The 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship was the 16th such event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was played in Malmö, Sweden, from 28 March to 4 April 2015.2015 IIHF Women's World Championship official website2015 IIHF Women's World Championship statistics Venues included the Malmö Isstadion, and Rosengårds Ishall.
The United States securing their second consecutive and sixth title overall, after defeated Canada in the gold medal game 7–5. Finland won the bronze medal by beating Russia 4–1.
Participating teams The tournament was contested between eight teams divided into two groups.
Group A
Group B
Venues MalmöMalmö Malmö IsstadionCapacity: 5,750 Rosengårds Ishall
Format The preliminary round was divided into two pools that placed the top four seeds into Group A, and the bottom four in Group B. The top two finishers in Group A advanced directly to the semifinals, while the two remaining teams and the top two in Group B played a quarterfinal round. The bottom two teams from Group B played a relegation series to determine the one team that gets relegated.
Match officials 10 referees and 9 linesmen were selected for the tournament.Competition officials
Referees Gabrielle Ariano-Lortie Anna Eskola Kaisa Ketonen Marie Picavet Nicole Hertrich Gabriella Gran Katarina Timglas Drahomira Fialova Katie Guay Jamie Huntley
Linesmen Bettia Angerer Stephanie Gagnon Ilona Novotná Kaire Leet Jenni Heikkinen Lisa Linnek Anna Nygard Veronica Johansson Kate Connolly
Rosters
Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 20 skaters and 3 goaltenders. All eight participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate.
Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 10 September 2014.
All times are local (Central European Summer Time – UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Relegation round The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
were relegated to the 2016 Division I A
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Final
Final standings
Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 Relegated to the 2016 Division I A
Awards and statistics Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS Hilary Knight 5 7 5 12 +8 6 F Brianna Decker 5 5 6 11 +8 0 F Anna Borgqvist 4 5 3 8 +6 2 F Jocelyne Lamoureux 4 5 3 8 +3 2 F Natalie Spooner 5 4 3 7 +6 6 F Kendall Coyne 5 3 4 7 +8 0 F Anne Schleper 4 1 6 7 +4 2 D Monique Lamoureux 5 1 6 7 +7 2 D Erika Grahm 4 4 2 6 +7 2 F Marie-Philip Poulin 5 3 3 6 +4 2 F GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com
Goaltending leaders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list. Player TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SO Florence Schelling 236:13 7 1.78 118 94.07 1 Nana Fujimoto 315:32 8 1.52 128 93.75 1 Meeri Räisänen 301:27 10 1.99 148 93.24 1 Ann-Renée Desbiens 140:00 4 1.71 58 93.10 2 Ivonne Schröder 127:00 4 1.89 49 91.84 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com
Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Nana Fujimoto Best Defenceman: Jenni Hiirikoski Best Forward: Hilary Knight Source: IIHF.com
All-star team Goaltender: Defence: , Forwards: , ,
References
External links Official website of IIHF