2006 IIHF World U18 Championships

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2006 IIHF World U18 Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Sweden
Dates	April 12 – April 22, 2006
Teams	10
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Champions	United States (3 titles)
Tournament statistics
Games played	31
Goals scored	190  (6.13 per game)
Attendance	11,798  (381 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Patrick Kane (12 points)

The 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Ängelholm and Halmstad, Sweden. The championships began on April 12, 2006 and finished on April 22, 2006. Games were played at Ängelholms Ishall in Ängelholm and Sannarps Isstadion in Halmstad. The United States of America defeated Finland 3-1 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the Czech Republic defeated Canada 4-1 to capture the bronze medal.

Contents 1 Championship results 1.1 Preliminary round 1.1.1 Group A 1.1.1.1 Results 1.1.2 Group B 1.1.2.1 Results 1.2 Relegation round 1.2.1 Results 1.3 Final round 1.3.1 Quarterfinals 1.3.2 Semifinals 1.3.3 Fifth place game 1.3.4 Bronze medal game 1.3.5 Gold medal game 1.4 Final standings 1.5 Scoring leaders 1.6 Goaltending leaders 2 Division I 2.1 Group A 2.1.1 Results 2.2 Group B 2.2.1 Results 3 Division II 3.1 Group A 3.1.1 Results 3.2 Group B 3.2.1 Results 4 Division III 4.1 Results 5 External links

[edit] Championship results

[edit] Preliminary round

[edit] Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
United States	4	4	0	0	30	3	8
Russia	4	3	1	0	21	9	6
Czech Republic	4	2	2	0	9	11	4
Germany	4	1	3	0	12	23	2
Belarus	4	0	4	0	4	30	0

[edit] Results

April 12, 2006	Czech Republic	4 – 2	Germany	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	J. Voráček (PP) 10:07 M. Bartos (ES) 22:25 J. Tlustý (SH) 45:38 J. Voráček (ES) 52:01		37:54 (ES) E. Ostwald 56:05 (ES) M. Brandl	Attendance: 263 Referee: Derek Zalaski

April 12, 2006	Russia	2 – 4	United States	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	E. Bodrov (ES) 01:16 A. Anisimov (SH) 06:25		04:01 (PP) J. McBain 43:21 (PS) B. Sweatt 54:30 (ES) B. Sweatt 59:59 (EN) R. Flynn	Attendance: 447 Referee: Soeren Persson

April 13, 2006	Russia	8 – 0	Belarus	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	A. Glovatsky (ES) 03:35 A. Popov (PP) 09:15 S. Zachupeyko (PP) 11:34 Y. Alexandrov (ES) 18:32 A. Vasyunov (ES) 21:45 A. Vasyunov (PP) 24:30 M. Glukhov (PP) 35:05 R. Bashkirov (PP) 43:39			Attendance: 203 Referee: Juraj Konc

April 13, 2006	Germany	0 – 9	United States	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
			04:27 (ES) P. Kane 07:56 (ES) P. Kane 08:59 (ES) L. Popko 21:46 (ES) J. O'Brien 23:30 (PP) M. Carman 27:52 (PP) P. Kane 38:42 (ES) L. Popko 46:42 (ES) B. Sweatt 58:44 (PP) B. Geoffrion	Attendance: 159 Referee: Sami Partanen

April 14, 2006	Belarus	2 – 5	Czech Republic	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	A. Syrei (PP) 30:55 D. Korobov (ES) 41:56		10:16 (PP) D. Ruzicka 24:34 (ES) M. Frolík 24:48 (ES) D. Kveton 36:01 (ES) M. Latal 55:27 (PP) M. Frolík	Attendance: 151 Referee: Soeren Persson

April 15, 2006	Germany	5 – 9	Russia	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	M. Endrass (PP) 03:19 T. Weiszdorn (SH) 27:48 M. Garten (PP) 49:34 C. Braun (PP) 56:19 M. Endrass (PP) 59:59		02:09 (SH) S. Zachupeyko 05:05 (ES) R. Bashkirov 17:07 (SH) R. Bashkirov 21:53 (ES) R. Bashkirov 31:14 (PP) A. Ryabev 31:38 (ES) R. Bashkirov 34:18 (ES) A. Glovatsky 40:26 (ES) E. Bodrov 41:27 (ES) A. Glovatsky	Attendance: 239 Referee: Soeren Persson

