Ice Hockey

Petra Pravlikova (SVK-24) vs. Linda Valimaki (FIN-13) facing off in Harbin and now in Vancouver (photo: C. Pierre)   The 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada are in full swing. A number of the Women’s Ice Hockey teams participating in the Olympic tournament have selected players who were on the Winter Universiade roster at […]

Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Monday the appointment of Canada’s men’s hockey team personnel for the 25th Winter Universiade set for January 27 to February 6, 2011 in Erzurum, Turkey. Brian Bourque of the Waterloo Warriors will serve as Team Canada’s general manager, while Western Ontario’s Clarke Singer has been named head coach. His assistants behind […]

After Japanese ice hockey player Shuhei Kuji, who played for Team Japan at the 2009 Winter Unviersiade in Harbin, China and who was invited to the Development Camp of the New York Islanders from National Hockey League (NHL), the toughest professional ice hockey league in the world, another player has even a closer chance to […]

Kuji in action against Slovakia in Harbin   Shuhei Kuji, who was on the Japanese Team Roster at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, and the 2007 Winter Universiade in Torino, Italy might be knocking at the doors of the famous NHL, the National Hockey League, as he was invited at the New York […]

    On May 8th, 2009, Roger ROTH, FISU CTI Chair WU and Milan AUGUSTIN, FISU Director of Winter Universiade, met in Bern, Switzerland during the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship with Lars G.KARLSSON, FISU CT Chair for Ice Hockey, to discuss a number of relevant steps towards the Ice Hockey tournament for Men and […]

Team Russia, gold medallist of the Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament Men Bronze Medal Game – KAZ – SVK 4-5 (2-1, 0-1, 2-3)The bronze medal game sometimes is more important than the gold one. Only one team takes home a medal, the reason why the battle between Kazakhstan and Slovakia was very fierce. Slovakia opened the […]

Women’s Gold Medallist Team Canada   Women Bronze Medal Game – SVK – FIN 2-3 (0-1, 1-1, 1-1)It has been a long and tiresome tournament and it showed. Slovakia and Finland played a last tight game to get the medal at stake. Team Suomi started off with a lead in the first via Jalosuo. Hardly […]

RUS vs. USA   Women Rest day.   Men CHN – GBR 7-3 (3-1, 2-1, 2-1) Host China beat Great Britain in front of 2,000 loud Chinese fans today at the HIPE Skating Gym. The Chinese took the lead in the first period and never gave it away.   CZE – CAN 1-3 (0-0, 1-2, […]