2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host country	Slovakia
Dates	25 June – 1 July
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Slovenia (2nd title)
Runner-up	Latvia
Third place	Australia
Fourth place	Great Britain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	227 (9.87 per match)
Attendance	1,495 (65 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Jure Sotlar
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The 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship tournament and took place between 25 June and 1 July 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia at the Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 and Ondrej Nepela Arena. The tournament was won by Slovenia who upon winning gained promotion to the 2019 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While New Zealand and Brazil were relegated to the Qualifications after losing their placement round games along with Hungary who lost the relegation game against Argentina.

Qualification

Thirteen teams attempted to qualify for the three remaining spots in the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other five nations automatically qualified based on their results from the 2015 Championship and 2015 Division I tournament. Two qualification tournaments were held with a place awarded to the winner of each tournament. The Asia/Oceania Qualification tournament was contested between Chinese Taipei, India, Japan and New Zealand with New Zealand winning promotion and returning to Division I after being relegated in 2012. Malaysia and Singapore were initially announced to be competing in the tournament however later withdrew and were replaced by Chinese Taipei. The Europe Qualification tournament was contested between Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Israel, Latvia, Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey with Latvia winning promotion and returning to Division I after being relegated in 2015. Ireland was initially announced to be competed in the tournament however later withdrew. A third qualification tournament representing the regions of the Americas and Africa was originally planned however Brazil was the only registered participant and so gained automatic qualification to Division I.

Argentina − Finished fourth in 2015 World Championship Division I Australia − Finished second in 2015 World Championship Division I Brazil − Americas/Africa qualifier United Kingdom − Finished third in 2015 World Championship Division I

Hungary − Finished fifth in 2015 World Championship Division I Latvia − Winner of the Europe Qualification tournament New Zealand − Winner of the Asia/Oceania Qualification tournament Slovenia − Relegated from the 2015 World Championship

Asia/Oceania Qualification

The 2016 IIHF Inline Hockey Qualification Asia/Oceania was held in New Plymouth, New Zealand from 21 to 23 April 2016. New Zealand gained promotion to Division I after winning their three games and finishing first in the standings. Japan finished in second place and Chinese Taipei in third.

Qualified for Division I

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
New Zealand	3	3	0	0	0	49	6	+43	9
Japan	3	2	0	0	1	51	5	+46	6
Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	0	2	29	13	+16	3
India	3	0	0	0	3	0	105	−105	0

All times are local.

21 April 2016 17:30

Japan

6–0 (0–0, 2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Chinese Taipei

New Plymouth

Game reference
	6.0 min	Penalties	6.0 min

21 April 2016 19:30

New Zealand

37–0 (8–0, 11–0, 9–0, 9–0)

India

New Plymouth

Game reference
	1.5 min	Penalties	0.0 min

22 April 2016 17:30

India

0–42 (0–12, 0–13, 0–9, 0–8)

Japan

New Plymouth

Game reference
	7.5 min	Penalties	1.5 min

22 April 2016 19:30

New Zealand

7–3 (2–0, 3–2, 1–0, 1–1)

Chinese Taipei

New Plymouth

Game reference
	6.0 min	Penalties	6.0 min

23 April 2016 17:30

Chinese Taipei

26–0 (1–0, 6–0, 8–0, 11–0)

India

New Plymouth

Game reference
	4.5 min	Penalties	7.5 min

23 April 2016 19:30

Japan

3–5 (1–1, 1–3, 0–1, 1–0)

New Zealand

New Plymouth

Game reference
	1.5 min	Penalties	6.0 min

Europe Qualification

The 2016 IIHF Inline Hockey Qualification Europe was held in Steindorf, Austria from 22 to 25 June 2016. Latvia gained promotion after defeating Austria 4–2 in the final. Israel finished third place after defeating Macedonia in the 10–5 in the third place match.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Austria	3	3	0	0	0	34	4	+30	9
FYR Macedonia	3	2	0	0	1	19	21	−2	6
Serbia	3	1	0	0	2	21	21	0	3
Bulgaria	3	0	0	0	3	9	27	−28	0

22 June 2016 16:00

Bulgaria

5–11 (0–3, 3–4, 0–3, 2–1)

