Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held in Sochi, Russia.

Women's ice hockey
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
The gold medal winners pose for a team picture
VenuesBolshoy Ice Dome
Shayba Arena
Dates8–20 February 2014
Competitors168 from 8 nations
Medalists
 Canada (4th title)
 United States
  Switzerland

For the first time, the women's gold medal game was decided in overtime, with Canada defeating the United States 3–2. Switzerland defeated Sweden for their first Olympic ice hockey medal in 66 years, and first ever medal in the women's tournament.

With the win, the Canadian women's national ice hockey team won its fourth consecutive gold medal, a feat only previously accomplished by the Soviet Union men's team in 1964–76, and the Canadian men's team in 1920–32. Canadians Hayley Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford and Caroline Ouellette became the first hockey players to win four Olympic gold medals. They also joined Soviet biathlete Alexander Tikhonov and German speed skater Claudia Pechstein as the only athletes to win gold medals in four straight Winter Olympics.[1]

On 6 December 2017, nearly four years after the tournament was played, six players from the Russian national team (Inna Dyubanok, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Yekaterina Pashkevich, Anna Shibanova, Yekaterina Smolentseva and Galina Skiba) were subjected to sanctions and the team was disqualified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) based on findings from the reanalysis of doping samples collected from Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Games by the Oswald Commission.[2] Ten days later, Tatiana Burina and Anna Shukina were also sanctioned and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) was directed to modify results accordingly.[3] All eight of the players were "declared ineligible to be accredited in any capacity for all editions of the Games of the Olympiad and the Olympic Winter Games subsequent to the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014" and "disqualified from the events in which they participated" by the IOC.[4] The players registered their appeals with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and, in 2018, five of the eight players (Lebedeva, Pashkevich, Smolentseva, Burina, and Shukina) won their appeals, the sanctions against them were annulled and their results were reinstated.[5] The sanctions against Inna Dyubanok, Anna Shibanova and Galina Skiba were partially upheld, though the life-ban on Olympic competition was lifted, and the disqualification of the team was maintained on account of their violations.[6][7]

Qualification

Russia qualified as the host. Canada, the United States, Finland, Switzerland, and Sweden qualified as the top five teams in the IIHF World Ranking. Germany and Japan qualified via the qualification tournament.[8][9]

Rosters

Group A Group B

Officials

The IIHF selected six referees and nine linesmen to work the 2014 Winter Olympics. They were the following:[10]

Preliminary round

Format

The top four teams based on the 2012 IIHF World Ranking,[11] Canada, United States, Finland and Switzerland, competed in Group A, while the remaining four teams competed in Group B. The top two teams in Group A received a bye to the semifinals. In the quarterfinals, the third place team in Group A played the second place team in Group B, while the fourth placed team in Group A played the first place team in Group B. The winners advanced to the semifinals, while the two losers, and the third and fourth placed teams in Group B, competed in a classification bracket for places five through eight.[12] This format was introduced to create more competitive games in response to blowout victories in the previous Olympics where Canada and the United States outscored their competition by a cumulative 86–4 margin. It has been used in the IIHF Women's World Championship since 2012.[13]

Tiebreak criteria

In each group, teams were ranked according to the following criteria:[14]

  1. Number of points (three points for a regulation-time win, two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point for an overtime or shootout defeat, no points for a regulation-time defeat);
  2. In case two teams are tied on points, the result of their head-to-head match will determine the ranking;
  3. In case three or four teams are tied on points, the following criteria will apply (if, after applying a criterion, only two teams remain tied, the result of their head-to-head match will determine their ranking):
    1. Points obtained in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
    2. Goal differential in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
    3. Number of goals scored in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
    4. If three teams remain tied, result of head-to-head matches between each of the teams concerned and the remaining team in the group (points, goal difference, goals scored);
    5. Place in 2012 IIHF World Ranking.

All times are local (UTC+4).

Group A

Team
GP W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts
 Canada 33000112+99
 United States 32001144+106
 Finland 3010259−42
  Switzerland 30012318−151
8 February 2014
12:00
United States 3–1
(1–0, 2–0, 0–1)
 FinlandShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,135
8 February 2014
17:00
Canada 5–0
(2–0, 3–0, 0–0)
  SwitzerlandShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,386
10 February 2014
14:00
United States 9–0
(5–0, 1–0, 3–0)
  SwitzerlandShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 3,812
10 February 2014
19:00
Finland 0–3
(0–0, 0–0, 0–3)
 CanadaShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,837
12 February 2014
12:00
Switzerland  3–4 OT
(0–2, 2–1, 1–0)
(OT 0–1)
 FinlandShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,211
12 February 2014
16:30
Canada 3–2
(0–0, 0–1, 3–1)
 United StatesShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,812

