2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2008 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Dates	December 26 - January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (14th title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	197 (6.35 per match)
Attendance	103,179 (3,328 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	James van Riemsdyk (11 points)
MVP	Steve Mason

The 2008 IIHF World U20 Championship, or, as it is commonly referred to as in Canada as the 2008 World Juniors and the United States, the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2008 WJHC) is the 2008 edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The Elite group, what the IIHF refer to as the Top Division, was held in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic, between 26 December, 2007 and 5 January, 2008. Canada won the gold medal.

Top Division

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Sweden	4	4	0	0	0	22	9	12
Canada	4	3	0	0	1	12	5	9
Czech Republic	4	2	0	0	2	12	11	6
Slovakia	4	1	0	0	3	9	14	3
Denmark	4	0	0	0	4	7	23	0

Schedule

All times local (Central European Time/UTC +1)

December 26, 2007 16:00
	Sweden	4–3	Slovakia	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 7,692 (Cap 10,194)
	Robin Figren 10:20 (SH1) Patrik Berglund 16:14 (PP1) Robin Figren 48:05 (PP1) Johan Alcén 55:03 (PP1)		Milan Bališ 02:10 (PP2) Ivan Roháč 48:56 Tomáš Marcinko 50:15

December 26, 2007 20:00
	Czech Republic	0–3	Canada	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 10,057 (Cap 10,194)
			John Tavares 31:21 (PP1) Matt Halischuk 43:57 John Tavares 51:53 (PP1)

December 27, 2007 16:00
	Slovakia	0–2	Canada	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,657 (Cap 10,194)
			Kyle Turris 20:54 (PP2), 53:20 (PP1)

December 27, 2007 20:00
	Czech Republic	5–2	Denmark	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,260 (Cap 10,194)
	Michael Frolík 00:22, 03:26 (PP1), 13:09 Jakub Sklenář 23:30 Petr Strapáč 51:41 (PP1)		Kevin Leder 28:00 Sune Hjulmand 33:09 (PP1)

December 28, 2007 18:00
	Denmark	1–10	Sweden	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 654 (Cap 10,194)
	Morten Poulsen 01:06		Oscar Möller 07:19 Tobias Forsberg 09:56 Mikael Backlund 26:20 (SH1), 32:43 (SH1) Tony Lagerström 30:12, 46:29 Robin Figren 34:20 Patrik Berglund 51:58 Magnus Svensson Pääjärvi 52:30 Patrik Lundh 54:25

December 29, 2007 16:00
	Slovakia	2–5	Czech Republic	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 10,194 (Cap 10,194)
	Oliver Ďuriš 38:17 Erik Čaládi (PP2) 52:20		Jakub Sklenář 7:11, 26:10 Michael Frolík 19:59 Daniel Bártek 24:45 Martin Látal 54:27 (SH1)

December 29, 2007 20:00
	Canada	3–4	Sweden	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 8,547 (Cap 10,194)
	Brad Marchand 19:05 Shawn Matthias 42:17 Claude Giroux 56:18 (PP2)		Eric Moe 45:14 (PP1) Tony Lagerström 46:45 Oscar Möller 49:09 (PP1) Tobias Forsberg 59:53

December 30, 2007 18:00
	Denmark	3–4	Slovakia	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 468 (Cap 10,194)
	Mikkel Boedker 43:36 (PP1) Nichlas Hardt 48:01 Morten Poulsen 59:35 (PP1)		Ivan Roháč 8:25 (PP1) Matej Češík 27:43 Erik Čaládi 31:06 (PP2) Marek Slovák 48:24

December 31, 2007 14:00
	Sweden	4–2	Czech Republic	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 6,272 (Cap 10,194)
	Oscar Möller 4:11 Patrik Berglund 23:37 (PP2) Thomas Larsson 24:42 Robin Figren 41:26		Antonín Bořuta 40:44 (PP1) Jakub Sklenář 50:10

December 31, 2007 18:00
	Canada	4-1	Denmark	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 1,158 (Cap 10,194)
	Shawn Matthias 12:44 (PP1) John Tavares 18:08 Kyle Turris 28:18, 54:42 (PP1)		Mikkel Boedker 49:36 (PP2)

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
United States of America	4	4	0	0	0	17	8	12
Russia	4	3	0	0	1	18	14	9
Finland	4	1	1	0	2	16	15	5
Kazakhstan	4	1	0	0	3	8	16	3
Switzerland	4	0	0	1	3	9	15	1

Schedule

All times local (Central European Time/UTC +1)

