2004 World Cup of Hockey

The 2004 World Cup of Hockey is the second World Cup of Hockey (WCH), an international tournament. Prior to the first World Cup of Hockey in 1996, the Canada Cup was the name of this international competition between nations. The World Cup of Hockey was held from August 30 to September 14, 2004, in various venues in North America and Europe; Canada won the final against Finland.

The NHL announced the lockout two days after the tournament final was played.

Team participants

North American Pool	European Pool
Canada	Czech Republic
Russia	Finland
Slovakia	Germany
United States	Sweden

Venues

• Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Bell Centre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Kölnarena - Cologne, Germany
• Globe Arena - Stockholm, Sweden
• Hartwall Areena - Helsinki, Finland
• Sazka Arena - Prague, Czech Republic
• Xcel Energy Center - St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

Results

North American pool

	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	0	0	10	3	6
Russia	3	2	1	0	0	9	6	4
United States of America	3	1	2	0	0	5	6	2
Slovakia	3	0	3	0	0	4	13	0

• Thursday, August 19 - Training camps open

August 31
	United States	1 – 2	Canada		Montreal (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson, Paul Devorski
			St. Louis (Thornton, Niedermayer) pp 16:01
		Second period
			Sakic (Redden, St. Louis) pp 3:05
	Guerin (Gomez) 10:40
		Third period
		no scoring
		Game stats

September 1
	Canada	5 – 1	Slovakia		Montreal (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven, Stephen Walkom
	Thornton 3:02
	Smyth (Foote, Lecavalier) 4:43
		Second period
	Gagne (St. Louis) 4:07
		Third period
	St. Louis (Richards, Foote) pp 0:58
			Cibak (Bartecko, Radivojevič) 4:53
	Smyth (Lecavalier, Heatley) 7:11
		Game stats

September 2
	United States	1 – 3	Russia		St. Paul (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson, Paul Devorski
		no scoring
		Second period
			Zubrus (Kvasha, Yashin) 12:20
	Tkachuk (Modano, Rafalski) pp 13:44
		Third period
			Kovalev (Khavanov) 5:05
			Kozlov (Samsonov) 18:02
		Game stats

September 3
	Slovakia	1 – 3	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven, Stephen Walkom
			Smolinski (Leetch, Amonte) pp 3:09
	Nagy (Demitra, Chara) pp 11:14
			Blake (Chelios, Gomez) 13:27
		Second period
		no scoring
		Third period
			Guerin (Modano) 16:17
		Game stats

September 4
	Canada	3 – 1	Russia		Toronto (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson, Paul Devorski
		no scoring
		Second period
	Richards (Gagne, Hannan) sh 3:40
	Draper (Doan, Lecavalier) 5:17
		Third period
	Sakic (Lemieux) 5:43
			Gonchar (Afinogenov) 12:46
		Game stats

September 5
	Russia	5 – 2	Slovakia		Toronto (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven, Stephen Walkom
	Datsyuk (Markov, Frolov) 8:10
			Hossa (Demitra, Chara) 10:27
		Second period
	Kovalev (unassisted) 12:01
	Samsonov (Zubrus, Gonchar) 15:47
		Third period
	Yashin (Frolov) sh 0:59
			Gaborik (unassisted) 5:47
	Ovechkin (Afanasenkov) 7:10
		Game stats

European pool

	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
Finland	3	2	0	1	0	11	4	5
Sweden	3	2	0	1	0	13	9	5
Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	0	10	10	2
Germany	3	0	3	0	0	4	15	0

• Thursday, August 19 - Training camps open

August 30
	Czech Republic	0 – 4	Finland		Helsinki (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Marc Joannette, Don Koharski
			Hentunen (Kapanen, Numminen) 6:33
		Second period
		no scoring
		Third period
			S. Koivu (Lehtinen) 0:30
			Kapanen (Salo, Peltonen) pp 4:54
			Eloranta (Timonen, M. Koivu) 8:51
		Game stats

August 31
	Germany	2 – 5	Sweden		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli, Kevin Pollock
			Holmström (Näslund, Forsberg) pp 16:44
	Sturm sh 17:57
		Second period
			Sundin 1:59
			Johnsson (Alfredsson, Modin) 7:26
			Nilson (Sundin, Holmström) 11:51
	Kreutzer (Boos) sh 13:00
			Modin (Johnsson) 16:25
		Third period
		no scoring
		Game stats

September 1
	Czech Republic	3 – 4	Sweden		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli, Kevin Pollock
			Modin (Sundin) 11:49
		Second period
			Forsberg (Holmström, Näslund) pp 2:58
			Öhlund (Alfredsson, Modin) pp 4:28
			Zetterberg (Johnsson) pp 10:30
		Third period
	Rucinsky (Havlat) 3:20
	Zidlicky 5:16
	Eliáš (Hamrlik) 14:25
		Game stats

September 2
	Finland	3 – 0	Germany		Cologne (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski, Marc Joanette
	Timonen (Lehtinen, Selänne) pp 10:47
		Second period
	Selänne (Timonen, S. Koivu) pp 11:27
		Third period
	Lehtinen (Timonen) 15:38
		Game stats

September 3
	Germany	2 – 7	Czech Republic		Prague (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski, Marc Joanette
		no scoring
		Second period
			Zidlicky (Straka, Prospal) pp 2:56
			Slegr (Dopita, Sykora) 4:27
			Jágr (Prospal) 5:52
			Hejduk (Eliáš) pp 10:50
			Eliáš (Havlat) 15:48
		Third period
	Boos (Lewandowski) 3:55
			Havlat (Vlasak, Hamrlik) 10:59
	Hecht (Leask) 17:19
			Prospal (Jágr) 18:36
		Game stats

