The IIHF World Women’s Under-18 tournament is the women’s hockey equivalent to the World Junior Hockey Championship on the men’s side. There’s no true best-on-best Under-20 on the women’s side, so scanning through past U-18 rosters provides you with a who’s who of women’s hockey’s biggest stars.
Marie-Philip Poulin, Brianne Jenner, Natalie Spooner, and pretty much every women’s hockey star born in 1991 or later - the first women’s Under-18 tournament was in 2008 - has played in the tournament. But perhaps no team was as dominant as the 2012 version, and it’s a team that’s still coming of age.