April 15, 2006	United States	5 – 0	Czech Republic	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	R. Rakhshani (PP) 18:27 R. Rakhshani (PP) 31:35 P. Kane (ES) 37:01 M. Carman (ES) 43:06 B. Sweatt (PP) 48:43			Attendance: 307 Referee: Sami Partanen

April 16, 2006	Belarus	1 – 5	Germany	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	A. Karatkevich (ES) 29:21		01:01 (ES) E. Ostwald 14:01 (ES) T. Weiszdorn 22:33 (ES) P. Hager 23:02 (PP) K. Holzer 53:43 (PP) C. Braun	Attendance: 141 Referee: Derek Zalaski

April 17, 2006	Czech Republic	0 – 2	Russia	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
			24:58 (PP) A. Anisimov 59:42 (EN) A. Glovatsky	Attendance: 381 Referee: Derek Zalaski

April 17, 2006	United States	12 – 1	Belarus	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	E. Johnson (PP) 04:30 E. Johnson (PP) 08:38 R. Rakhshani (PP) 09:34 P. Kane (ES) 21:02 P. Kane (PP) 23:15 J. O'Brien (PP) 23:32 E. Johnson (PP) 27:06 M. Carman (ES) 28:56 J. O'Brien (PP) 31:11 B. Sweatt (ES) 31:33 E. Johnson (ES) 35:33 R. Hayes (ES) 57:01		33:44 (PP) D. Shumski	Attendance: 140 Referee: Nadir Mandioni

[edit] Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Finland	4	3	0	1	12	7	7
Sweden	4	3	1	0	15	8	6
Canada	4	2	1	1	12	5	5
Slovakia	4	1	3	0	11	16	2
Norway	4	0	4	0	7	21	0

[edit] Results

April 12, 2006	Slovakia	1 – 3	Canada	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	R. Konecny (PP) 26:53		21:23 (ES) J. Azevedo 30:01 (PP) F. Bouchard 59:28 (EN) B. Sutter	Attendance: 197 Referee: Sami Partanen

April 12, 2006	Sweden	5 – 2	Norway	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	N. Andersen (PP) 05:24 P. Berglund (ES) 07:21 T. Larsson (PP) 27:23 P. Berglund (PP) 44:47 T. Lagerstrom (ES) 45:11		06:06 (ES) P. Molberg 30:28 (PP) L.P. Mengshoel	Attendance: 369 Referee: Nadir Mandioni

April 13, 2006	Norway	2 – 9	Canada	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	P. Rohn (PP) 05:10 R. Dahlstrom (PP) 26:38		12:03 (PP) J. Azevedo 15:35 (PP) F. Bouchard 24:10 (ES) J. Tavares 29:09 (PP) J. Azevedo 32:28 (PP) J. Azevedo 37:22 (PP) L. Pyett 38:45 (ES) B. Maxwell 42:04 (ES) V. Bartley 51:45 (ES) C. Emmerton	Referee: Alexey Ravodin

April 13, 2006	Slovakia	3 – 6	Finland	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	R. Konecny (PP) 37:01 M. Jurik (ES) 41:42 R. Konecny (ES) 47:51		06:01 (ES) J-M Juutilainen 09:52 (PP) J. Puustinen 18:42 (ES) J-M Juutilainen 21:58 (PP) J-M Juutilainen 22:10 (ES) J. Lehtivuori 52:40 (PP) J. Savolainen	Attendance: 235 Referee: Robert Ritchie

April 14, 2006	Finland	4 – 3	Sweden	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	M. Warn (ES) 01:19 R. Nyholm (PP) 14:16 J. Jalvanti (ES) 17:56 M. Warn (EN) 59:14		38:10 (ES) M. Backlund 54:07 (ES) P. Berglund 59:40 (ES) E. Moe	Attendance: 1,135 Referee: Alexey Ravodin

April 15, 2006	Norway	2 – 5	Slovakia	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	M. Ylven (PP) 21:07 P.A. Bovim (PP) 36:41		08:07 (PP) I. Rohac 09:06 (ES) J. Sinkovic 23:29 (ES) L. Zeliska 33:18 (PP) I. Rohac 39:22 (ES) I. Rohac	Attendance: 231 Referee: Nadir Mandioni