FYR Macedonia

Steindorf

Game reference
	3.0 min	Penalties	4.5 min

22 June 2016 20:00

Serbia

2–11 (1–3, 0–3, 0–3, 1–2)

Austria

Steindorf

Game reference
	10.5 min	Penalties	4.5 min

23 June 2016 16:00

Bulgaria

4–14 (2–3, 0–2, 1–2, 1–7)

Serbia

Steindorf

Game reference
	6.0 min	Penalties	10.5 min

23 June 2016 20:00

Austria

11–2 (0–0, 4–0, 5–0, 2–2)

FYR Macedonia

Steindorf

Game reference
	3.0 min	Penalties	16.0 min

24 June 2016 16:00

FYR Macedonia

6–5 (4–1, 0–0, 0–2, 2–2)

Serbia

Steindorf

Game reference
	13.5 min	Penalties	35.0 min

24 June 2016 20:00

Austria

12–0 (4–0, 2–0, 2–0, 4–0)

Bulgaria

Steindorf

Game reference
	1.5 min	Penalties	1.5 min

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Latvia	3	3	0	0	0	58	6	+52	9
Israel	3	2	0	0	1	20	23	−3	6
Belgium	3	1	0	0	2	28	22	+6	3
Turkey	3	0	0	0	3	5	60	−55	0

22 June 2016 14:00

Belgium

6–7 (1–2, 2–3, 1–1, 2–1)

Israel

Steindorf

Game reference
	3.0 min	Penalties	4.5 min

22 June 2016 18:00

Turkey

1–30 (0–12, 0–2, 1–9, 0–7)

Latvia

Steindorf

Game reference
	1.5 min	Penalties	0.0 min

23 June 2016 14:00

Belgium

18–2 (2–0, 6–1, 4–1, 6–0)

Turkey

Steindorf

Game reference
	4.5 min	Penalties	0.0 min

23 June 2016 18:00

Latvia

15–1 (4–0, 5–0, 3–0, 3–1)

Israel

Steindorf

Game reference
	6.0 min	Penalties	12.0 min

24 June 2016 14:00

Israel

12–2 (3–0, 4–0, 2–1, 3–1)

Turkey

Steindorf

Game reference
	6.0 min	Penalties	1.5 min

24 June 2016 18:00

Latvia

13–4 (2–2, 6–0, 3–0, 2–2)

Belgium

Steindorf

Game reference
	4.5 min	Penalties	18.0 min

Placement round

7th/8th game

25 June 2016 14:00

Bulgaria

10–4 (2–2, 2–2, 4–0, 2–0)

Turkey

Steindorf

Game reference
	3.0 min	Penalties	1.5 min

5th/6th game

25 June 2016 16:00

Belgium

5–9 (2–1, 0–2, 3–2, 0–4)

Serbia

Steindorf

Game reference
	7.5 min	Penalties	9.0 min

3rd/4th game

25 June 2016 18:00

FYR Macedonia

5–10 (0–5, 1–2, 1–1, 3–2)

Israel

Steindorf

Game reference
	13.5 min	Penalties	35.0 min

1st/2nd game

25 June 2016 20:00

Latvia

4–2 (0–0, 1–1, 1–0, 2–1)

Austria

Steindorf

Game reference
	7.5 min	Penalties	3.0 min

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, and the qualification tournaments. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):

Group C Slovenia (9) Argentina (12) Hungary (13) New Zealand (16)

Group D Australia (10) United Kingdom (11) Latvia (14) Brazil (15)

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+3).

Group C

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Slovenia	3	3	0	0	0	29	5	+24	9
Hungary	3	2	0	0	1	14	12	+2	6
Argentina	3	1	0	0	2	10	19	−9	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	8	25	−17	0

25 June 2017 13:00
	'Slovenia'	12–1	New Zealand	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 98

25 June 2017 17:00
	Argentina	1–6	'Hungary'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 107

26 June 2017 13:00
	'Argentina'	6–4	New Zealand	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 88

26 June 2017 17:00
	Hungary	1–8	'Slovenia'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 120

27 June 2017 13:00
	New Zealand	3–7	'Hungary'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 64

27 June 2017 17:00
	'Slovenia'	9–3	Argentina	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 72

Group D

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Latvia	3	3	0	0	0	26	11	+15	9
United Kingdom	3	2	0	0	0	15	10	+5	6
Australia	3	1	0	0	2	10	13	−3	3
Brazil	3	0	0	0	3	7	24	−17	0

