2018 IIHF World Championship

2018 IIHF World Championship
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Tournament details
Host country	Denmark
Dates	4–20 May
Teams	16
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Sweden (11th title)
Runner-up	Switzerland
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Canada
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	384 (6 per match)
Attendance	520,481 (8,133 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Patrick Kane; (20 points)
MVP	Patrick Kane
	← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament hosted by the Danish cities of Copenhagen and Herning, held from 4–20 May 2018. The IIHF announced the winning bid on 23 May 2014 in Minsk, Belarus.^[1]^[2] South Korea made its debut at the World Championship, having played in the lower divisions previously.^[3]

Sweden went undefeated at the tournament to win their second consecutive and eleventh overall title after defeating Switzerland in the final.^[4] The United States won the bronze medal game, defeating Canada 4–1.

The official mascot of the tournament was a cygnet,^[5] inspired by the Danish writer and poet Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about The Ugly Duckling.^[6]

Bids

There were two bids to host this championship.^[7]

Denmark
- Copenhagen/Herning

Denmark is the only top-ranked IIHF country that has never hosted the tournament. The proposed arenas were the Royal Arena in Copenhagen and the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning.^[2] Both arenas have a capacity of around 12,000 for hockey games.^[8]

Latvia
- Riga

Latvia hosted the IIHF World Championship in 2006. The proposed arenas were Arena Riga, and a secondary venue to be built.^[2]

The decision was announced on 23 May 2014 in Minsk, Belarus. The final tally was 95-12 in favor of Denmark.^[1]^[2]

Venues

Copenhagen	Copenhagen Herning	Herning
Royal Arena		Jyske Bank Boxen

Capacity: 12,500		Capacity: 12,000
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Qualified teams

File:Games mascot at IIHF World Championship semifinal 2018.jpg

Mascot: Duckly

Qualified as host

Denmark

Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2017 IIHF World Championship

Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I

Seeding

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2017 IIHF World Ranking, which ended at the conclusion of the 2017 IIHF World Championship.^[9]

Denmark and Sweden played in separate groups, Denmark at the Jyske Bank Boxen while Sweden at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen.^[10]

Group A

Russia (2)
Sweden (3)
Czech Republic (6)
Switzerland (7)
Belarus (10)
Slovakia (11)
France¹ (13)
Austria (16)

Group B

Canada (1)
Finland (4)
United States (5)
Germany (8)
Norway (9)
Latvia (12)
Denmark¹ (14)
South Korea (21)

¹ Denmark and France swapped sides so Denmark would not be in the same group as Sweden.

Rosters

Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and 3 goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a "Long List" no later than two weeks before the tournament, and a final roster by the Passport Control meeting prior to the start of tournament.

Officials

16 referees and linesman were announced on 21 March 2018.^[11]^[12]

Referees	Linesmen
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/> Mark Lemelin Oliver Gouin Brett Iverson Jan Hribik Antonín Jeřábek Mikko Kaukokari Aleksi Rantala Gordon Schukies Roman Gofman Konstantin Olenin Tobias Wehrli Jozef Kubuš Linus Öhlund Mikael Sjöqvist Timothy Mayer Stephen Reneau	<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/> Dmitri Golyak Dustin McCrank Nathan Vanoosten Miroslav Lhotský Rene Jensen Hannu Sormunen Sakari Suominen Lukas Kohlmüller Jon Kilian Alexander Otmakhov Gleb Lazarev Nicolas Fluri Peter Šefčík Andreas Malmqvist Jake Davis Brian Oliver

Preliminary round

The schedule was released on 8 August 2017.^[13]

Group A

2018 IIHF World Championship Group A


4 May 2018
Russia	7–0	France
Sweden	5–0	Belarus
5 May 2018
Switzerland	3–2 (OT)	Austria
France	6–2	Belarus
Czech Republic	3–2 (OT)	Slovakia
6 May 2018
Austria	0–7	Russia
Sweden	3–2	Czech Republic
Slovakia	0–2	Switzerland
7 May 2018
Belarus	0–6	Russia
Sweden	4–0	France
8 May 2018
Austria	2–4	Slovakia
Czech Republic	5–4 (GWS)	Switzerland
9 May 2018
Switzerland	5–2	Belarus
Sweden	7–0	Austria
10 May 2018
Slovakia	3–1	France
Czech Republic	4–3 (OT)	Russia
11 May 2018
France	5–2	Austria
Belarus	0–3	Czech Republic
12 May 2018
Slovakia	3–4 (OT)	Sweden
Austria	4–0	Belarus
Russia	4–3	Switzerland
13 May 2018
France	0–6	Czech Republic
Switzerland	3–5	Sweden
14 May 2018
Russia	4–0	Slovakia
Czech Republic	4–3	Austria
15 May 2018
Switzerland	5–1	France
Belarus	4–7	Slovakia
Russia	1–3	Sweden