April 15, 2006	Canada	0 – 2	Sweden	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
			52:05 (ES) T. Lagerstrom 59:50 (EN) T. Lagerstrom	Attendance: 764 Referee: Robert Ritchie

April 16, 2006	Finland	2 – 1	Norway	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	J. Savolainen (ES) 09:04 I. Heikkila (ES) 58:24		56:53 (ES) M. Weberg	Attendance: 291 Referee: Juraj Konc

April 17, 2006	Canada	0 – 0	Finland	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
				Attendance: 424 Referee: Alexey Ravodin

April 17, 2006	Sweden	5 – 2	Slovakia	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	V. Sjodin (ES) 11:07 R. Figren (PP) 12:52 T. Larsson (PP) 14:11 P. Berglund (SH) 24:16 R. Figren (PP) 30:40		39:14 (PP) M. Balis 42:07 (PP) M. Jurik	Attendance: 713 Referee: Robert Ritchie

[edit] Relegation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	3	2	1	0	7	5	4
Germany	3	1	1	1	8	5	3
Belarus	3	1	1	1	9	11	3
Norway	3	0	1	2	10	13	2

[edit] Results

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

• April 15th, 2006:  Norway 2–5  Slovakia
• April 16th, 2006:  Belarus 1–5  Germany

April 19, 2006	Germany	2 – 2	Norway	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	T. Weiszdorn (ES) 32:13 C. Braun (PP) 37:46		11:12 (PP) P.A. Bovim 11:40 (PP) K.A. Olimb	Attendance: 51 Referee: Robert Ritchie

April 19, 2006	Slovakia	0 – 2	Belarus	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
			35:46 (PP) M. Stsefanovich 44:48 (ES) M. Stsefanovich	Attendance: 45 Referee: Derek Zalaski

April 20, 2006	Belarus	6 – 6	Norway	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	A. Karatkevich (PP) 00:53 A. Demkov (ES) 03:57 V. Sachko (ES) 05:47 V. Mikhailov (ES) 34:28 D. Korobov (PP) 39:52 I. Voroshilov (PP) 45:37		24:17 (PP) M. Ylven 33:50 (PP) P.A. Bovim 43:31 (ES) T. Kristiansen 55:19 (SH) R. Dahlstrom 56:18 (ES) P. Rohn 56:43 (ES) P. Rohn	Attendance: 51 Referee: Juraj Konc

April 20, 2006	Germany	1 – 2	Slovakia	Sannarps Isstadion, Halmstad

Game Summary
	M. Endrass (PP) 22:03		40:15 (PP) T. Marcinko 43:53 (ES) E. Caladi	Attendance: 46 Referee: Soeren Persson

[edit] Final round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

B1

Finland

3

A2

Russia

1

QF1

Canada

2

B3

Canada

4

SF1

Finland

1

SF2

United States

3

A1

United States

4

B2

Sweden

0

QF2

Czech Republic

3

A3

Czech Republic

3

[edit] Quarterfinals

April 19, 2006	Russia	1 – 4	Canada	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	S. Zachupeyko (PP) 09:29		38:24 (PP) J. Tavares 45:02 (PP) J. McGinn 57:31 (PP) J. McGinn 58:03 (ES) S. Matthias	Attendance: 417 Referee: Sami Partanen

April 19, 2006	Sweden	0 – 3	Czech Republic	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
			38:05 (PP) J. Tlustý 58:16 (ES) M. Bartos 59:04 (EN) D. Kveton	Attendance: 878 Referee: Alexey Ravodin

[edit] Semifinals

April 20, 2006	Finland	3 – 2 OT	Canada	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	R. Nyholm (PP) 24:45 J. Jalvanti (ES) 42:06 J-M. Jarvinen (ES) 61:22		13:32 (ES) F. Bouchard 28:33 (ES) B. Maxwell	Attendance: 438 Referee: Robert Ritchie