25 June 2017 15:00
	'Australia'	7–0	Brazil	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 67

25 June 2017 19:00
	United Kingdom	4–7	'Latvia'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 110

26 June 2017 15:00
	'United Kingdom'	4–2	Brazil	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 46

26 June 2017 19:00
	'Latvia'	6–2	Australia	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 40

27 June 2017 15:00
	Brazil	5–13	'Latvia'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 23

27 June 2017 19:00
	Australia	1–7	'United Kingdom'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 20

Playoff round

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the classification round. New Zealand and Brazil were relegated to the Qualifications after losing their classification round games and finished the tournament in seventh and eighth respectively. After winning their classification games Hungary and Argentina competed in the relegation game with Hungary being relegated to the Qualifications after losing 4–5 after a shootout. In the semifinals Slovenia defeated Great Britain and Latvia beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Great Britain and Australia played off for the bronze medal with Australia winning 7–3. Slovenia defeated Latvia 6–3 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2019 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

A1

Slovenia

14

B4

Brazil

4

A1

Slovenia

7

B2

United Kingdom

4

B2

United Kingdom

5

A3

Argentina

3

SF1

Slovenia

6

SF2

Latvia

3

B1

Latvia

12

A4

New Zealand

4

B1

Latvia

3

Bronze medal game

B3

Australia

1

A2

Hungary

2

SF1

United Kingdom

3

B3

Australia

4

SF2

Australia

7

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

29 June 2017 13:00
	'United Kingdom'	5–3	Argentina	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 57

30 June 2017 15:00
	Hungary	2–4	'Australia'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 69

30 June 2017 17:00
	'Latvia'	12–4	New Zealand	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 56

30 June 2017 19:00
	'Slovenia'	14–4	Brazil	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 48

Classification

30 June 2017 13:00
	'Argentina'	5–4	Brazil	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 51

30 June 2017 15:00
	'Hungary'	5–3	New Zealand	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 74

Semifinals

30 June 2017 17:00
	'Slovenia'	7–4	United Kingdom	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 66

30 June 2017 19:00
	'Latvia'	3–1	Australia	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 38

Relegation game

1 July 2017 12:00
	Hungary	4 – 5 (SO)	'Argentina'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Rink 2 Attendance: 66

Bronze medal game

1 July 2017 13:00
	United Kingdom	3–7	'Australia'	Ondrej Nepela Arena Attendance: 37

Gold medal game

1 July 2017 15:00
	'Slovenia'	6–3	Latvia	Ondrej Nepela Arena Attendance: 78

Ranking and statistics

Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: Rk. Team Slovenia Latvia Australia 4. United Kingdom 5. Argentina 6. Hungary 7. New Zealand 8. Brazil

Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goalkeeper: David Duschek Best Defenseman: Luis Custodio Best Forward: Owen Haiek

Scoring leaders

Latvia's Rustams Begovs scored twelve goals and five assists in his six games

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Jure Sotlar	6	8	16	24	+19	0.0	F
Gregor Koblar	6	8	11	19	+15	3.0	F
Miha Logar	6	4	14	18	+15	0.0	D
Rustams Begovs	6	12	5	17	+12	4.5	F
Mateuz Erman	6	9	6	15	+20	3.0	D
Aleksandrs Galkins	6	5	10	15	+9	3.0	D
Ales Fajdiga	6	10	3	13	+9	4.5	F
Gatis Sprukts	6	6	7	13	+12	0.0	D
Ákos Kiss	6	5	7	12	+4	3.0	F
Rudolfs Maslovskis	6	5	7	12	+11	13.0	F
Saso Rajsar	6	4	8	12	+9	3.0	F
Olafs Aploks	6	3	9	12	+12	0.0	F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Tomaz Trelc	168:00	94	10	2.85	89.36	0
David Duschek	255:21	155	18	3.39	88.39	0
Kristaps Kruze	171:46	76	9	2.52	88.16	0
Michael James	268:45	132	16	2.85	87.88	1
Miles Finney	178:11	95	18	4.85	81.05	0

External links

• Division I at IIHF.com