Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament explained

Tourney Name:Winter Olympics
Year:2006
Size:100
Country:Italy
Dates:11–20 February
Num Teams:8
Venues:2
Cities:1
Type:ihw
Winners:CAN
Count:2
Second:SWE
Third:USA
Fourth:FIN
Games:20
Goals:136
Attendance:91609
Scoring Leader: Hayley Wickenheiser
Points:17
Mvp: Hayley Wickenheiser
Prevseason:2002
Nextseason:2010

The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy from 11 to 20 February 2006. Eight countries qualified for the tournament.

Qualification

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's qualification. Canada, United States, Finland and Sweden qualified as the top four teams in the IIHF World Ranking in 2004. Italy qualified as host team. The remaining three teams qualified from qualification tournaments.

Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host1
5 March 2001 – 6 April 2004 4


Qualification tournament 11–13 November 2004 1
Qualification tournament 11–14 November 2004 1
Qualification tournament 11–14 November 2004 1
Total 8
Notes

Rosters

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's team rosters.

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

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Group B

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Placement round

5–8th place semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Playoff round

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final ranking

Rank Team
4
5
6
7
8

Statistics

Leading scorers

Rank Player GP G A Pts PIM +/− POS
15512176+15F
2578150+15F
35771414+13F
455494+12F
455492+1F
652794+10F
756282+6F
854370+9F
953470+8F
1051674+6F
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes; +/− = P Plus–minus; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

Rank Player TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SO
1 180:00 1 0.33 4297.62 2
2 190:00 6 1.89 103 94.17 1
3 150:00 6 2.40 90 93.33 1
4 120:00 1 0.50 13 92.31 1
5 190:00 7 2.21 96 92.71 0
TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source:IIHF.com

Awards

Source: IIHF.com

Kim Martin

Angela Ruggiero, Carla MacLeod

Maria Rooth, Hayley Wickenheiser, Gillian AppsSource: IIHF.com

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