The 1990 IIHF Women's World Championships was an international

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competition held at the

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(now renamed the TD Place Arena) from March 19 to 25, in 1990. This was the first

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-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey and is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.Kelly, p. 89. Full contact bodychecking was allowed with certain restrictions near the boards. The intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen. This has since been changed to the usual fifteen minutes. The Canadian team won the gold medal, the

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won silver, and

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won bronze. Team

had won the first IIHF European Women’s Championship the previous year (1989), in

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and Ratingen,

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. Canada's Fran Rider helped to organize the championships without the financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (now known as Hockey Canada). 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 whiteKelly p. 88. 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.

Qualification Tournament

The

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and Asian representative Japan, qualified automatically.Andria Hunte
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accessed July 16, 2006. 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

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, Sweden, Switzerland, and

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. 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.

Venue

The tournament took place in Canada at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, now renamed,

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Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Consolation round

5–8 place

7–8 place

5–6 place

Final round

Semifinals

3–4 place

Final

Rankings and statistics

Final rankings

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Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals. Canada's Dawn McGuire was named

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of the gold medal game.

Leading goaltenders

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Bodychecking

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This is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.Kelly, p. 89. Bodychecking rules allowed for full-contact checking, with certain limitations along the boards. 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

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. However, the European teams had asked for bodychecking to be included in the 1990 international tournament. After this tournament, the

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disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey. It is currently an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct

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p. 84 accessed July 16, 2006.

Injuries

A number of players suffered

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from the beginning of the tournament. 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".

Notes

References

* Malcolm G. Kelly, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canadian Sports History and Trivia", Alpha Books, . * *

External links

Summary from the Women's Hockey Net

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