2004 World Championships: Internet Broadcast Info

[Homer]

Harvard Radio (WHRB) will be covering games at the 2004 World Women's Hockey Championships. TSN will likely provide a television broadcast of some of the games as in the past. WHRB's hope is to simply provide as many women's hockey fans as possible with an additional means of following the action.

This year's broadcast schedule is as follows:

Saturday, April 3rd @ 3:00PM EST: Team USA vs. Team Canada
Sunday, April 4th @ 7:00PM EST: Team Canada vs. Team Sweden
Monday, April 5th @ 7:00PM EST: Team USA vs. Team Sweden
Tuesday, April 6th @ 7:00PM EST: Gold Medal Game
*Pregame show will start 15 minutes prior to each game

Internet Feed: http://www.whrb.org
Please select the "Internet-only Sports" feed located in top right corner of the page. The gold medal game will be available on the "Regular Stream" feed as well.

Former Team USA Assistant Coach and Harvard star Julie Sasner '88 will be providing the color commentary. Possible cameos by other notable names in the game as well.

All information is subject to change. Please send any questions, comments, and feedback to homersimpson2001@yahoo.com.

[womenshockeyfan]

Thanks for that info Homer. Nice to see you back on the board.:)

[interestedobserver]

A touch off topic here, but last night the Canadian Esso Women's National Championship wrapped up with a gold medal game between Team Alberta - the Oval Extreme out of Calgary, and Team Ontario - Beatrice Aeros before a capacity crowd at the Sherwood Park Arena in Edmonton Alberta.
The game was covered live by TSN and it was awesome from start to finish. The refs put their whistles in their pockets for most of the time and it was very physical - apparently boarding is not a penalty in the womens game. It was a joy to watch Botterill, Heaney, Small, Antal, Wickenheiser, Campbell, Goyette and so many others - the best game I have ever seen from the stands. Won in overtime by Heaney at 3 minutes on a breakaway - patient beautiful goal, although I'm sure Tapp would like another opportunity. Ontario gold, Oval Silver and the Edmonton Chimos Bronze. Top two teams in a class all by themselves; the best opponents could do was defend.

Also, FYI, the University of Alberta Pandas won the Canadian Championship with a perfect record - 32 games, no ties, no overtime victories.

[Homer]

Please note the time change of our first scheduled broadcast. As long as Team Canada wins its preliminary round pool, Canada's game on April 3rd will go off at 3PM EST.

By the way, for those thinking of tuning in, we're opening with a little narrative mixed in with some highlights from the last World Championship and set to music so it should be a pretty cool way to kick things off.

[Homer]

Keeping all of the broadcast info centralized, here is the TSN broadcast schedule for Worlds:

Saturday, April 3 at 3PM ET (4PM AT)- Team Canada's game
Sunday, April 4 at 7PM ET (8PM AT) - Team Canada's game
Tuesday, April 6 at 7PM ET (8PM AT)- Gold Medal game

TSN's Dave Randorf will call the play-by-play with former player and coach Margot Page handling colour commentary. Paul Hollingsworth will be the rinkside reporter for TSN.

Congratulations to Minnesota on winning the NCAA Championship. Thank you to Harvard for another memorable season.

[brookyone]

Although the observations herein may be somewhat subjective it might be interesting to note any marked differences or advantage pre tournament training provides for the Piper, Apps & Kingsbury trio over the Wendell, Darwitz, Ruggiero trio who played in the NCAA FF, if any.

[Hux]

Originally posted by brookyone
Although the observations herein may be somewhat subjective it might be interesting to note any marked differences or advantage pre tournament training provides for the Piper, Apps & Kingsbury trio over the Wendell, Darwitz, Ruggiero trio who played in the NCAA FF, if any.

Negligible at best. The US players have all played together enough to know each other's thinking and moves, as well as having just played with/against each other this past weekend. If anything those that played have an advantage over those that just practiced and scrimmaged.

Plus Ruggiero is going to be pretty P O'd at having lost out on a NC for the second year in a row. I think we can expect some inspired play from her this weekend.

