U18 National team games

U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 4 - Russia and Canada to play the final

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)

U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 3

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)

U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 2

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)

U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Day 1

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)

Big wins on Ivan Hlinka Memorial opening day

Three of the four games on the first day of Ivan Hlinka Memorial in Breclav, Czech Republic and Bratislava, Slovakia ended with big wins. First Lukas Wernblom and Samuel Fagemo scored two goals each when Sweden beat USA 6-1 in Breclav. In the second game in Breclav Czech Republic beat Switzerland 6-2 after two goals by Jan Jenik and two by Jakub Lauko.

In Bratislava Ruslan Iskhatov scored the winner when Russia beat Canada 4-3 after a shootout. Rasmus Kupari had two goals and three assists when Finland got an easy 6-1 win over Slovakia.

(07 Aug 2017)

USA on top of U18 tournament in Sweden

With the World U18 Championship two months away five of the leading countries got together in a 5-nation tournament in Sundsvall, Sweden. USA finished on top after beating Sweden 5-4 in a shootout game on the last day. if Sweden had won the shootout they would have finished on top. Man of the day for USA was Josh Norris whou tied the game 3 seconds(!) before the end and then got the shootout winner.

Czech Republic finished third, Russia 4th and Finland 5th. Find all results and game stats here.

(13 Feb 2017)

Czech U18 team beat Russia - twice

The Czech U18 team bet the Russia U18 in Pribram. The game yesterday ended 5-1. Filip Zadina scored twice while Jan Hladonik, David Kvasnicka and Radim Salda got a goal each for the Czechs. Maxim Marushev scored the Russian goal.

Today Czech Republic won 3-2 on goals by Ondrej Buchtela, Jan Kalus and Krystof Hrabik. Daniil Lobanov and Maxim Marushev scored for Russia.

(16 Oct 2016)

Ivan Hlinka Memorial starts tomorrow

The prestigeous U18 tournament starts tomorrow in Breclav and Bratislava. Yesterday two pre-tournament friendlies were played: Slovakia-Canada 1-12 and Czech Repubic - USA 2-1.

(09 Aug 2015)

Canada and Czech Republic to Ivan Hlinka final

Canada and Czech Republic won today's semi finals of Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup for U18 national teams and are qualified for the final tomorrow in Breclav.

Canada beat USA 11-5 and the Czech Republic eliminated Sweden 4-3. Russia beat Slovakia 5-2 in the 7th place game and Finland ended 5th thanks to a 9-3 win over Switzerland.

(15 Aug 2014)

Finnish super talent sent home

One of Finland's best talents born 1998, Patrik Laine was sent home from the Ivan Hlinka Memorial after showing the Finnish coach the finger and also making a death threat against the Finnish head coach

(15 Aug 2014)