WC: 2025 Women's World Championships

[Summer Rose]

Dates: April 9-20, 2025

Location: Budvar Arena, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Group A: Canada, United States, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland

Group B: Germany, Sweden, Japan, Hungary, Norway

Format:

All five teams from group A (seeded 1-5) plus the top three teams in group B (seeded 6-8) will advance to the quarterfinals. The 4th and 5th placed team in group B will be relegated. There will be re-seeding of the winners of the quarterfinals to determine the semi-final matchups.

Schedule:

All times given are local time (UTC+2).

April 9
11:00 - Sweden vs. Germany
15:00 - Finland vs. United States
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Switzerland

April 10
11:00 - Japan vs. Norway
15:00 - Sweden vs. Hungary
19:00 - Canada vs. Finland

April 11
11:00 - Hungary vs. Japan
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Canada
19:00 - United States vs. Czech Republic

April 12
15:00 - Norway vs. Germany
19:00 - Finland vs. Czech Republic

April 13
11:00 - Hungary vs. Norway
15:00 - Japan vs. Sweden
19:00 - Canada vs. United States

April 14
11:00 - Germany vs. Hungary
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Finland
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Canada

April 15
11:00 - Norway vs. Sweden
15:00 - Germany vs. Japan
19:00 - United States vs. Switzerland

April 17
10:00 - QF
13:30 -QF
17:00 - QF
20:30 - QF

April 19
11:00 - Fifth place game
15:00 - SF
19:00 - SF

April 20
14:00 - Third place game
18:00 - Final

 

[Summer Rose]

USA roster was announced two days ago.

Head coach: John Wroblewski

Goaltenders: Aerin Frankel, Ava McNaughton, Gwyneth Philips
Defenders: Cayla Barnes, Laila Edwards, Savannah Harmon, Caroline Harvey, Megan Keller, Lee Stecklein, Anna Wilgren, Haley Winn
Forwards: Alex Carpenter, Jesse Compher, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Joy Dunne, Lacey Eden, Taylor Heise, Tessa Janecke, Hilary Knight, Abbey Murphy, Kelly Pannek, Hayley Scamurra, Kirsten Simms, Grace Zumwinkle

 

[Eye of Ra]

Only Finland can challenge USA and Canada.

 

[Czechboy]

Home of the original and real Budweiser.
Czech lioness for bronze!

 

[Czechboy]

I still think they need to split pools as it is a nightmare to get out of pool B. I speak from experience.

 

[ES]

I still think they need to split pools as it is a nightmare to get out of pool B. I speak from experience.

They are doing it for 2026.

Gold
4th
5th
8th
Better of promoted teams

Silver
Bronze
6th
7th
Worse of promoted teams

I think it should be only one team getting relegated.

 

[Lartsaman]

Only Finland can challenge USA and Canada.

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

 

[Czechboy]

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

I 'think' you guys one that least big game for Bronze between us. It's a great rivalry and I hope we can battle for Olympic Bronze in 2026! I feel like every match is a 1 goal affair of nail biting and agony for both of us.lol

 

[Old Man Jags]

C

Nowadays its actually Czechia.

correct.

 

[ES]

Home tournament will hopefully raise the level of Czech team much like Finland in 2019.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

I think it should be only one team getting relegated.

Will be the case from next year onwards.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Swiss roster was announced on Friday.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Norway's roster for its comeback to the Top Division after 28 years.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Swiss goalies are legit.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Emerance Maschmeyer out, Ann-Renée Desbiens uncertain. Canada will be without their Top 2 goalies. Kristen Campbell and Corinne Schroeder are the very likely candidates picking up the workload while, according to her headcoach, UMD Bulldogs' Ève Gascon will be there in Czechia.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Canada's roster



ARD on it so there is hope her injury is not that serious. Miller has appealed to the IIHF to get her switch to China reversed and, according to head coach Troy Ryan, there is a good chance it will happen. But nothing official so far. Meanwhile, Primerano becomes the first 18 year-old to make the final team since a certain Marie-Philip Poulin.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Glad to see Gascon making the team. She likely won't play, but just being around the team will be tremendous for her. She is the future.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Sweden announced their roster



NY Sirens' Maja Nylén Persson will be missing this tourney due to injury.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

A few more rosters have been released today.

First, we got Finland's


Veteran and all-time WW career GP leader Jenni Hiirikoski will have to wait to play her 17th Worlds. This season, she has been plagued with injuries, notably missing the SDHL finals recently. This is the first time she will miss the Women's Worlds since first playing it in 2004. She was expected to hit a GP century this year.

