2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Infobox International Ice Hockey Competition
tourney_name =IIHF World U20 Championship
year = 2008
other_titles =


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country = Czech Republic
dates = December 26 - January 5
num_teams = 10
venues = 2
cities = 2
winners = Canada
count = 14
games = 31
goals = 197
attendance = 103179
scoring_leader = flagicon|USA James vanRiemsdyk (11 points)
mvp = flagicon|CAN Steve Mason

The 2008 IIHF World U20 Championship, or, as it is commonly referred to as in Canada and the United States, the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 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.

Rosters

Top Division

Preliminary Round

Group A

"Note: Matches" ih|DNK 3–4 ih|SVK "and" ih|CHE 1–3 ih|KAZ "from the Preliminary Round (both on Dec 30th, 2007) are included as well since these results carry forward"

;ScheduleAll times local (CET/UTC +1)

hockeybox
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date = January 2, 2008
16:00
team1 = ih-rt|SVK
score = 5–2
team2 = ih|CHE
goals1 = Marek Slovák 5:50 (PP1)
Dalibor Jančovič 31:13
Tomáš Marcinko 39:48
Erik Čaládi 58:54 (ENG)
Juraj Mikuš 59:51 (ENG)
goals2 = Etienne Froidevaux 40:40
Aurelio Lemm 46:07 (PP1)
stadium = Tipsport Arena
Attendance: 564

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date = January 2, 2008
20:00
team1 = ih-rt|KAZ
score = 6–3
team2 = ih|DNK
goals1 = Evgeny Gasnikov 08:53 (PP1)
Yakov Vorobiev 33:42
Evgeny Rymarev 38:36 (SH1), 52:08 (PP1), 59:11 (ENG), 59:25 (ENG)
goals2 = Lars Eller 22:38 (PP1), 38:59 (PP1)
Nichlas Hardt 43:43 (PP1)
stadium = Tipsport Arena
Attendance: 149

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date = January 3, 2008
16:00
team1 = ih-rt|CHE
score = 5–2
team2 = ih|DNK
goals1 = Yannick Weber 15:31
Aurelio Lemm 32:36, 39:29 (PP1)
Reto Suri 43:12
Roman Schlagenhauf 58:37 (PP1)
goals2 = Lars Eller 04:38
Philip Larsen 26:57 (PP1)
stadium = Tipsport Arena
Attendance: 251

hockeybox
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date = January 3, 2008
20:00
team1 = ih-rt|SVK
score = 8–0
team2 = Ih|KAZ
goals1 = 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
goals2 =
stadium = Tipsport Arena
Attendance: 564

"ih|DNK and ih|CHE are relegated to Division I for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships"

Final Round

6TeamBracket-with 3rd
RD1=Quarter finals
RD2=Semi finals
RD3=Final
group1=
group2=

RD1-seed1=A2
RD1-team1=CANjh
RD1-score1=4
RD1-seed2=B3
RD1-team2=ih|FIN
RD1-score2=2

RD1-seed3=B2
RD1-team3=ih|RUS
RD1-score3=4
RD1-seed4=A3
RD1-team4=ih|CZE
RD1-score4=1

RD2-seed1=QF1
RD2-team1=CANjh
RD2-score1=4
RD2-seed2=B1
RD2-team2=ih|USA
RD2-score2=1

RD2-seed3=QF2
RD2-team3=ih|RUS
RD2-score3=1
RD2-seed4=A1
RD2-team4=ih|SWE
RD2-score4=2 (OT)

RD3-seed1=SF1
RD3-team1=ih|SWE
RD3-score1=2
RD3-seed2=SF2
RD3-team2=CANjh
RD3-score2=3 (OT)

RD3-seed3=QF1
RD3-team3=ih|USA
RD3-score3=2
RD3-seed4=QF2
RD3-team4=ih|RUS
RD3-score4=4

;Quarter Finalshockeybox
bg = #eeeeee
date = January 2, 2008
16:00
team1 = ih-rt|CAN
score = 4–2
team2 = ih|FIN
goals1 = John Tavares 27:23 (PP1)
Steven Stamkos 42:20
Brad Marchand 50:32
Stefan Legein 59:30 (ENG)
goals2 = Juuso Puustinen 7:23
Jan-Mikael Juutilainen 45:42
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 5,187

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date = January 2, 2008
20:00
team1 = ih-rt|RUS
score = 4–1
team2 = ih|CZE
goals1 =Yakov Seleznev 27:58
Viktor Tikhonov 35:04 (PP1)
Nikita Filatov 36:57
Anton Korolev 50:10
goals2 =Radek Meidl 37:20
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 8,420

;5th Place Playoffhockeybox
bg = #eeeeee
date = January 3, 2008
18:00
team1 = ih-rt|CZE | score = 5–1
team2 = ih|FIN
goals1 = Daniel Bártek 26:44
Michael Frolík 27:59
Tomáš Kundrátek 39:20 (PP1)
Zbyněk Hampl 47:46
Martin Látal 57:07 (ENG)
goals2 = Harri Pesonen
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 483

;Semi Finals hockeybox
bg =
date = January 4, 2008
16:00
team1 = ih-rt|SWE
score = 2–1 OT
team2 = ih|RUS
goals1 = Robin Figren 51:50 (PP1)
Mikael Backlund 66:18
goals2 =Nikita Filatov 38:27
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 3,286

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bg = #eeeeee
date = January 4, 2008
20:00
team1 = ih-rt|USA
score = 1–4
team2 = ih|CAN
goals1 = James vanRiemsdyk 53:26
goals2 = Shawn Matthias 22:46
Karl Alzner 30:00 (PP1)
Colton Gillies 47:04
Brad Marchand 47:24
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 5,621

;Bronze Medal Gamehockeybox
bg = #eeeeee
date = January 5, 2008
16:00
team1 = ih-rt|USA
score = 2–4
team2 = ih|RUS
goals1 = Rhett Rakhshani 30:47
Jordan Schroeder 53:39 (PP2)
goals2 = Alexei Cherepanov 3:59
Evgeni Kurbatov 11:04 (PP1)
Nikita Filatov 16:57, 21:30 (PP1)
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 5,468

;Gold Medal Gamehockeybox
bg = #eeeeee
date = January 5, 2008
20:00
team1 = ih-rt|SWE
score = 2–3 OT
team2 = ih|CAN
goals1 = Jonathan Carlsson 45:13 (PP1)
Thomas Larsson 59:22

goals2 = Brad Marchand 1:27
Claude Giroux 17:01 (PP1)
Matthew Halischuk 63:36
stadium = ČEZ Arena
Attendance: 7,480

Scoring leaders

Winning team roster

Roster of the winning Canadian team.

"ih|LVA is promoted to Pool A and ih|GBR 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

"ih|NZL and ih|SRB were promoted to Division II for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships"

References

External links

* [http://www.iihf.com/ IIHF Official Site]
* [http://www.worldjuniors2008.com/index.asp Official Site]

ee 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