Group B

2018 IIHF World Championship Group B


4 May 2018
United States	5–4 (GWS)	Canada
Germany	2–3 (GWS)	Denmark
5 May 2018
Norway	2–3 (OT)	Latvia
Finland	8–1	South Korea
Denmark	0–4	United States
6 May 2018
South Korea	0–10	Canada
Germany	4–5 (GWS)	Norway
Latvia	1–8	Finland
7 May 2018
United States	3–0	Germany
Canada	7–1	Denmark
8 May 2018
South Korea	0–5	Latvia
Finland	7–0	Norway
9 May 2018
Germany	6–1	South Korea
Finland	2–3	Denmark
10 May 2018
United States	3–2 (OT)	Latvia
Norway	0–5	Canada
11 May 2018
Denmark	3–0	Norway
United States	13–1	South Korea
12 May 2018
Latvia	3–1	Germany
Denmark	3–1	South Korea
Canada	1–5	Finland
13 May 2018
Norway	3–9	United States
Germany	3–2 (OT)	Finland
14 May 2018
South Korea	0–3	Norway
Canada	2–1 (OT)	Latvia
15 May 2018
Finland	6–2	United States
Canada	3–0	Germany
Latvia	1–0	Denmark

Playoff round

Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final

17 May

A1
	19 May
B4

17 May

B2
		20 May
A3

17 May

A2
	19 May
B3

17 May
		Third place
B1
		20 May
A4

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Bronze medal game

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Gold medal game

20 May 2018
20:15 (UTC+2)

Sweden

3–2 GWS
(1–1, 1–1, 0–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)

Switzerland

Royal Arena, Copenhagen
Attendance: 12,490


Anders Nilsson	Goalies	Leonardo Genoni	Referees: Roman Gofman Oliver Gouin Linesmen: Gleb Lazarev Nathan Vanoosten
Nyquist (Ekholm) – 17:54 / Zibanejad (Ekman-Larsson) (PP) – 34:53	0–1 / 1–1 / 1–2 / 2–2	16:38 – Niederreiter (Josi, Fiala) / 23:13 – Meier (Corvi, Josi) (PP)
4 min	Penalties	10 min
38	Shots	27

Final ranking and statistics

Final ranking

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	A	Sweden	10	8	2	0	0	43	13	+30	28	Champions
2	A	Switzerland	10	5	1	2	2	33	26	+7	19	Runners-up
3	B	United States	10	6	2	0	2	46	25	+21	22	Third place
4	B	Canada	10	4	2	1	3	40	23	+17	17	Fourth place

5	B	Finland	8	5	0	1	2	40	14	+26	16	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	A	Russia	8	5	0	2	1	36	15	+21	17
7	A	Czech Republic	8	3	3	0	2	29	18	+11	15
8	B	Latvia	8	3	1	2	2	18	19	−1	13

9	A	Slovakia	7	3	0	2	2	19	20	−1	11	Eliminated in Group stage
10	B	Denmark (H)	7	3	1	0	3	13	17	−4	11
11	B	Germany	7	1	1	2	3	16	20	−4	7
12	A	France	7	2	0	0	5	13	29	−16	6
13	B	Norway	7	1	1	1	4	13	31	−18	6
14	A	Austria	7	1	0	1	5	13	30	−17	4

15	A	Belarus	7	0	0	0	7	8	36	−28	0	2019 IIHF World Championship Division I
16	B	South Korea	7	0	0	0	7	4	48	−44	0	2019 IIHF World Championship Division I

Source: IIHF.com
Rules for classification: 1) position in the group; 2) number of points; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) seeding before tournament.^[14]^[15]
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Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Patrick Kane	10	8	12	20	−2	0	F
Sebastian Aho	8	9	9	18	+15	2	F
Connor McDavid	10	5	12	17	+6	10	F
Rickard Rakell	10	6	8	14	+7	6	F
Teuvo Teräväinen	8	5	9	14	+14	8	F
Cam Atkinson	10	7	4	11	−3	2	F
Mika Zibanejad	10	6	5	11	+10	0	F
Mikko Rantanen	8	5	6	11	+1	6	F
Mattias Janmark	10	4	6	10	+8	8	F
Chris Kreider	10	4	6	10	+7	2	F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders

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	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Anders Nilsson	440:00	8	1.09	174	95.40	3
Frederik Andersen	362:56	10	1.65	178	94.38	1
Igor Shestyorkin	204:57	5	1.46	86	94.19	2
Elvis Merzļikins	360:35	9	1.50	151	94.04	2
Harri Säteri	298:31	7	1.41	114	93.86	1

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Best players selected by the directorate:
- Best Goaltender: Frederik Andersen
- Best Defenceman: John Klingberg
- Best Forward: Sebastian Aho

Source: IIHF.com

Media All-Stars:
- MVP: Patrick Kane
- Goaltender: Anders Nilsson
- Defencemen: Adam Larsson / Oliver Ekman-Larsson
- Forwards: Rickard Rakell / Patrick Kane / Sebastian Aho

Source: IIHF.com

References

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External links

Official website

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