Hockey Season is Over

This tournament and hockey season has officially come to an end.  The final was a very exciting, face paced game between USA and Canada.  The final was 7-5 USA - a true defensive battle haha.  One of the coolest traditions of these tournaments is they always play the winning teams national anthem at the end of the game.  It was certainly nice to hear the USA anthem and it was really cool to listen to the girls sing their hearts out after the win.  Japan won the relegation series in 2 games so they will be staying in the top division and Germany moves down to Division 1 next year.  All in all it was a good competitive tournament with only a few blow outs along the way.  After the final we all came back to the hotel and had a closing meeting.  We received medals for participating as well as a few gifts from the IIHF.  One of which was a tie pin - oops I guess they forgot we were women, haha!  However I must say they treated us very well this year and we are truly appreciative that all our clothing was in womens sizes.  

After the meeting we all headed out to a pizza restaurant for dinner to eat and celebrate a great tournament.  The celebrations continued in the hotel bar until well after midnight at which point everyone started to crash.   We all have various departure time today and I'm leaving at 9:30.  I'm getting a ride to the Copenhagen main train station where I will be meeting up with Kathleen.  More to come tonight when I have some time to write!