2008 IIHF World Championship Division I

The 2008 IIHF Division I World Championship was two ice hockey tournaments under the authority of the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested from April 13 to 19, 2008. The tournament was played amongst two separate groups, with the best team in each group, Austria and Hungary, advanced to the Top Division championship in 2009. The bottom teams in each group, South Korea and Estonia, were relegated to the lower-level Division II.

Main article: 2008 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships
2008 IIHF World Championship
Division I
Tournament details
Host countries Austria
 Japan
DatesApril 13 – April 19
Teams12 (two groups of 6)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Games played30
Attendance48,239 (1,608 per match)

The Group A tournament was held in Innsbruck, Austria.[1] The Group B games were played in Sapporo, Japan.[2]

Participants

Group A

Group A was contested in Innsbruck.

Team Qualification
 Austria Host, Relegated from Elite Pool in 2007.
 Great Britain Placed fourth in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Kazakhstan Placed third in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 South Korea Placed first in Division II tournament pool, Promoted to Division I.
 Netherlands Placed fifth in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Poland Placed second in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.

Group B

Group B was contested in Sapporo.

Team Qualification
 Croatia Placed first in Division II tournament pool, Promoted to Division I.
 Estonia Placed fourth in Group A at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Hungary Placed second in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Japan Host, placed third in Group B at the 2007 Division I
 Lithuania Placed fifth in Group B at the 2007 Division I tournament.
 Ukraine Relegated from Elite Pool at the 2007 tournament.

Tournament results

Group A
Promoted to Elite Pool for 2009
Relegated to Division II for 2009
Group A Final standings
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
1  Austria 5 5 0 0 0 34 12 22 15
2  Kazakhstan 5 3 1 0 1 21 12 9 11
3  Poland 5 2 1 1 1 18 17 1 9
4  Great Britain 5 2 0 1 2 19 17 2 7
5  Netherlands 5 0 1 0 4 15 30 −15 2
6  South Korea 5 0 0 1 4 8 27 −19 1
Results

All times local.

