1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

The 1990 IIHF World Women's Championships was an international women's ice hockey competition held at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (now renamed the TD Place Arena) from March 19 to 25, in 1990.[1] This was the first IIHF-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey and is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.[2] Full contact bodychecking was allowed with certain restrictions near the boards. The intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen.[3] This has since been changed to the usual fifteen minutes.

1990 IIHF Women's World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Canada
Dates19–25 March
Officially opened byRay Hnatyshyn
Teams8
Arena(s) (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Canada (1st title)
Runner-up  United States
Third place  Finland
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored237 (11.85 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Cindy Curley (23 points)
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The Canadian team won the gold medal, the United States won silver, and Finland won bronze. Team Finland had won the first IIHF European Women’s Championship the previous year (1989), in Düsseldorf and Ratingen, Germany.

Canada's Fran Rider helped to organize the championships without the financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (now known as Hockey Canada).[4]

The tournament drew strong international attention. The gold medal game packed 9,000 people into the arena and drew over a million viewers on television. For marketing purposes, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided the Canadian national team should wear pink and white uniforms instead of the expected red and white[5] and released a related film called, "Pretty in Pink". While the experiment only lasted for this tournament, Ottawa was taken over by a "pink craze" during the championships. Restaurants had pink-coloured food on special, and pink became a popular colour for flowers and bow ties.[5]

Qualification Tournament
The tournament took place in Canada at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, now renamed, TD Place Arena

The United States, Canadian and Asian representative Japan, qualified automatically.[3][6] The 1989 European Women's Ice Hockey Championship served as the qualification tournament for this championship. The top five finishers in the top pool qualified. They were Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany.[3]

U.S. team members ranged in age from 17 to 30 and included high school and college players, a law student and a construction worker.[7]

Final tournament

Group A
Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Canada330050–016
2 Sweden320119–194
3 West Germany310204–252
4 Japan300305–330
19 MarchCanada 15–1 Sweden
19 MarchWest Germany 4–1 Japan
21 MarchCanada 17–0 West Germany
21 MarchJapan 4–11 Sweden
22 MarchCanada 18–0 Japan
22 MarchSweden 7–0 West Germany

Group B
Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 United States330038–076
2 Finland320124–064
3  Switzerland310211–292
4 Norway300304–350
19 MarchNorway 1–10 Finland
19 MarchUnited States 16–3  Switzerland
21 MarchUnited States 17–0 Norway
21 MarchFinland 10–0  Switzerland
22 MarchSwitzerland  8–3 Norway
22 MarchFinland 4–5 United States

5–8 place
24 MarchSwitzerland  5–4 Japan
24 MarchNorway 6–3 West Germany

7–8 place
25 MarchWest Germany 9–2 Japan

5–6 place
25 MarchSwitzerland  7–6 Norway

Semifinals
24 MarchUnited States 10–3 Sweden
24 MarchCanada 6–5 Finland

3–4 place
25 MarchFinland 6–3 Sweden

Final
25 MarchCanada 5–2 United States

Rankings and statistics

Final rankings
  1.  Canada
  2.  United States
  3.  Finland
  4.  Sweden
  5.   Switzerland
  6.  Norway
  7.  West Germany
  8.  Japan

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

　 G A Pts
Cindy Curley,  United States 111223
Tina Cardinale,  United States 51015
Cammi Granato,  United States 9514
Kim Urech,   Switzerland 8614
Angela James,  Canada 11213
Heather Ginzel,  Canada 7512
Susana Yuen,  Canada 5712
Kelly O'Leary,  United States 6511
Shirley Cameron,  Canada 5611
Stacy Wilson,  Canada 3811

Canada's Dawn McGuire was named MVP of the gold medal game.

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO
Cathy Phillips1563231.1590.631
Tamae Satsu151143176.7588.110
Kelly Dyer20083123.6085.541
Aurelia Vonderstrass18065103.3384.620
Tanja Muller14797156.1284.540

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: whockey.com

Bodychecking

This is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.[2] Bodychecking rules allowed for full-contact checking, with certain limitations along the boards. [7]

Before the tournament, bodychecking had been allowed in women's ice hockey in Europe and North America though Canada had begun to gradually eliminate the tactic from their women's ice hockey programs in the mid-1980's. The European teams asked for bodychecking to be included.[2]

After this tournament, the International Ice Hockey Federation disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey.[2] It is currently an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct penalty.[8]

Injuries

U.S. team captain Tina Cardinale-Beauchemin's right forearm and elbow, "were a mass of purple-and-blue welts, courtesy of a slash early in the tournament." Canada's France Saint-Louis, "spent three days in a hospital after taking a stick across the throat". Finland's Kirsi Hirvonen was "carried away with a neck injury after being cross-checked."[7]

See also

Notes
  1. "Highlights, Canada vs USA, 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship Final". Youtube.com.
  2. Kelly, p. 89.
  3. Andria Hunter Women's Hockey Net page on the IIHF World Women's Championships accessed July 16, 2006.
  4. On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History, p.81, by Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams, Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1996, ISBN 0-929005-79-1
  5. Kelly p. 88.
  6. Championnats du monde feminins 1990 accessed September 2, 2019.
  7. Fichtenbaum, Paul (2 April 1990). "No place for pom-poms: the tough U.S. women were second in the first worlds. (Hockey)". Sports Illustrated.
  8. International Ice Hockey Federation Section 5, Rule 441 of Official Ice Hockey rules Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine p. 84 accessed July 16, 2006.

References
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