2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2006 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	December 26 - January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (12th title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	195 (6.29 per match)
Attendance	325,138 (10,488 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Phil Kessel (11 points)
MVP	Evgeni Malkin

The 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2006 WJHC) were held in Vancouver, Kelowna, and Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The championships began on December 26, 2005, and finished on January 5, 2006. Games were played at GM Place and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops and Prospera Place in Kelowna. Team Canada was the winner defeating Russia 5–0 in the gold medal game. Total attendance was 325,138 (a new record) spread over 31 games, for an average of 10,488 per game.

Championship results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4	4	0	0	16	6	8
United States	4	2	1	1	21	12	5
Finland	4	2	2	0	19	13	4
Switzerland	4	1	2	1	8	10	3
Norway	4	0	4	0	3	30	0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

December 26, 2005 16:00
	Finland	1–5	Canada	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)
	Seitsonen 48:49 (PP1)		Boyd 10:23 (PP1), 34:24 Comeau 15:52 Bolland 23:17 (PP1) Chipchura 54:03

December 26, 2005 20:00
	Norway	2–11	United States	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,232 (Cap. 16,083)
	Sveum 29:00 (PP1) Olimb 43:44 (PP1)		Oshie 2:19 E. Johnson 12:22 (PP1) Skille 17:30 (PP1) Bourque 21:23, 27:32, 31:11 (PP1), 51:38, 53:03 (SH1) Mueller 26:14 Porter 34:54 (PP1) Schremp 40:32

December 27, 2005 19:00
	Switzerland	2–0	Norway	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 11,976 (Cap. 16,083)
	Joggi 33:52 (PP1) Burgler 54:04 (PP1)

December 28, 2005 16:00
	Canada	4–3	Switzerland	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,123 (Cap. 16,083)
	Downie 8:45 (PP1) Boyd 17:45 Pyatt 30:00 Bolland 33:39 (PP1)		Blum 5:33 (PP2) Weber 34:37 Sprünger 42:42 (PP1)

December 28, 2005 20:00
	United States	6–5	Finland	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,209 (Cap. 16,083)
	Fritsche 9:42 (PP1) Wheeler 17:05, 39:18 Lee 19:49 (PP1) Ryan 28:01 (PP1) Porter 49:49 (PP1)		Alikoski 6:21 Korpikoski 8:26 (SH1) Seitsonen 21:28 (PP1) Tukonen 55:34 Laakso 58:48 (PP1)

December 29, 2005 16:00
	Norway	0–4	Canada	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)
			Barker 15:27 (PP1) Bolland 34:50 (PP1) Chipchura 35:16 Bourdon 36:41

December 30, 2005 16:00
	United States	2–2	Switzerland	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,130 (Cap. 16,083)
	Paukovich 6:16 Ryan 16:59		Blum 47:53 (PP1) Joggi 54:08 (PP2)

December 30, 2005 20:00
	Finland	9–1	Norway	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 10,766 (Cap. 16,083)
	Timo Seppänen 1:10, 8:49 Perttu Lindgren 3:26 Juho Jokinen 12:34 (PP1) Lauri Tukonen 15:30 (PP1) Henri Heino 17:13 Aki Seitsonen 18:32, 29:04 Janne Kolehmainen 49:53		Dennis Sveum 35:10 (PP1)

December 31, 2005 16:00
	Canada	3–2	United States	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)
	Cam Barker 2:35 (PP1) Dustin Boyd 6:42 Kyle Chipchura 59:27 (EN)		Chris Bourque 10:27 (PP1) Peter Mueller 28:10 (PP1)

December 31, 2005 20:00
	Switzerland	1–4	Finland	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 8,335 (Cap. 16,083)
	Mathias Joggi 52:23 (PP1)		Janne Kolehmainen 2:45 (PP1) Tomas Sinisalo 42:24 Perttu Lindgren 42:34 Teemu Laakso 59:49 (EN

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Russia	4	4	0	0	21	6	8
Sweden	4	3	1	0	20	9	6
Czech Republic	4	2	2	0	14	14	4
Slovakia	4	1	3	0	12	21	2
Latvia	4	0	4	0	8	25	0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

December 26, 2005 19:00
	Latvia	1–5	Czech Republic	Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,653 (Cap. 6,400)
	Gints Meija 11:16		01:13 Karel Hromas 08:16 Petr Kalus 28:47 Petr Pohl 29:37 Vaclav Meidl 37:52 Petr Pohl

December 26, 2005 19:00
	Sweden	1–5	Russia	Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,982 (Cap. 6,886)
	Nicklas Bergfors (PP) 07:37		08:45 (PP) Evgeni Malkin 13:51 (PP) Nikolai Kulemin 38:03 Roman Voloshenko 47:49 Sergei Shirokov 52:00 (SH) Nikolai Kulemin

