2000 Women's World Hockey Championship
A Pool
The 2000 Pool A Women's World Championship was held at the Hershey
Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada from April 3-9, 2000. This 6th
IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship also featured six satellite
games in these cities within Ontario: Barrie, Kitchener, London, Niagara
Falls, Oshawa, and Peterborough.
Team Canada is World Champion for the 6th time in row. They defeated Team USA by a score of 3-2 in an exciting come from behind overtime win. Team Finland outscored Team Sweden 7-1 to claim the bronze medal.
The top six teams from this championship qualify automatically for the 2002 Winter Olympics (Canada, USA, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and China). The bottom two teams in this World Championship (Germany and Japan) will play against the top two teams from the 2000 Pool B World Championship (Kazakstan and Switzerland) in February 2001 to determine the final two competitors for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The team that finished last in this World Championship (Japan) will move down to the B Pool World Championship for next year, while the winner of the B Pool World Championship (Kazakstan) will move up to the A Pool.
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China |
Japan |
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Date Time Grp Opponents City Arena Mon Apr 3 4:00 p.m. B Finland 7 Russia 1 Mississauga Hershey Centre Mon Apr 3 7:30 p.m. A Japan 0 Canada 9 Mississauga Hershey Centre Mon Apr 3 7:00 p.m. A Sweden 1 China 1 Peterborough Memorial Centre Mon Apr 3 7:00 p.m. B Germany 1 USA 16 Barrie Molson Centre Tue Apr 4 4:00 p.m. B Finland 4 Germany 1 Mississauga Hershey Centre Tue Apr 4 7:30 p.m. B USA 15 Russia 0 Mississauga Hershey Centre *Tue Apr 4 7:30 p.m. A Canada 8 China 1 Kitchener Memorial Aud. Tue Apr 4 7:00 p.m. A Sweden 10 Japan 0 Niagara Falls Memorial Arena Thu Apr 6 4:00 p.m. A China 3 Japan 0 Mississauga Hershey Centre *Thu Apr 6 7:30 p.m. A Canada 4 Sweden 0 Mississauga Hershey Centre Thu Apr 6 7:00 p.m. B Russia 7 Germany 2 Oshawa Civic Centre Thu Apr 6 7:00 p.m. B USA 4 Finland 3 London Thompson Fri Apr 7 4:00 p.m. A3 China 3 B4 Germany 0 Mississauga Hershey Centre Fri Apr 7 7:30 p.m. B3 Japan 4 A4 Russia 8 Mississauga Hershey Centre *Sat Apr 8 1:00 p.m. A1 Canada 3 B2 Finland 2 Mississauga Hershey Centre Sat Apr 8 7:00 p.m. B1 USA 7 A2 Sweden 1 Mississauga Hershey Centre Sun Apr 9 12:00 p.m. Germany 3 Japan 2 7th Iceland Hershey Centre Sun Apr 9 12:00 p.m. Russia 4 China 0 5th Mississauga Hershey Centre Sun Apr 9 4:00 p.m. Finland 7 Sweden 1 Brnz Mississauga Hershey Centre *Sun Apr 9 7:30 p.m. Canada 3 USA 2 (OT) Gold Mississauga Hershey Centre
TV Coverage:
* Denotes a television game. All televised games started 10 minutes later than the scheduled time. These games were televised by TSN/RDS. TSN's web site also carried a live cybercast of the game.
Note that We Sweat on Oxygen will also cover the gold medal game on a tape delay basis on April 16th and April 22nd.
Group A - Round Robin Rk Team GP W T L GF : GA TP 1 Canada 3 3 0 0 21 : 1 6 2 Sweden 3 1 1 1 11 : 5 3 3 China 3 1 1 1 5 : 9 3 4 Japan 3 0 0 3 0 : 22 0 Group B - Round Robin Rk Team GP W T L GF : GA TP 1 USA 3 3 0 0 35 : 4 6 2 Finland 3 2 0 1 14 : 6 4 3 Russia 3 1 0 2 8 : 24 2 4 Germany 3 0 0 3 4 : 27 0
Hershey Centre Ticket Packages are on sale Tuesday, October 26, 1999.
Individual tickets for satellite games and Iceland are on sale Tuesday, October 26, 1999.
For tickets to the games played at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, please call 416-872-5000. The regular package is $139.50 and the VIP Package is $179.50
Here is the ticket information for all other games:
Barrie April 3 Germany vs. USA $ 10.00 705-737-6850
Peterborough April 3 Sweden vs. China $ 8.00 705-743-3561
Kitchener April 4 Canada vs. China $ 10.00 519-745-0303
$ 15.00 1-800-265-6368
Niagara Falls April 4 Sweden vs. Japan $ 8.00 905-358-3808
Oshawa April 6 Russia vs. Germany $ 10.00 905-728-5162
London April 6 USA vs. Finland $ 10.00 519-661-3629
Iceland Arena in
Mississauga April 9 7th / 8th Game $ 8.00 905-507-7777
Fran Rider
Chairperson
2000 IIHF Womens World Hockey Championship
1-905-282-9711
worldchampionship@owha.on.ca
Joanne Gray
Event manager
Canadian Hockey Association
1-403-777-3620
jgray@canadianhockey.ca
Thursday, March 16, 2000 China 2 vs. Newtonbrook 2 (Sr AA) 7 pm North York, ON (Ice Gardens) Monday, March 20, 2000 China 4 vs. Brampton 6 (NWHL) 7:30 North York, ON (Ice Gardens) Wednesday, March 29, 2000 Canada 10 vs. Germany 0 7 pm Kitchener, ON (Kitchener Mem.) Japan 4 vs. Durham 4 (NWHL) 7 pm Pickering, ON (Delaney Pad) China 5 vs. Brampton 2 (NWHL) 8 pm Brampton, ON (BSC) Thursday, March 30, 2000 Japan 6 vs. Scarborough 1 (NWHL) 7:30 Stouffville, ON Sweden 4 vs. London 0 (Sr AA) 7 pm London, ON China 1 vs. Mississauga 1 (NWHL) 7:30 Mississauga, ON (Clarkson) Russia 5 vs. Brampton 5 (NWHL) 8 pm Brampton, ON (BSC) Friday, March 31, 2000 Finland 2 vs. Aeros 8 (NWHL) 7 pm North York, ON (Ice Gardens) Saturday, April 1, 2000 Canada 9 vs. Sweden 1 7 pm Sarnia, ON Japan 0 vs. USA 13 7:30 Stouffville, ON Russia 4 vs. Durham 1 (NWHL) 7 pm Caledon, ON (Teen Ranch) Germany 2 vs. Mississauga 10 (NWHL) 7 pm Kitchener, ON (Kitchener Mem.)
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