Ice hockey at the 2009 Winter Universiade comprised two

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tournaments – a men's tournament and a women's tournament – during the Harbin 2009 edition of the

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. Both tournaments were hosted in

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, China and began on 18 February 2009. The event featured the inaugural women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Universiade – the men's ice hockey tournament was first introduced in 1962.

Venues

Men

The men's ice hockey tournament at the 2009 Winter Universiade was held at the Skating Gym of Harbin Institute of Physical Education (HIPE; also known as Harbin Sports University) and Harbin Ice Hockey Gym during 18 to 28 February 2009. Ten national teams comprising university students participated in the event, representing Canada, China, Czechia, Great Britain, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, and the United States. In the preliminary round, teams were split into two closed groups of five teams. Each group played a single round-robin to determine ranking for the placement games. All preliminary round games were held at the Skating Gym of HIPE.

Preliminary round

Group A

;Standings

Group B

;Standings

Ninth place game

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Playoff round

Semifinal round

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Scoring leaders

Goaltenders

The following table includes goaltenders with more than forty percent of their team's total minutes, sorted by save percentage.

Rosters

Women

The inaugural women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Universiade was held during 18 to 27 February 2009 at Harbin Ice Hockey Gym in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Six national under-28 teams participated in the event, representing Canada, China, Finland, Great Britain, Japan, and Slovakia. In the preliminary round, the six teams played a single round-robin to determine seeding for the semifinals. Teams ranked first through fourth progressed to the semifinals and the remaining teams faced off in the fifth place game. Canada swept the preliminary round, finishing the five game series with a +28

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. They advanced to the semifinals trailed by China, Finland, and Slovakia, respectively. In the fifth place match, Japan shutout Great Britain by a score of 10–0. Eight different skaters scored for Japan during the game and forward

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( Kokushikan University/ Seibu Princess Rabbits) recorded a

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. China‘s Sun Rui (HIPE) was the leading point and goal scorer of the tournament, amassing a total of ten goals and sixteen points in seven games played. Andrea Bevan (

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) of Canada was the top scoring defenseman and tournament assists leader, notching one goal and nine assists for ten points in seven games; of her nine assists, seven were primary and two were secondary. Canadian goaltender Stacey Corfield (

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) led all tournament goaltenders in

save percentage Save percentage (often known by such symbols as SV%, SVS%, SVP, PCT) is a statistic in various Goal (sports), goal-scoring sports that track Save (goaltender), saves as a statistic. In ice hockey and lacrosse and association football, it is a sta ...

(93.75%) and

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(0.89 GAA) while tallying nearly 65 percent of minutes played. Japanese goalie Eri Kiribuchi ( Bemidji State Beavers) and Finnish goalie Anna-Kaisa Piiroinen ( Laurea University of Applied Sciences/ Salo HT) tied for most shutouts with two each.

Preliminary round

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Fifth place game

Playoff round

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Scoring leaders

Haruka Takashima (

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/ Iwakura Peregrine) was the leading scorer for Japan, having tallied one goal and five assists for six points and four penalty minutes in six games played. She ranked 22nd on the list of tournament scoring leaders. Emily Turner (Sheffield Bears) and Katherine Wiggins (Sheffield Bears) tied as the top scorers representing Great Britain, with one goal each.

Goaltenders

Note: ''Name''^ indicates goaltender with less than forty percent of their team's total minutes.

Rosters

Medalists

Medal table

Bibliography

References

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