September 4
	Sweden	4 – 4	Finland		Helsinki (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli, Kevin Pollock
			Peltonen (Ruutu, Väänänen) 1:39
			Väänänen (Lydman, Hentunen) pp 4:34
	Modin (unassisted) pp 12:27
			S. Koivu (Lehtinen, Selänne) 12:46
	Lidström (Alfredsson, Sundin) pp 17:24
	Modin (Johnsson) 19:17
		Second period
			Jokinen (Ruutu, Peltonen) 0:38
		Third period
	Holmström (Forsberg, Modin) 19:15
		Overtime
		no scoring
		Game stats

Playoffs

Quarter-finals

September 6
	Finland	2 – 1	Germany		Helsinki (1300*)
		First period			Refs: N/A
		no scoring
		Second period
	Hagman (Kapanen, Timonen) pp 10:50
		Third period
			Sturm (Goc, Kreutzer) 13:58
	Eloranta (Timonen, Jokinen) 16:38
		Game stats

September 7
	Sweden	1 – 6	Czech Republic		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski, Marc Joanette
			Straka (Prospal) 6:15
			Havlat (Elias) 13:30
		Second period
			Zidlicky (Straka) 16:08
		Third period
			Dvorak (Cajanek) sh 8:17
			Hejduk (Zidlicky) 14:37
	Holmström (Näslund, Forsberg) pp 16:29
			Hejduk (Cajanek) en 18:15
		Game stats

September 7
	Russia	3 – 5	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson, Paul Devorski
			Tkachuk (Modano) 10:20
		Second period
			Tkachuk (Guerin, Modano) 1:56
	Afanasenkov (Chubarov, Gonchar) 7:14
		Third period
	Zubrus (Yashin, Kasparaitis) 0:36
			Gomez (Tkachuk) 4:25
			Tkachuk (Guerin, Modano) 4:47
	Kovalchuk (Samsonov, Kovalev) pp 11:04
			Tkachuk (Modano, Rafalski) en 19:05
		Game stats

September 8
	Canada	5 – 0	Slovakia		Toronto (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven, Stephen Walkom
		no scoring
		Second period
	Lecavalier (Richards, Brewer) pp 2:28
	Iginla (Sakic, Brewer) 5:26
	Smyth (Lecavalier, Heatley) 11:29
	Sakic (Iginla, Lemieux) 11:48
		Third period
	Iginla (Lemieux, Sakic) 7:49
		Game stats

Semi-finals

September 10
	Finland	2 – 1	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski, Marc Joanette
		no scoring
		Second period
			Weight (Gomez, Martin) pp 12:57
		Third period
	Jokinen (Numminen) 5:04
	S. Koivu (Väänänen, Selänne) 16:06
		Game stats

September 11
	Canada	4 – 3	Czech Republic		Toronto (1830*)
		First period			Refs: Paul Devorski, Stephen Walkom
		no scoring
		Second period
	Brewer (Draper, Thornton) 11:15
	Lemieux (Lecavalier, Richards) pp 14:25
			Cajanek (Hejduk, Rucinsky) 15:07
		Third period
			Havlat (Kaberle, Hejduk) pp 7:21
	Draper (Thornton) 13:47
			Elias (Havlat) 13:53
		Overtime
	Lecavalier (Smyth) 3:45
		Game stats

Final

September 14
	Canada	3 – 2	Finland		Toronto (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Paul Devorski, Stephen Walkom
	Sakic (Lemieux, Brewer) 0:52		Hahl (Lydman, Berg), 6:34
		Second period
	Niedermayer (Thornton, Draper), 3:15		T. Ruutu (Lydman), 19:00
		Third period
	Doan (Thornton, Foote), 0:34
		Game stats

Note: All times Eastern Daylight-Saving Time (UTC - 4 h)

Ranking and statistics

2004 World Cup of Hockey Winners  Canada 1st title Tournament awards Tournament MVP Vincent Lecavalier All-star team Goaltender: Martin Brodeur Defence: Adam Foote, Kimmo Timonen Forwards: Vincent Lecavalier, Saku Koivu, Fredrik Modin

Final standings

	Canada
	Finland
	Czech Republic
4	United States of America
5	Sweden
6	Russia
7	Slovakia
8	Germany

Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Modin, FredrikFredrik Modin	4	4	4	8	2
Lecavalier, VincentVincent Lecavalier	6	2	5	7	8
Tkachuk, KeithKeith Tkachuk	5	5	1	6	23
Havlat, MartinMartin Havlat	5	3	3	6	2
Sakic, JoeJoe Sakic	6	3	3	6	2
Timonen, KimmoKimmo Timonen	6	1	5	6	2
Modano, MikeMike Modano	5	0	6	6	0
Alfredsson, DanielDaniel Alfredsson	4	0	6	6	2
Hejduk, MilanMilan Hejduk	5	3	2	5	2
Elias, PatrikPatrik Elias	5	3	2	5	10

Leading goaltenders

Player	MIP	GA	GAA	SVS%
Brodeur, MartinMartin Brodeur	300	5	1.00	0.961
DiPietro, RickRick DiPietro	60	1	1.00	0.941
Kiprusoff, MiikkaMiikka Kiprusoff	365	9	1.50	0.939
Salo, TommyTommy Salo	60	2	2.00	0.895
Bryzgalov, IlyaIlya Bryzgalov	180	7	2.34	0.897
Esche, RobertRobert Esche	238	10	2.53	0.909
Luongo, RobertoRoberto Luongo	64	3	2.82	0.925
Vokoun, TomasTomas Vokoun	302	15	2.98	0.881
Sokolov, MaximMaxim Sokolov	60	3	3.01	0.893
Kolzig, OlafOlaf Kolzig	180	10	3.34	0.905