Category: IIHF

USA Hockey’s Hilary Knight Voted IIHF’s 1st Female Player of the Year

Hilary Knight was the runaway leader in voting for the International Ice Hockey Federation’s first female player of the year award on Thursday, some six weeks after the 33-year-old captained the United States to win gold at the women’s world championship. The IIHF announced Knight received 40.9 percent of the votes submitted by more than…


IIHF Meets to Review Olympic Eligibility of Chinese Players

The International Ice Hockey Federation council held a call Friday to review the Olympic eligibility of Chinese men’s national team players, though no decisions were made about the host country’s status for the upcoming tournament in Beijing, Officials are set to review information from the Chinese Ice Hockey Association about players on the host country’s…


‘A Big Task’: China’s Olympic Hockey Team Facing Questions

International hockey officials are hoping to avoid a Humiliation On Ice when the Chinese men’s national team debuts at the Beijing Winter Olympics. They begged the NHL to send players to the Games in China, but now they are worried that the home team might not even be able to score a goal. The host…