April 13, 2008
13:30		Netherlands 3–6
( 1 – 3, 1 – 0, 1 – 3 )		 KazakhstanTWK Arena
Attendance: 1354
James Schaafsma 13:31 (PP2), 28:52 (EQ)
Bjorn Willemse 47:31 (EQ)		Goals3:52 (PP1) Alexei Savchenko,
9:57 (EQ) Ilya Solarev,
19:47 (PP2) Maxim Balyayev
41:59 (EQ), 45:07 (EQ) Lev Krutokhvostov
59:35 (EN) Alexey Vyatkin
April 13, 2008
16:30		Great Britain 1 – 2 (PS)
( 0 – 1, 1 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 1 )		 PolandTWK Arena
Attendance: 2490
Greg Chambers 26:14 (EQ)Goals15:11 (EQ) Maciej Urbanowicz,
65:00 (PS) Krzysztof Zapała
April 13, 2008
20:30		South Korea 0–8
( 0 – 3, 0 – 4, 0 – 1 )		 AustriaTWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
Goals01:48 (EQ), 32:59 (EQ) Christoph Brandner,
04:27 (EQ) Roland Kaspitz,
17:23 (PP1) Dieter Kalt,
24:23 (EQ) Thomas Koch,
28:17 (EQ) Thomas Raffl,
35:38 (EQ) Oliver Setzinger,
40:52 (PP1) Martin Oraze
April 14, 2008
13:30		Poland 6–4
( 2 – 2, 1 – 1, 3 – 1 )		 NetherlandsTWK Arena
Attendance: 1090
Leszek Laszkiewicz 03:35 (PP1), 24:25 (SH1),
Marcin Kolusz 15:54 (EQ),
Adrian Labryga 40:56 (EQ),
Maciej Urbanowicz 42:09 (EQ),
Adam Borzęcki 51:53 (PP1)		Goals10:29 (EQ) Nicky De Jong,
19:59 (PP1) Nathaniel Korthuis,
27:49 (PS) Douglas Stienstra,
59:55 (PS) Bradley Smulders
April 14, 2008
17:00		Kazakhstan 5–1
( 2 – 0, 1 – 0, 2 – 1 )		 South KoreaTWK Arena
Attendance: 1270
Artemiy Lakiza 02:04 (PP1),
Andrey Gavrilin 15:37 (EQ), 44:09 (EQ),
Yevgeniy Fadeyev 39:25 (EQ),
Alexey Vorontsov 45:20 (EQ)		Goals52:54 (EQ) Kim Ki Sung
April 14, 2008
20:30		Austria 10–5
( 4 – 3, 3 – 0, 3 – 2 )		 Great BritainTWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
Marco Pewal 02:55 (EQ),
Roland Kaspitz 08:23 (EQ),
Gerd Gruber 13:21 (EQ),
Oliver Setzinger 16:04 (PP1), 42:08 (EQ),
Thomas Koch 23:38 (EQ),
Gerhard Unterluggauer 25:59 (PP1),
Thomas Vanek 33:33 (PP1), 41:07 (PP2), 49:46 (PP1)		Goals07:55 (PP1) Greg Chambers,
14:23 (PP1) Ashley Tait,
17:57 (EQ) Thomas Watkins,
42:52 (PP1) Jonathan Weaver,
56:17 (PP1) David Clarke
April 16, 2008
13:30		South Korea 1–4
( 0 – 1, 0 – 1, 1 – 2 )		 Great BritainTWK Arena
Attendance: 897
Cho Min Ho 50:42 (EQ)Goals01:29 (EQ) David Clarke,
31:39 (EQ) David Longstaff,
46:52 (EQ) Daniel Meyers,
58:13 (SH1) Ashley Tait
April 16, 2008
17:00		Poland 3 – 4 (PS)
