HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Canada’s National Women’s Team has captured gold at the 2004 IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship, with an 2-0 win over the USA. For an eighth consecutive World Championship, Canada has captured the World title, defeating the USA in each of the eight finals. Canada captured all seven previous World Women’s Hockey Championships (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001).
GOLD MEDAL GAME RECAP
In front of a packed Halifax Metro Centre, Team Canada and Team USA came through with another great chapter in their longstanding tradition of great women’s hockey on Tuesday evening. After a scoreless first in which both goaltenders, Pam Dreyer (USA) and Kim St-Pierre (CAN), made several key saves, Hayley Wickenheiser opened the scoring at 4:17 of the second period with a powerful wrist shot that beat Dreyer, which later proved to be the game winning goal.
Delaney Collins made it 2-0 Canada at 1:37 of the third period as she pushed a loose puck past Dreyer.
DIRECTORATE AWARDS
Top Goaltender: Kim St Pierre (CAN)
Top Defenceman:
Angela Ruggiero (USA)
Top Forward:
Jayna Hefford (CAN)
TOURNAMENT ALL-STAR TEAM(as voted on by members of the media):
Goaltender: Pam Dreyer (USA)
Forwards:
Jennifer Botterill (CAN)
Natalie Darwitz (USA)
Defencemen:
Angela Ruggerio (USA) Jayna Hefford (CAN)
Gunilla Andersson (SWE)
MVP (as voted on by members of the media):
Jennifer Botterill (CAN)
FINAL ATTENDANCE FIGURES
The 2004 IIHF World Women’s Hockey Championship in Halifax/Dartmouth (Nova Scotia) set all-time attendance records for this event, drawing a total of 94,001 fans to games. This breaks the previous record of 66,783 that was set by Kitchener, Ontario in 1997.
TEAM CANADA FLIGHT ITINERARY
| Final destination | Arrival (Local) | Flight | Team Canada players, staff |
| Toronto, ON | 9:22 am | AC 605 | Therese Brisson |
| Ottawa, ON | 10:41 am | AC 8917 | Gina Kingsbury |
| Boston, USA | 12:30 pm | AC 8783 | Cherie Piper |
| Montréal, QC | 12:33 pm | AC 631 | Charline Labonté, Kim St-Pierre |
| Toronto, ON | 12:43 pm | AC 109 | Dana Antal, Gillian Apps, Kelly Béchard, Jennifer Botterill, Correne Bredin, Cassie Campbell, Gillian Ferrari, Danielle Goyette, Jayna Hefford, Becky Kellar, Wally Kozak (Head Scout), Cheryl Pounder, Sami Jo Small, Colleen Sostorics, Vicky Sunohara, Hayley Wickenheiser, |
| Toronto, ON | 3:51 pm | AC 623 | Ken Dufton (Asst. Coach), Karen Hughes (Head Coach), Dave Jamieson (Goaltending Coach), Dr. Christine Young (Team Doctor) |
| Edmonton, AB | 4:53 pm | AC 167 | Delaney Collins |
| Kamloops, BC | 4:53 pm | AC 8206 | Doug Lidster (Asst. coach) |
| Calgary, AB | 11:36 am | AC 1187 | Johnny Misley (Hockey Canada VP, Hockey) , Mavis Wahl (Massage Therapist) |
| Hartford, USA | 5:08 pm | AC 7440 | Sarah Vaillancourt |
| Fredericton, NB | 5:45 pm | AC 7478 | Lesley Reddon (Team Coordinator) |
| Calgary, AB | 7:16 pm | AC 623 | Julie Healy (Dir., Female Hockey, Hockey Canada) , Robin McDonald (Equipment Manager), Lois Pohlod (Physiotherapist) |
| Duluth, USA | 4:38 pm | AA 4463 | Caroline Ouellette |