2008 IIHF World U18 Championships

2008 IIHF World U18 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Russia
Dates April 13–24, 2008
Teams 10
Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions   Canada (2nd title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 31
Goals scored 221 (7.13 per match)
Attendance 66,739 (2,153 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Canada Cody Hodgson (12 points)
MVP Canada Jake Allen
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The 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Kazan, Russia. The championships began on April 13, 2008, and finished on April 24, 2008. Games were played at TatNeft Arena and Arena Kazan in Kazan. Canada defeated Russia 8–0 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the United States defeated Sweden 6–3 to capture the bronze medal.

Championship results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Russia 4400026912
 Canada 430012179
 Germany 4110213195
 Slovakia 4101213194
 Denmark 400044230
Results
April 13, 2008  Canada 9–2
  Germany Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,100
April 13, 2008  Slovakia 4–6
  Russia Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 7,400
April 14, 2008  Slovakia 5–2
  Denmark Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 700
April 14, 2008  Germany 2–6
  Russia Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 5,600
April 15, 2008  Denmark 1–4
  Canada Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,100
April 16, 2008  Germany 5–4 (SO)
  Slovakia Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 600
April 16, 2008  Russia 4–2
  Canada Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 10,000
April 17, 2008  Denmark 0–4
  Germany Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 500
April 18, 2008  Canada 6–0
  Slovakia Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,000
April 18, 2008  Russia 10–1
  Denmark Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 6,400

Group B

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Sweden 4400023912
 United States 4300120129
 Finland 4200215156
  Switzerland 410039213
 Belarus 400049190
Results
April 13, 2008  Sweden 6–2
  Belarus Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 650
April 13, 2008   Switzerland 2–7
  United States Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 630
April 14, 2008  Belarus 2–5
  United States Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 700
April 14, 2008   Switzerland 3–5
  Finland Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 650
April 15, 2008  Finland 3–5
  Sweden Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 860
April 16, 2008  Belarus 2–4
   Switzerland Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 300
April 16, 2008  United States 4–5
  Sweden Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 550
April 17, 2008  Finland 4–3
  Belarus Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 639
April 18, 2008  Sweden 7–0
   Switzerland Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 300
April 18, 2008  United States 4–3
  Finland Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 770

Relegation round

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Slovakia 330001459
  Switzerland 320011266
 Belarus 310029123
 Denmark 300035170

Results

Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:

April 20, 2008  Belarus 1–6
  Slovakia Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 125
April 20, 2008   Switzerland 6–1
  Denmark Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 195
April 21, 2008  Denmark 2–6
  Belarus Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 200
April 21, 2008  Slovakia 3–2
   Switzerland Arena Kazan, Kazan
Attendance: 120

Final round

  Quarterfinals     Semifinals     Final
                           
      B1   Sweden 2  
  A2   Canada 2     A2   Canada 3    
  B3   Finland 1         A2   Canada 8
      A1   Russia 0
      A1   Russia 3    
  B2   United States 4     B2   United States 1   Third place
  A3   Germany 1   B1   Sweden 3
  B2   United States 6

Quarterfinals

April 20, 2008  Canada 2–1
  Finland Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,600
April 20, 2008  United States 4–1
  Germany Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,700

Semifinals

April 21, 2008  Sweden 2–3
  Canada Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,500
April 21, 2008  Russia 3–1
  United States Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 9,500

Fifth place game

April 22, 2008  Finland 3–4
  Germany Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 350

Bronze medal game

April 23, 2008  Sweden 3–6
  United States Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 1,100

Gold medal game

April 23, 2008  Canada 8–0
  Russia Tatneft Arena, Kazan
Attendance: 10,000

Final standings

Rk. Team
1st Canada
2nd Russia
3rd United States
4 Sweden
5 Germany
6 Finland
7 Slovakia
8  Switzerland
9 Belarus
10 Denmark

 Belarus and  Denmark are relegated to Division I for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Scoring leaders

Player Country GP G A Pts PIM
Cody Hodgson  Canada 7 2 10 12 8
Igor Revenko  Belarus 6 3 8 11 6
Richard Pánik  Slovakia 6 4 6 10 0
Jordan Eberle  Canada 7 4 6 10 0
Taylor Hall  Canada 7 4 5 9 4
Nikita Filatov  Russia 6 3 6 9 29
Alexander Fomin  Belarus 6 6 2 8 0
Jeremy Morin  United States 7 6 2 8 6
Matt Duchene  Canada 7 5 3 8 6
André Petersson  Sweden 6 4 4 8 2
Mattias Tedenby  Sweden 5 4 4 8 35
Andrei Loktionov  Russia 6 3 5 8 29
Robbie Czarnik  United States 7 3 5 8 10

Goaltending leaders

(Minimum 60 minutes played)

Player Country MINS GA Sv% GAA SO
Jake Allen  Canada 420:00 10 .948 1.43 2
Brandon Maxwell  United States 298:23 11 .926 2.21 0
Danila Alistratov  Russia 144:05 7 .870 2.91 0
Marek Čiliak  Slovakia 180:00 9 .906 3.00 0
Jacob Markström  Sweden 355:09 18 .863 3.04 1

Tournament awards

All-Star team

Best players

MVP

Division I

Group A

The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Toruń, Poland from April 2 through April 8, 2008.