( 0 – 1, 0 – 1, 3 – 1, 0 – 0, 0 – 1)		 KazakhstanTWK Arena
Attendance: 2132
Krzysztof Zapała 40:49 (EQ),
Leszek Laszkiewicz 48:27 (EQ),
Marcin Jaros 56:30 (EQ)		Goals09:40 (PP1) Andrey Gavrilin,
22:17 (EQ) Andrei Spiridonov,
44:20 (EQ) Yevgeniy Ushkov,
65:00 (PS) Konstantin Kassatkin
April 16, 2008
20:30		Austria 5–1
( 0 – 0, 1 – 1, 4 – 0 )		 NetherlandsTWK Arena
Attendance: 3100
Philipp Lukas 20:57 (EQ),
Christoph Brandner 43:58 (PP1),
Dieter Kalt 47:01 (PP1),
Thomas Vanek 52:48 (EQ), 54:08 (EQ)		Goals33:58 (EQ) Douglas Stienstra
April 18, 2008
13:30		Great Britain 8–1
( 2 – 0, 4 – 0, 2 – 1 )		 NetherlandsTWK Arena
Attendance: 1249
Gregory Owen 05:36 (EQ), 28:34 (PP1), 47:59 (EQ),
Jonathan Phillips 11:15 (EQ),
Jonathan Weaver 34:04 (EQ),
Greg Chambers 36:25 (EQ), 40:36 (SH1),
Thomas Watkins 37:45 (EQ)		Goals59:02 (PP2) Jacobus Teunissen
April 18, 2008
17:00		Poland 4–1
( 0 – 0, 2 – 1, 2 – 0)		 South KoreaTWK Arena
Attendance: 2005
Krzysztof Zapała 26:27 (PP1),
Marcin Jaros 37:15 (EQ),
Jarosław Różański 50:54 (EQ),
Sebastian Kowalówka 56:30 (EQ)		Goals24:18 (EQ) Kim Kyu Hun
April 18, 2008
20:30		Kazakhstan 3–4
( 1 – 1, 1 – 2, 1 – 1 )		 AustriaTWK Arena
Attendance: 3200
Lev Krutokhvostov 13:34 (EQ),
Andrei Ogorodnikov 30:50 (EQ),
Vladislav Kolesnikov 46:59 (EQ)		Goals01:14 (EQ) Martin Ulrich,
30:07 (SH1) Dieter Kalt,
35:43 (SH1) Daniel Welser,
56:51 (PP1) Christoph Brandner
April 19, 2008
13:30		Netherlands 6 – 5 (OT)
( 2 – 1, 2 – 3, 1 – 1, 1 – 0 )		 South KoreaTWK Arena
Attendance: 1890
Casey van Schagen 03:56 (EQ),
Marcel Kars 15:43 (EQ),
Jamie Schaafsma 46:59 (EQ), 64:23 (EQ)
Bradley Smulders 30:18 (EQ),
Doug Stienstra 58:59 (EQ)		Goals02:52 (EQ), 33:30 (PP1) Min Ho Cho,
28:07 (EQ) Woo Sang Park,
37:11 (EQ) Yong Jun Lee,
53:05 (EQ) Ki Sung Kim
April 19, 2008
17:00		Kazakhstan 3–1
( 1 – 1, 0 – 0, 2 – 0 )		 Great BritainTWK Arena
Attendance: 2400
Andrey Spiridonov 12:34 (EQ), 54:42 (EQ)
Alexey Vyatkin 55:14 (EQ)		Goals06:28 (PP1) David Clarke
April 19, 2008
20:30		Austria 7–3
( 1 – 1, 5 – 0, 1 – 2 )		 PolandTWK Arena
Attendance: 3200
Jeremy Rebek 11:31 (EQ),
Dieter Kalt 23:13 (PP2), 26:45 (EQ),
Gerhard Unterluggauer 23:36 (PP1), 50:04 (PP1),
Daniel Welser 31:55 (EQ),
Philipp Lukas 39:10 (EQ),		Goals13:00 (EQ) Marcin Kolusz,
45:00 (EQ) Maciej Urbanowicz,
51:53 (EQ) Adrian Labryga

