The 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship was the 18th edition of the Top Division of the Women's Ice Hockey World Championship organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was held in Plymouth Township, Michigan, United States from 31 March to 7 April 2017.2017 IIHF Women's World Championship official website2017 IIHF Women's World Championship at www.iihf.com2017 IIHF Women's World Championship statistics The USA Hockey Arena served as the event's venue using Arena I and Arena II.
Three-time defending champions, the United States, winning their fourth consecutive and eighth overall title, after defeated Canada in the gold medal game 3–2 after overtime. Finland won the bronze medal by beating Germany 8–0.
Venues USA Hockey Arena I3,504 USA Hockey Arena II800
Participating teams
Group A – Hosts
Group B
– Promoted from Division I Group A in 2016
Match officials 10 referees and 9 linesmen were selected for the tournament.
Referees Dina Allen Gabrielle Ariano-Lortie Nikoleta Celárová Anna Eskola Drahomira Fialova Gabriella Gran Nicole Hertrich Aina Hove Miyuki Nakayama Melissa Szkola
Linesmen Bettina Angerer Veronica Johansson Michaela Kúdeľová Jessica Leclerc Lisa Linnek Ilona Novotná Nataša Pagon Johanna Tauriainen Justine Todd
Rosters
Each team's roster consists 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 "Long List" roster no later than two weeks before the tournament, and a final roster by the Passport Control meeting prior to the start of tournament.
Preliminary round All times are local (UTC−4).
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. The IIHF opted to expand the World Championship to ten teams starting in 2019, so no team was relegated after all.
Switzerland won series 2–1 and finished in 7th place.
Final round
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Final
Final standings
Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8
Statistics and awards Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS Kendall Coyne 5 5 7 12 +10 0 F Brianna Decker 5 3 9 12 +11 8 F Hilary Knight 5 4 5 9 +10 0 F Lara Stalder 6 4 5 9 +5 2 F Susanna Tapani 6 3 6 9 0 2 F Alina Müller 6 4 4 8 +2 2 F Aneta Lédlová 6 3 3 6 +7 12 F Marie-Philip Poulin 5 2 4 6 +3 2 F Amanda Kessel 5 1 5 6 +4 0 F Monique Lamoureux 5 1 5 6 +11 0 D GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com
Leading goaltenders 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 Nicole Hensley 190:17 2 0.63 56 96.43 2 Shannon Szabados 248:29 5 1.21 109 95.41 2 Florence Schelling 368:00 11 1.79 160 93.12 0 Noora Räty 355:03 12 2.03 157 92.36 2 Nadezhda Alexandrova 183:18 6 1.96 70 91.43 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: Noora Räty Best Defenceman: Jenni Hiirikoski Best Forward: Brianna Decker Source: IIHF.com
All-star team Goaltender: Noora Räty Defence: Monique Lamoureux, Jenni Hiirikoski Forwards: Marie-Philip Poulin, Brianna Decker, Kendall Coyne MVP: Brianna Decker Source: IIHF.com
Threatened boycott by US players On 15 March 2017, the U.S. team announced that unless concessions were made by USA Hockey, they would boycott the World Championship to protest inequitable support and conditions for women's hockey. The players were publicly supported by the players' associations for the NBA, WNBA, MLB, NFL, and the NHL.
After several days of stalled negotiations and attempts to field a team of non-boycotting players, causing concern over such a team being competitive, an agreement was struck with USA Hockey to increase player pay and support for women's development; the original players immediately agreed to play in the World Championship.
References
External links Tournament official website Official website of IIHF Complete results at the hockeyarchives.info