December 26, 2007 16:00
	United States of America	5–1	Kazakhstan	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,029 (Cap 7,500)
	James van Riemsdyk 19:57 Rhett Rakhshani 24:58 Mike Carman 26:23 Colin Wilson 44:11 (PP1) Kyle Okposo 57:43		Alexandr Kurshuk 14:46 (PP1)

December 26, 2007 20:00
	Finland	4–7	Russia	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,720 (Cap 7,500)
	Nico Aaltonen 07:20 (PP1) Joonas Jalvanti 15:02 (PP1) Juuso Puustinen 43:33 Max Wärn 43:59		Marat Kalimulin 11:47 (PP1) Evgenij Bordov 26:26 Vadim Golubtsov 27:32 (PP1) Artem Anisimov 32:34 Anton Korolev 34:32 Viktor Tikhonov 40:25 (PP1) Dmitrij Kugryshev 56:22

December 27, 2007 16:00
	Kazakhstan	4–5	Russia	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 796 (Cap 7,500)
	Yevgenij Rymarev 03:58 Konstantin Savenkov 14:21 Yakov Vorobyov 35:47 (PP1) Mikhail Kachulin 53:10		Viktor Tikhonov 20:25 (PP1) Alexei Cherepanov 21:19 Evgenij Kurbatov 31:37 Artem Gordeyev 36:27 Yuri Alexandrov 53:30

December 27, 2007 20:00
	Finland	4–3 OT	Switzerland	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 980 (Cap 7,500)
	Juuso Puustinen 17:36 (PP1) Harri Pesonen 22:45 Jarkko Malinen 43:05 Sakari Salminen GWG		Kevin Lotscher 09:37 Reto Suri 14:47 Gregory Sciaroni 59:14

December 28, 2007 18:00
	Switzerland	2–4	United States of America	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,222 (Cap 7,500)
	Andrej Bykov 24:17 Arnaud Jacquemet 55:45 (PP1)		Colin Wilson 05:08 (PP1), 49:30 (PP2) Bobby Sanguinetti 22:57(PP1) James van Riemsdyk 42:27 (PP2)

December 29, 2007 16:00
	Kazakhstan	0–5	Finland	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,354 (Cap 7,500)
			Nico Aaltonen 02:59 Joonas Kemppainen 23:37 (PP1), 26:37 Niclas Lucenius 46:17 (PP2) Juuso Puustinen 48:30

December 29, 2007 20:00
	Russia	2–3	United States of America	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 4,654 (Cap 7,500)
	Alexei Cherepanov 28:36 Viktor Tikhonov 54:36		Tyler Ruegsegger 11:31 (PP2) James van Riemsdyk 43:01 (PP1) Mike Carman 47:44

December 30, 2007 18:00
	Switzerland	1–3	Kazakhstan	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 513 (Cap 7,500)
	Yannick Weber 53:49 (PP1)		Yakov Vorobiev 7:39, 28;19 (PP1) Evgeny Rymarev 59:07

December 31, 2007 14:00
	Russia	4–3	Switzerland	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 551 (Cap 7,500)
	Anton Korolev 1:31 Dmitri Sayustov 20:46 (PP2) Artem Gordeyev 37:49 Viktor Tikhonov 55:31		Arnauld Jacquemet 9:41 (PP1) Dino Wieser 28:45 Marco Maurer 57:40

December 31, 2007 18:00
	United States of America	5–3	Finland	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,133 (Cap 7,500)
	Colin Wilson 9:29, 13:20 (PP1), 21:43 Tyler Ruegsegger 24:44 James van Riemsdyk 29:14		Nico Aaltonen 50:52 (PP1) Mikko Kousa 55:21 (PP1) Niclas Lucenius 59:14

Relegation Round

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	3	3	0	0	0	17	4	9
Kazakhstan	3	2	0	0	1	9	13	6
Switzerland	3	1	0	0	2	8	10	3
Denmark	3	0	0	0	3	8	15	0

Note: Matches Denmark 3–4 Slovakia and Switzerland 1–3 Kazakhstan from the Preliminary Round (both on Dec 30th, 2007) are included as well since these results carry forward

Schedule

All times local (Central European Time/UTC +1)

January 2, 2008 16:00
	Slovakia	5–2	Switzerland	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 564 (Cap 7,500)
	Marek Slovák 5:50 (PP1) Dalibor Jančovič 31:13 Tomáš Marcinko 39:48 Erik Čaládi 58:54 (ENG) Juraj Mikuš 59:51 (ENG)		Étienne Froidevaux 40:40 Aurelio Lemm 46:07 (PP1)

