2013 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship is the 15th IIHF World U18 Championship and was hosted in Sochi, Russia. This was also a test event for the facilities to be used in the 2014 Winter Olympics. It began on 18 April 2013 with the gold medal game being played on 28 April 2013.

Canada won its third under-18 championship by defeating the four time defending champion Americans 3-2. The host Russians lost to Finland 2-1 in the Bronze medal game. MVP Connor McDavid set Canadian records for goals and points in the tournament.

Format
A new format was implemented. The four best ranked teams from the preliminary round advanced to the quarterfinals, while the last placed teams played a relegation round in a best of three format to determine the relegated team. Additionally the practice of playing ranking games (fifth place through eighth place) was abandoned.

Venues

 * Bolshoy Ice Dome
 * Shayba Arena

Officials
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship. They were the following:


 * Referees
 * 🇸🇪 Tobias Björk
 * 🇩🇪 Marcus Brill
 * Igor Dremelj
 * 🇭🇺 Peter Gebei
 * Jacob Grumsen
 * 🇨🇿 René Hradil
 * Andreas Koch
 * 🇫🇮 Jari Leppäalho
 * 🇺🇸 Timothy Mayer
 * 🇸🇰 Robert Mullner
 * 🇨🇦 Steve Papp
 * 🇷🇺 Evgeniy Romasko


 * Linesmen
 * 🇧🇾 Vasili Kaliada
 * 🇯🇵 Kenji Kosaka
 * Joep Leermakers
 * 🇺🇸 Fraser McIntyre
 * 🇷🇺 Eduard Metalnikov
 * 🇫🇮 Pasi Nieminen
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Pihlblad
 * 🇵🇱 Mariusz Smura
 * 🇨🇿 Rudolf Tosenovjan
 * 🇨🇦 Matt Traub

Preliminary round
All times are UTC+4.

Relegation round
The teams play a best-of-three series.


 * Latvia is relegated to Division I A, the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.

Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source: IIHF.com

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. Source: IIHF.com

Tournament Awards
Source: IIHF.com
 * Best players selected by the directorate:
 * Best Goalkeeper: 🇫🇮 Juuse Saros (FIN)
 * Best Defenseman: 🇺🇸 Steven Santini (USA)
 * Best Forward: 🇨🇦 Connor McDavid (CAN)

Division I A
The Division I A tournament was played in Asiago, Italy, from 7 to 13 April 2013. Danish goalie George Sørensen scored a goal against France, joining Anton Khudobin as the only goaltenders ever to accomplish this feat in an IIHF event.

Final Standings

Division I B
The Division I B tournament was played in Tychy, Poland, from 14 to 20 April 2013.

Final Standings

Division II A
The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 31 March – 6 April 2013.

Final Standings

Division II B
The Division II B tournament was played in Belgrade, Serbia, from 9 to 15 March 2013.

Final Standings

Division III A
The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei, from 11 to 16 March 2013.

Final Standings

Division III B
The Division III B tournament was played in İzmit, Turkey, from 7 to 10 February 2013.

Final Standings