slovakia will play today's game against Finland at the World Junior Championship without captain Samuel Kňažko and forward Dominik Sojka. Both have minor injuries.
(30 Dec 2020)
Alexander Pashin scored three goals when Russia beat Finland 4-1 in one of today's semi finals of the prestigeous U18 tournament in Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the other semi final Canada beat Sweden 3-2 in a shootout game. Cole Perfetti scored all Canadian goals.
Czech Republic beat USA 4-3 for place five while Slovakia beat Switzerland 7-5 in the 7th place game.
(09 Aug 2019)
Results of the third day from Breclav/Piestany: USA - Sweden 4-5 (SO), Switzerland - Finland 0-6, Czech Republic - Canada 1-7 and Slovakia - Russia 1-2 (OT).
Friday's semi finals: Canada - Sweden, Russia - Finland.
(08 Aug 2019)
On the second day of the U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup Roni Hirvonen scored three goals when Finland beat Czech Republic 5-1. Other games today: Canada - Switzerland 8-0, Sweden - Russia 0-3 and Slovakia - USA 3-4 (OT).
(06 Aug 2019)
The U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup started today in Breclav and Piestany. Results: Russia - USA 6-2, Finland - Canada 0-6, Czech Republic - Switzerland 4-3 (SO) and Slovakia - Sweden 2-3.
(05 Aug 2019)
With the World Championship three days away three tournament preparing games was played today. The World Championship host Slovakia beat Norway 3-2 in overtime. USA beat Germany 5-2 and Canada beat Austria 7-5 (7-6 after overtime).
(07 May 2019)
The newcomer of the World Championship, Great Britain, played the host Slovakia in Poprad in a pre-tournament game. Slovakia had no problem to win 6-1.
(04 May 2019)