January 2, 2008 20:00
	Kazakhstan	6–3	Denmark	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 149 (Cap 7,500)
	Evgeny Gasnikov 08:53 (PP1) Yakov Vorobiev 33:42 Evgeny Rymarev 38:36 (SH1), 52:08 (PP1), 59:11 (ENG), 59:25 (ENG)		Lars Eller 22:38 (PP1), 38:59 (PP1) Nichlas Hardt 43:43 (PP1)

January 3, 2008 16:00
	Switzerland	5–2	Denmark	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 251 (Cap 7,500)
	Yannick Weber 15:31 Aurelio Lemm 32:36, 39:29 (PP1) Reto Suri 43:12 Roman Schlagenhauf 58:37 (PP1)		Lars Eller 04:38 Philip Larsen 26:57 (PP1)

January 3, 2008 20:00
	Slovakia	8–0	Kazakhstan	Tipsport Arena Attendance: 564 (Cap 7,500)
	Oliver Ďuriš 6:40 David Skokan 14:00 (PP1), 19:39 (PP2) Ivan Roháč 15:45 Erik Čaládi 32:33 (PP1) Patrik Lušňák 35:13 (PP1), 37:32 Dalibor Jančovič 50:05

Denmark and Switzerland are relegated to Division I for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Final Round

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

QF1

Canada

4

A2

Canada

4

B1

United States of America

1

B3

Finland

2

SF1

Sweden

2

SF2

Canada

3 (OT)

QF2

Russia

1

B2

Russia

4

A1

Sweden

2 (OT)

Third place

A3

Czech Republic

1

QF1

United States of America

2

QF2

Russia

4

Quarter Finals

January 2, 2008 16:00
	Canada	4–2	Finland	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,187 (Cap 10,194)
	John Tavares 27:23 (PP1) Steven Stamkos 42:20 Brad Marchand 50:32 Stefan Legein 59:30 (ENG)		Juuso Puustinen 7:23 Jan-Mikael Juutilainen 45:42

January 2, 2008 20:00
	Russia	4–1	Czech Republic	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 8,420 (Cap 10,194)
	Yakov Seleznev 27:58 Viktor Tikhonov 35:04 (PP1) Nikita Filatov 36:57 Anton Korolev 50:10		Radek Meidl 37:20

5th Place Playoff

January 3, 2008 18:00
	Czech Republic	5–1	Finland	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 483 (Cap 10,194)
	Daniel Bártek 26:44 Michael Frolík 27:59 Tomáš Kundrátek 39:20 (PP1) Zbyněk Hampl 47:46 Martin Látal 57:07 (ENG)		Harri Pesonen

Semi Finals

January 4, 2008 16:00
	Sweden	2–1 OT	Russia	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,286 (Cap 10,194)
	Robin Figren 51:50 (PP1) Mikael Backlund 66:18		Nikita Filatov 38:27

January 4, 2008 20:00
	United States of America	1–4	Canada	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,621 (Cap 10,194)
	James van Riemsdyk 53:26		Shawn Matthias 22:46 Karl Alzner 30:00 (PP1) Colton Gillies 47:04 Brad Marchand 47:24

Bronze Medal Game

January 5, 2008 16:00
	United States of America	2–4	Russia	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,468 (Cap 10,194)
	Rhett Rakhshani 30:47 Jordan Schroeder 53:39 (PP2)		Alexei Cherepanov 3:59 Evgeni Kurbatov 11:04 (PP1) Nikita Filatov 16:57, 21:30 (PP1)

Gold Medal Game

January 5, 2008 20:00
	Sweden	2–3 OT	Canada	ČEZ Arena Attendance: 7,480 (Cap 10,194)
	Jonathan Carlsson 45:13 (PP1) Thomas Larsson 59:22		Brad Marchand 1:27 Claude Giroux 17:01 (PP1) Matt Halischuk 63:36

Scoring leaders

Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
James van Riemsdyk	United States	6	5	6	11	+4	2
Nikita Filatov	Russia	7	4	5	9	+7	10
Marek Slovák	Slovakia	6	2	7	9	+2	12
Kyle Turris	Canada	7	4	4	8	+3	2
Arnaud Jacquemet	Switzerland	6	2	6	8	+1	4
David Skokan	Slovakia	6	2	6	8	+1	6
Jordan Schroeder	United States	6	1	7	8	+1	2
Yevgeni Rymarev	Kazakhstan	6	6	1	7	+2	0
Colin Wilson	United States	5	6	1	7	+2	4
Robin Figren	Sweden	6	5	2	7	+4	2

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Player	Country	MINS	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
Steve Mason	Canada	303	6	.951	1.19	1
Július Hudáček	Slovakia	359	16	.921	2.67	1
Sergei Bobrovsky	Russia	366	15	.916	2.46	0
Michal Neuvirth	Czech Republic	240	10	.910	2.50	0
Jhonas Enroth	Sweden	309	12	.905	2.33	0