Then came Germany's


And finally Japan's

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www.jihf.or.jp

Japan has announced the smallest roster with 23 players making the trip to Czechia. Injured since November, top forward Haruka Toko won't be there.

 

[Fjorden]

Dates: April 9-20, 2025

Location: Budvar Arena, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Group A: Canada, United States, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland

Group B: Germany, Sweden, Japan, Hungary, Norway

Format:

All five teams from group A (seeded 1-5) plus the top three teams in group B (seeded 6-8) will advance to the quarterfinals. The 4th and 5th placed team in group B will be relegated. There will be re-seeding of the winners of the quarterfinals to determine the semi-final matchups.

Schedule:

All times given are local time (UTC+2).

April 9
11:00 - Sweden vs. Germany
15:00 - Finland vs. United States
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Switzerland

April 10
11:00 - Japan vs. Norway
15:00 - Sweden vs. Hungary
19:00 - Canada vs. Finland

April 11
11:00 - Hungary vs. Japan
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Canada
19:00 - United States vs. Czech Republic

April 12
15:00 - Norway vs. Germany
19:00 - Finland vs. Czech Republic

April 13
11:00 - Hungary vs. Norway
15:00 - Japan vs. Sweden
19:00 - Canada vs. United States

April 14
11:00 - Germany vs. Hungary
15:00 - Switzerland vs. Finland
19:00 - Czech Republic vs. Canada

April 15
11:00 - Norway vs. Sweden
15:00 - Germany vs. Japan
19:00 - United States vs. Switzerland

April 17
10:00 - QF
13:30 -QF
17:00 - QF
20:30 - QF

April 19
11:00 - Fifth place game
15:00 - SF
19:00 - SF

April 20
14:00 - Third place game
18:00 - Final

Will checking be allowed soon in women's hockey? US, Canada, International games?

Sweden have allowed checking. Norway allowed checking today.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

The PWHL in North America allows checking. And considering the league's popularity, girls are/will be asking to be taught properly and inevitably college hockey will follow.

With the Olympics next year, I don't think the IIHF will change its rulebook yet but the next cycle would be perfect for it. The more nations follow Sweden and Norway's lead, the quicker it will happen. I assume it will be gradual starting from the Top Division and Division 1A.

In parallel of the Worlds, the EHC is running a seminar on Pro WoHo. Hopefully the mingling will help the process along.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Pre tournament games have begun.

Hungary and Japan met up today at the Hokejové centrum Pouzar in České Budějovice with the Magyars picking up a 4-2 win. Petra Polónyi, Tamara Gondos, Lotti Odnoga and Alexandra Huszák scored for Hungary while Kanami Seki and Rui Ukita answered back for Japan.

Vb-teszt: a női válogatott nyert a japánok ellen

A magyar női csapat jó helyzetkihasználásának és remek védekezésének köszönhetően 4-2-re verte Japánt a csehországi felkészülési mérkőzésen. A gólokat Polónyi Petra, Gondos Tamara, Odnoga Lotti és Huszák Alexandra szerezte.

www.jegkorongszovetseg.hu

While MacLeod and the PWs are still on club duties, the Czech Euro-based and NCAA players are running a pre camp under AC Dušan Andrašovský. This included 2 games this weekend with Slavia Praha [men's] U17s, losing the first one 3-1. No details about the second.

Ženy: Zápas nám ukázal, že jsme na dobré cestě, liboval si Andrašovský | Český hokej

V rámci přípravného kempu v Praze se české reprezentantky střetly s dorostem Slavie. V obou brankách stály lvice a pravidelně se střídaly všechny tři gólmanky. Po vyrovnaném střetnutí nakonec ženy prohrály proti hráčům Slavie 1:3. „Trenérům nejvíc o výkonu hráček i celého týmu vždycky řekne...

www.ceskyhokej.cz

Next games are scheduled for Thursday with Germany hosting Switzerland in Füssen and Norway playing D1A's Slovakia in Bruck an der Leitha, Austria.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

The Czechs have announced their roster.



Veteran Kateřina Mrázová who hasn't played for the last 6 weeks is included on the list, though whether she has fully recovered or not is yet to be confirmed.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

ARD on it so there is hope her injury is not that serious.

The Montreal Victoire have announced today they've retroactively placed Ann-Renée Desbiens on LTIR. She is still expected to be back in time for the tournament.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Miller has appealed to the IIHF to get her switch to China reversed and, according to head coach Troy Ryan, there is a good chance it will happen. But nothing official so far.

To be honest, I would have been surprised if they had reversed it. Though the IIHF seems to be opened to the idea in the future.