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1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

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The 1990 IIHF Women's World Championships was an international women's ice hockey competition held at Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (now renamed 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[when?] been changed to the usual fifteen minutes.

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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.[citation needed] 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 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]

Venue

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

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Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

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Source: [citation needed]
19 March 1990Canada 15–1 Sweden
19 March 1990West Germany 4–1 Japan
21 March 1990Canada 17–0 West Germany
21 March 1990Japan 4–11 Sweden
22 March 1990Canada 18–0 Japan
22 March 1990Sweden 7–0 West Germany

Group B

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Source: [citation needed]
19 March 1990Norway 1–10 Finland
19 March 1990United States 16–3  Switzerland
21 March 1990United States 17–0 Norway
21 March 1990Finland 10–0  Switzerland
22 March 1990Switzerland 8–3 Norway
22 March 1990Finland 4–5 United States

Consolation round

5–8 place

24 March 1990Switzerland 5–4 Japan
24 March 1990Norway 6–3 West Germany

7–8 place

25 March 1990West Germany 9–2 Japan

5–6 place

25 March 1990Switzerland 7–6 Norway

Final round

Semifinals

24 March 1990United States 10–3 Sweden
24 March 1990Canada 6–5 Finland

3–4 place

25 March 1990Finland 6–3 Sweden

Final

25 March 1990Canada 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.

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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.

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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

1990 women's team jerseys for Team Canada

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, with contact having already been banned at all national women's ice hockey tournaments in Canada in 1983 due to the efforts of Rhonda Leeman Taylor.[8] However, the European teams had asked for bodychecking to be included in the 1990 international tournament.[2]

[Cammi] Granato said that the women's game, "without the checking, can't get too out of hand." She recalled how, in the 1990 world championships, checking was allowed for the first few games and the Americans looked forward to it. "We were psyched," Granato said. "Then we faced some of the European teams and said, 'Wow, these guys are strong and they know how to hit.' There were a couple head injuries right away and they took it out. There is too much of a size difference. It was kind of a trial and error. And then they took it out entirely."[9]

Joe Lapointe, "OLYMPICS: WOMEN'S HOCKEY; Contact Is a Hard-Hitting Question to Consider", The New York Times (Feb. 17, 2002)

After this tournament, the International Ice Hockey Federation disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey.[2] It is currently[when?] an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct penalty.[10]

Injuries

A number of players suffered head injuries from the beginning of the tournament.[9] Finland's Kirsi Hirvonen was "carried away with a neck injury after being cross-checked." 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".[11][7]

See also


Notes

  1. "Highlights, Canada vs USA, 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship final". Youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
  2. Kelly, p. 89.
  3. 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
  4. Kelly p. 88.
  5. Championnats du monde feminins 1990 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 2, 2019.
  6. Julia Galt (28 February 2020). "Newmarket author reveals untold stories of women's hockey history". newmarkettoday.ca. Newmarket Today. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  7. Joe Lapointe (17 February 2002). "OLYMPICS: WOMEN'S HOCKEY; Contact Is a Hard-Hitting Question to Consider". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  8. Paul Fitchenbaum (2 April 1990). "NO PLACE FOR POM-POMS | THE TOUGH U.S. WOMEN WERE SECOND IN THE FIRST WORLDS". vault.si.com. Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.

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