Women's Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

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3rd PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATION ROUND

Tournament 2

Stavanger (NOR) - 16.12.2016 - 18.12.2016

 

Round-Robin

4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Final Olympic Quailfication Round

 

Day 2 Results

 

Slovakia  0 - 2  Hungary   

(Score by Period: 0-0, 0-0, 0-2)

17th December 2016, h. 15:00 (GMT +1), DNB Arena, Stavanger

 

Norway  5 - 0  Kazakhstan

(Score by Period: 1-0, 1-0, 3-0)

17th December 2016, h. 18:30 (GMT +1), DNB Arena, Stavanger

 

Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 2

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	L(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	POINTS
1	Norway	2	2	0	0	0	9:0	6
2	Hungary	2	1	0	0	1	2:4	3
3	Slovakia	2	1	0	0	1	3:2	3
4	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	0	2	0:8	0

 

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yep..as expected, Hungary is in division I A, we are in division I B..so the result is logical. another failure..very sad how our womens hockey dropped, each year it´s worse and worse...

 

well, only chance for our girls to keep the olympic dream alive is now to beat Norway tomorrow in regular time, it doesn´t look very likely, and even if, we stll will need a help from Kazakhstan to stole some point(s) to Hungary what looks even more unlikely..

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3rd PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATION ROUND

Tournament 2

Stavanger (NOR) - 16.12.2016 - 18.12.2016

 

Round-Robin

4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Final Olympic Quailfication Round

 

Day 3 Results

 

Kazakhstan  2 - 5  Hungary      

(Score by Period: 0-0, 1-3, 1-2)

18th December 2016, h. 14:30 (GMT +1), DNB Arena, Stavanger

 

Norway  6 - 2  Slovakia   

(Score by Period: 1-0, 2-2, 3-0)

18th December 2016, h. 18:00 (GMT +1), DNB Arena, Stavanger

 

Round-Robin Final Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	L(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	POINTS
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	0	15:2	9
2	Hungary	3	2	0	0	1	7:6	6
3	Slovakia	3	1	0	0	2	5:8	3
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	0	3	2:13	0

 

 

Following Nation Have Qualified to Final Olympic Qualifying Round

• Norway

 

 

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3rd PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATION ROUND

Tournament 1

Cergy-Pontoise (FRA) - 15.12.2016 - 18.12.2016

 

Round-Robin

4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Final Olympic Quailfication Round

 

Day 3 Results

 

Italy  3 - 0  China      

(Score by Period: 0-0, 1-0, 2-0)

18th December 2016, h. 16:00 (GMT +1), Cergy Pontoise Aren´Ice, Cergy-Pontoise

 

France  8 - 1  Latvia   

(Score by Period: 4-0, 3-0, 1-1)

18th December 2016, h. 19:30 (GMT +1), Cergy Pontoise Aren´Ice, Cergy-Pontoise

 

Round-Robin Final Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	L(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	POINTS
1	France	3	3	0	0	0	14:2	9
2	Italy	3	2	0	0	1	7:5	6
3	Latvia	3	1	0	0	2	7:13	3
4	China	3	0	0	0	3	2:10	0

 

 

Following Nation Have Qualified to Final Olympic Qualifying Round

• France

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So end of dream for our girls..well, the truth is that it´s nothing unexpected, since the Vancouver 2010 generation retired our womens hockey just can´t stop to fall down, now after our relegation last year we will play the Division I B this year...what more to say ?

 

but in other hand there a slim hope for bright future, our actual youngers women NT categories are showing very perspective things and many interesting results, so lets hope in Beijing 2022 we will have again both our hockey teams competing under the 5 rings.

 

 

So for now congrats to France and Norway acceding to the last qualifying round. good luck to them in the final battles.

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Konichiwa, la France!

Blue team remains in Olympic contention

The French players celebrate one of their goals in the final win against Latvia.

 

The French women’s national team remains in contention for a ticket to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. The team in blue completed its undefeated streak in its preliminary-round group on home ice in Cergy-Pontoise near Paris with a XXXX win against Latvia and will travel to Tomakomai, Japan, for the Final Olympic Qualification.

The French finish the tournament in first place ahead of Italy, Latvia and China. They’ll travel to Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in February for Group D of the Final Olympic Qualification where they will play Japan, Germany and Austria for a ticket to the Olympics. The other Group C will take place in the mountain resort of Arosa with host Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Norway, which won the other tournament this weekend on home ice in Stavanger.

Both tournaments will be played from 9th to 12th February. The winners will join the top-5 nations of the Women’s World Ranking – USA, Canada, Finland, Russia and Sweden – and host Korea in the 2018 Olympic women’s ice hockey tournament.

Emmanuelle Passard led the way offensively with two goals and an assist in the first period. The 24-year-old is one of four players from the national team who moved to study and play at the Universite de Montreal in Canada.

