2019 IIHF Women's World Championship

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2019 IIHF Women's World Championship
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Tournament details
Host nation  Finland
Dates 4–14 April 2019
Teams 10
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Champions  United States (9 titles)
Tournament statistics
Games played 29
Goals scored 152  (5.24 per game)
Attendance 51,247  (1,767 per game)
Scoring leader(s)  United States Hilary Knight
MVP  Finland Jenni Hiirikoski[1]

The 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested in Espoo, Finland from 4 to 14 April 2019 at the Espoo Metro Areena.[2]

The United States won their fifth consecutive and ninth overall title after a shootout win over Finland.[3] Canada claimed the bronze medal by defeating Russia 7–0.[4]

After the 2017 tournament, it was announced that tournament would expand to ten teams for 2019, having been played with eight teams since the first tournament in 1990, except in 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009, where nine teams played. The 2004 edition featured nine teams when Japan was promoted from Division II but no team was relegated from the top division in 2003, due to the cancellation of the top division tournament in China because of the outbreak of the SARS disease.[2] Two teams were relegated from the top division in 2004, going back to eight teams for 2005, but due to the success of the 9-team pool in 2004, IIHF decided to expand again to nine teams for 2007.[5] Reverting to eight teams after the 2009 tournament.[6] To bring the tournament to ten teams, Czech Republic which had lost the 2017 Relegation Round, stayed in the top division. Joined by Division I Group A Champions, Japan (2017) and France (2018)

Format

The ten teams were split into two groups according to their rankings. In Group A, all teams advanced to the quarterfinals and three teams from Group B advanced. The bottom two Group B teams were relegated. From the quarterfinals on, a knockout system was used.

Participants

Group A
Group B

Preliminary round

The schedule was released on 20 August 2018.[7][8]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 4 4 0 0 0 27 4 23 12 Quarterfinals
2  Canada 4 3 0 0 1 19 5 14 9
3  Finland (H) 4 2 0 0 2 13 14 −1 6
4  Russia 4 1 0 0 3 3 20 −17 3
5  Switzerland 4 0 0 0 4 3 22 −19 0
4 April 2019
16:00 		Switzerland  0–6
(0–2, 0–0, 0–4) 		 Canada Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 649
4 April 2019
19:30 		Finland  2–6
(1–1, 1–0, 0–5) 		 United States Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 4,046
5 April 2019
19:30 		Russia  2–1
(1–1, 0–0, 1–0) 		 Switzerland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 629
6 April 2019
16:00 		Russia  0–4
(0–1, 0–0, 0–3) 		 Finland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 5,723
6 April 2019
19:30 		United States  3–2
(2–1, 1–1, 0–0) 		 Canada Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 3,102
7 April 2019
19:30 		Switzerland  0–8
(0–3, 0–1, 0–4) 		 United States Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 343
8 April 2019
16:00 		Finland  6–2
(2–1, 2–1, 2–0) 		 Switzerland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 3,226
8 April 2019
19:30 		Canada  5–1
(1–0, 4–0, 0–1) 		 Russia Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 285
9 April 2019
16:00 		United States  10–0
(3–0, 4–0, 3–0) 		 Russia Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 954
9 April 2019
19:30 		Canada  6–1
(2–0, 2–0, 2–1) 		 Finland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 4,752

Group B

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1  Czech Republic 4 4 0 0 0 13 5 8 12 Quarterfinals
2  Germany 4 1 1 1 1 7 8 −1 6
3  Japan 4 2 0 0 2 9 8 1 6
4  Sweden (R) 4 1 0 1 2 8 11 −3 4 Relegation to 2020 Division I
5  France (R) 4 0 1 0 3 5 10 −5 2
4 April 2019
12:30 		Germany  2–1 GWS
(0–0, 1–1, 0–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0) 		 Sweden Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 1,893
4 April 2019
18:00 		France  0–3
(0–0, 0–2, 0–1) 		 Japan Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 202
5 April 2019
16:00 		Czech Republic  3–1
(2–0, 1–0, 0–1) 		 France Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 553
6 April 2019
12:30 		Sweden  3–5
(2–1, 0–1, 1–2) 		 Czech Republic Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 1,024
6 April 2019
18:00 		Japan  2–3
(0–1, 0–0, 2–2) 		 Germany Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 135
7 April 2019
16:00 		France  1–2
(1–0, 0–2, 0–0) 		 Sweden Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 553
8 April 2019
12:30 		Japan  1–3
(0–2, 0–0, 1–1) 		 Czech Republic Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 1,232
8 April 2019
18:00 		Germany  2–3 OT
(1–1, 1–1, 0–0)
(OT: 0–1) 		 France Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 136
9 April 2019
12:30 		Sweden  2–3
(1–0, 0–1, 1–2) 		 Japan Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 1,380
9 April 2019
18:00 		Czech Republic  2–0
(0–0, 2–0, 0–0) 		 Germany Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 102

