1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

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1990 IIHF Women's World Championship
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Tournament details
Host country Canada
Dates19–25 March
Officially opened byRay Hnatyshyn
Teams8
Arena(s) (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Canada (1st title)
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg United States
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Finland
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored237 (11.85 per match)
Scoring leader(s)United States Cindy Curley (23 points)
1992 →

The 1990 IIHF World Women's Championships were held March 19 to 25, 1990, at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian team won the gold medal, the United States won silver, and Finland won bronze. This was the first IIHF-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey. Fran Rider helped to organize the championships with no financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.[1]

There was strong international attention directed at the games. The gold medal game packed 9,000 people into the arena and drew over a million viewers on television.[citation needed] For unknown reasons, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided that the Canadian team should wear pink and white uniforms instead of the expected red and white.[2] While the experiment only lasted for this tournament, Ottawa was taken over by a "pink craze" during the championships. Restaurants had pink-coloured food on special, and pink became a popular colour for flowers and bow ties.[2]

Qualification Tournament[]

The United States, Canadian and Asian representative Japan, qualified automatically.[3][4] The 1989 European Women's Ice Hockey Championship served as the qualification tournament for this championship. The top five finishers in the top pool qualified. They were Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany.[3]

Final tournament[]

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  Canada 3 3 0 0 50–01 6
2  Sweden 3 2 0 1 19–19 4
3  West Germany 3 1 0 2 04–25 2
4  Japan 3 0 0 3 05–33 0
19 MarchCanada 15–1 Sweden
19 MarchWest Germany 4–1 Japan
21 MarchCanada 17–0 West Germany
21 MarchJapan 4–11 Sweden
22 MarchCanada 18–0 Japan
22 MarchSweden 7–0 West Germany

Group B[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  United States 3 3 0 0 38–07 6
2  Finland 3 2 0 1 24–06 4
3   Switzerland 3 1 0 2 11–29 2
4  Norway 3 0 0 3 04–35 0
19 MarchNorway 1–10 Finland
19 MarchUnited States 16–3  Switzerland
21 MarchUnited States 17–0 Norway
21 MarchFinland 10–0  Switzerland
22 MarchSwitzerland  8–3 Norway
22 MarchFinland 4–5 United States

Consolation round[]

5–8 place[]

24 MarchSwitzerland  5–4 Japan
24 MarchNorway 6–3 West Germany

7–8 place[]

25 MarchWest Germany 9–2 Japan

5–6 place[]

25 MarchSwitzerland  7–6 Norway

Final round[]

Semifinals[]

24 MarchUnited States 10–3 Sweden
24 MarchCanada 6–5 Finland

3–4 place[]

25 MarchFinland 6–3 Sweden

Final[]

25 MarchCanada 5–2 United States

Rankings and statistics[]

Final rankings[]

  1.  Canada
  2.  United States
  3.  Finland
  4.  Sweden
  5.   Switzerland
  6.  Norway
  7.  West Germany
  8.  Japan

Scoring leaders[]

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

　 G A Pts
Cindy Curley,  United States 11 12 23
Tina Cardinale,  United States 5 10 15
Cammi Granato,  United States 9 5 14
,   Switzerland 8 6 14
Angela James,  Canada 11 2 13
,  Canada 7 5 12
,  Canada 5 7 12
,  United States 6 5 11
,  Canada 5 6 11
Stacy Wilson,  Canada 3 8 11

Canada's Dawn McGuire was named MVP of the gold medal game.

Leading goaltenders[]

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO
Canada Cathy Phillips 156 32 3 1.15 90.63 1
Japan 151 143 17 6.75 88.11 0
United States Kelly Dyer 200 83 12 3.60 85.54 1
West Germany 180 65 10 3.33 84.62 0
Switzerland 147 97 15 6.12 84.54 0

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: whockey.com

Bodychecking[]

This is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.[5] Before the tournament, bodychecking had been allowed in women's ice hockey in Europe and North America though Canada had begun to gradually eliminate the tactic from their women's ice hockey programs in the mid-1980's. The European teams asked for bodychecking to be included.[5]

After this tournament, the International Ice Hockey Federation disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey.[5] It is currently[when?] an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct penalty.[6]

In addition, the intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen.[3] This has since[when?] been changed to the usual fifteen minutes.

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History, p.81, by Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams, Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1996, ISBN 0-929005-79-1
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Kelly p. 88.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Andria Hunter Women's Hockey Net page on the IIHF World Women's Championships accessed July 16, 2006.
  4. ^ Championnats du monde feminins 1990 accessed September 2, 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Kelly, p. 89.
  6. ^ International Ice Hockey Federation Section 5, Rule 441 of Official Ice Hockey rules Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine p. 84 accessed July 16, 2006.

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