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Women’s world puck championships on Universal Sports

By Helene Elliott
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Get a preview of the Vancouver Olympics by watching the final stages of the women’s world hockey championships, which will be on Universal Sports later this week.

Universal will show 10 hours of play from Hameenlinna, Finland, where Team USA is defending its title. The gold-medal game will be shown live on Sunday. Check your local listings, as the saying goes, for where you can find Universal Sports.

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The analyst will be A.J. Mleczko, who won a gold medal with Team USA at the 1998 Nagano Games -- the first to include women’s hockey -- and a silver medal at Salt Lake City in 2002.

Here’s the schedule, with all times PDT:

Date Events Time

Thursday Qualifying Round Game #15 1-3:30 p.m.
Friday Qualifying Round Game #18 1-3:30 p.m.
Sunday Bronze Medal Game #19 6-8:30 a.m.*
Gold Medal Game LIVE 9 a.m.-noon.

*Bronze medal game to be broadcast only if Team USA is competing

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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