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Ice Hockey, Women

Date11 – 21 February 2002
StatusOlympic
LocationE Center, Salt Lake City, Utah / The Peaks Ice Arena, Provo, Utah
Participants156 from 8 countries
FormatRound-robin pools, followed by classification matches.

By 2002, the United States’ women’s team was the best in the world, with a 31-game winning streak entering the Olympics, although Canada had won the World Championships in 1999, 2000, and 2001. Canada was led by Hayley Wickenheiser who also had competed for Canada in softball at the Olympics. The two teams won all their preliminary matches and met again the Olympic final. The final game was closely fought. Canada scored first on a goal by Cherie Piper, only 1:45 into the game. Katie King of the United States tied the game early in the second period. Wickenheiser gave the Canadians a 2-1 lead, and with one second left in the second period, Jayna Hefford scored what would be the game winning goal. Late in the game, the Americans scored on a power play, but Canada won the gold medal, 3-2.

PosNrTeamNOCWTLPtsGoalsGPMPGLSSOGASSPTS+/-PIMSVSSV%GAA
1CanadaCAN5001035–5Gold
2United StatesUSA401833–4Silver
3SwedenSWE302612–18Bronze
4FinlandFIN203411–15
5Russian FederationRUS302615–12
6GermanyGER113310–23
7People's Republic of ChinaCHN11339–26
8KazakhstanKAZ00502–24

Preliminary Round (11 – 16 February 2002)

Group A (11 – 16 February 2002)

Round-robin pool. First two qualified for semi-finals.

PosNOCWTLPtsGoals
1CAN300625–0Q
2SWE201410–13Q
3RUS10226–11
4KAZ00301–18

Match #1 11 Feb 11:05CAN 7 – 0KAZ
Match #2 11 Feb 14:00SWE 3 – 2RUS
Match #3 13 Feb 11:05CAN 7 – 0RUS
Match #4 13 Feb 14:00SWE 7 – 0KAZ
Match #5 15 Feb 14:00RUS 4 – 1KAZ
Match #6 16 Feb 19:00CAN 11 – 0SWE

Group B (12 – 16 February 2002)

Round-robin pool. First two qualified for semi-finals.

PosNOCWTLPtsGoals
1USA300627–1Q
2FIN20147–6Q
3GER01216–18
4CHN01216–21

Match #1 12 Feb 11:10USA 10 – 0GER
Match #2 12 Feb 14:00FIN 4 – 0CHN
Match #3 14 Feb 11:05FIN 3 – 1GER
Match #4 14 Feb 16:00USA 12 – 1CHN
Match #5 16 Feb 11:05USA 5 – 0FIN
Match #6 16 Feb 14:00CHN 5 – 5GER

Classification 5-8 (17 February 2002)

Classification matches.

Match #1 17 Feb 14:00RUS 4 – 1CHN
Match #2 17 Feb 21:00GER 4 – 0KAZ

Semi-Finals (19 February 2002)

Single elimination matches.

Match #1 19 Feb 11:05CAN 7 – 3FIN
Match #2 19 Feb 16:30USA 4 – 0SWE

Final Round (19 – 21 February 2002)

Classification matches.

Match 1/2 21 Feb 17:00CAN 3 – 2USA
Match 3/4 21 Feb 12:00SWE 2 – 1FIN
Match 5/6 19 Feb 19:00RUS 5 – 0GER
Match 7/8 19 Feb 14:00CHN 2 – 1
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