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 * January 6, 2022 Sixteen year old Benjamin Edward “Teddy” Balkind, a member of the St. Luke's School boys hockey team, dies after being cut by the blade of another player during a high school hockey game in Connecticut.


 * December 29, 2021 The 2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta are cancelled after 3 games had to be forfeited due to positive COVID-19 tests.


 * August 31, 2021 The 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship gold medal game is held in Calgary, Alberta. The Canada national women's ice hockey team defeats the United States women's national ice hockey team 3 to 2 in overtime to win their 11th championship. Of the 20 tournaments either Canada (11) or the United States (9) has won every event. They have also won all but 1 silver medal (Canada -8 and the United States-1). The 2019 Finland women's national ice hockey team is the only other team to ever appear in the championship game.


 * July 7, 2021 The Tampa Bay Lightning win the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs championship defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4-games-to-1.


 * July 2, 2021 Victor Hedman becomes the first player in National Hockey League history to score a goal in all 12 months when he scores a power play goal at 3:27 of the first period of game three of the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals. The game itself is the first ever national hockey league game played in July.


 * June 6, 2021 The Canadian National Team defeated Finland men's national ice hockey team 3-2 in overtime in Riga, Latvia to win their 27th World Championship.


 * June 5, 2021 The Victoriaville Tigres win the 2021 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's President's Cup Playoffs, becoming the only Canadian Major Junior league to complete its' season with a champion being crowned.


 * June 4, 2021 National Women's Hockey League referee Jamie Huntley-Park and her husband Ryan Park are killed in a head-on collision with a wrong way driver in San Ysidro, California, both were detectives with the San Diego Police Department. Huntley-Park was to be an official at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship and was a candidate to officiate at the 2022 Winter Olympics She previously officiated at the 2015, 2016, and 2019 Women's World Championships as well as numerous lower level international championships and Olympic qualifiers.


 * May 26, 2021 Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania announce that the university was ending both its' men's and women's varsity hockey programs effective immediately. After being publicly ridiculed for the decision to cancel the programs in the way they were fundraisers were started to save both programs. In early August it was announced the teams would return but not play for the 2021-22 season in order to raise funding to secure the long term survival of the programs.


 * May 22, 2021 The Chicago Steel defeated the Fargo Force to win the 2021 United States Hockey League's Clark Cup Playoffs.


 * April 19, 2021 Patrick Marleau passes Gordie Howe for the NHL record for most games played (1,768) when in plays in a game against the Vegas Golden Knights.


 * April 10, 2021 The UMass Minutemen men's ice hockey team wins their first NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament championship defeating the St. Cloud State Huskies men's ice hockey team 5-0 at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


 * March 30, 2021 Worcester State University announces the addition of a women's ice hockey team to begin play with the 2021-22 season. Ironically the program will be based out of the same arena as the recently former Becker College teams and also hired the former women's team head coach to be the first head coach of the team.


 * March 28, 2021 The Board of Trustees for Becker College announce that the college will close at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, ending the men's and women's hockey programs at the college.


 * March 16, 2021 Dinamo Saint Petersburg defencemen and team captain Timur Faizutdinov dies after being hit in the head with a puck during a Junior Hockey League (Russia) game on March 12th. He was 19 years old.


 * March 12, 2021 The Rankin Inlet Senior Men's Hockey League becomes the only senior league in Canada to complete its' regular season and playoffs.


 * January 26, 2021 Bishop Feehan Shamrocks (Attleboro, Massachusetts) boys hockey player AJ Quetta was paralyzed after going into the boards head first during a boys high school game in West Springfield, Massachusetts.


 * January 5, 2021 The United States defeats Canada 2-0 to win the 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The win marks the fifth time the United States has won the tournament.