Group B
Promoted to Elite Pool for 2009
Relegated to Division II for 2009
Group B Final standings
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
1  Hungary 5 5 0 0 0 22 7 15 15
2  Ukraine 5 3 1 0 1 18 8 10 11
3  Japan 5 3 0 1 1 19 10 9 10
4  Lithuania 5 2 0 0 3 9 21 −12 6
5  Croatia 5 0 1 0 4 5 15 −10 2
6  Estonia 5 0 0 1 4 9 21 −12 1
Results

All times local.

April 13, 2008
13:00		Croatia 0–4
( 0 – 1, 0 – 1, 0 – 2 )		 UkraineTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 593
Goals8:42 (EQ) Yuri Dyachenko
33:48 (PP2) Dmytro Tsuryl
52:06 (EQ) Vadym Shakhraychuk
52:27 (EQ) Oleksandr Karaulshchuk
April 13, 2008
16:30		Estonia 3–5
( 1 – 2, 2 – 1, 0 – 2 )		 HungaryTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 978
Maksim Ivanov 3:05 (PP1)
Andrei Makrov 24:36 (PP2)
Aleksander Polozov 34:03 (EQ)		Goals7:48 (EQ), 11:10 (PP1) Márton Vas
39:04 (EQ), 45:30 (EQ) Csaba Kovács
51:03 (EQ) Dániel Fekete
April 13, 2008
20:00		Lithuania 0–5
( 0 – 4, 0 – 0, 0 – 1 )		 JapanTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 708
Goals4:23 (PP1) Yosuke Kon
9:09 (PP1) Masahito Nishiwaki
12:55 (PP1) Sho Sato
18:02 (EQ) Darcy Mitani
41:28 (EQ) Ryuichi Kawai
April 14, 2008
13:00		Ukraine 3–1
( 0 – 0, 2 – 1, 1 – 0 )		 EstoniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 195
Dmytro Tsyrul 28:58 (EQ)
Yuri Navarenko 37:39 (SH1)
Roman Salnikov 59:27 (ENG)		Goals22:15 (PP1) Andrei Makrov
April 14, 2008
16:30		Hungary 6–0
( 2 – 0, 2 – 0, 2 – 0 )		 LithuaniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 708
Márton Vas 10:11 (PP1)
Gábor Ocskay 11:31 (PP2), 58:37 (EQ)
Krisztián Palkovics 29:22 (PP1)
Csaba Kovács 36:31 (PS)
Balázs Ladányi 59:31 (PP1)		Goals
April 14, 2008
20:00		Japan 3–0
( 1 – 0, 0 – 0, 2 – 0 )		 CroatiaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1145
Darcy Mitani 8:34 (PP1)
Daisuke Obara 41:05 (PP1)
Takahito Suzuki 56:24 (PP1)		Goals
April 16, 2008
13:00		Croatia 2 – 1 (PS)
( 0 – 1, 1 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 )		 EstoniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 153
Marko Lovrenčić 39:01 (PP1)
Mario Novak 65:00 (GWG)		Goals13:30 (PP1) Ilja Urusev
April 16, 2008
16:30		Ukraine 6–1
( 4 – 0, 1 – 1, 1 – 0 )		 LithuaniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 438
Vadym Shakhraychuk 0:47 (EQ)
Kostiantyn Kasianchuk 8:15 (EQ)
Andrei Sryubko 10:43 (PP1)
Aleksandr Materukhin 16:01 (PS)
Sergei Klimentiev 29:25 (EQ)
Roman Salnikov 51:37 (EQ)		Goals35:47 (EQ) Tadas Kumeliauskas
April 16, 2008
20:00		Hungary 4–2
( 0 – 0, 3 – 1, 1 – 1 )		 JapanTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1363
Balázs Ladányi 26:45 (EQ)
Krisztián Palkovics 27:46 (EQ), 59:25 (ENG)
Gábor Ocskay 33:50 (SH1)		Goals37:37 (EQ) Sho Sato
45:59 (EQ) Masahito Nishiwaki
April 18, 2008
13:00		Estonia 1–4
( 0 – 1, 1 – 1, 0 – 2 )		 LithuaniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 238
Maksim Ivanov 38:00 (PP2)Goals18:41 (EQ) Mindaugas Kieras
22:00 (PP1) Darius Lelėnas
44:08 (PP1) Dalius Vaiciukevičius
59:47 (ENG) Egidijus Bauba
April 18, 2008
16:30		Hungary 3–0
( 0 – 0, 1 – 0, 2 – 0 )		 CroatiaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 541
Imre Peterdi 35:01 (EQ)
Krisztián Palkovics 46:01 (EQ), 49:45 (PP1)		Goals
April 18, 2008
20:00		Japan 2 – 3 (PS)
( 0 – 0, 2 – 2, 0 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 1 )		 UkraineTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 1879
Suzuki Takahito 24:59 (EQ)
Kamino Toru 36:49 (EQ)		GoalsKostiantyn Kasianchuk 20:42 (PP1)
Sergii Varlamov 39:09 (PP1)
Dmytro Tsyrul 65:00 (GWG)
April 19, 2008
13:00		Lithuania 4–3
( 0 – 2, 1 – 0, 3 – 1)		 CroatiaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 989
Dovydas Kulevičius 21:13 (PP1), 45:40 (EQ)
Mindaugas Kieras 44:10 (PP2)
Darius Lelėnas 58:18 (EQ)		GoalsTomislav Čunko 14:35 (EQ)
Veljko Žibret 15:20 (EQ)
Krešimir Švigir 47:17 (EQ)
April 19, 2008
16:30		Japan 7–3
( 4 – 2, 1 – 0, 2 – 1)		 EstoniaTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Saito Takeshi 2:14 (EQ), 41:43 (PP1)
Aaron Keller 3:32 (EQ)
Obara Daisuke 6:15 (PP1)
Mitani Darcy 11:48 (EQ), 21:01 (PP1)
Kon Yosuke 44:05 (EQ)		GoalsMaksim Ivanov 0:36 (EQ)
Andrei Makrov 9:44 (EQ)
Aleksei Sibirtsev 48:57 (PP1)
April 19, 2008
20:00		Ukraine 2–4
( 0 – 2, 2 – 1, 0 – 1)		 HungaryTsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo
Attendance: 2544
Oleg Blagoi 37:04 (EQ)
Vitaliy Semenchenko 37:39 (SH1)		Goals10:27 (EQ) János Vas
19:32 (PP1) Krisztián Palkovics
21:46 (EQ) Imre Peterdi
59:19 (SH1) Márton Vas

References
  1. Division I Group A statistics
  2. Division I Group B statistics
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