2008 IIHF Men's InLine Hockey World Championship

2008 IIHF Men's InLine Hockey World Championship

Official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Slovakia
Dates	June 21 – June 29
Teams	16
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Sweden (4th title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	46
Goals scored	530 (11.52 per match)
Attendance	28,445 (618 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Pat Lee (18 pts)
MVP	Dick Axelsson

The 2008 IIHF Men's InLine Hockey World Championship is the 12th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It took place between June 21 and June 29, 2008. The 2008 Championship marked the return of Canada to the international stage.

Tournament format

The preliminary round will be played in 4 groups (A-D) with 4 teams each. The groups A and B form the Top Division, the groups C and D form Division I. The two last-placed teams of the groups A and B and the two first-placed teams of the groups C and D play for 4th place in group A and B to participate in the Top Division playoffs. The losers of those games play as first placed teams in group C and D to participate in the Division I playoffs. Playoffs starting with the quarterfinals and placement games will be played both in the Top Division and in Division I.

Relegation format: The best seven teams of the Top Division and the winner of Division I will be qualified for the 2009 Men's World Inline Hockey Championships Top Division. The last-placed team of the Top Division (loser of the 7th-place game) will be relegated to the 2009 Men's World Inline Hockey Championships Division I.

The ranking of the groups is based according to the result of the last World Championship performance of the respective countries in the IIHF InLine Hockey Program and the qualification rounds.

All games in the preliminary round and in the playoffs will be played with 5-minute sudden-death overtime and a penalty shootout in case of a tie. The final games will be played with a 12- minute sudden-death overtime, followed by a penalty shootout competition in case of a tie.

Teams will be awarded points on the following system:

• Win after regular time = 3 points
• Win after overtime or shootout = 2 points
• Loss after overtime or shootout = 1 point
• Loss after regular time = 0 points

Participating teams

Groups are based on the results of the previous World Championships and Qualifying Series

Top division

Group A  Slovenia  Sweden  Slovakia  Austria

Group B  United States  Czech Republic  Finland  Germany

Division I

Group C  Brazil  Great Britain  Australia  Bulgaria

Group D  Canada  Japan  Hungary  New Zealand

Top division

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Slovenia	3	3	0	0	0	19	7	12	9
Sweden	3	2	0	0	1	16	9	7	6
Slovakia	3	1	0	0	2	9	13	-4	3
Austria	3	0	0	0	3	7	22	-15	0

Group loser sent to compete in qualification round

June 21, 2008 18:00

Austria

4 - 6 (1-1, 0-2, 2-2, 1-1)

Slovakia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 1,125

	Heimo Lindner (1) 6:13 (ES) Martin Mairitsch (1) 32:21 (ES) Heimo Lindner (2) 35:48 (ES) Martin Mairitsch (2) 36:39 (ES) Goals Peter Staron (1) 10:10 (SH) Andrej Szoke (1) 16:52 (ES) Richard Kapus (1) 18:47 (PP) Henrich Ruckay (1) 26:09 (ES) Henrich Ruckay (2) 34:56 (ES)(GWG) Roman Simunek (1) 47:59 (ENG)

June 22, 2008 14:00

Austria

1 - 8 (0-2, 1-0, 0-2, 0-4)

Slovenia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 742

	Harry Lange (1) 13:04 (PP) Goals Jaka Zupanc (1) 1:17 (ES) Rok Bavdaz (1) 10:21 (ES)(GWG) Jure Stopar (1) 28:59 (SH) Jan Loboda (1) 35:37 (ES) Jaka Zupanc (2) 38:11 (ES) Nejc Sotlar (1) 42:09 (ES) Rok Bavdaz (2) 45:40 (ES) Matic Kralj (1) 46:08 (ES)

June 22, 2008 18:00

Sweden

5 - 0 (0-0, 0-2, 0-2, 0-1)

Slovakia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 1123

	Andreas Svensson (1) 12:54 (ES) Kristian Luukkonen (1) 14:32 (ES) Linus Klasen (1) 26:34 (PP) Johan Olsson (1) 28:25 (ES) Ludvig Rantanen (1) 45:18 (ES) Goals

June 23, 2008 20:00

Sweden

3 - 7 (0-1, 0-2, 2-3, 1-1)

Slovenia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 726

	Linus Klasen (2) 32:35 (ES) Fredrick Eriksson (1) 34:59 (PP) Simon Olsson (1) 46:06 (PP) Goals Jure Stopar (2) 10:11 (PP) Dejan Zemva (1) 14:28 (ES) Tadej Nabergoj (1) 14:53 (ES) Rok Bavdaz (3) 24:35 (ES) Matic Kralj (2) 27:49 (PP) Tadej Nabergoj (2) 28:55 (ES) Nejc Sotlar (2) 44:32 (SH)

