2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I

2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I
Tournament details
Host countries Austria
 Italy
Dates27 March – 2 April 2004
29 March – 4 April 2004
Teams12
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The 2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournaments made up the second level of competition at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 27 March and 2 April 2004 in Amstetten, Austria and the Group B tournament took place between 29 March and 4 April 2004 in Asiago, Italy. Switzerland and Germany won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Romania finished last in Group A and South Korea last in Group B and were both relegated to Division II for 2005.

Group A tournament

The Group A tournament began on 27 March 2004 in Amstetten, Austria.[1] Austria, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia all returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] Romania gained promotion to Division I after finishing first in lasts years Division II tournament and Switzerland was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship.[4][5]

Switzerland won the tournament after winning all five of their games, finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Slovenia finished in second place and Austria finished third after only losing to Switzerland and Slovenia.[1] Romania finished in last place, managing only to tie one game and lose the other four and were relegated back to Division II for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Rafael Rotter of Austria finished as the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points including five goals and six assists.[6] Latvia's Kristaps Stigis finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 92.93.[7]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1   Switzerland 5 5 0 0 35 10 +25 10 Promoted to the Championship Division for 2005
2  Slovenia 5 3 1 1 20 13 +7 7
3  Austria 5 3 0 2 21 18 +3 6
4  Latvia 5 2 1 2 27 17 +10 5
5  Poland 5 0 1 4 12 20 −8 1
6  Romania 5 0 1 4 5 42 −37 1 Relegated to Division II for 2005
Source: [citation needed]

Fixtures

All times local.

27 March 2004
13:00		Latvia 5 – 2
(2–0, 1–0, 2–2)		 PolandAmstetten
Attendance: 100
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27 March 2004
16:30		Romania 1 – 12
(0–2, 0–4, 1–6)		  SwitzerlandAmstetten
Attendance: 100
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27 March 2004
20:00		Austria 2 – 7
(1–3, 0–1, 1–3)		 SloveniaAmstetten
Attendance: 700
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28 March 2004
13:00		Slovenia 6 – 1
(3–1, 2–0, 1–0)		 RomaniaAmstetten
Attendance: 50
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28 March 2004
16:30		Switzerland 6 – 2
(4–0, 1–1, 1–1)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 70
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28 March 2004
20:00		Poland 3 – 4
(2–0, 0–3, 1–1)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 210
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30 March 2004
13:00		Romania 0 – 14
(0–3, 0–7, 0–4)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 150
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30 March 2004
16:30		Poland 1 – 2
(1–0, 0–1, 0–1)		 SloveniaAmstetten
Attendance: 100
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30 March 2004
20:00		Switzerland 4 – 1
(0–1, 3–0, 1–0)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 600
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31 March 2004
13:00		Poland 2 – 2
(1–0, 1–1, 0–1)		 RomaniaAmstetten
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31 March 2004
16:30		Slovenia 2 – 6
(1–1, 1–1, 0–4)		  SwitzerlandAmstetten
Attendance: 150
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31 March 2004
20:00		Latvia 3 – 6
(0–1, 0–2, 3–3)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 250
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2 April 2004
13:00		Switzerland 7 – 4
(2–1, 2–2, 3–1)		 PolandAmstetten
Attendance: 150
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2 April 2004
16:30		Slovenia 3 – 3
(0–1, 2–1, 1–1)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 200
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2 April 2004
20:00		Austria 8 – 1
(1–1, 3–0, 4–0)		 RomaniaAmstetten
Attendance: 744
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Scoring leaders

Julien Sprunger scored seven goals and two assists to finish second in scoring.

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[6]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Austria Rafael Rotter 5 5 6 11 +10 2 F
Switzerland Julien Sprunger 5 7 2 9 +7 0 F
Slovenia Anze Kopitar 5 6 2 8 +3 0 F
Latvia Eduards Bullitis 5 4 4 8 +3 2 F
Switzerland Janick Steinmann 5 4 3 7 +7 2 F
Slovenia Anze Ahacic 5 2 5 7 +1 0 F
Latvia Artjoms Jemeljanenko 5 2 5 7 +4 4 F
Poland Jaroslaw Rzeszutko 5 4 2 6 -5 14 F
Latvia Jurijs Klujevskis 5 2 4 6 +2 14 F
Latvia Elviss Zelubovskis 5 4 1 5 +4 2 F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[7]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Latvia Kristaps Stigis 188:04 103 8 2.55 92.23 1
Slovenia Gasper Kroselj 280:00 163 13 2.79 92.02 0
Switzerland Leonardo Genoni 234:45 73 6 1.53 91.78 1
Austria Stefan Horneber 180:00 103 10 3.33 90.29 0
Poland Daniel Kachniarz 266:29 139 17 3.83 87.77 0

