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Canadian Women's Hockey League announces it will cease operationsCanada is gearing up for more games over more days at the expanded women's world hockey championship.
"You have to get up on game days, you've got to be energized and ready to go. The day after, you've got to come down a little bit, get relaxed, stay relaxed, be able to rest and then you get back up for the next one." Espoo is 20 kilometres west of Helsinki. Games will be played in the two-rink Metro Areena, where the main rink has a seating capacity of almost 7,000.The world championship format was revamped after 2010. The top two seeds in Group A never faced the bottom two in Group B, which eliminated a pair of lopsided scores from the tournament.
Hockey Canada's director of women's national teams says two more countries in the world championship can help grow the female game in those countries. "I do like the schedule more and how it's spread out. There is a bit of a routine there that can come into place. She did not play for Les Canadiennes de Montreal in her team's Clarkson Cup semifinal series or the March 24 final because of a lower-body injury she suffered in the last game of the Canadian Women's Hockey League regular season.
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