Deeside Dragons coach Dave Clancy with the GB Women's Silver Trophy at the World Championships (Photo by Great Britain Ice Hockey)
Deeside
Dragons’ coach Dave Clancy has helped to guide the Great Britain women’s team to
the silver medal at the IIHF World Championships in Spain.
Clancy
has been an assistant coach with the GB women’s team for a number of years and was
joined on the back room staff by Robyn Crebbin, who is the Dragons’ Sports Therapist.
The
GB team beat the host nation 3-2, Korea 3-2 in overtime, Kazakhstan 3-1 and eventual
tournament winners the Netherlands 1-0 in a thrilling penalty shoot out. Their only defeat came at the hands of Latvia,
to whom they lost 4-3 in overtime.
Team
GB finished in 2nd place in the overall table with 11 points from
their 5 games, 2 points behind gold medal winners Netherlands, who actually won
the same amount of matches but got extra points for regulation time victories.
The full GB Women’s World Championship Schedule was:
IIHF
Women’s World Championship – Div I Group B – Puigcerda, Spain
- 12th April: Korea 2 – Great Britain 3
- 13th April: Great Britain 3 – Spain 2
- 15th April: Latvia 4 – Great Britain 3
- 17th April: Great Britain 1 - Netherlands 0
- 18th April: Great Britain 3 - Kazakhstan 1
You can see all the results, game reports and player stats from the Women’s World Championships in Spain on the IIHF website HERE
