2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I

2012 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division I
Tournament details
Host countries  Germany
 Poland
Dates 11 – 17 December 2011
12 – 18 December 2011
Teams 12
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
2011
2013

The 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division I was played in two groups of six teams each. In each group the first-placed team is promoted to a higher level, while the last-placed team is relegated to a lower level. This year, for the first time, the winner of Group B is promoted to Group A and the winner of Group A is promoted to the next year's top division.[1][2] Previously the winners of both groups were promoted to the top division.

Division I A

The Division I A tournament was played in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from 11 to 17 December 2011.[3]

Participants

Team Qualification
 Norway Placed 9th in Top Division last year and were relegated.
 Germany Hosts, placed 10th in Top Division last year and were relegated.
 Belarus Placed 2nd in Division I (Group A) last year.
 Slovenia Placed 2nd in Division I (Group B) last year.
 Great Britain Placed 3rd in Division I (Group A) last year.
 Austria Placed 3rd in Division I (Group B) last year.

Final standings

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts
 Germany 5500034915
 Belarus 53011211010
 Norway 5300219139
 Slovenia 5120216127
 Austria 5101311264
 Great Britain 500056370
Promoted to the 2013 Top Division Relegated to the 2013 Division I B

Results

December 11, 2011
12:30
Great Britain  2 - 5
 Norway Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 11, 2011
16:00
Belarus  1 - 2
 Germany Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 11, 2011
19:30
Austria  2 - 3 (GWS)
 Slovenia Garmisch Olympia Stadium

December 12, 2011
15:30
Slovenia  8 - 0
 Great Britain Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 12, 2011
19:00
Germany  11 - 2
 Austria Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 13, 2011
17:00
Norway  2 - 3
 Belarus Garmisch Olympia Stadium

December 14, 2011
12:30
Great Britain  2 - 10
 Belarus Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 14, 2011
16:00
Norway  5 - 2
 Austria Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 14, 2011
19:30
Germany  5 - 2
 Slovenia Garmisch Olympia Stadium

December 15, 2011
19:00
Germany  11 - 1
 Great Britain Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 16, 2011
15:30
Belarus  6 - 2
 Austria Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 16, 2011
19:00
Slovenia  1 - 4
 Norway Garmisch Olympia Stadium

December 17, 2011
12:30
Austria  3 - 1
 Great Britain Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 17, 2011
16:00
Slovenia  2 - 1 (GWS)
 Belarus Garmisch Olympia Stadium
December 17, 2011
19:30
Norway  3 - 5
 Germany Garmisch Olympia Stadium

Top 10 scorers

Pos Player Country GP G A Pts +/- PIM
1 Tobias Rieder  Germany 5 5 8 13 +6 4
2 David Elsner  Germany 5 4 5 9 +6 8
3 Marcel Noebels  Germany 5 4 5 9 +5 6
4 Sondre Olden  Norway 5 2 6 8 +4 2
5 Jonas Knutsen  Norway 5 5 2 7 +4 6
6 Gal Koren  Slovenia 5 4 3 7 0 0
7 Bernhard Keil  Germany 5 2 5 7 +5 14
7 Patrick Obrist  Austria 5 2 5 7 +1 2
9 Konrad Abeltshauser  Germany 5 1 6 7 +10 4
10 Leo Pföderl  Germany 5 3 3 6 +5 0

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos Player Country MINS GA Sv% GAA SO
1 Yan Shelepnyov  Belarus 284:21 8 92.73 1.69 0
2 Mathias Niederberger  Germany 260:00 7 92.13 1.62 0
3 Luka Gračnar  Slovenia 269:45 11 91.47 2.45 0
4 Lars Volden  Norway 300:00 13 91.10 2.60 0
5 Declan Ryan  Great Britain 192:15 22 82.95 6.87 0

IIHF Best Players awards

Division I A Champion

Division I A Champion
Germany
Germany
Konrad Abeltshauser, David Elsner, Richard Gelke, Henry Haase, Jimmy Hertel, Mirko Höfflin, Bernhard Keil, Kilian Keller, Nicolas Krämmer, Stephan Kronthaler, Nickolas Latta, Corey Mapes, Thomas Merl, Mathias Niederberger, Marcel Noebels, Andreas Pauli, Leo Pföderl, Maximilian Renner, Tobias Rieder, Lukas Steinhauer, Thomas Supis, Sebastian Uvira, Pascal Zerressen
Head Coach: Ernst Höfner

Division I B

The Division I B tournament was played in Tychy, Poland, from 12 to 18 December 2011.[4]

Participants

Team Qualification
 Italy Placed 4th in Division I (Group A) last year.
 Kazakhstan Placed 4th in Division I (Group B) last year.
 Japan Placed 5th in Division I (Group A) last year.
 Croatia Placed 5th in Division I (Group B) last year.
 France Placed 1st in Division II (Group A) last year and were promoted.
 Poland Hosts, placed 1st in Division II (Group B) last year and were promoted.

