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Category Archives: World Championships

Worlds Go Retro

30 April, 2008

This year’s IIHF World Championship Tournament is going old school, if only for one game. Fifteen of the sixteen participating teams will play one preliminary round game with retro sweaters. The sweater each country will wear was selected from what they considered to be a significant year for their national team programs. Belarus is the [...]

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Team USA Preliminary Roster Set for the Worlds

11 April, 2008

USA Hockey this week announced the selection of 17 players for the American entry in the IIHF’s World Championships next month. The Worlds this year will be contested in Quebec City and Halifax May 2-18. Among the early selections: Potomac, Md.’s, Jeff Halpern. More Americans will be added after the conclusion of the first round [...]

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To Russia (Hopefully) with Appreciation and Goodwill

14 February, 2008

Last spring Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis bank-rolled an act of unprecedented goodwill for hockey, dispatching two of his communicators and two OFBers to Moscow to cover hockey’s World Championships, in which a number of Caps competed. This coming offseason, he’s poised to organize more goodwill for the game, and pursue a plan of the Caps [...]

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Watching Hockey with Peter the Great

10 January, 2008

It was a thrill for me to run into Peter Bondra in the Verizon Center press box Wednesday night, not only because this represented the first time I’d seen him since he’d retired from hockey but because I was so curious about his new role as General Manager for the Slovakian national team, which will [...]

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IIHF Shrinks Its Rinks

4 December, 2007

The International Ice Hockey Federation has decided to adopt North American dimensions for all of its tournaments from 2008-2012. On one level, this move is mere pragmatics: the 2008 World Junior and senior World Championships as well as the 2010 Olympics are being contested in Canada. These events require multiple sheets of ice to contest [...]

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Bonzai Officially Retires; becomes Team Slovakia GM

29 October, 2007

Long-time Washington Capital Peter Bondra has officially announced his retirement today. He takes of the mantle of General Manager for his native Slovakian National Team; he’ll be in Halifax for the IIHF World Championships in 2008. For more, click here. UPDATE: Check out Ted Leonsis’s blog for his recent lunch with Bonzai and the Capitals’ [...]

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Young Glory Draped in Old Glory

21 June, 2007

In the middle of this past hockey season consensus was that the 2007 NHL Entry Draft would offer up another strong showing by American prospects — seven or eight of them were likely to be tabbed in the first round. This would follow by a year an Entry Draft in which fully 10 Americans went [...]

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The Gazprom Cup – Hockey Legends Hit the Ice

29 May, 2007

In our continuing series of Moscow bonus coverage: photos from the 2007 Gazprom Cup, an old-timers’ benefit game that boasted an impressive roster for both teams.

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Moscow Bonus – Canada Gold

21 May, 2007

As we mentioned before our trip to Moscow, OFB would serve as the “DVD extras” to supplement the Caps’ official coverage of the IIHF World Championships, including photos and observations that didn’t make the cut for Caps’ site. Here’s the first in a series of those extras: photos of the Gold medal-winning Canadian team. IIHF [...]

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World Championship Widget

16 May, 2007

The following widget was the content distribution tool for the joint OFB / Washington Capitals coverage of the 2007 IIHF World Championship tournament in Russia. Admin Note: The World Championship Widget became unavailable after the NHL mandated that all teams move their websites to NHL servers.

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