2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2008 IIHF World U20 Championship, commonly referred to as the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2008 WJHC), was the 32nd edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. 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 for the fourth consecutive time. Sweden earned its first World Junior medal since 1996 by reaching the final.

2008 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Dates	December 26 – January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	ČEZ Arena and Tipsport Arena (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (14th title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	United States
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
← 2007 2009 →

Venues

ČEZ Aréna Capacity: 10,194	Tipsport Arena Capacity: 7,500
Czech Republic – Pardubice	Czech Republic – Liberec

Rosters

Main article: 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters

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 (CET/UTC +1)

December 26, 2007 16:00

Sweden

4–3

Slovakia

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 7,692

	Robin Figren 10:20 (SH1) Patrik Berglund 16:14 (PP1) Robin Figren 48:05 (PP1) Johan Alcén 55:03 (PP1) Goals 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

	Goals John Tavares 31:21 (PP1) Matthew Halischuk 43:57 John Tavares 51:53 (PP1)

December 27, 2007 16:00

Slovakia

0–2

Canada

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,657

	Goals Kyle Turris 20:54 (PP2), 53:20 (PP1)

December 27, 2007 20:00

Czech Republic

5–2

Denmark

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,260

	Michael Frolík 00:22, 03:26 (PP1), 13:09 Jakub Sklenář 23:30 Petr Strapáč 51:41 (PP1) Goals Kevin Leder 28:00 Sune Hjulmand 33:09 (PP1)

December 28, 2007 18:00

Denmark

1–10

Sweden

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 654

	Morten Poulsen 01:06 Goals 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 Pääjärvi-Svensson 52:30 Patrik Lundh 54:25

December 29, 2007 16:00

Slovakia

2–5

Czech Republic

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 10,194

	Oliver Ďuriš 38:17 Erik Čaládi (PP2) 52:20 Goals 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

	Brad Marchand 19:05 Shawn Matthias 42:17 Claude Giroux 56:18 (PP2) Goals 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

	Mikkel Bødker 43:36 (PP1) Nichlas Hardt 48:01 Morten Poulsen 59:35 (PP1) Goals 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

	Oscar Möller 4:11 Patrik Berglund 23:37 (PP2) Thomas Larsson 24:42 Robin Figren 41:26 Goals Antonín Bořuta 40:44 (PP1) Jakub Sklenář 50:10

December 31, 2007 18:00

Canada

4–1

Denmark

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 1,158

	Shawn Matthias 12:44 (PP1) John Tavares 18:08 Kyle Turris 28:18, 54:42 (PP1) Goals Mikkel Bødker 49:36 (PP2)

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
United States	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 (CET/UTC +1)

December 26, 2007 16:00

United States

5–1

Kazakhstan

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,029

	James van Riemsdyk 19:57 Rhett Rakhshani 24:58 Mike Carman 26:23 Colin Wilson 44:11 (PP1) Kyle Okposo 57:43 Goals Alexandr Kurshuk 14:46 (PP1)

December 26, 2007 20:00

Finland

4–7

Russia

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,720

	Nico Aaltonen 07:20 (PP1) Joonas Jalvanti 15:02 (PP1) Juuso Puustinen 43:33 Max Wärn 43:59 Goals 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) Dmitri Kugryshev 56:22

December 27, 2007 16:00

Kazakhstan

4–5

Russia

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 796

	Yevgenij Rymarev 03:58 Konstantin Savenkov 14:21 Yakov Vorobyov 35:47 (PP1) Mikhail Kachulin 53:10 Goals Viktor Tikhonov 20:25 (PP1) Alexei Cherepanov 21:19 Evgenij Kurbatov 31:37 Artyom Gordeyev 36:27 Yuri Alexandrov 53:30

December 27, 2007 20:00

Finland

4–3 OT

Switzerland

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 980

	Juuso Puustinen 17:36 (PP1) Harri Pesonen 22:45 Jarkko Malinen 43:05 Sakari Salminen GWG Goals Kevin Lotscher 09:37 Reto Suri 14:47 Gregory Sciaroni 59:14

December 28, 2007 18:00

Switzerland

2–4

United States

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,222

	Andrej Bykov 24:17 Arnaud Jacquemet 55:45 (PP1) Goals 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