For France it was the fifth consecutive win against Latvia, which was looking to beat the French for the first time since hosting the 2004 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I in Ventspils where it edged out the French 3-2 to win bronze. It was too big a task and the Latvians even needed to win with a margin of at least two goals to reach first place due to their opening-day loss to Italy. The hopes to do so faded already early in the game.

At 1:46 Soline Fohrer opened the scoring with a solo. She got the puck at the offensive blueline, skated her way through and lifted the puck above goaltender Kristiana Apsite.

Apsite continued to be in the centre of attention as the French created the better scoring chances and played a strong puck-possession game. The Latvian goalie had several saves until the French doubled the lead at 5:48 when Emmanuelle Passard deflected a Lea Parment shot forcing the Latvians to take an early time-out.

The time-out was to little avail though. At 8:06 the team in blue hit the back of the net again on a two-on-one. This time Passard had the assist after a horizontal pass in front of the crease to Chloe Aurard, who shot the puck just under the crossbar.

At 11:12 Passard scored her second goal of the night on a rebound after a blocked Marion Allemoz shot. Only after the 4-0 goal did the Latvians have their first real scoring chances but the teams went to their dressing rooms with a four-goal gap reminding of the game players two seasons ago not far from Cergy-Pontoise in Rouen where the French blanked Latvia 7-0 at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I Group A.

The French continued to romp in the second period. At 3:25 Lara Escudero made it a 5-0 lead when skating on the right side of the net to let go a shot from an acute angle. And 27 seconds later Betty Jouanny scored the sixth goal for the Frenchwomen.

The pace only slowed down once the French took penalties. Once the French had their first power play on their own, they converted it after just 18 seconds with a goal from Fohrer at 14:55 of the second period.

In the third period the Latvians had the better start and Agnese Apsite brought her team onto the scoreboard at 2:57. French captain Allemoz restored the seven-goal lead at 12:47 with a long shot to make sure the French converted their second power play of the game as well for the final score of 8-1.

Italy finished the event in second place in its strongest showing in many years. The lowest-seeded Italians beat Latvia 3-2 on the opening day but lost 3-1 to France. They confirmed their form with a 3-0 blanking of China on the last day. Latvia had to settle for third place while China went winless.

 

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Arosa awaits Norway

Hosts through to Final Olympic Qualification

Norwegian forward Millie Sirum scores the 2-1 goal on Slovak netminder Romana Kiapesova.

 

Norway keeps their Olympic dreams alive as they roll on to the Final Olympic Qualification where a place for PyeongChang 2018 is up for grabs.

Winning the Women's Olympic Qualification Preliminary Round 3 Group F on home ice in Stavanger, the hosts sealed their progress after beating Slovakia 6-2 during the final day. Norway, who earlier had seen off Hungary (4-0) and Kazakhstan (5-0), was never shaken nor stirred as they racked up three victories in as many days. Hungary grabbed second spot followed by Slovakia and Kazakhstan.

The win means that Norway will now travel to Arosa, Switzerland, for the final round of the Olympic Qualification where Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Denmark await between 9th and 12th February 2017. The other group of the Final Olympic Qualification includes Japan, Germany, Austria and France.

Mathea Fischer led the way offensively for Norway with two goals and an assist during their final day win against Slovakia, while at the other end, netminder Ena Nystrom made 19 saves in a team-effort which bodes well for the future.

“Our girls stayed confident all the time, we had a few penalty kills too many, but everyone worked together and stayed positive and that's what I expect from them,” said Norway head coach Laura Rollins.

In their deciding game against Slovakia, Norway got themselves in front at 13:36 when Helene Martinsen broke the deadlock, before getting into trouble with Madelene Haug-Hansen being the culprit of a misconduct penalty call with 70 seconds left before the first intermission.

Having one more player for five minutes, Slovakia capitalised 45 seconds into the second frame when Tatiana Istocyova tied the game after her shot found its way past Nystrom in Norway's net, who conceded her first goal of the tournament after more than 140 minutes of play. Buoyed by their goal, the Central Europeans looked for more goals while still on the power play, but spurned opportunities proved to be costly in the end.

“Our efficiency in front of the net was bad today and playing five minutes power play and managing only one goal is not enough, especially with the pressure being on us to win this game,” said Slovakia's head coach Andrej Schober on one of the key moments of the deciding encounter which soon again titled over in Norway's favour.

Being on a two-player advantage saw Fischer become the instigator which saw Millie Sirum, who only last month turned 16, put Norway back in the driving seat with her 2-1 goal at 5:41 of the middle frame. Just over two-and-half minutes later, the home crowd was on their feet once again. After Slovakia's captain Livia Lucova had spurned a good opportunity to tie the game, moments later Andrea Dalen combined with Fischer at the other end to stretch Norway's lead to 3-1.

An alert Viktoria Ihnatova reacted quickest as Iveta Klimasova's slapshot rebounded off the boards to pounce in front of Nystrom in Norway's net to reduce the arrears to one goal at just after the midway mark of the second period.

