The 2004

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were held March 30 – April 6, 2004 in Halifax and Dartmouth,

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at the

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(now known as Scotiabank Centre), and the Dartmouth Sportsplex (now known as Zatzman Sportsplex). The Canadian national women's hockey team won their eighth straight World Championships. The event had 9 teams, because the 2003 event was cancelled due to the

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epidemic, therefore no teams were relegated and the winners of the 2002 and 2003 Division I tournaments qualified. Canada won their 37th consecutive World Championship game before losing 3–1 in their third game. They later avenged their loss to the US by defeating them in the gold medal game 2–1. Sweden and Finland also met each other twice, with Finland winning the bronze medal game 3–2 improving on the earlier draw. In addition to being the qualifications for the 2005 world tournaments, this year also finalized the qualification for the

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Top Division

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Qualifying round

Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Final round

Bronze medal game

Final

Final standings

Awards and statistics

Scoring leaders

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; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
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Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time) ''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =

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Directorate Awards

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: Kim St. Pierre *

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* Forward:

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*Most Valuable Player: Jennifer BotterillCollins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009–10, p.544, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada,

All-Star team

*Goaltender: Pam Dreyer *Defencemen:

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, Angela Ruggiero *Forwards: Jennifer Botterill,

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, Jayna Hefford

Division I

The Division I IIHF World Women's Championships were held March 14–20, 2004 in

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'' is promoted to the

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, and are demoted to Division II''

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

*Goalie: Yelena Kuznetsova, (Kazakhstan) *Defender: Olga Konysheva, (Kazakhstan) *Forward: Iveta Koka, (Latvia) Source
Passionhockey.com

Scoring leaders

''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P

; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
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Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time) ''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =

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Division II

The Division II IIHF World Women's Championships will be held March 14–20, 2004 in

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'' is promoted to Division I while and are demoted to Division III in the

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

*Goalie:

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*Defender: Jana Kapustová *Forward: Maria Leitner Source
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Scoring leaders

''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P

; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
Source
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Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time) ''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =

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Division III

The Division III IIHF Women World Championships were held March 21–28, 2004 in

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, Slovenia. '' was promoted to Division II at the

, while both and were relegated to the newly formed Division IV.''

Awards and statistics

Directorate Awards

*Goalie: Nina Geyer, (Austria) *Defender: Kerstin Oberhuber, (Austria) *Forward: Jasmina Rosar, (Slovenia) Source
Passionhockey.com

Scoring leaders

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; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
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Goaltending leaders

Citations

References

Complete results
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IIHF results index for 2004
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