The International Ice Hockey Federation has postponed announcing the host city of the 2026 Women’s Hockey World Championship.
The IIHF introduced a female championship in the same year as the Olympic Games in 2022, but the arrival of the Professional Women’s Hockey League has made the 2026 World Championship programming programming Thorny.
The IIHF said in an email on Monday the assignment of the 2026 Women’s Championship was postponed until its semiannual congress from October 3 to 4.
The 2022 Championship was held from August 25 to September 4. In Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark, after the February Olympic Games in Beijing.
The president of the Women’s Committee of the International Hockey Federation on Hockey, Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer, said in April that April, April for the Women’s Championship, is located in the statutes of IIHF, and that Denmark’s summer tournament was unique.
“That was just for that year,” said Kolbenheyer then. “We always wanted to put it on the original dates.”
But the PWHL, which enters its third season, does not want two long international breaks with a few weeks apart. The Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy, are executed from February 6 to 22.
“We have had continuous discussions with the IIHF,” said the PWHL Hockey Operations Executive Vice President on Friday, Jayna Hefford said Friday during a telephone conference on the expansion of the League. “We don’t have a date for that event, location for that event.
“We know that the Olympic Games are happening in February, but anything beyond that is not confirmed. So that is the information we have today, and we will continue working closely with the IIHF and several national federations.”
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Tessa Janecke was the benefactor of a bad rotation of the Canadians, since she buried a Taylor Heise pass to ensure a 4-3 victory in extra time against Canada. This gave the United States the victory over its rivals for a third consecutive women’s world championship.
PWHL expanding by 2 teams
Canada will be the host of the 2027 women’s championship.
The second season of the PWHL extended from December 1, 2024 to May 26, when the Minnesota Frost defended the Walter Cup. Each team played 30 regular season games.
The League will expand by two clubs next season in Vancouver and Seattle.
Kolbenheyer said during the April 9 to 20 to Ceske Budjovice, Czech Republic that a survey to the women’s hockey community was issued that looks for opinions about world championship dates “, but we decided at the level of the council that would be too late to make any change” to 2026.
The international hockey calendar is full. It also includes the male championship in May, the Men’s Men’s Men’s World Championship in December to January, the U18 women’s championship in January and the U-18 male championship in April.
The IIHF also has multiple divisional tournaments of lower level in those categories that promote and relegate countries.
The four female NCAA in mid -March also dictates the time of the women’s championship.
The United States beat Canada 4-3 in extra time in the final of the World Championship this year in the Czech Republic.
