Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin was named top forward and most valuable player after leading the tournament with 12 points.

[4] It was the second time the tournament was held in Canada's capital city as Ottawa hosted the inaugural Women's World Championship in 1990.

Such discrepancies are not unusual at IIHF events, where games are often sold in packages in order to boost attendance figures of less attractive fixtures.

[6] However, both actual attendance and ticket sales were below the ambitious pre-tournament objective of 200,000 spectators relayed to the media by the organizers.

[7] The record was finally beaten on February 16, 2024, by a Professional Women's Hockey League match between Montréal and Toronto which amassed a crowd of 19,285.

[8] Overnight data indicates that an average 795,000 viewers watched the gold medal game in Canada, making it the highest rated Women's World Championship final in TSN's history.

[10] The change in format helped reduce the number of severely one-sided contests in a tournament praised by IIHF president René Fasel for its increasing competitiveness.

The opening night featured a match-up of the game's top powers, Canada and the United States.

The contest ended with a 3–2 Canadian win, decided by a shootout, in what was viewed as a preview of the probable gold medal final.

This was part of a promotion for the Nike-backed Livestrong cancer awareness initiative, whose founder Lance Armstrong had confessed to doping a few months earlier.

Nike hoped to attach the Livestrong brand to other athletes, and the jerseys were subsequently auctioned in support of the charity.

It clinched first place with a 4–0 victory over Sweden, a nation that entered the tournament with high medal hopes but was instead forced to play a best-of-three series against the Czech Republic to avoid relegation.

[16] The Swedes, who hosted the next tournament in 2015, retained their position in the top division by winning the series against the Czechs by 2–1 (SO) and 4–0 scores.