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Czech Republic 5500036515
 Kazakhstan 5300219139
 Lithuania 5200313266
 Poland 520037186
 Ukraine 520038126
 Slovenia 5100415243

 Czech Republic is promoted to the Championship tournament and  Slovenia is relegated to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Results

Team  Czech Republic  Kazakhstan  Lithuania  Poland  Slovenia  Ukraine
 Czech Republic   7 - 07 - 1 9 - 08 - 25 - 2
 Kazakhstan 0 - 7   9 - 01 - 4 7 - 22 - 0
 Lithuania 1 - 70 - 9   2 - 36 - 54 - 2
 Poland 0 - 94 - 13 - 2   0 - 50 - 1
 Slovenia 2 - 82 - 75 - 65 - 0   1 - 3
 Ukraine 2 - 50 - 22 - 41 - 03 - 1  

Group B

The following teams will take part in Group B of the Division I tournament, which will be played in Riga, Latvia from April 2 through April 8, 2008.

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Norway 5500015315
 Latvia 5400121212
 Austria 521021168
 Italy 5201217107
 Japan 5100412263
 Netherlands 500054330

 Norway is promoted to the Championship tournament and  Netherlands is relegated to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Results

Team  Austria  Italy  Japan  Latvia  Netherlands  Norway
 Austria   2 - 1 (OT)6 - 10 - 22 - 01 - 2
 Italy 1 - 2 (OT)   4 - 31 - 310 - 01 - 2
 Japan 1 - 63 - 4   0 - 97 - 41 - 3
 Latvia 2 - 03 - 19 - 0   7 - 00 - 1
 Netherlands 0 - 20 - 104 - 70 - 7   0 - 7
 Norway 2 - 12 - 13 - 11 - 07 - 0  

Division II

Group A

The following teams took part in Group A of the Division II tournament, which was played in Meribel and Courchevel, France from March 30 through April 5, 2008.

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 France 5500053415
 South Korea 5310131911
 Croatia 5300232249
 Belgium 5201214307
 China 5100414523
 Australia 500058330

 France is promoted to Division I and  Australia is relegated to Division III for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Results

Team  Australia  Belgium  China  Croatia  France  South Korea
 Australia   1 - 24 - 51 - 62 - 100 - 10
 Belgium 2 - 1   5 - 44 - 50 - 163 - 4 (OT)
 China 5 - 44 - 5   5 - 170 - 160 - 10
 Croatia 6 - 15 - 417 - 5   1 - 83 - 6
 France 10 - 216 - 016 - 08 - 1   3 - 1
 South Korea 10 - 04 - 3 (OT)10 - 06 - 31 - 3  

Group B

The following teams took part in Group B of the Division II tournament, which was played in Tallinn, Estonia at Arena Premia from March 23 through March 29, 2008.

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PTS
 Hungary 54001371212
 Great Britain 54001271112
 Estonia 5300220149
 Romania 5200332216
 Spain 5200320216
 Israel 5000511680

 Hungary is promoted to Division I and  Israel is relegated to Division III for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Results

Team  Spain  Estonia  Great Britain  Hungary  Israel  Romania
 Spain   1 - 22 - 44 - 312 - 41 - 8
 Estonia 2 - 1   3 - 52 - 310 - 33 - 2
 Great Britain 4 - 25 - 3   1 - 312 - 05 - 3
 Hungary 3 - 43 - 23 - 1   19 - 19 - 4
 Israel 4 - 123 - 100 - 121 - 19   3 - 15
 Romania 8 - 12 - 33 - 54 - 915 - 3  

Division III

Division III consisted of two separate tournaments. The Group A tournament was held between 2 and 8 March 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico and the Group B tournament was held between 3 and 9 March 2008 in İzmit, Turkey. Mexico and Serbia won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1][2]

Final standings

Group A

  1.  Mexico — promoted to Division II for 2009
  2.  Chinese Taipei
  3.  New Zealand
  4.  South Africa
  5.  Mongolia

Group B

  1.  Serbia — promoted to Division II for 2009
  2.  Iceland
  3.  Turkey
  4.  Bulgaria
  5.  Armenia

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Div. III Group A". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  2. ↑ "2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Div. III Group B". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2013-01-04.

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