1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

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 been changed to the usual fifteen minutes.

1990 IIHF Women's World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Canada
Dates19–25 March 1990
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
Games played20
Goals scored237 (11.85 per game)
Scoring leader(s)United States Cindy Curley (23 points)

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 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.

Ottawa, Canada
Host Venue Details
Ottawa Civic Centre

Renamed: TD Place Arena		 Location: Canada Ottawa, Canada
Broke ground: 1966
Opened: December 29, 1967
Renamed: TD Place Arena
Renovated: 1992, 2005, 2012–2014
Expanded: 1992 (seating reduced as part of 2005 renovation)

Capacity:
9,500 (standard)
10,585 (temporary)

Final tournament

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Canada 3 3 0 0 50 1 +49 6 Advanced to Final round
2  Sweden 3 2 0 1 19 19 0 4
3  West Germany 3 1 0 2 4 25 −21 2 Sent to Consolation round
4  Japan 3 0 0 3 5 33 −28 0
Source:
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
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 3 0 0 38 7 +31 6 Advanced to Final round
2  Finland 3 2 0 1 24 6 +18 4
3   Switzerland 3 1 0 2 11 29 −18 2 Sent to Consolation round
4  Norway 3 0 0 3 4 35 −31 0
Source:
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

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

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.

　 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
Canada Cathy Phillips1563231.1590.631
Japan Tamae Satsu151143176.7588.110
United States Kelly Dyer20083123.6085.541
West Germany Aurelia Vonderstrass18065103.3384.620
Switzerland 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
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 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. Andria Hunter Women's Hockey Net page on the IIHF World Women's Championships Archived 2010-09-06 at the Wayback Machine 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 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine 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. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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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