Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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USA to play in Women's Worlds

USA Hockey, women's team resolve dispute

 

                           Team USA, winners of the last three Women's World Championships, will defend its title on home ice in Plymouth

 

USA Hockey and the U.S. Women’s National Team announced that they’ve reached an agreement that will result in groundbreaking support for the team.

 

The agreement ensures fans will see the U.S. Women’s National Team defend its gold medal in the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship on home ice. The event begins Friday (March 31) at USA Hockey Arena in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, with Team USA facing Canada at 7:30 p.m. ET. 

The U.S. is expected to hold its first official practice on Thursday (March 30) at 3:15 p.m. ET at USA Hockey Arena.

“Today reflects everyone coming together and compromising in order to reach a resolution for the betterment of the sport,” said Jim Smith, president of USA Hockey. “We’ll now move forward together knowing we’ll look back on this day as one of the most positive in the history of USA Hockey.”
 

“Our sport is the big winner today,” said Meghan Duggan, captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team. “We stood up for what we thought was right and USA Hockey’s leadership listened. In the end, both sides came together. I’m proud of my teammates and can’t thank everyone who supported us enough. It’s time now to turn the page. We can’t wait to play in the World Championship later this week in front of our fans as we try and defend our gold medal.”

“We look forward to the future with great anticipation,” said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey. “This process has, in the end, made us better.”

“I’m glad we could come together and reach an arrangement that will have a positive and lasting impact,” said Hilary Knight, veteran forward of the U.S. Women’s National Team. “This is an inspirational time and we’re excited to get back on the ice and represent our country.”

“The action taken today is an important statement of USA Hockey’s commitment and support of our women’s national team program and female hockey overall,” said Donna Guariglia, treasurer of USA Hockey and former chair of USA Hockey’s Girls’ and Women’s Section.

NOTES: The parties agreed to keep financial terms between them … The agreement includes the formation of a Women’s High Performance Advisory Group of former and current players from the U.S. Women’s National Team program, along with volunteer and staff leadership, to meet regularly to assist USA Hockey in efforts to advance girls’ and women’s hockey in all areas, including programming, marketing, promotion and fundraising. That is in addition to the focus on the grassroots hockey areas that volunteers of USA Hockey’s Girls’ and Women’s Section have been involved with for almost 30 years. 

Courtesy of USA Hockey

 

 

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Next team to be introduced is

France

The co-host of the 2017 IIHF World Championships, could "Les Bleus" make a memorable run in Paris?

 

FRANCE

 

 

 

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April is not only the Totallympics Annual Song Contest month, but also the main IIHF ice hockey world championships tournaments month,

 

this April all Mens World Championships (except top division which will be played in May) will be contested, the Division II A and II B will start soon on Monday and Tuesday in Romania and New Zealand,

 

but also all remaining Under 18 mens world championships tournaments including the top division in Slovakia are scheduled this April, and last but not least also all remaining womens world championships will be played this month as well..

 

The first one is the Top division tournament in Plymouth (USA) which will start tomorrow the last 2017 March Day.

 

 

Womens

 

Top Division World Championships 2017 in Plymouth, Michigan (USA)

Day 1 Schedule (31st March 2017)

GMT -4

 

Group A

16:00  Finland vs Russia  (USA National Hockey Arena 2)

19:35  United States vs Canada  (USA National Hockey Arena 1)

 

Group B

12:00  Czech Republic vs Switzerland  (USA National Hockey Arena 1)

15:35  Sweden vs Germany  (USA National Hockey Arena 1)

 

 

 

*Tournament format - The format include 2 stages, the preliminary round and the knock-out round. All 8 participating teams start The Preliminary Round, the teams are divided according their positions in the womens IIHF ranking into 2 groups A and B, the 4 highest ranked teams are in Group A the remaining nations in Group B. The top 2 teams from Group A will qualify directly for the semifinals, 3rd and 4th ranked teams will qualify to the Quarterfinal play-off match where they will meet in a cross system the top 2 teams from group B (3Avs2B and 4Avs1B), 3rd and 4th teams of group B will have to play a best of three relegation serie, the losing team will be relegated to the next years womens Division I Group A world championship 2018.

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the match Canada vs USA is canceled ????

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1 minute ago, bestmen said:

the match Canada vs USA is canceled ????

No, it's scheduled for this night  You can see the schedule and the live score here

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The first match of this years womens worlds nearly finished by a football score 1:0. Czech Republic was very very close to surprise Switzerland and revenge the elimination in the olympic qualification against them few weeks ago. but Switzerland find the way to equalize in the end of the 3rd frame, so overtime to come

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lol 1-1 who predicted that ?

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Just now, bestmen said:

lol 1-1 who predicted that ?

Isn't finished yet  We have OT  

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And Switzerland won on penalties

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oops i missed the first game