Knockout stage

Ninth place game

11 April 2019
14:00 		Sweden  3–2
(0–0, 1–0, 2–2) 		 France Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 142

Quarterfinals

11 April 2019
12:30 		United States  4–0
(1–0, 1–0, 2–0) 		 Japan Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 2,483
11 April 2019
16:00 		Canada  5–0
(1–0, 2–0, 2–0) 		 Germany Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 744
11 April 2019
18:00 		Russia  3–0
(0–0, 1–0, 2–0) 		 Switzerland Espoo Metro Areena second rink, Espoo
Attendance: 114
11 April 2019
19:30 		Finland  3–1
(0–0, 2–1, 1–0) 		 Czech Republic Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 3,290

Semifinals

13 April 2019
16:00 		Canada  2–4
(1–1, 1–2, 0–1) 		 Finland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 4,311
13 April 2019
20:00 		United States  8–0
(1–0, 5–0, 2–0) 		 Russia Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 897

Bronze medal game

14 April 2019
16:00 		Canada  7–0
(2–0, 1–0, 4–0) 		 Russia Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 2,294

Final

Controversy

During the final between the United States and Finland, it appeared Finland had won 2–1 in overtime after a game-winning goal to win its first World Championship.[9] However, Finland celebrated on the ice before the Video Goal Judge initiated a video review. The goal was reviewed for over ten minutes and eventually overturned. The IIHF released a press statement the next day citing rules 186 and 183ii as the reasons for overturning the goal.[10] The United States went on to defeat Finland 2–1 in shootout. It was later announced that Finnish Ice Hockey Association would pay the Finnish team the bonus allotted for winning a gold medal, instead of the silver medal bonus.[11]

14 April 2019
20:00 		United States  2–1 GWS
(0–0, 1–1, 0–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0) 		 Finland Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo
Attendance: 6,053

References

  1. ↑ "Hiirikoski named MVP". iihf.com. 14 April 2019. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/10149/hiirikoski-named-mvp. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Merk, Martin (19 May 2017). "Women’s Worlds grow". International Ice Hockey Federation. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/4341/women%E2%80%99s-worlds-grow. 
  3. ↑ Aykroyd, Lucas (14 April 2019). "It's a five-peat for U.S.!". IIHF. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/10148/usa-fin-gmg. 
  4. ↑ Aykroyd, Lucas (14 April 2019). "Canada thrashes Russia for bronze". IIHF. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/10142/can-rus-bmg. 
  5. ↑ "The IIHF Annual Congress made the following decisions in Riga during its session on May 19:", International Ice Hockey Federation, June 2006, p. 2. 
  6. ↑ "World Women’s back to eight teams". International Ice Hockey Federation. http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3263&cHash=f29880b6730f3340e970e9c90a588100. 
  7. ↑ Merk, Martin (20 August 2018). "Host Finland opens vs. U.S.". IIHF. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/4347/host-finland-opens-vs-u-s. 
  8. ↑ "Schedule". https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/schedule. 
  9. ↑ Weiswerda, Brennin (14 April 2019). "Controversial goalie-interference call costs Finland gold medal, USA wins in shootout". https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2019/04/14/controversial-goalie-interference-call-costs-finland-goal-medal-usa-wins-in-shootout/. 
  10. ↑ "Statement from IIHF" (in en). 15 April 2019. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/ww/news/10167/statement-from-iihf. 
  11. ↑ Foster, Meredith (19 April 2019). "Team Finland prize money increased for World Championship performance". https://www.theicegarden.com/2019/4/19/18504217/team-finland-prize-money-increased-naisleijonat-iihf-world-championships-euros. 

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