Final standings

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts
 France 5400119612
 Kazakhstan 530119710
 Italy 521021498
 Poland 5201216127
 Croatia 5200312256
 Japan 501049202
Promoted to the 2013 Division I A Relegated to the 2013 Division II A

Results

December 12, 2011
13:00
France  2 - 1
 Italy Tychy Winter Stadium
December 12, 2011
16:30
Japan  1 - 2
 Kazakhstan Tychy Winter Stadium
December 12, 2011
20:00
Poland  9 - 1
 Croatia Tychy Winter Stadium

December 13, 2011
13:00
Italy  7 - 2
 Japan Tychy Winter Stadium
December 13, 2011
16:30
Croatia  1 - 8
 France Tychy Winter Stadium
December 13, 2011
20:00
Kazakhstan  2 - 0
 Poland Tychy Winter Stadium

December 15, 2011
13:00
France  5 - 0
 Japan Tychy Winter Stadium
December 15, 2011
16:30
Kazakhstan  4 - 3
 Croatia Tychy Winter Stadium
December 15, 2011
20:00
Italy  4 - 2
 Poland Tychy Winter Stadium

December 16, 2011
13:00
Kazakhstan  1 - 2
 France Tychy Winter Stadium
December 16, 2011
16:30
Croatia  3 - 1
 Italy Tychy Winter Stadium
December 16, 2011
20:00
Japan  3 - 2 (OT)
 Poland Tychy Winter Stadium

December 18, 2011
12:00
Croatia  4 - 3
 Japan Tychy Winter Stadium
December 18, 2011
16:30
Italy  1 - 0 (OT)
 Kazakhstan Tychy Winter Stadium
December 19, 2010
20:00
Poland  3 - 2
 France Tychy Winter Stadium

Top 10 scorers

Pos Player Country GP G A Pts +/- PIM
1 Damian Kapica  Poland 5 6 4 10 +10 0
2 Mateusz Michalski  Poland 5 2 7 9 +9 0
3 Kamil Kalinowski  Poland 5 3 4 7 +5 2
3 Borna Rendulic  Croatia 5 3 4 7 -2 0
5 Norbert Abramov  France 5 4 2 6 +6 4
6 Petar Trstenjak  Croatia 5 1 5 6 -5 2
7 Igor Lazic  Croatia 5 3 2 5 -3 6
8 Dimitri Thillet  France 5 2 3 5 +6 2
9 Makuru Fukuhashi  Japan 5 3 1 4 +4 0
9 Nicolas Ritz  France 5 3 1 4 +6 20

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos Player Country MINS GA Sv% GAA SO
1 Julian Barrier-Heyligen  France 240:00 3 96.34 0.75 1
2 Pavel Poluektov  Kazakhstan 304:49 7 94.66 1.38 1
3 Massimo Quagliato  Italy 304:29 9 93.28 1.77 1
4 Takuto Onoda  Japan 178:23 8 91.67 2.69 0
5 Mariusz Ryszkaniec  Poland 180:00 7 91.57 2.33 0

IIHF Best Players awards

Division I B Champion

Division I B Champion
France
France
Norbert Abramov, Jérémy Arès, Aziz Baazzi, Julien Barrier-Heyligen, Joris Bedin, Antoine Bonvalot, Mathieu Briand, Martin Charpentier, Florian Chakiachvili, Aurélien Dorey, Raphaël Faure, Romain Gutierrez, Maxime Joly, Nicolas Leclerc, Vincent Llorca, Yann Millet, Anthony Rech, Nicolas Ritz, Marius Serer, Dimitri Thillet, Nicolas Thos, Hugo Vinatier
Head Coach: Lionel Charrier

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