Canada looks to reclaim gold at expanded women’s world hockey championship Globe_Sports
The world championship has featured either eight or nine countries since the first edition in 1990. The tournament has been at eight teams since the 2010 Winter Olympics.Canada must play a game at least every second day in Espoo to reach the April 14 final.
It will mark Pearn’s first world championship coaching assignment for Hockey Canada since the 1993 world junior men’s championship in Gavle, Sweden, where he navigated Canada to gold. The world championship format was revamped after 2010. The top two seeds in Group A never faced the bottom two in Group B, which eliminated a pair of lopsided scores from the tournament.
Hockey Canada’s director of women’s national teams says two more countries in the world championship can help grow the female game in those countries.And since Canada isn’t a full-time team in non-Olympic years, the more time the players are together the better, according to Gina Kingsbury. “I’m happy they went to that format. It shows they’re taking the women’s game more seriously. It’s more on par with what the men do.”The American women have beaten Canada in seven of the last eight world championship finals, including a 3-2 overtime win two years ago in Plymouth, Mich.A shootout win over Canada to claim Olympic gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea, last year sealed their status as the top female hockey country in the world.The Canadians haven’t beaten the U.S.
Taking two of three games against their frenemies to win February’s “Rivalry Series” gives Canada some momentum heading to Espoo.
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