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{{Infobox International Ice Hockey Competition
 | tourney_name = IIHF Women's Pacific Rim Championship
 | year = 1995
 | other_titles =
 | image =
 | size =
 | caption =
 | country = United States
 | dates = April 3 - April 8
 | num_teams = 1
 | venues = Ice Center at San Jose, San Jose
 | cities = 1
 | winners_women = Canada
 | count = 1
 | games = 10
 | goals = 77
 | attendance =
 | scoring_leader =
 | mvp =
}}

The '''1995 [[IIHF Women's Pacific Rim Championship]]''' was an international ice hockey tournament held between April 3 and 8, 1995 in San Jose, California, [[USA]].

Canada won the tournament despite losing in the group stage 5-2 to the United States. They defeated China in a shootout before taking the US to a shootout as well to win the championship.

==Teams and format==
Four teams completed in this inaugural tournament. The teams were:

*{{ihw|CAN}}
*{{ihw|CHN}}
*{{ihw|JPN}}
*{{ihw|USA}}

The teams first played a full round robin against each other. After these three games, all teams proceeded to the semi-final (1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd) with the winning teams meeting in the final.

==First round==
===Standings===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width=20|Rk.
!width=165|Team
!width=40|GP
!width=40|W
!width=40|T
!width=40|L
!width=40|GF
!width=40|GA
!width=40|DIF
!width=40|PTS
|-
|1.
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ihw|USA}}
|3||3||0||0||22||4||+18||'''6'''
|-
|2.
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ihw|CAN}}
|3||2||0||1||23||6||+17||'''4'''
|-
|3.
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ihw|CHN}}
|3||1||0||2||6||13||-7||'''2'''
|-
|4.
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ihw|JPN}}
|3||0||0||3||1||29||-28||'''0'''
|-
|}

===Results===
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|date = April 4, 1995
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|date = April 6, 1995
|time = 5:30&nbsp;pm
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==Playoff round==

===Semi-finals===
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|score = 3 &ndash; 2 SO
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===Match for third place===
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|date = April 8, 1995
|time = 5:30&nbsp;pm
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|score = 5 &ndash; 0
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===Final===
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|date = April 8, 1995
|time = 8:30&nbsp;pm
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|score = 2 &ndash; 1 SO
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|team2 = {{ihw|USA}}
|goals1 =
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==Champions==
{{winners|ihw|1995 IIHF Women's Pacific Rim Championship|CAN|1st}}

==Final standings==
{| class="wikitable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size:90%"
|-bgcolor="#E4E4E4"
!style="border-bottom:1px solid #AAAAAA" width=40|Rk.
!style="border-bottom:1px solid #AAAAAA" width=120|Team
|- bgcolor="#F7F6A8"
| align="center" style="height:23px"| {{goca}} || '''{{ihw|CAN}}'''
|- bgcolor="#DCE5E5"
| align="center" style="height:23px"| {{sica}} || {{ihw|USA}}
|- bgcolor="#FFDAB9"
| align="center" style="height:23px"| {{Brca}} || {{ihw|CHN}}
|- style="background:#ffffff;"
|align="center"| 4. || {{ihw|JPN}}
|- style="background:#ffffff;"
|}
==See also==
* [[1996 Women's Pacific Rim Championship]]

==External links==

* [http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~andria/Text_files/PacRim_95.txt 1995 Pacific Rim Tournament]

{{IIHF Women's Ice Hockey championships}}
{{Wikipedia}}

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[[Category:1995 in ice hockey]]
[[Category:IIHF Women's Pacific Rim Championship]]