STOCKHOLM - Team USA had to dig deep to beat a well-organised Finnish team in the quarter-finals of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship on Thursday but they eventually cruised to a 5-2 win that took them into the last four and gives them another shot at the gold-medal game.

Frank Nazar scored twice to help the United States rally for a 5-2 victory over the Czech Republic and hand the titleholder its first defeat at the ice hockey world championship.

USA and Czechia will face off in the final preliminary round of the Men's IIHF World Championship. Follow along here for live updates.

While the NHL playoffs continue in the States, sixteen national hockey teams are hitting the ice in Stockholm and Herning in the 2025 IIHF World Championship. Team USA is hoping to nab its first ...

World Championship is underway in Stockholm, Sweden, and Herning, Denmark. The tournament consists of 16 teams split into two divisions, with top players from various professional leagues worldwide, including NHLers whose teams missed or were knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

After withstanding early Finnish pressure, the Americans took the lead when Logan Cooley slipped a beautiful pass across the ice for Garland to rattle home but, with Cooley later sin-binned for delaying the game,

Toronto Maple Leafs forward David Kampf will take part in his third-ever IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship as he officially joins his home country, Czechia, for this year's tournament, the team announced on Wednesday.

The penultimate day of round-robin action at the 2025 IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship is complete, with Czechia, Slovenia, Finland and Norway securing victories.