April 20, 2006	Czech Republic	3 – 4 OT	United States	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	B. Visnak (PP) 25:00 M. Bartos (PP) 43:38 J. Tlustý (ES) 52:47		04:22 (ES) R. Flynn 17:04 (PP) J. McBain 18:47 (PP) R. Rakhshani 66:50 (ES) P. Kane	Attendance: 369 Referee: Nadir Mandioni

[edit] Fifth place game

April 21, 2006	Russia	5 – 2	Sweden	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	R. Bashkirov (ES) 14:27 A. Anisimov (ES) 29:45 A. Popov (ES) 33:23 V. Zharkov (EN) 59:01 A. Popov (EN) 59:52		03:30 (PP) D. Persson 34:46 (PP) R. Figren	Attendance: 333 Referee: Juraj Konc

[edit] Bronze medal game

April 22, 2006	Canada	1 – 4	Czech Republic	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	B. Sutter (PP) 43:44		27:07 (PP) J. Voráček 30:21 (PP) J. Tlustý 36:44 (PP) M. Kazatel 53:52 (PP) L. Lang	Attendance: 875 Referee: Sami Partanen

[edit] Gold medal game

April 22, 2006	United States	3 – 1	Finland	Ängelholms Ishall, Ängelholm

Game Summary
	R. Rakhshani (ES) 25:24 C. Summers (PP) 39:59 M. Carman (EN) 59:58		15:27 (ES) J. Kemppainen	Attendance: 1,221 Referee: Nadir Mandioni

[edit] Final standings

Rk.	Team
	United States
	Finland
	Czech Republic
4	Canada
5	Russia
6	Sweden
7	Slovakia
8	Germany
9	Belarus
10	Norway

 Belarus and  Norway are relegated to Division I for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Scoring leaders

Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Patrick Kane	United States	6	7	5	12	2
Jamie McBain	United States	6	2	9	11	0
Erik Johnson	United States	6	4	6	10	27
Ruslan Bashkirov	Russia	6	6	2	8	4
Mike Carman	United States	6	4	4	8	10
Justin Azevedo	Canada	7	4	4	8	20
François Bouchard	Canada	7	3	5	8	6
Bill Sweatt	United States	6	5	2	7	4
Jiří Tlustý	Czech Republic	7	4	3	7	8
Martin Ylven	Norway	6	2	5	7	4
David Kveton	Czech Republic	7	2	5	7	2
Ben Maxwell	Canada	7	2	5	7	10

[edit] Goaltending leaders

(Minimum 60 minutes played)

Player	Country	MINS	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
Stanislav Galimov	Russia	60:00	0	1.000	0.00	1
Brett Bennett	United States	120:00	1	.969	0.50	1
Jakub Kovar	Czech Republic	105:08	2	.964	1.14	0
Joe Palmer	United States	246:50	6	.949	1.46	1
Jonathan Bernier	Canada	420:32	12	.943	1.71	1

[edit] Division I

[edit] Group A

The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Miskolc, Hungary from April 3 through April 9, 2006.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Switzerland	5	4	0	1	18	10	9
Slovenia	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Kazakhstan	5	2	2	1	25	20	5
France	5	1	2	2	20	26	4
Austria	5	1	3	1	22	26	3
Hungary	5	1	4	1	14	24	1

 Switzerland is promoted to the Championship tournament and  Hungary is relegated to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Results

Team	AUT	FRA	HUN	KAZ	SLO	SUI
AUT		4 - 4	7 - 3	4 - 10	4 - 5	3 - 4
FRA	4 - 4		4 - 4	7 - 5	2 - 7	3 - 6
HUN	3 - 7	4 - 4		3 - 5	2 - 3	2 - 5
KAZ	10 - 4	5 - 7	5 - 3		3 - 4	2 - 2
SLO	5 - 4	7 - 2	3 - 2	4 - 3		0 - 1
SUI	4 - 3	6 - 3	5 - 2	2 - 2	1 - 0

[edit] Group B

The following teams took part in Group B of the Division I tournament, which was played in Riga, Latvia at the Riga Arena and Volvo Sportcenter from April 2 through April 8, 2006.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	5	5	0	0	27	7	10
Denmark	5	4	1	0	24	12	8
Japan	5	2	2	1	19	16	5
Poland	5	2	3	0	16	15	4
Ukraine	5	1	4	0	7	31	2
South Korea	5	0	4	1	11	23	1