[dave1381]

Originally posted by Hux
Plus Ruggiero is going to be pretty P O'd at having lost out on a NC for the second year in a row. I think we can expect some inspired play from her this weekend.
Not to mention, she hasn't won a high-profile championship since her freshman year of college... and that's five years ago. That includes defeats in two Worlds, two NCAA finals, and the Olympics. Unreal.

Again, I don't think a week of prep will make all that much difference. Basically the only game that's going to matter will be next Tuesday, and teams have plenty of time to get back in sync before then. Obviously several months of prep vs. a week for Canada didn't give the U.S. the title in 2001.

[brookyone]

Originally posted by dave1381


Again, I don't think a week of prep will make all that much difference. Basically the only game that's going to matter will be next Tuesday, and teams have plenty of time to get back in sync before then. Obviously several months of prep vs. a week for Canada didn't give the U.S. the title in 2001.

...and this was more or less my point. Water under the bridge now, but how necessary could it have been to deny Piper, Apps & Kingsbury the FF for the preparation. Or could there have been reason's of a political nature as some have suggested. I'll just pay a little more attention to the stat's of the player's involved...to satisfy my own curiousity, and I don't expect to see anything noticable either.

[dave1381]

Also April 11th, CSTV is broadcasting the Gold Medal Game (tape delayed, of course)

[dave1381]

I'm posting the link to live stats again here so I know I can find it:
http://www.iihf.com/hydra/tournaments/output/WW/

and the USA Hockey broadcast is here:
http://www.usahockey.com/usa_hockey/main/home/listen_live/

[Hux]

Originally posted by brookyone
...and this was more or less my point. Water under the bridge now, but how necessary could it have been to deny Piper, Apps & Kingsbury the FF for the preparation. Or could there have been reason's of a political nature as some have suggested. I'll just pay a little more attention to the stat's of the player's involved...to satisfy my own curiousity, and I don't expect to see anything noticable either.


I think it is called being wound too tight. The Canadians were beside themselves after the '98 Olympics, and cashiered Shannon Miller. To have been silver medalists in the World Juniors for the third straight year (getting beat by the US to boot), and to have lost out on the Under 18 Gold etc, they feel that keeping their winning streak in the Women's World Championships is of the utmost importance. This is especially true since they are on home ice.

They could care less about their players having commitments to colleges, playing for Queen and country is the be all and end all.

[Homer]

Matchups have now been finalized. Canada, Sweden, and the United States have won their respective pools. Canada-USA kicks off our broadcast schedule Saturday at 3PM Eastern time (4PM Atlantic time). Ben Smith says Cammi Granato's chances of playing are "50-50" right now.

[dave1381]

bumping this to the top... http://www.whrb.org
tonight at 7 p.m. ET, U.S. vs. Sweden. I think Pam Dreyer and Krissy Wendell will be the intermission interviews if I'm not mistaken. Should be fun.

[dave1381]

CSTV broadcast schedule of Gold medal Game

Tonight 7 p.m.
Monday 6 a.m.
Wed. 10 p.m.
Thu 6 a.m.
Thu 2 p.m.

http://www.cstv.com/tvschedule.htm?sportSel=ICE+HOCKEY+-+WOMEN%27S&seriesSel=no&schoolSel=no&conferenceSel=no&gameSel=no

More broadcast info:
http://www.usahockey.com/usa_hockey/main/home/04wwc_tvsked_040604/

Date Time Game Carrier
Sun., April 11 7 p.m. EDT Gold-Medal CSTV
Tues., April 13 8 p.m. & 12 a.m. EDT Gold-Medal MSG
Wed., April 14 12 p.m. & 4 p.m. EDT Gold-Medal MSG
Sat., April 17 4 p.m. MDT Gold-Medal FSNRM
Wed., April 28 8 p.m. EDT Gold-Medal MSG
TBD* TBD* Gold-Medal NESN

The NESN airtime is depedent on the Bruins' playoff schedule - in other words, the sooner the B's sweep, the sooner you can watch the game in the Boston area, I guess. :)