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	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	10	3	6
Russia	3	2	1	9	6	4
United States of America	3	1	2	5	6	2
Slovakia	3	0	3	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	GF	GA	Pts
Finland	3	2	0	1	11	4	5
Sweden	3	2	0	1	13	9	5
Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	10	10	2
Germany	3	0	3	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

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