June 24, 2008 18:00

Slovenia

4 - 3 (1-0, 1-1, 1-0, 1-2)

Slovakia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 1,120

	Nejc Sotlar (3) 11:12 (ES) Nejc Sotlar (4) 18:51 (ES) Nejc Sotlar (5) 27:35 (ES) Jure Stopar (3) 39:46 (ES) Goals Andrej Szoke (2) 23:40 (ES) Peter Staron (2) 41:01 (PP) Martin Galik (1) 47:29 (PP)

June 24, 2008 20:00

Sweden

8 - 2 (3-0, 0-1, 3-1, 2-0)

Austria

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 300

	Andreas Svensson (2) 2:56 (PP) Jonas Karlsson (1) 3:25 (ES) Dick Axelsson (1) 10:29 (PP) Dick Axelsson (2) 30:23 (PP) Daniel Wessner (1) 32:18 (PP) Dave Lindarv (1) 34:10 (ES) Dick Axelsson (3) 42:30 (SH) Johan Olsson (2) 46:47 (ES) Goals Heimo Lindner (3) 13:25 (PP) Alexander Holler (1) 32:42 (ES)

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
United States	3	3	0	0	0	22	14	8	9
Czech Republic	3	2	0	0	1	17	15	2	6
Finland	3	0	1	0	2	12	14	-2	2
Germany	3	0	0	1	2	13	21	-8	1

Group loser sent to compete in qualification round

June 22, 2008 16:00

Germany

3 - 9 (1 - 2 , 1 - 3 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 3)

United States

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 544

	Michael Wolf (1) 3:23 (ES) Steffen Tolzer (1) 18:20 (ES) Michael Wolf (2) 24:39 (PP) Goals James Beilsten (1) 2:23 (ES) James Beilsten (2) 7:13 (SH) Dan Comrie (1) 16:29 (PP) Kyle Gouge (1) 17:25 (PP)(GWG) James Beilsten (3) 22:39 (ES) Lee Sweatt (1) 34:23 (ES) Christopher Peterson (1) 39:15 (PP) Kyle Gouge (2) 41:05 (ES) Pat Lee (2) 45:47 (ES)

June 22, 2008 20:00

Finland

2 - 4 (0-1, 0-1, 1-1, 1-1)

Czech Republic

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 544

	Aki Tuominen (1) 33:00 (PP) Tuomas Valosaari (1) 39:00 (PP) Goals Jiri Polansky (1) 10:08 (ES) Petr Tenkrat (1) 14:19 (ES) Pavel Strycek (1) 29:05 (ES)(GWG) Jiri Polansky (2) 47:42 (ENG)

June 23, 2008 16:00

Germany

6 - 7 (3-1, 1-2, 2-2, 0-2)

Czech Republic

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 522

	Thomas Greilinger (1) 6:49 (PP) Martin Ortolf (1) 7:08 (ES) Florian Zeller (1) 11:19 (ES) Patrick Reimer (1) 16:56 (ES) Daniel Huhn (1) 32:27 (ES) Michael Wolf (3) 33:27 (PP) Goals Petr Hemsky (1) 4:50 (ES) Ales Hemsky (1) 13:44 (ES) Martin Vozdecky (1) 20:40 (ES) Ludek Broz (1) 27:05 (PP) Karel Rachůnek (1) 32:09 (PP) Karel Rachůnek (2) 38:12 (PP) Jiri Polansky (2) 46:52 (ES)(GWG)

June 23, 2008 18:00

United States

6 - 5 (2-3, 1-0, 2-0, 1-2)

Finland

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 724

	Tommy Bruce (1) 6:20 (ES) Kyle Gouge (3) 9:09 (ES) Lee Sweatt (2) 20:02 (ES) Pat Lee (3) 29:33 (ES) Tommy Bruce (2) 31:36 (ES) Kyle Gouge (4) 42:24 (ES)(GWG) Goals Tommi Heinonen (1) 1:50 (ES) Jani Lyytinen (1) 8:00 (ES) Kari Lohtander (1) 8:13 (ES) Aki Tuominen (2) 43:50 (PP) Sami Markkanen (1) 45:05 (ES)

June 24, 2008 14:00

United States

7 - 6 (4-1, 1-1, 1-4, 1-0)

Czech Republic

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 459

	Dan Comrie (2) 00:37(ES) Steven Oleksy (1) 6:29 (PP) Kyle Gouge (5) 7:00 (ES) Lee Sweatt (3) 11:00 (PP) Rafael Rodriquez (1) 21:43 (PP) Dan Comrie (3) 32:17 (PP) Kyle Gouge (6) 40:01 (ES)(GWG) Goals Tomas Mojzis (1) 4:08 (PP) Jiri Polansky (4) 18:42 (PP) Petr Tenkrat (2) 26:41 (PP) Martin Vozdecky (2) 29:41 (PP) Petr Tenkrat (3) 30:46 (PP) Tomas Mojzis (2) 34:06 (PP)