Group B

Team
GP W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts
 Russia 3300093+69
 Sweden 3200163+36
 Germany 3100258−33
 Japan 3000317−60
9 February 2014
12:00
Sweden 1–0
(1–0, 0–0, 0–0)
 JapanShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 2,928
9 February 2014
17:00
Russia 4–1
(0–0, 0–1, 4–0)
 GermanyShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 5,048
11 February 2014
14:00
Germany 0–4
(0–1, 0–0, 0–3)
 SwedenShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,015
11 February 2014
19:00
Russia 2–1
(1–0, 0–0, 1–1)
 JapanShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,897
13 February 2014
12:00
Japan 0–4
(0–1, 0–1, 0–2)
 GermanyShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 2,618
13 February 2014
21:00
Sweden 1–3
(0–1, 1–1, 0–1)
 RussiaShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 5,092

Final round

Bracket

  Quarterfinals     Semifinals     Gold medal game
                           
        A1  Canada 3  
  A4   Switzerland 2     A4   Switzerland 1    
  B1  Russia 0         A1  Canada 3
      A2  United States 2
        A2  United States 6    
  A3  Finland 2     B2  Sweden 1   Third place
  B2  Sweden 4   A4   Switzerland 4
  B2  Sweden 3
Indicates overtime victory
Indicates shootout victory

Quarterfinals

The top two teams (A1–A2) received byes and were deemed the home team in the semifinals as they were seeded to advance.

15 February 2014
12:00
Finland 2–4
(0–0, 1–0, 1–4)
 SwedenShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 2,917
15 February 2014
16:30
Switzerland  2–0
(1–0, 0–0, 1–0)
 RussiaShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,962

Semifinals

Teams seeded A1 and A2 were the home teams.

17 February 2014
16:30
United States 6–1
(3–0, 2–0, 1–1)
 SwedenShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,542
17 February 2014
21:00
Canada 3–1
(3–0, 0–1, 0–0)
  SwitzerlandShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 3,378

Bronze medal game

20 February 2014
16:00
Switzerland  4–3
(0–1, 0–1, 4–1)
 SwedenBolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi
Attendance: 8,263

Gold medal game

20 February 2014
21:00
Canada 3–2 OT
(0–0, 0–1, 2–1)
(OT 1–0)
 United States Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi
Attendance: 10,639

5–8th place bracket

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place game
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Finland2
 
 
 
 Germany1
 
 Finland4
 
 
 
 Russia0
 
 Russia6
 
 
 Japan3
 
Seventh place game
 
 
 
 
 
 Germany3
 
 
 Japan2

5–8th place semifinals

16 February 2014
12:00
Finland 2–1
(2–0, 0–1, 0–0)
 GermanyShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 2,009
16 February 2014
21:00
Russia 6–3
(1–0, 3–2, 2–1)
 JapanShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,793

Seventh place game

18 February 2014
12:00
Germany 3–2
(1–1, 2–0 , 0–1)
 JapanShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 2,012

Fifth place game

18 February 2014
16:30
Finland 4–0
(2–0, 0–0, 2–0)
 RussiaShayba Arena, Sochi
Attendance: 4,112

Final rankings

The final rankings of the 2014 Winter Olympics Women's Ice Hockey Tournament are as follows:

Rank Team
 Canada
 United States
  Switzerland
4 Sweden
5 Finland
6 Germany
7 Japan
DSQ Russia

The Russian team was disqualified for the doping. The IIHF was requested by the IOC to modify their results,[15][16] and the 6th and 7th place were reallocated.[17]

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS
Michelle Karvinen6527+44F
Pernilla Winberg6347+32F
Amanda Kessel5336+80F
Hilary Knight5336+16F
Kendall Coyne5246+82F
Brianna Decker5246+86F
Yekaterina Smolentseva524602F
Alexandra Carpenter5415−12F
Franziska Busch5325−42F
Marie-Philip Poulin5325+60F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com

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.

Player TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SO
Shannon Szabados187:3030.966595.381
Viona Harrer180:0062.009693.751
Noora Räty358:57132.1718392.901
Valentina Wallner269:16132.9015291.451
Anna Prugova265:4692.0310591.430

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts

Source: IIHF.com

Tournament awards

References

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  14. "Tournament Format". IIHF.com. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  15. IOC bans six Russian female ice hockey players for life over doping
  16. IIHF Media Guide and Record Book (2019) p. 29
  17. https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/News/2020/06/Medal%20reallocations_%20IOC%20EB_2.pdf
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