2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2004 Men's Ice Hockey Championships were held April 24-May 9, 2004, in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic. Games for this Ice Hockey World Championships tournament were played at Sazka Arena and CEZ Arena.

Preliminary round

Group A

*April 24: ih|DEN 1–5 ih|SWE
*April 25: ih|RUS 6–2 ih|DEN
*April 25: ih|SWE 5–1 ih|JPN
*April 27: ih|JPN 3–4 ih|DEN
*April 27: ih|SWE 3–2 ih|RUS
*April 28: ih|RUS 6–1 ih|JPN

Group D

*April 30: ih|SWE 1–1 ih|FIN
*April 30: ih|SVK 2–0 ih|RUS
*May 1: ih|FIN 6–0 ih|DEN
*May 1: ih|RUS 2–3 ih|USA
*May 2: ih|DEN 0–8 ih|SVK
*May 2: ih|SWE 3–1 ih|USA
*May 3: ih|FIN 4–0 ih|RUS
*May 3: ih|SVK 0–0 ih|SWE
*May 4: ih|USA 8–3 ih|DEN

Relegation round

Group G

May 6

coring leaders

#Dany Heatley, ih|CAN (8g, 3a, 11pts)
#Ville Peltonen, ih|FIN (4g, 6a, 10pts)
#Martin Rucinsky, ih|CZE (5g, 4a, 9pts)
#Jaromír Jágr, ih|CZE (5g, 4a, 9pts)
#Olli Jokinen, ih|FIN (5g, 3a, 8pts)
#Richard Park, ih|USA (5g, 3a, 8pts)
#Pavol Demitra, ih|SVK (4g, 4a, 8pts)
#Miroslav Šatan, ih|SVK (4g, 4a, 8pts)
#Daniel Brière, ih|CAN (2g, 6a, 8pts)

Goaltending leaders

#Fredrik Norrena, ih|FIN (0.00 gaa, 1.000 sv%)
#Alex Westlund, ih|USA (0.00 gaa, 1.000 sv%)
#Karol Krizan, ih|SVK (0.00 gaa, 1.000 sv%)
#Jean-Sébastien Giguère, ih|CAN (0.50 gaa, 0.975 sv%)
#Jan Lasak, ih|SVK (1.00 gaa, 0.954 sv%)
#Roman Cechmanek, ih|CZE (1.00 gaa, 0.944 sv%)
#Jussi Markkanen, ih|FIN (1.00 gaa, 0.909 sv%)
#Tomas Vokoun, ih|CZE (1.11 gaa, 0.944 sv%)
#Henrik Lundqvist, ih|SWE (1.64 gaa, 0.925 sv%)
#Arturs Irbe, ih|LAT (1.80 gaa, 0.925 sv%)

Division I

Group A

"Division I, Group A played at Oslo, Norway, April 4-18."

Group B

"Division II, Group B played at Elektrenai, Lithuania, April 12-18."

"ih|CHN and ih|LTU are promoted to Division I while ih|LUX and ih|RSA are demoted to Division III."

Division III

"Division III was played at Reykjavík, Iceland, March 16-21."

"ih|ISL and ih|TUR are promoted to Division II"

External links

* [http://www.mshokej2004.cz/ Official site]