June 24, 2008 16:00

Finland

5 - 4 (SO) (0-2, 0-0, 4-0, 0-2, 0-0, 1-0)

Germany

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 444

	Tuomas Valosaari (2) 27:53 (PP) Tuomas Valosaari (3) 29:16 (ES) Ossi Pellinen (1) 35:00 (ES) Sami Markkanen (2) 35:39 (ES) Tuomas Valosaari (4) 53:00 (SO)(GWG) Goals Daniel Menge (1) 1:11 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (2) 3:56 (PP) Michael Wolf (4) 44:42 (PP) Thomas Greilinger (3) 47:44 (ES)

Qualifying round

June 25, 2008 16:00

Germany

11 - 3 (3-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-1)

Canada

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 660

	Steffen Tolzer (1) 2:12 (PP) Henrick Holscher (1) 5:59 (PP) Martin Ortolf (1) 10:49 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (1) 13:10 (ES)(GWG) Miachel Wolf (1) 14:38 (PP) Miachel Wolf (2) 24:53 (PP) Daniel Menge (1) 34:45 (PP) Daniel Menge (2) 35:12 (ES) Patrick Reimer (1) 41:53 (PP) Christian Wichert (1) 44:51 (ES) Patrick Reimer (2) 46:17 (PP) Goals David Hammond (1) 15:41 (PP) Mitchell Vevang (1) 25:50 (PP) David Hammond (2) 44:22 (ES)

June 25, 2008 18:00

Austria

6 - 1 (0-1, 4-0, 2-0, 0-0)

Great Britain

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 506

	Harry Lange (1) 13:27 (PP) Mark Brunnegger (1) 13:31 (ES)(GWG) Heimo Lindner (1) 19:43 (PP) Mark Brunnegger (1) 20:56 (ES) Christian Dolezal (1) 25:17 (ES) Youssef Riener (1) 34:23 (ES) Goals John Dolan (1) 4:22 (PP)

Playoff round

Draw

Quarterfinal

A3

Slovakia

6

B2

Czech Republic

5

Semifinal

QF1

Germany

2

Quarterfinal

QF2

Slovakia

3

Q1

Germany

5

A1

Slovenia

2

Final

SF2

Slovakia

3

Quarterfinal

SF1

Sweden

7

B3

Finland

3

A2

Sweden

9

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

QF3

Sweden

12

SF1

Germany

8

Quarterfinal

QF4

United States

8

SF2

United States

7

Q2

Austria

1

B1

United States

17

Quarterfinals

June 26, 2008 14:00

Czech Republic

5 - 6 (OT) (0-0, 2-2, 1-2, 2-1, 0-1)

Slovakia

Attendance: 1343

	Karel Rachůnek (3) 13:05 (PP) Ales Hemsky (2) 21:15 (ES) Ales Hemsky (3) 28:07 (PP) Ales Hemsky (4) 37:27 (ES) Jiri Polansky (5) 39:24 (PP) Goals Roman Simunek (2) 20:29 (ES) Martin Galik (2) 23:48 (ES) Martin Klucar (1) 24:26 (ES) Lubomir Visnovsky (1) 30:19 (ES) Jakub Ruckay (1) 38:05 (ES) Richard Kapus (1) 50:22 (ES)(GWG)

June 26, 2008 16:00

United States

17 - 1 (4-0, 5-1, 4-0, 4-0)

Austria

Attendance: 324

	Pat Lee (3) 00:26 (ES) Derek Kern (1) 01:31 (ES)(GWG) James Beilsten (4) 05:14 (PP) Steven Oleksy (2) 05:34 (ES) Lee Sweatt (4) 12:54 (ES) Kyle Gouge (7) 18:28 (ES) James Beilsten (5) 19:32 (ES) Pat Lee (4) 22:53 (PP) Itan Chavira (1) 23:59 (ES) Tommy Bruce (3) 27:36 (ES) Dan Comrie (4) 29:28 (ES) Itan Chavira (2) 29:39 (ES) Kevin De Vergilio (1) 31:43 (SH) Dan Comrie (5) 38:28 (ES) Kevin De Vergilio (2) 40:44 (PP) Sam Ftorek (1) 44:21 (PP) Kyle Gouge (8) 44:44 (ES) Goals Georg Privoznik (1) 17:29 (ES)

June 26, 2008 18:00

Sweden

9 - 3 (3-0, 5-0, 0-0, 1-3)