Group B tournament

The Group B tournament began on 29 March 2004 in Asiago, Italy.[8] France, Germany, Italy and Japan all returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] South Korea gained promotion to Division I after finishing first in lasts years Division II tournament and Kazakhstan was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship.[5][9]

Germany won the tournament after winning all five of their games, finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] Japan finished second after losing only to Germany and Italy finished in third place.[8] South Korea finished in last place, managing only to tie one game and lose the other four and were relegated back to Division II for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] Daniel Pietta of Germany finished as the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points including eight goals and three assists.[10] Japan's Yuto Takashima finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 96.59.[11]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1  Germany 5 5 0 0 38 12 +26 10 Promoted to the Championship Division for 2005
2  Japan 5 4 0 1 14 14 0 8
3  Italy 5 2 1 2 14 16 −2 5
4  Kazakhstan 5 1 1 3 12 19 −7 3
5  France 5 1 1 3 14 13 +1 3
6  South Korea 5 0 1 4 8 26 −18 1 Relegated to Division II for 2005
Source: [citation needed]

Fixtures

All times local.

29 March 2004
14:00		France 1 – 2
(0–1, 0–1, 1–0)		 GermanyAsiago
Attendance: 200
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29 March 2004
17:00		South Korea 2 – 2
(1–0, 0–0, 1–2)		 KazakhstanAsiago
Attendance: 220
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29 March 2004
21:00		Japan 2 – 1
(2–0, 0–1, 0–0)		 ItalyAsiago
Attendance: 1070
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30 March 2004
11:00		Kazakhstan 3 – 2
(0–2, 3–0, 0–0)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 880
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30 March 2004
14:00		Italy 5 – 1
(3–0, 1–1, 1–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 950
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30 March 2004
17:00		Germany 11 – 4
(3–2, 2–1, 6–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 290
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1 April 2004
14:00		Kazakhstan 1 – 2
(0–0, 1–1, 0–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 250
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1 April 2004
17:00		South Korea 2 – 7
(1–4, 1–1, 0–2)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 230
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1 April 2004
20:30		Germany 7 – 1
(4–1, 1–0, 2–0)		 ItalyAsiago
Attendance: 1610
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2 April 2004
14:00		France 0 – 2
(0–0, 0–1, 0–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 320
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2 April 2004
17:00		Germany 8 – 2
(2–2, 3–0, 3–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 450
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2 April 2004
20:30		Italy 3 – 2
(0–0, 2–0, 1–2)		 KazakhstanAsiago
Attendance: 1580
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4 April 2004
12:00		Kazakhstan 4 – 10
(0–2, 2–3, 2–5)		 GermanyAsiago
Attendance: 220
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4 April 2004
15:00		Japan 4 – 1
(0–0, 2–1, 2–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 650
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4 April 2004
18:30		Italy 4 – 4
(3–0, 0–4, 1–0)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 2100
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Scoring leaders

Philip Gogulla finished fifth in scoring after recording two goals and five assists.

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[10]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Germany Daniel Pietta 5 8 3 11 +5 6 F
Germany Thomas Pielmeier 5 8 2 10 +11 4 F
Germany Philipp Schlager 5 2 8 10 +8 4 F
Germany Andre Schietzold 5 4 5 9 +5 4 F
Germany Philip Gogulla 5 2 5 7 +3 16 F
Germany Christoph Gawlik 5 2 4 6 +5 27 F
Germany Mats Schobel 4 3 2 5 +3 25 F
Germany Moritz Muller 5 3 2 5 +2 4 F
Kazakhstan Andrei Bordyug 5 3 2 5 +1 6 F
Germany Anton Saal 5 2 3 5 +9 0 F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[11]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Japan Yuto Takashima 186:13 88 3 0.97 96.59 1
Germany Youri Ziffzer 160:00 85 4 1.50 95.29 0
Italy Thomas Tragust 285:56 165 13 2.73 92.12 0
Kazakhstan Sergey Khudyakov 280:28 159 13 2.78 91.82 1
France Joffrey Pingrit 298:39 133 13 2.61 90.23 0

References

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  2. ^ a b "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2003-08-18. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  3. ^ a b "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2003-08-18. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  4. ^ "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2003-08-23. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  5. ^ a b "2003 IIHF World U18 Championship". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2003-10-15. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  6. ^ a b "Scoring Leaders" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  7. ^ a b "Goalkeepers" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  8. ^ a b c d "2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Div I Group B". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  9. ^ "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2003-08-18. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  10. ^ a b "Scoring Leaders" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-10-22. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  11. ^ a b "Goalkeepers" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-10-22. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
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