Tournament awards

Most Valuable Player

• Steve Mason

All-star team

• Goaltender: Steve Mason
• Defencemen: Drew Doughty, Victor Hedman
• Forwards: Viktor Tikhonov, James van Riemsdyk, Patrik Berglund

IIHF best player awards

• Goaltender: Steve Mason
• Defenceman: Drew Doughty
• Forward: Viktor Tikhonov

Final standings

	Team
	Canada
	Sweden
	Russia
4th	United States of America
5th	Czech Republic
6th	Finland
7th	Slovakia
8th	Kazakhstan
9th	Switzerland
10th	Denmark

Winning team roster

Roster of the winning Canadian team.

Pos.	No.	Player	Team	Age↑
GK	1	Jonathan Bernier	Lewiston Maineiacs	19
GK	30	Steve Mason	London Knights/Kitchener Rangers	19
D	27	Karl Alzner	Calgary Hitmen	19
D	8	Drew Doughty	Guelph Storm	18
D	2	Josh Godfrey	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	19
D	4	Thomas Hickey	Seattle Thunderbirds	18
D	3	Logan Pyett	Regina Pats	19
D	23	P. K. Subban	Belleville Bulls	18
D	15	Luke Schenn	Kelowna Rockets	18
F	11	Zach Boychuk	Lethbridge Hurricanes	18
F	18	Colton Gillies	Saskatoon Blades	18
F	28	Claude Giroux	Gatineau Olympiques	19
F	32	Matt Halischuk	Kitchener Rangers	19
F	21	Riley Holzapfel	Moose Jaw Warriors	19
F	7	Stefan Legein	Niagara IceDogs	18
F	17	Brad Marchand	Halifax Mooseheads	19
F	22	Shawn Matthias	Belleville Bulls	19
F	34	Wayne Simmonds	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	19
F	10	Steven Stamkos	Sarnia Sting	17
F	12	Brandon Sutter	Red Deer Rebels	18
F	20	John Tavares	Oshawa Generals	17
F	19	Kyle Turris	University of Wisconsin	18

• ↑ Age on first day of tournament.

Division I

The following teams took part in the Division I tournament, that was held from December 9, through December 18, 2007. Group A was played at Bad Tölz, Germany. Group B was played at Riga, Latvia:

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Germany	5	5	0	0	0	42	6	15
Austria	5	4	0	0	1	36	11	12
Norway	5	3	0	0	2	19	16	9
Poland	5	1	0	1	3	7	24	4
Ukraine	5	0	1	1	3	10	26	3
Lithuania	5	0	1	0	4	8	39	2

Germany is promoted to Pool A and Lithuania is relegated to Division II for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	5	4	0	0	1	28	9	12
Belarus	5	4	0	0	1	21	8	12
Slovenia	5	3	1	0	1	17	8	11
Hungary	5	2	0	0	3	17	21	6
France	5	1	0	0	4	14	29	3
United Kingdom	5	0	0	1	4	8	30	1

Latvia is promoted to Pool A and United Kingdom is relegated to Division II for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Division II

The following teams took part in the Division II tournament, that was held from December 9, through December 16, 2007. Group A was played at Canazei, Italy. Group B was played at Tallinn, Estonia:

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Italy	5	5	0	0	0	37	8	15
Japan	5	4	0	0	1	37	7	12
South Korea	5	3	0	0	2	18	11	9
Belgium	5	1	1	0	3	12	21	5
Romania	5	1	0	1	3	13	30	4
Iceland	5	0	0	0	5	7	47	0

Italy is promoted to Division I and Iceland is relegated to Division III for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Estonia	5	4	1	0	0	35	8	14
Netherlands	5	4	0	1	0	36	5	13
Croatia	5	3	0	0	2	24	19	9
Spain	5	2	0	0	3	24	27	6
Mexico	5	1	0	0	4	8	27	3
China	5	0	0	0	5	8	49	0

Estonia is promoted to Division I and China is relegated to Division III for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Division III

The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, that was held from January 16 through January 24 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
New Zealand	6	6	0	0	0	66	15	18
Serbia	6	5	0	0	1	55	7	15
Armenia	6	4	0	0	2	47	23	12
Australia	6	3	0	0	3	44	23	9
South Africa	6	2	0	0	4	26	52	6
Turkey	6	1	0	0	5	18	62	3
Bulgaria	6	0	0	0	6	10	84	0

New Zealand and Serbia were promoted to Division II for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

External links

• IIHF Official Site
• Official Site

Preceded by 2007 World Juniors

World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 2008 World Championships

Succeeded by 2009 World Juniors