But come the third period, Norway began to dominate proceedings. The hosts came out storming out in the final frame, won the shots 15-6 and went ahead 4-2 at 1:06 thanks to a low shot by influential blueliner Lene Tendenes.

“Before the third period we made an adjustment on the forecheck, that Slovakia didn't adjust to,” said Rollins. “Once we got our two-goal lead back, our girls settled down a bit and it was a bit easier to keep the puck deep in the zone and play for the win,” she continued.

Fischer charged down in front of the net from the right side to score her second of the evening at 8:15, before with 4:58 left of the contest and on a two-player advantage Silje Holos put the final nail in the coffin with her 6-2 goal which closed the scoring.

Hungary finished the tournament in second place. Following a tepid display against Norway during the opener, they responded the following day by battling display to down neighbours Slovakia 2-0 before two strong periods was enough to see off Kazakhstan 5-2 in their final game.

“We were a bit afraid in our first game when the Norwegian team put big pressure on us and we could not handle it,” said Hungary's head coach Tibor Marton. “We were really down mentally after the first game, but I am proud of my team and the way we managed to improve for the next two games.”

Kazakhstan, who had arrived to Norway well ahead of time on 9th December, suffered three straight defeats but has plenty to look forward to during what is a very busy season for them with Winter Universiade, the Asian Winter Games and the Women’s World Championship looming in 2017.

“We had hoped for better performances from our players during this tournament and I am especially disappointed with how we lost the third period in all of our matches,” said Kazakhstan head coach Alexander Maltsev.

Having failed at the final hurdle for the previous three Winter Olympics, Norway is relishing the challenge of locking horns against higher-ranked nations that await in February.

“Obviously it's going to be a step up for us. Teams that we hope to play against in the top division one day. Our goal is still to move up to the primary pool with the top countries of the world. This will be a good test for us and I think we can bring a pretty good battle against some of those teams,” said Rollins.
 

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FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND

Tournament 1

Arosa (SUI) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017

 

Participating Nations:

• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Norway
• Switzerland

 

 

Round-Robin

4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

 

Denmark  1 - 6  Switzerland

(Score by Period: 0-2, 0-3, 1-1)

9th February 2017, h. 16:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Czech Republic  5 - 0  Norway  

(Score by Period: 2-0, 3-0, 0-0)

9th February 2017, h. 20:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Switzerland  4 - 1  Norway  

(Score by Period: 1-1, 1-0, 2-0)

11th February 2017, h. 16:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Czech Republic  4 - 3  Denmark  

(Score by Period: 1-1, 3-1, 0-1)

11th February 2017, h. 20:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Switzerland  4 - 1  Czech Republic  

(Score by Period: 0-1, 2-0, 2-0)

12th February 2017, h. 16:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Norway  5 - 1  Denmark  

(Score by Period: 0-1, 4-0, 1-0)

12th February 2017, h. 20:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa

 

Round-Robin Final Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	L(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	POINTS
1	Switzerland	3	3	0	0	0	14:3	9
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	0	1	10:7	6
3	Norway	3	1	0	0	2	6:10	3
4	Denmark	3	0	0	0	3	5:15	0

 

 

Following Nation Have Qualified to Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

 

• Switzerland

 

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FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND

Tournament 2

Tomakomai (JPN) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017

 

Participating Nations:

• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Japan

 

 

Round-Robin

4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

 

Germany  (GWS)3 - 2  France

(Score by Period: 0-1, 1-0, 1-1, OT: 0-0, GWS: 1-0)

9th February 2017, h. 14:30 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

Austria  1 - 6  Japan  

(Score by Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-3)

9th February 2017, h. 18:00 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

Germany  4 - 1  Austria

(Score by Period: 2-1, 0-0, 2-0)

11th February 2017, h. 14:30 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

Japan  4 - 1  France  

(Score by Period: 1-0, 1-1, 2-0)

11th February 2017, h. 18:00 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

France  3 - 1  Austria

(Score by Period: 0-0, 1-1, 2-0)

12th February 2017, h. 14:30 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

Japan  3 - 1  Germany  

(Score by Period: 0-0, 2-1, 1-0)

12th February 2017, h. 18:00 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai

 

Round-Robin Final Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	W(OT)	L(OT)	LOSE	SCORE	POINTS
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	0	13:3	9
2	Germany	3	1	1	0	1	8:6	5
3	France	3	1	0	1	1	6:8	4
4	Austria	3	0	0	0	3	3:13	0

 

 

Following Nation Have Qualified to Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

 

• Japan

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So tomorrow begin the final battles for PyeongChang, the first match between France and Germany will start at 6:30 AM our central european time in Tomakomai, Japan. Remember only the tournament winners will qualify to the olympics, we will use the IIHF traditional rules, so since each match must have a winner the main tie-breakrer in case of points equality is the head 2 head confrontation result, so every game will be important and can be decisive at the end.

 

Good luck to all last 8 contenders.