Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships 2017

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WOMEN'S

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

 

 

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Decker named MVP

Tied for scoring, gold medal winner

 

U.S. forward Brianna Decker was a triple winner. She was awarded MVP and Directorate Award trophies and was named to the All-Star Team as a forward.

 

Decker tied for the scoring lead with teammate Kendall Coyne, each recording 12 points in five games. Decker led all players with nine assists while Coyne was leader in goals with five.

 

Most Valuable Player

Brianna Decker

 

 

Directorate Awards

Best Goaltender: Noora Raty
Best Defenceman: Jenni Hiirikoski
Best Forward: Brianna Decker

 

 

Media All-Star Team

Goal: Noora Raty
Defence: Jenni Hiirikoski 
Defence: Monique Lamoureux 
Forward: Marie-Philip Poulin
Forward: Brianna Decker
Forward: Kendall Coyne

 

 

Total attendance for the 21 games at USA Hockey arena in Plymouth was 20,034 for 22 games

 

The 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship will be held in Finland.

 

 

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So the womens world championships finished with a first home gold (the 8th title overall) for the United States. What a season for USA hockey so far...3 World championships ended this season 2016/17 the mens U20, womens U18 and now the womens category, and in all 3 USA won gold  

 

and in all 3 they won the gold medal matches against Canada winning their 5th consecutive silver in womens world championships top division.

 

Bronze went to Finland their 12th consecutive bronze. Finland next years host also reached this time a big milestone becomming the first non North American nation to win a match against a North American national team, defeating Canada in the preliminary round.

 

4th place for Germany is the major surprise of this years tournament, the newly promoted team surprisingly won the preliminary round group and eliminated Russia in the quarterfinals, but the cinderella story came to an end in the final four against the womens ice hockey top teams.

 

5th finished Russia and 6th Sweden, 7th Switzerland survived among the elite after a extremely close relegation round battle, they even lost the first game and were down 0-1 in the best of 3 serie, but the Sochi 2014 olympic bronze medalists managed to win next 2 games and survived in top division.

 

8th and last finished Czech Republic, the czechs are relegated to the lower Womens Division I Group A world championships next year, but they still might hope for miracles, apparently there huge chances that the womens top division will be increased to 10 teams, the final decision will be made this summer, if it will be approved CZE will stay among the elite and 2 teams will be promoted from this years womens Division I A which will be played later this month in Austria.

 

 

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Relegation Round - Match 3

Switzerland - Czech Republic  3-1

Serie Final Standing 2-1

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

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Bronze Medal Match

Germany 0 - 8 Finland

HIGHLIGHTS

 

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Gold Medal Match

United States OT3 - 2 Canada
HIGHLIGHTS

 

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Mens

 

Under 18 Division II Group A World Championships 2017 in Gangneung, PyeongChang (KOR)

Day 5 (8th April 2017)

GMT +9

 

Last Day

 

12:00  Great Britain vs Croatia  6-3

16:30  Lithuania vs Estonia  1-3

21:00  South Korea vs Romania  1-2

 

Romania won the tournament with 13 points and gain promotion for the Mens Under 18 Division I Group B.

 

Silver medals surprisingly went to Estonia with 9 points, Estonia was 4th before the last day but thanks their win in the baltic derby and help of Romania, the young Estonians will return home with silver medals.

 

Lithuania fighted until the last day for promotion but after todays lose with their Estonian neighbors they finished the tournamet with 8 points in 3rd rank and will bring the bronze home.

 

Host South Korea also battled until the very last second of the tournament for 1st place and gold medal but the lose dropped them even behind the podium to finish 4th with 7 points.

 

5th finished Great Britain also finished with 7 points but worst head to head match with the hosts. Team GB fought during the last day for the maintain and they reach their goal beating their main rivals and sends Croatia down to the lower category. Estonia, Lithuania, South Korea and Great Britain will play the U18 Division IIA also next year.

 

Last 6th place for Croatia. The young Croatian team finished last with only 1 single point. earned after the overtime lose with Estonia. btw this is a extremely awful year for Croatian ice hockey so far, because the same thing (fact of relegation) happened also to the Croatian U20 team few months ago, Croatia will have to play the mens Under 18 Division II Group B next year, where they will replace Australia, promoted team to this U18 Div. II A from this years U18 Div IIB tournament played a couples of weeks ago in Serbia.

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Womens

 

Division II Group A World Championships 2017 in Gangneung, PyeongChang (KOR)

Day 5 (8th April 2017)

GMT +9

 

Last Day

 

12:00  North Korea vs Slovenia  4-2

16:30  Netherlands vs South Korea  0-2

21:00  Great Britain vs Australia  5-3

 

South Korea  won home tournament with perfect 5-0 record (15 pts) and advance to next years Division I Group B world Championship.

 

Silver medals went to the Netherlands. The dutch team collected in this tournament 12 points but the lose with the host team will cost them another year in this division.

 

Bronze medals went to Great Britain with 7 points. all 4 teams behind South Korea and Netherlands played until the end for the maintain and 3-6 places, and it´s GB who managed the best finish resulting in bronze medals.

 

North Korea finished their first ever ice hockey tournament in South Korea in the 4th position with 5 points. PRK had the worst position before last day they were in 6th position but hopefully for them it ended in the best way with the win over Slovenia.

 

Slovenia finished 5th with 3 points and survived in this division also for the next season. Only 1 win was enough for them. Netherlands, Great Britain, North Korea and Slovenia will play the womens Division II Group A tournament also next year.

 

Tough Luck for Australia. Last 6th place means the relegation to the Womens Division II Group B next year. where they will replace Mexico promoted team from this years Division II B played few weeks ago in Iceland. Australia finished the tournament also with 3 points but they lost to Slovenia 3-0, which is the reason of the Australian relegation.

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So after a very bad first period, our team improved their play much more and we won again 0-2.

2 wins in Denmark both 0-2.

 

Great sign especially in the goaltender post. 2 shutouts of Július Hudáček are very very cool.

In general really satisfying first pre-worlds training camp. 2 wins in denmark this is not a really easy task at all. but there still some things that we must improve and work with it, especially the shooting efficiency. it is so poor, we have troubles in the offensive part, we eagerly need some strikers to come. also it seems we make too much stupid fouls in the offensive zone, very dumb penalties and since our disastrous penalty killing play (I can not imagine to see more static positions in PK than we do ) we really need to work on it..

 

so gonna be interesting to see how many players will be cut off, and who will be invited for the second camp next week. At this moment I really don´t know how many players from this camp  will go to the worlds.

 

next week 2nd pre-worlds stage with 2 matches against Switzerland

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We lose 4-1 against Lithuania We have change to remain in this division?

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18 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

We lose 4-1 against Lithuania We have change to remain in this division?

 

Latvia

 

and yes