	Goals 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

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 4,654

	Alexei Cherepanov 28:36 Viktor Tikhonov 54:36 Goals 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

	Yannick Weber 53:49 (PP1) Goals Yakov Vorobiev 7:39, 28;19 (PP1) Evgeny Rymarev 59:07

December 31, 2007 14:00

Russia

4–3

Switzerland

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 551

	Anton Korolev 1:31 Dmitri Sayustov 20:46 (PP2) Artyom Gordeyev 37:49 Viktor Tikhonov 55:31 Goals Arnauld Jacquemet 9:41 (PP1) Dino Wieser 28:45 Marco Maurer 57:40

December 31, 2007 18:00

United States

5–3

Finland

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 1,133

	Colin Wilson 9:29, 13:20 (PP1), 21:43 Tyler Ruegsegger 24:44 James van Riemsdyk 29:14 Goals 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	5	9
Kazakhstan	3	2	0	0	1	9	12	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 (CET/UTC +1)

January 2, 2008 16:00

Slovakia

5–2

Switzerland

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 564

	Marek Slovák 5:50 (PP1) Dalibor Jančovič 31:13 Tomáš Marcinko 39:48 Erik Čaládi 58:54 (ENG) Juraj Mikuš 59:51 (ENG) Goals Étienne Froidevaux 40:40 Aurelio Lemm 46:07 (PP1)

January 2, 2008 20:00

Kazakhstan

6–3

Denmark

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 149

	Evgeny Gasnikov 08:53 (PP1) Yakov Vorobiev 33:42 Evgeny Rymarev 38:36 (SH1), 52:08 (PP1), 59:11 (ENG), 59:25 (ENG) Goals 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

	Yannick Weber 15:31 Aurelio Lemm 32:36, 39:29 (PP1) Reto Suri 43:12 Roman Schlagenhauf 58:37 (PP1) Goals Lars Eller 04:38 Philip Larsen 26:57 (PP1)

January 3, 2008 20:00

Slovakia

8–0

Kazakhstan

Tipsport Arena Attendance: 564

	Oliver Ďuriš 6:40 Dávid 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 Goals

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

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

2

QF2

Russia

4

Quarter-finals

January 2, 2008 16:00

Canada

4–2

Finland

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,187

	John Tavares 27:23 (PP1) Steven Stamkos 42:20 Brad Marchand 50:32 Stefan Legein 59:30 (ENG) Goals Juuso Puustinen 7:23 Jan-Mikael Juutilainen 45:42

January 2, 2008 20:00

Russia

4–1

Czech Republic

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 8,420

	Yakov Seleznev 27:58 Viktor Tikhonov 35:04 (PP1) Nikita Filatov 36:57 Anton Korolev 50:10 Goals Radek Meidl 37:20

5th place playoff

January 3, 2008 18:00

Czech Republic

5–1

Finland

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 483

	Daniel Bártek 26:44 Michael Frolík 27:59 Tomáš Kundrátek 39:20 (PP1) Zbyněk Hampl 47:46 Martin Látal 57:07 (ENG) Goals Harri Pesonen

Semi-finals

January 4, 2008 16:00

Sweden

2–1 OT

Russia

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 3,286

	Robin Figren 51:50 (PP1) Mikael Backlund 66:18 Goals Nikita Filatov 38:27

January 4, 2008 20:00

United States

1–4

Canada

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,621

	James van Riemsdyk 53:26 Goals 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

2–4

Russia

ČEZ Arena Attendance: 5,468

	Rhett Rakhshani 30:47 Jordan Schroeder 53:39 (PP2) Goals 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

	Jonathan Carlsson 45:13 (PP1) Thomas Larsson 59:22 Goals Brad Marchand 1:27 Claude Giroux 17:01 (PP1) Matthew 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
Dávid 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	2
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
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	Matthew 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

Main article: 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships - 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 Toelz, 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
Great Britain	5	0	0	1	4	8	30	1

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

Division II

Main article: 2008 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

Main article: 2008 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

See also

• 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
• 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships - Division I
• 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships - Division II
• 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships - Division III
• 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters

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