2022 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship

The 2022 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 14th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey.
On December 24, 2021, the tournament was cancelled for the second year in a row by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on March 21, 2022, the IIHF announced it had reconsidered and rescheduled the Top Division tournament for June 6–13, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. 
The venues which hosted the event in Dane County, Wisconsin were LaBahn Arena, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Bob Suter's Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, home of the USHL's Madison Capitols.
==Top Division==
===Preliminary round===
All times are local (UTC−5).
====Group A====
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====Group B====
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===Relegation round===
The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a best-of-three series to determine the relegated team.
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===Final round===
Teams were reseeded for the semifinals in accordance with the following ranking:
#tier of the group;
#position in the group.
Rank	Team	Group	
1 	 	A 	1
2 	 	A 	2
3 	 	A 	3
4 	 	A 	4
5 	 	B 	1
6 	 	B 	2
====Bracket====
====Quarterfinals====
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====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
===Final ranking===
===Awards and statistics===
====Awards====
Best player selected by the Directorate
Position 	Player
Goaltender	Emilia Kyrkkö
Defenceman	Tuva Kandell
Forward 	Laila Edwards
Source: IIHF
All-Star team
Position 	Player
Goaltender	Emilia Kyrkkö
Defenceman	Sydney Morrow
Defenceman	Sara Swiderski
Forward 	Adéla Šapovalivová
Forward 	Laila Edwards
Forward 	Sanni Vanhanen
MVP 	Laila Edwards
Source: IIHF
====Scoring leaders====
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Rank	Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
1 	Tereza Plosová 	5 	3	7	10 	+8 	0 	F
2 	Adéla Šapovalivová	5 	3	6	9 	+10	2 	F
3 	Laila Edwards 	5 	4	4	8 	+4 	2 	F
3 	Tereza Pištěková 	5 	4	4	8 	+9 	0 	F
5 	Sydney Morrow 	5 	1	7	8 	+7 	4 	D
6 	Alina Marti 	5 	2	5	7 	0 	4 	F
7 	Tessa Janecke 	5 	3	3	6 	+3 	2 	F
7 	Sanni Vanhanen 	5 	3	3	6 	+3 	2 	F
9 	Tuva Kandell 	6 	1	5	6 	–4 	6 	D
10 	Ava Murphy 	6 	2	3	6 	+1 	4 	D
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF
====Leading goaltenders====
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.
Rank	Player 	TOI 	GA	GAA 	SA 	Sv% 	SO
1 	Emilia Kyrkkö 	238:44	6 	1.51	145	95.86	2
2 	Michaela Hesová 	286:34	5 	1.05	89 	94.38	2
3 	Mari Pietersen 	273:17	6 	1.32	96 	93.75	1
4 	Annelies Bergmann	238:29	6 	1.51	91 	93.41	1
5 	Lisa Jönsson 	292:03	13	2.67	191	93.19	0
TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF
==Division I==
===Group A===
The tournament would have been held in Győr, Hungary from 9 to 15 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 3 to 8 April 2022.
===Group B===
The tournament would have been held in Radenthein, Austria from 10 to 16 January 2022. It was rescheduled to 6–11 September.
==Division II==
The tournament would have been held in Istanbul, Turkey from 21 to 27 January 2022. It was rescheduled and played from 27 June to 5 July.
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Promoted to the 2023 Division I B
==References==
==External links==
*Official website of IIHF
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