2016 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship

The 2016 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship was the ninth IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in ice hockey organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Top Division

The Top Division tournament was played during 8 to 15 January 2016 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Match officials

Six referees and nine linesmen were selected for the tournament. of Sweden was the tournament chairperson.
;Referees

Brandy Dewar
Lisa Grison
Kaisa Ketonen
Michaela Kiefer
Marie Picavet
Melissa Szkola

;Linesmen

Bettina Angerer
Daniela Kiefer
Jessica Leclerc
Lisa Linnek
Danielle McGurry
Stina Nilsson
Anna Nygård
Justine Todd
Sueva Torribio Rousselin

Preliminary round

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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Tournament awards

Best players selected by the directorate

Source: IIHF

Statistics

Scoring leaders

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
1	Alina Müller		5	7	2	9	+5	10
2	Natalie Snodgrass		5	6	1	7	+8	6
3	Fanuza Kadirova		6	5	2	7	+1	0
4	Rahel Enzler		5	1	6	7	+4	0
5	Jessica Adolfsson		6	1	6	7	+2	6
6	Rebecca Gilmore		5	4	2	6	+6	0
6	Petra Nieminen		5	4	2	6	+4	2
8	Celine Tedenby		6	4	2	6	+2	6
9	Ashton Bell		5	3	3	6	+6	0
10	Jenniina Nylund		5	2	4	6	+2	4

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
1	Alex Gulstene		181:47	3	0.99	95.45	1
2	Tiia Pajarinen		179:36	4	1.34	93.33	0
3	Emma Söderberg		240:00	7	1.75	93.27	0
4	Vanessa Bolinger		279:36	6	1.29	91.04	2
5	Valeria Tarakanova		288:40	14	2.91	90.07	1

TOI = Time on ice ; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Division I

Group

The Division I tournament was played in Miskolc, Hungary during 10 to 16 January 2016.

Division I Qualification

The Division I Qualification tournament was played in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria during 7 to 11 January 2016. The teams were divided into two groups of four where the winners played off against each other for promotion to the 2017 Division I Group A tournament. The teams ranking second through sixth remained in the newly titled Division I Group B and were joined by the relegated team from the 2016 Division I tournament. As the lowest ranking teams, Romania and Australia were relegated to the new Division I Group B Qualification tournament.
Austria won the tournament and gained promotion to the 2017 Division I Group A tournament.
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