2011 WU Update – Day 10 – Ice Hockey: Women’s Medal Games

Medal ceremony

ERZURUM – Today, February 5th, the medal games in the women’s ice hockey tournament were played.  

The bronze medal game was played between Slovakia and USA. Slovakia won the bronze beating the Americans 3-1. Team Slovakia took the lead halfway the first period via Velickova while Team USA remained scoreless. The second period neither of both teams scored a goal. In the last period the Slovaks definitely took the upper hand scoring two more goals. With less than two minutes left in the game Crawford score the first goal for Team USA but by then the bronze was already within the Slovaks reach.

For the women’s gold medal game two hockey powerhouses faced-off this afternoon. Canada and Finland entered the 3,000-seat arena eager to win the gold. It was Canada who directly took the lead in the game scoring three goals leaving Team Suomi scoreless, all efforts in vain.

Golden Canadians

When Team Finland entered the third period the spectators saw a different team on the ice with an even stronger determination. And it showed as hardly a few minutes into the third the Fins scored via Hovi on the powerplay. A wake-up call for Team Canada that the game was not over yet. And they woke up as the Canadian attacks on the Finnish goal became more dangerous resulting in some stressful situations with near-misses until Hill drilled in the fourth goal also on the powerplay with less than three minutes into the game bringing the gold within an easy reach for Team Canada.

In the smaller ice arena Turkey and Great Britain played for 5^th and 6^th place. Great Britain beat host Turkey 10-0.

C. Pierre, FISU Press Officer

 A fierce battle

Women’s Ranking

1. CAN
2. FIN
3. SVK
4. USA
5. GBR
6. TUR