Host country Canada Teams 8 | Dates 8–15 January 2016 Runner-up Canada | |
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Venue(s) Meridian Centre, Seymour-Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre (in 1 host city) Champions United States (5th title) | ||
The 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships was the ninth World Women's U18 Championship. The tournament was played in St. Catharines, Canada.
Contents
Relegation series
The third and fourth placed team from Group B will play a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
Tournament awards
Source: IIHF.com
Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF.com
Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com
Division I "A"
Was played in Miskolc, Hungary 10–16 January 2016.
Division I Qualification
Was played in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria, January 7 to 11, 2016. The teams were divided into two groups of four where the winners played off against each other for promotion to the 2017 Division I tournament. The top six teams remain in the newly titled Division 1 B, Romania and Australia were relegated to the new Division I B Qualication tournament.