December 27, 2005 19:00
	Slovakia	7–4	Latvia	Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,790 (Cap. 6,886)
	Boris Valábik 11:42 Stanislav Lascek (PP) 18:30 Marek Zagrapan 21:05 Stanislav Lascek 28:28 Juraj Gračík 30:36 Stanislav Lascek 39:03 Erik Piatak 47:41		29:27 (PP) Guntis Galviņš 37:25 Jurijs Klujevskis 39:24 Elviss Zelubovskis 50:05 E. Zelubovskis

December 28, 2005 19:00
	Czech Republic	2–3	Sweden	Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 5,323 (Cap. 6,400)
	Vladimír Sobotka (PP) 36:25 Tomáš Káňa (PP) 52:48		02:08 Sebastian Karlsson 03:49 Johannes Salmonsson 20:52 O. Hedman

December 28, 2005 19:00
	Russia	6–2	Slovakia	Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,948 (Cap. 6,886)
	Gennady Churilov 07:37 Nikolay Lemtyugov (PP) 09:45 Enver Lisin 10:32 Ilya Zubov (PP) 16:41 Evgeni Malkin (PP) 19:09 Alexei Emelin (PP) 47:11		17:30 (PP) Andrej Sekera 30:29 Stanislav Lascek

December 29, 2005 19:00
	Latvia	1–3	Russia	Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,831 (Cap. 6,400)
	Jurijs Klujevskis (PP) 32:58		03:54 (PP) Evgeni Malkin 04:00 Nikolay Lemtyugov 36:26 Nikolay Lemtyugov

December 30, 2005 19:00
	Czech Republic	5–3	Slovakia	Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,979 (Cap. 6,886)
	David Krejčí 00:26 Tomáš Kudělka (PP) 10:01 David Krejčí 10:22 David Krejčí 30:36 Petr Pohl 45:10		01:38 (PP) M. Zagrapan 46:45 (PP) J. Gracik 56:05 (PP) L. Scurko

December 30, 2005 19:00
	Sweden	10–2	Latvia	Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,797 (Cap. 6,400)
	Sebastian Karlsson 01:06 Nicklas Bäckström (PP) 14:40 Tobias Viklund (PP) 15:57 Fredrik Pettersson 18:17 Nicklas Bergfors (PP) 20:40 Nicklas Bäckström 25:25 Johannes Salmonsson (SH) 29:35 Nicklas Bäckström 41:25 Mattias Ritola 51:59 Fredrik Pettersson (PP) 57:42		16:58 Martins Karsums 51:52 Edzus Karkliņš

December 31, 2005 19:00
	Slovakia	0–6	Sweden	Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,712 (Cap. 6,400)
			07:07 Robin Lindqvist 13:01 (PP) Mattias Ritola 34:20 Johan Ryno 43:33 Fredrik Pettersson 49:44 Anton Axelsson 52:22 Sebastian Karlsson

December 31, 2005 19:00
	Russia	7–2	Czech Republic	Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 6,027 (Cap. 6,886)
	Sergei Shirokov (PP) 16:20 Roman Voloshenko 33:46 Evgeni Malkin 41:07 Ilya Zubov (PP) 44:15 Roman Voloshenko 46:14 Enver Lisin 51:09 Alexander Radulov 56:07		48:47 Petr Pohl 49:35 (PP) Vladimír Sobotka

Relegation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Switzerland	3	2	0	1	10	5	5
Slovakia	3	2	0	1	14	10	5
Latvia	3	1	2	0	10	12	2
Norway	3	0	3	0	3	10	0

Note: Matches Slovakia 7–4 Latvia and Switzerland 2–0 Norway from the preliminary round (both on December 27, 2005) are included as well since these results carry forward.

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

January 2, 2006 13:00
	Switzerland	5–2	Latvia	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 7,616 (Cap. 16,083)

January 3, 2006 13:00
	Slovakia	4–3	Norway	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 5,038 (Cap. 16,083)

January 4, 2006 12:00
	Latvia	4–0	Norway	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 4,540 (Cap. 16,083)

January 4, 2006 16:00
	Switzerland	3–3	Slovakia	Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 6,667 (Cap. 16,083)

Final round

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

QF1

United States

1

A2

United States

2

B1

Russia

5

B3

Czech Republic

1

SF1

Russia

0

SF2

Canada

5

QF2

Finland

0

B2

Finland

1

A1

Canada

4

A3

Sweden

0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

Quarterfinals

January 2, 2006 16:00
	Sweden	0–1 OT	Finland	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)
			69:26 (PP) Teemu Laakso

January 2, 2006 20:00
	United States	2–1	Czech Republic	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 14,890 (Cap. 18,630)
	Phil Kessel (PP) 03:23 Chris Bourque (ES) 11:08		12:17 (PP) Ladislav Šmíd

Semifinals

January 3, 2006 16:00
	Canada	4–0	Finland	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)
	Kris Russell (ES) 18:16 Blake Comeau (ES) 38:58 Kristopher Letang (PP) 49:40 Andrew Cogliano (ES) 53:32

