2016 ice hockey women’s world championship

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Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship

DAY 2March 29, 2016

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GROUP DATE TIME PHASE VENUE GAME

GAME 5 B Tuesday, March 29 1:00 pm Preliminary McArthur Island Sport & Event Centre SUI < VS > CZE

GAME 6 A Tuesday, March 29 3:30 pm Preliminary Sandman Centre FIN < VS > USA

GAME 7 B Tuesday, March 29 5:00 pm Preliminary McArthur Island Sport & Event Centre JPN < VS > SWE

GAME 8 A Tuesday, March 29 7:30 pm Preliminary Sandman Centre CAN < VS > RUS

GAME 9 B Thursday, March 31 1:00 pm Preliminary McArthur Island Sport & Event Centre CZE < VS > JPN

GAME 10 A Thursday, March 31 3:30 pm Preliminary Sandman Centre USA < VS > RUS

GAME 11 B Thursday, March 31 5:00 pm Preliminary McArthur Island Sport & Event Centre SWE < VS > SUI

GAME 12 A Thursday, March 31 7:30 pm Preliminary Sandman Centre CAN < VS > FIN

UPCOMING GAMES

RESULTSMAR 28TH GAME GAME 1 - GROUP B

SUI < VS > JPN 4 - 2

GAME 2 - GROUP A RUS < VS > FIN

3 - 5

GAME 3 - GROUP B SWE < VS > CZE

3 - 2GAME 4 - GROUP A

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Maschmeyer and captain Marie-Philip Poulin defend last night at Sandman Centre. The U.S. won 3-1 in both teams’ opening games of the tournament.


For two-and-a-half periods, it seemed Emerance Maschmeyer’s heroics in the crease would be enough to will the Canadians to victory in last night’s debut against the Americans at Sandman Centre.

But in a span less than four minutes, the Americans erased what could have been the performance of the tournament. Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker scored 3:57 apart in the third period to give the Americans the lead and, eventually, a 3-1 victory in Canada’s first game at the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship.

“It’s always disappointing getting a loss — especially against the U.S.,” Maschmeyer said after the game.

“It doesn’t feel good, but it gives us motivation to get them back again.”

Knight put the final nail in the coffin with an empty-net goal at 19:41.

Laura Fortino scored for Canada.Maschmeyer played hero for much

of the contest, with the Americans dominating the game offensively for large stretches. She twice was

Canada’s best penalty killer, keeping the American power play off the board despite a pair of 5-on-3 man advantages.

The Bruderheim, Alta., native made enough saves against the Americans to fill her own highlight reel — 35 in total — but her best came in a pad stop a U.S. breakaway opportunity and, with Canada nursing a 1-0 lead, a sprawling save across the goal line, throwing her glove side down and stop Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson on what appeared to be a sure goal.

But Knight, the scoring leader in the 2015 world championship in Malmö, Sweden, managed to slip one past her at the midway mark of the third period and Brianna Decker added the game-winner on the power play with Canada in the box for the sixth time on the night.

Despite falling to the Americans, Canadian head coach Laura Schuler drew positives from Canada’s game.

“I’m definitely disappointed, but what other coach wouldn’t be?” she said.

“But definitely happy with the way that our team played tonight. We’ve just got to find a way of putting the puck in the net more 5-on-5 and continue to work on building off the momentum we generated off our kill there.

“I thought our girls did a tremendous, tremendous job for us and Emerance was excellent for us in the net.”

The Canadians won’t have to wait long for their next opportunity to find the win column, facing off against the Russians tonight at Sandman Centre.

Puck drop is 7:30 p.m.Schuler was mum on who would

start for Canada, but Maschmeyer put herself in good stead with last night’s performance.

And, no matter what happens in the rest of the tournament, its unlikely she’ll forget what happened in her world championship debut against the U.S.

“It’s frustrating, but again, we’re going to use it as momentum and we’re going to get them when it counts,” Maschmeyer said.

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In last year’s Women’s World Hockey Championship in Sweden, Japan shocked the host country with a 4-3 shootout win to open the tourney.

The upstart country could not replicate the victory in Kamloops as Japan opened the worlds last night with a 4-2 setback to Switzerland.

Christine Huni paced the way for the Swiss, getting in on all four markers with two goals and two assists.

Switzerland outshot Japan 32-28, with Swiss netminder Florence Schelling, winner of the Best Goalie Award at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Russia, notching the win and Japanese goaltender Nana Fujimoto, Best Goalie Award winner at last year’s world championship in Sweden, taking the loss.

