2025 World Para Ice Hockey Championship

Buffalo, New York | May 24 - 31

The 2025 World Para Ice Hockey Championship will be held May 24-31, at the LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo, N.Y.

The eight-nation tournament features the best sled hockey players in the world.

The LECOM Harborcenter will host all 20 games of the tournament over the course of the eight-day event.

Tickets are available for purchase here, and fans can visit paralympic.org to get the latest information, including the full event schedule, as it becomes available.

The World Para Ice Hockey Championship has been held on U.S. soil three previous times, including Buffalo in 2015; Marlborough, Mass., in 2008; and Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000.

Since the inaugural World Para Ice Hockey Championship in 1996, the U.S. has claimed six gold medals (2023, 2021, 2019, 2015, 2012, 2009) and is the only country to ever win back-to-back (2012, 2009) and three-consecutive gold medals (2023, 2021, 2019). Additionally, the U.S. has achieved five other medal finishes, earning four silver medals (2024, 2017, 2013, 2004) and one bronze medal (2008).

At the 2024 World Para Ice Hockey Championship in. Calgary, Alberta, the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team took home silver after falling 2-1 in the championship game to Canada. The U.S. finished the tournament with a 4-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record.

2025 U.S. Schedule

Date	Opponent	Time/Result	Location	Tickets/POG	Broadcast
Saturday, May 24	Norway Preliminary Round	W, 12-0	LECOM Harborcenter Buffalo, N.Y.	Brody Roybal	USAHockeyTV.com
Sunday, May 25	Slovakia Preliminary Round	W, 13-0	LECOM Harborcenter Buffalo, N.Y.	Kevin McKee	USAHockeyTV.com
Tuesday, May 27	Czechia Preliminary Round	W, 4-3	LECOM Harborcenter Buffalo, N.Y.	Jack Wallace	USAHockeyTV.com
Friday, May 30	China Semifinal	W, 6-1	LECOM Harborcenter Buffalo, N.Y.	Evan Nichols	USAHockeyTV.com
Saturday, May 31	Canada Gold-Medal Game	W, 6-1	LECOM Harborcenter Buffalo, N.Y.	Josh Pauls	USAHockeyTV.com