 Latvia is promoted to the Championship tournament and  South Korea is relegated to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Results

Team	DEN	JPN	KOR	LAT	POL	UKR
DEN		5 - 2	3 - 1	4 - 7	5 - 2	7 - 0
JPN	2 - 5		3 - 3	1 - 6	5 - 1	8 - 1
KOR	1 - 3	3 - 3		2 - 6	3 - 6	2 - 5
LAT	7 - 4	6 - 1	6 - 2		1 - 0	7 - 0
POL	2 - 5	1 - 5	6 - 3	0 - 1		7 - 1
UKR	0 - 7	1 - 8	5 - 2	0 - 7	1 - 7

[edit] Division II

[edit] Group A

The following teams took part in Group A of the Division II tournament, which was played in Merano, Italy from April 2 through April 8, 2006.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Italy	5	5	0	0	35	2	10
Netherlands	5	4	1	0	28	8	8
Estonia	5	2	2	1	13	20	5
Belgium	5	1	3	1	12	23	3
Serbia and Montenegro	5	1	4	0	15	26	2
Spain	5	1	4	0	8	32	2

 Italy is promoted to Division I and  Spain is relegated to Division III for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Results

Team	BEL	ESP	EST	ITA	NED	SCG
BEL		3 - 5	2 - 2	1 - 10	0 - 5	6 - 1
ESP	5 - 3		0 - 2	0 - 7	1 - 10	2 - 10
EST	2 - 2	2 - 0		1 - 9	2 - 8	6 - 1
ITA	10 - 1	7 - 0	9 - 1		2 - 0	7 - 0
NED	5 - 0	10 - 1	8 - 2	0 - 2		5 - 3
SCG	1 - 6	10 - 2	1 - 6	0 - 7	3 - 5

[edit] Group B

The following teams took part in Group B of the Division II tournament, which was played in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania from March 15 through March 21, 2006.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
United Kingdom	5	5	0	0	40	5	10
Lithuania	5	4	1	0	39	12	8
Croatia	5	2	3	0	22	23	4
Mexico	5	2	3	0	10	21	4
Australia	5	2	3	0	13	30	4
Iceland	5	0	5	0	7	40	0

 United Kingdom is promoted to Division I and  Iceland is relegated to Division III for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Results

Team	AUS	CRO	GBR	ISL	LTU	MEX
AUS		5 - 2	0 - 11	5 - 3	0 - 10	3 - 4
CRO	2 - 5		0 - 6	11 - 1	5 - 11	4 - 0
GBR	11 - 0	6 - 0		14 - 2	3 - 1	6 - 2
ISL	3 - 5	1 - 11	2 - 14		1 - 9	0 - 1
LTU	10 - 0	11 - 5	1 - 3	9 - 1		8 - 3
MEX	4 - 3	0 - 4	2 - 6	1 - 0	3 - 8

[edit] Division III

The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, which was played in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania at the Vákár Lajos Icerink from March 13 through March 19, 2006.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Romania	5	5	0	0	68	3	10
Israel	5	3	1	1	42	26	7
South Africa	5	2	2	1	25	22	5
New Zealand	5	1	1	3	28	26	5
Bulgaria	5	1	3	1	10	41	3
Turkey	5	0	5	0	8	63	0

 Romania and  Israel are promoted to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.

[edit] Results

Team	BUL	ISR	NZL	ROM	RSA	TUR
BUL		1 - 14	3 - 3	0 - 18	1 - 4	5 - 2
ISR	14 - 1		4 - 4	2 - 13	8 - 5	14 - 3
NZL	3 - 3	4 - 4		0 - 14	4 - 4	17 - 1
ROM	18 - 0	13 - 2	14 - 0		8 - 0	15 - 1
RSA	4 - 1	5 - 8	4 - 4	0 - 8		12 - 1
TUR	2 - 5	3 - 14	1 - 17	1 - 15	1 - 12

[edit] External links

• Official results and statistics from the International Ice Hockey Federation
  • Championship
  • Division I - Group A
  • Division I - Group B
  • Division II - Group A
  • Division II - Group B
  • Division III

Preceded by 2005 World U18

IIHF World U18 Championships 2006

Succeeded by 2007 World U18