Women’s Worlds Preview: Canada vs. Czechia

CALGARY, Alberta – Hockey Canada has introduced the 23 gamers named to Canada’s National Women’s Team who will look to reclaim the gold medal on the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship, April 3-14 in Utica, New York.

Three goaltenders, seven defence and 13 forwards had been chosen by normal supervisor Gina Kingsbury (Rouyn-Noranda, QC/Toronto, PWHL), head coach Troy Ryan (Spryfield, NS/Toronto, PWHL) and Cherie Piper (Scarborough, ON), senior supervisor of participant improvement and scouting. Assistant coaches Kori Cheverie (New Glasgow, NS/Montréal, PWHL), Courtney Kessel (Mississauga, ON/Boston, PWHL) and Caroline Ouellette (Montréal, QC/Concordia University, RSEQ), together with goaltending advisor Brad Kirkwood (Calgary, AB/Toronto, PWHL), additionally supplied enter.

The 23 gamers chosen embody:

• Two gamers who shall be making their IIHF Women’s World Championship debut (Julia Gosling, Nicole Gosling)
• 20 gamers who captured a silver medal on the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Brampton (Ambrose, Bourbonnais, Campbell, Clark, Desbiens, Fast, Fillier, Jenner, Larocque, Maltais, Maschmeyer, Nurse, O’Neill, Poulin, Rattray, Serdachny, Shelton, Spooner, Stacey, Turnbull)

“It is always a difficult decision when it comes to the final selection process, but we challenged our coaching staff to look at our entire athlete pool and determine who we felt would give us the best chance at competing for a gold medal,” mentioned Kingsbury. “We are extremely excited and confident in these 23 players, a group with championship experience, veteran leadership, character and youth, and we are excited for the journey to begin.”

The 10-team match options Canada in Group A with Czechia, Finland, Switzerland and the host United States, whereas Group B consists of China, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Sweden.

Canada opens Women’s Worlds towards Finland on April 4, and faces Switzerland on April 5 and Czechia on April 7 earlier than closing out the preliminary spherical towards its rivals from the United States on April 8.

Prior to the beginning of the match, Canada will play a pre-tournament recreation towards Finland at 3 p.m. ET on March 30 at Slush Puppie Place in Kingston, Ontario, residence of the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Fans can safe their tickets once they go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets begin at $20, plus relevant charges, and can be found at HockeyCanada.ca/Tickets.

TSN and RDS, the official broadcast companions of Hockey Canada, will carry intensive recreation protection all through the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship, broadcasting all preliminary-round video games, quarterfinals, semifinals and medal video games from the Adirondack Bank Center. RDS will present protection of all Team Canada video games, along with two quarterfinalss, each semifinals and medal video games.

For extra info from the International Ice Hockey Federation, please go to the official match website at 2024.womensworlds.hockey.   

In 22 appearances on the IIHF Women’s World Championship, Canada has captured 12 gold medals (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2021, 2022), along with 9 silver (2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2023) and one bronze (2019).

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