🇺🇸 United States 5-3 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Monday, 03 April 2017
Hilary Knight scored two power-play goals; the Finns rallied from a 3-1 deficit; Hannah Brandt broke a 3-3 tie with a goal midway through the third period.
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🇺🇸 United States 7-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 01 April 2017
Team USA scored three goals in the second period–two by Jocelyn Lamoureux-Davidson–en route to an impressive 7-0 win over Russia.
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🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Friday, 31 March 2017
The Americans may have been a few practises shy of being fully game ready, but they showed no signs of rust, and their rivalry with Canada was just the ticket.
Nicole Hensley stopped all 18 shots from Canada in only her second career start in World Women’s Championship play, backstopping the host United States to a huge 2-0 win over Canada to start the tournament for both countries.
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In a good news story after weeks of bad blood between the U.S. Women’s National Team and USA Hockey, a new four year agreement has been agreed upon by both parties, ensuring that the U.S. team will suit up for the Women’s World Championships, which begin in just three days time in Plymouth, Michigan.
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A cloud of uncertainty and tension hangs over Plymouth, Michigan this week, with the biggest story leading up to the 2017 Women’s World Championships being told off the ice, as to whether Team USA will end up attending, or continue their boycott against USA Hockey over unequal treatment.
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The Buffalo Beauts, avenging their 2016 Isobel Cup loss to the Boston Pride in the inaugural Cup finals, today clinched the 2017 and second-ever Isobel Cup with a 3-2 victory over the Pride in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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In a shocking development less than a month before the 2017 Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, the U.S. women’s national team today announced, in solidarity, that they will sit out the Worlds in protest of a lack of support from USA Hockey, the culmination of a year’s worth of legal proceedings with the American hockey body.
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The Montréal Canadiennes, avenging their 2016 Clarkson Cup loss to Calgary and avoiding a third straight Cup defeat, today clinched the 2017 Clarkson Cup with a 3-1 victory over the Inferno in Ottawa, Ontario.
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U.S. women’s team defender Anne Schleper, an 11-year veteran of the national team and player in both the CWHL and NWHL, today announced her retirement at the age of 27.
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The IIHF has announced the Hall Of Fame Class of 2017, to be inducted at May’s World Championships in Cologne, Germany. All five players set to be inducted into the players category bring a swath of major international accomplishments (including many International Hockey Lineal Championships) to the Hall, as the IIHF is set to honour Joe Sakic, Saku Koivu, Teemu Selänne, Angela Ruggiero and Uwe Krupp.
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The most decorated player in women’s hockey history today announced her retirement from professional hockey, with Hayley Wickenheiser stepping down from the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno and Team Canada, which she joined in 1994 at the age of 15.
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Unlike 2015, which was “the year of Team USA” in women’s hockey, there was a little more parity in the later months of 2016, with Canada finally striking multiple blows to Team USA’s dominance, ultimately ending the calendar year with the International Hockey Lineal Championship.
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🇺🇸 United States 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (OT)
Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Monday, 04 April 2016
Climaxing a tense final, Alex Carpenter scored at 12:30 of overtime as the U.S. beat Canada 1-0 to win Gold at the 2016 IIHF World Women’s Championship.
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🇺🇸 United States 9-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Semifinal
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Sunday, 03 April 2016
The U.S. scored five first-period goals in a 9-0 semi-final romp over Russia at the Sandman Centre on Sunday. The defending champions will play for Gold again.
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After losing consecutive tilts to Switzerland in the relegation round, Japan has been demoted to Division I Group A in 2017, while Germany, sweeping this year’s Group A in Aalborg, Denmark, will be promoted to the 2017 Women’s World Championship next April in Plymouth, Michigan, USA.
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🇺🇸 United States 8-0 Russia 🇷🇺
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Thursday, 31 March 2016
The United States clinched the top seed in Group A and a semi-final berth with a 8-0 pounding of Russia. Monique Lamoureux and Hilary Knight both scored twice.
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🇺🇸 United States 2-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Persistence pays off. The U.S. proved that by outshooting Finland 51-7 in a 2-1 win on Tuesday at the Sandman Centre.
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🇺🇸 United States 3-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Sandman Centre, Kamloops 🇨🇦
Monday, 28 March 2016
The defending champion U.S. bounced back to beat Canada 3-1 in an exciting first-day showdown between the likely finalists at a sold-out Sandman Centre.
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The U.S. women’s national team looks to continue its torrid winning streak since Sochi, looking to capture another clean sheet at the 2016 World Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia, after cleaning house at both the 2015 Worlds and 2016 Four Nations Cup.
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Today the USA Hockey Arena, an arena in Plymouth, Michigan that was recently purchased by USA Hockey to house their National Development Team, announced that the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championships would be held at the arena, tentatively set for 1-8 April 2017.
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