Tanja Niskanen scored two goals and added an assist to help Finland down Russia 5-3 yesterday as both teams opened the tourney. Mira Jalosuo and Saila Saari added two assists each for the Finns.

Iya Gavrilova scored two goals for the Russians, who were outshot 28-25. Meeri Raisanen secured the win in net for Finland, while Russia went with Nadezhda Morozova between the pipes.

The game was a rematch of last year’s bronze-medal contest at the worlds in Sweden, a match also won by Finland.

Sweden outshot the Czech Republic by a near 2:1 margin, but had to rely on a stronger third period to pull out a 3-2 win last night.

Sabina Lambertz Kuller, Hanna Olsson and Olivia Carlsson scored for Sweden, while Petra Herzigova and Aneta Ledlova replied for the Czechs.

Sweden outshot the Czech Republic 31-18, with Sara Grahn recording the win in net for the Swedes and Klara Peslarova in goal for the Czechs.


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The Czech Republic makes its return to the elite division of the women’s world championship in 2016, relegated after losing in a best-of-three series against Sweden in the 2013 tournament in Ottawa.

Kamloops’ world championship will mark the Czechs’ second berth in the elite division and the European nation will be looking to avoid relegation in its return to playing with against the world’s best.

Captain Alena Polenská is expected to lead the Czech Republic in 2016, as she did in the division 1 tournament in France that saw the nation promoted for the 2016 world championship.

The Brown University product led her nation in scoring with four goals and three assists in France, including three points in a critical victory over Austria.

The 25-year-old plays for Dinamo Saint Petersburg of Russia’s Women’s Hockey League.

Japan enters the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship having staved off relegation at the 2015 tournament in Malmö, Sweden.

The nation won a pair of overtime decisions against Germany in the best-of-three relegation round last year, opening the door for the Czech Republic to be promoted to the elite division for the 2016 tournament.

Despite fighting to avoid relegation last year, Japan is a team that should not be underestimated in Kamloops.

Arguably the least-well-known hockey nation in the 2016 tournament, Japan has surprised before at the women’s world championship, knocking off host Sweden in a preliminary round shootout to open the tournament in Malmö last year.

The club finished the 2015 world championship with two victories — it also won in group play against Germany — and was just one point shy of the nation’s first berth in the quarter-finals of elite division play.

Getting to the elimination rounds will be the goal in Kamloops for the Japanese, who will be led by goaltender Nana Fujimoto. The 27-year-old was named the tournament’s best goaltender in the Malmö world championship and is coming off a solid season with the New York Riveters of the National Women’s Hockey League.

Offensively, the Japanese will look to 19-year-old Rui Ukita, who led the nation in scoring in Malmö with one goal and three assists.

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STANDINGS2016

THREE POINT SYSTEMFor all games points shall be awarded as follows:• 3 points for the winning

team at the conclusion of regulation time

• 1 point for both teams at the conclusion of regulation time if the game is tied

• 0 points for the team losing the game in regulation time

• An additional point earned for the team winning the game in a 5-minute overtime period, or the Game Winning Shots (shootout)

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Come the gold-medal game, the women’s world championship has always been about Canada and the United States.

And though that’s again expected to be the case when the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship wraps up in Kamloops on Monday, nations across Europe and Asia are inching ever closer to competing with the heavyweights of North America.

“I think every international tournament, from year to year that has taken place, the parity continues to get better,” Team Canada head coach and former Olympian Laura Schuler told KTW.

“You never know who can win those games now, so the parity has gotten tremendously better.”

Goaltending has always been the great equalizer in women’s hockey.

Schuler singled out netminding in Sweden and Finland, as well as the defensive play of the nations, for keeping international games close. Japan boasts goaltender Nana Fujimoto, voted the best netminder in the 2015 world championship in Malmö, Sweden, and Switzerland’s Florence Schelling was the most valuable player in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Games are no longer as lopsided as they once were and the longer teams are able to stick around, the better their chances are of knocking off one of the traditional powerhouses.

“If you look back at just the recent tournaments and then, particularly, the Olympics, I think everybody that really got a chance to watch the depth of that tournament started to see a tipping point in favour of there being more competitive groups in that next tier as well as in the top four,” Reagan Carey, general manager of the United

States since 2010, told KTW before the tournament got underway.

“I would anticipate that once we get to 2018, it will be even more paralleled.”

