The 2022 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship was the 14th IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in ice hockey.
On December 24, 2021, the tournament was cancelled for the second year in a row by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on March 21, 2022, the IIHF announced it had reconsidered and rescheduled the Top Division tournament for June 6–13, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
The venues which hosted the event in Dane County, Wisconsin were LaBahn Arena, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, home of the USHL's Madison Capitols.
Top Division Preliminary round All times are local (UTC−5).
Group A
Group B
Relegation round The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
Final round Teams were reseeded for the semifinals in accordance with the following ranking:
tier of the group; position in the group.
Rank Team Group 1 A 1 2 A 2 3 A 3 4 A 4 5 B 1 6 B 2
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Awards and statistics Awards
Best player selected by the Directorate Position Player Goaltender Emilia Kyrkkö Defenceman Tuva Kandell Forward Laila Edwards Source:
All-Star team Position Player Goaltender Emilia KyrkköDefenceman Sydney Morrow Sara SwiderskiForward Adéla Šapovalivová Laila Edwards Sanni Vanhanen MVP Laila Edwards Source:
Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
RankPlayerGPGAPts+/−PIMPOS 1 Tereza Plosová 5 3 7 10 +8 0 F 2 Adéla Šapovalivová 5 3 6 9 +10 2 F 3 Laila Edwards 5 4 4 8 +4 2 F 3 Tereza Pištěková 5 4 4 8 +9 0 F 5 Sydney Morrow 5 1 7 8 +7 4 D 6 Alina Marti 5 2 5 7 0 4 F 7 Tessa Janecke 5 3 3 6 +3 2 F 7 Sanni Vanhanen 5 3 3 6 +3 2 F 9 Tuva Kandell 6 1 5 6 –4 6 D 10 Ava Murphy 6 2 3 6 +1 4 D GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF
Leading goaltenders 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.
RankPlayerTOIGAGAASASv%SO 1 Emilia Kyrkkö 238:44 6 1.51 145 95.86 2 2 Michaela Hesová 286:34 5 1.05 89 94.38 2 3 Mari Pietersen 273:17 6 1.32 96 93.75 1 4 Annelies Bergmann 238:29 6 1.51 91 93.41 1 5 Lisa Jönsson 292:03 13 2.67 191 93.19 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF
Division I
Group A The tournament would have been held in Győr, Hungary from 9 to 15 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 3 to 8 April 2022.
Group B The tournament would have been held in Radenthein, Austria from 10 to 16 January 2022. It was rescheduled to 6–11 September.
Division II
The tournament would have been held in Istanbul, Turkey from 21 to 27 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 27 June to 5 July.
4 5 6 7 8 9 Promoted to the 2023 Division I BRelegated to the 2023 Division II B
References
External links Official website of IIHF