January 3, 2006 20:00
	Russia	5–1	United States	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)
	Nikolai Kulemin (ES) 12:32 Nikolai Kulemin (PP) 41:42 Alexei Emelin (ES) 43:13 Sergei Shirokov (ES) 53:01 Nikolai Lemtyugov (ES) 55:15		42:34 (PP) Jack Skille

Fifth place game

January 4, 2006 20:00
	Sweden	3–1	Czech Republic	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 10,684 (Cap. 18,630)
	Johan Ryno (ES) 41:42 Nicklas Bergfors (ES) 42:07 Nicklas Bäckström (EN) 59:12		43:16 (ES) Tomáš Káňa

Bronze medal game

January 5, 2006 12:00
	Finland	4–2	United States	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 15,107 (Cap. 18,630)
	Jari Sailio (ES) 33:32 Jesse Joensuu (ES) 34:51 Lauri Tukonen (ES) 53:20 Jesse Joensuu (ES) 55:24		12:11 (ES) Bobby Ryan 51:03 (PP) Jack Johnson

Gold medal game

January 5, 2006 16:00
	Russia	0–5	Canada	General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)
			17:13 (ES) Steve Downie 18:56 (ES) Blake Comeau 32:02 (PP) Michael Blunden 34:44 (PP) Michael Blunden 57:15 (ES) Kyle Chipchura

Scoring leaders

Player	Nationality	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Phil Kessel	United States	7	1	10	11	2
Evgeni Malkin	Russia	6	4	6	10	12
Lauri Tukonen	Finland	7	3	7	10	0
Stanislav Lascek	Slovakia	6	6	3	9	8
Chris Bourque	United States	7	7	1	8	12
Nicklas Bäckström	Sweden	6	4	3	7	2
Mathias Joggi	Switzerland	6	4	3	7	14
Blake Comeau	Canada	6	3	4	7	8
Bobby Ryan	United States	7	3	4	7	0
Marek Zagrapan	Slovakia	6	2	5	7	18
Alexei Emelin	Russia	6	2	5	7	39

Goaltending leaders

(Minimum 90 minutes played)

Player	Nationality	Mins	GA	GAA	SO	Pct.
Daniel Larsson	Sweden	249	4	0.96	1	.952
Justin Pogge	Canada	360	6	1.00	3	.952
Tuukka Rask	Finland	369	13	2.11	1	.940
Anton Khudobin	Russia	300	11	2.20	0	.933
Reto Berra	Switzerland	358	14	2.34	1	.910

Tournament awards

All-Star Team

Selected by the media.

Goaltender: Finland Tuukka Rask

Defense: Canada Luc Bourdon, United States Jack Johnson

Forwards: Russia Evgeni Malkin, Finland Lauri Tukonen, Canada Steve Downie

Best players

Selected by the directorate.

Goaltender: Finland Tuukka Rask

Defenseman: Canada Marc Staal

Forward: Russia Evgeni Malkin

Division I

Group A

Held December 11-17, 2005, in Bled, Slovenia.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Germany	5	5	0	0	20	2	10
Denmark	5	3	1	1	20	17	7
Slovenia	5	3	2	0	17	8	6
France	5	1	2	2	8	7	4
Ukraine	5	1	3	1	10	22	3
Japan	5	0	5	0	10	29	0

Group B

Held December 12-18, 2005, in Minsk, Belarus.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Belarus	5	4	0	1	24	6	9
Kazakhstan	5	4	1	0	21	8	8
Italy	5	2	2	1	14	15	5
Poland	5	1	2	2	9	14	4
Austria	5	0	3	2	5	16	2
Hungary	5	0	3	2	6	20	2

Division II

Group A

Held December 12-18, 2005, in Bucharest, Romania.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Great Britain	5	5	0	0	53	3	10
Netherlands	5	3	1	1	38	8	7
Romania	5	4	1	1	31	11	7
Spain	5	1	3	0	15	33	4
Australia	5	1	4	0	17	37	2
New Zealand	5	0	5	0	2	64	0

Group B

Held January 10-16, 2006, in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Estonia	5	5	0	0	46	8	10
Croatia	5	3	2	0	22	15	6
South Korea	5	2	2	1	20	15	5
Serbia and Montenegro	5	2	2	1	14	16	5
Mexico	5	1	4	0	11	40	2
China	5	1	4	0	12	31	2

Division III

Held at Elektrenai and Kaunas, Lithuania January 3-9, 2006.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Lithuania	4	4	0	0	81	3	8
Iceland	4	3	1	0	79	6	6
Turkey	4	2	2	0	35	40	4
Bulgaria	4	1	3	0	26	32	2
Armenia	4	0	4	0	6	146	0

Team Photos

Canada

External links

• IIHF official site
• Official website at www.hockeycanada.ca

Preceded by 2005 World Juniors

World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 2006 World Championships

Succeeded by 2007 World Juniors