Behind Canada and the United States are a handful of nations all working to take their programs to the next level. Finland has won bronze in 11 of the last 16 world championships, as well as in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Switzerland captured bronze at the 2014 Olympics and the Swedes played for bronze in both 2010 and 2014. Russia is in Group A for its second consecutive world championship this year and has won three bronze medals in the last four years.

It can be difficult to always play second fiddle to the Canadians and the Americans, but programs from around the world are making small gains, investing more money in semi-professional women’s leagues and improving coaching and development programs in hopes future generations can reach new heights at tournaments like the world championship.

Granted, there’s work still to be done. The women’s game has made tremendous strides in levelling the playing field, but as Canada’s 9-0 win over Sweden in pre-tournament action demonstrated, balance hasn’t entirely been achieved.

“It’s a little frustrating and we have

to find some way to challenge them,” Leif Boork, head coach of Sweden since 2013, said of North American dominance in the sport.

“I think that time will come, but I don’t know when, but we try to challenge them. We are trying to catch up.”

While the rest of the world wants parity to arrive sooner, Canadian players told KTW improvements in the play of their opponents are noticeable.

Despite their position at the top of the heap, the Americans and the Canadians, as much as anyone, are hoping to soon see a day when any nation can contend for the gold medal at events like the world championship.

“It’s growing a lot and it’s really cool to see, honestly,” said Canadian defenceman Tara Watchorn, who is playing in her third world championship in Kamloops.

“You have to prepare every game like it’s the Canada-U.S. game. Every team brings a different style, brings different systems and you have to be ready to get on the ice every time we play.

“It brings a lot of excitement to these tournaments knowing that it’s going to be exciting games. We thrive off that, we love the competition and it gets you that much more prepared for a gold-medal game, whoever it is — and it could be anyone.”

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At just 24 years of age, Marie-Philip Poulin has already lived a career full of hockey moments.

A prodigious hockey talent, the Canadian forward seems to always save her best for her country.

The Beauceville, Que., native scored the game-winning goal in both the 2010 and 2014 Olympic Winter Games and, Olympics aside, her list of accolades still reads like a record book.

Poulin won the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s Clarkson Cup in her sophomore season. As a rookie in the same league, she notched 43 points, including 22 goals, and finished second in the MVP voting by team captains, despite being only 16 years old and having played just half a season.

She had an exceptional hockey career at Boston University before returning to the CWHL for the 2015-2016 season and winning the Angela James Bowl as the league’s leading scorer with 46 points in 22 games. She added another eight playoff points as her Les Canadiennes de Montréal launched a bid to again hoist the Clarkson Cup in 2016. The Canadiennes would lose the championship to the Calgary Inferno — for whom many of her now Canadian teammates play — but Poulin scored one of Montreal’s three goals in the final.

She was later voted by her peers the winner of the Jayna Hefford Memorial Trophy, awarded to the player who best reflects the principles of the CWHL — skill, competitiveness and leadership — and was named the league’s most valuable player.

Here in Kamloops — as she did last year in Malmö, Sweden — she will captain Canada’s national team.

Poulin is quickly becoming the new face of the ladies’ game north of the border and during the 2010

Olympics in Vancouver was drawing comparisons to NHL star Sidney Crosby.

“I’m not too sure about that,” Poulin said with a laugh.

“I think for me, I just play hard. I’m so lucky to be able to play for Canada, to be wearing that jersey. For me, just to work hard every day, to be improving, to make other people around me better, that’s why I go out.

“I don’t think it’s the right comparison, for sure.”

Comparisons notwithstanding, Poulin will be relied on heavily by the Canadians this week in Kamloops. She is expected to be part of the team’s top scoring line with Meghan Agosta and Natalie Spooner and was second to only Spooner in scoring in the 2015 championship.

Poulin said she and her teammates need to focus on the details of the game if they hope to be singing the Canadian national anthem on Monday, returning to the winner’s circle for the first time since the 2012 world championship in Burlington, Vt.

“We know we’ve been losing the last couple world championships and it has been disappointing. For us, it’s a big motivation for us,” she said.

“When you lose the gold medal, I think it’s a disappointment. Especially in Canada, we know we have to win gold and that’s what we want to do.”

Poulin has already amassed a career’s worth of hockey hardware, but she’s hoping to add one more — another world championship gold medal. Right now, her trophy case is a little lopsided with silver.

And what better place to do it than on Canadian soil?

“I think its a privilege to be able to play here, in front of your home crowd, in Canada,” she said.

“To wear that jersey in front of them, I think it’s so exciting.”

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