Finland

Attendance: 471

	Fredrick Eriksson (2) 3:50 (PP) Linus Klasen (3) 10:19 (PP) Daniel Wessner (2) 11:46 (ES) Linus Klasen (4) 16:00 (ES) Johan Olsson (3) 16:13 (ES) Linus Klasen (5) 18:58 (ES) Johan Olsson (4) 19:55 (ES) Andreas Svensson (3) 21:17 (ES) Carl Berglund (1) 41:29 (ES) Goals Tommi Heinonen (1) 38:18 (SH) Olli Lehtinen (1) 40:49 (PP) Juhani Holm (1) 42:52 (ES)

June 26, 2008 20:00

Slovenia

2 - 5 (0-1, 1-1, 1-0, 0-3)

Germany

Attendance: 397

	Tadej Nabergoj (3) 22:25 (ES) Matic Kralj (3) 24:49 (ES) Goals Henrick Holscher (1) 11:26 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (4) 13:05 (ES) Patrick Reimer (2)(GWG) 40:20 (ES) Florian Zeller (2) 45:52 (ES) Henrick Holscher (2) 47:48 (PP)

Semifinals

June 27, 2008 20:00

United States

8 - 12 (0-2, 6-5, 1-2, 1-3)

Sweden

Attendance: 695

	Sam Ftorek (2) 12:34 (PP) Kyle Gouge (9) 13:03 (PP) Dan Comrie (6) 14:34 (ES) Pat Lee (5) 15:14 (PP) Kevin De Vergilio (3) 19:41 (ES) Kyle Gouge (10) 23:03 (PP) James Beilsten (6) 27:33 (ES) Sam Ftorek (3) 44:14 (ES) Goals Dick Axelsson (4) 00:43 (ES) Dick Axelsson (5) 03:29 (ES) Dick Axelsson (6) 12:12 (SH) Martin Thelander (1) 13:24 (ES) Linus Klasen (6) 18:45 (ES) Kristian Luukkonen (2) 19:14 (ES) Linus Klasen (7) 20:45 (ES) Linus Klasen (8) 25:03 (PP) Daniel Wessner (3) 27:00 (ES)(GWG) Fredrik Eriksson (3) 38:44 (PP) Dick Axelsson (7) 46:21 (ES) Dick Axelsson (8) 47:29 (ES)

June 27, 2008 18:00

Germany

2 - 3 (OT)

Slovakia

Attendance: 2261

	Patrick Reimer (3) 26:27 (PP) Patrick Reimer (4) 34:12 (ES) Goals Marek Horsky (1) 11:11 (ES) Peter Strapaty (1) 23:09 (ES) Peter Staron (3) 48:19 (ES)(GWG)

5th place game

June 27, 2008 v

Czech Republic

10 - 8 (1-4, 4-0, 2-1, 3-3)

Finland

Attendance: 79

	Aki Tuominen (3) 00:53 (PP) Jaakko Rissanen (1) 05:53 (ES) Aki Tuominen (4) 08:58 (ES) Olli Lehtinen (2)11:19 (ES) Jaakko Rissanen (2) 26:25 (ES) Jaakko Rissanen (3) 36:22 (ES) Aki Tuominen (5) 41:50 (PP) Aki Tuominen (6) 43:04 (ES) Goals Ladislav Vlcek (1) 09:42 (ES) Karel Rachůnek (4) 16:22 (PP) Ales Hemsky (5) 17:16 (ES) Ales Hemsky (6) 21:19 (PP) Jiri Polansky (6) 22:24 (ES) Jiri Polansky (7) 24:40 (ES) Karel Rachůnek (5) 35:06 (SH) Karel Rachůnek (6) 38:02 (PP) Ladislav Vlcek (2) 42:16 (ES)(GWG) Jan Besser (2) 44:42 (ES)

7th place game

June 27, 2008 v

Slovenia

9 - 2 (2-0, 3-2, 3-0, 1-0)

Austria

Attendance: 317

	Dejan Zemva (2) 07:14 (PP) Eric Pance (1) 10:46 (ES) Tadej Nabergoj (4) 21:19 (PP) Rok Bavdaz (4) 22:31 (ES) Jaka Zupanc (3) 23:10 (ES) Marjan Manfreda (1) 28:10 (ES) Jure Stopar (4) 32:58 (ES) Nejc Sotlar (6) 34:37 (ES) Jure Stopar (5) 40:53 (ES) Goals Youssef Riener (1) 20:56 (SH) Alexander Holler (2) 23:44 (ES)

Bronze medal game

June 28, 2008 16:00

Germany

8 - 7 (1-3, 2-1, 3-1, 2-2)

United States

Attendance: 1125

	Henrik Holscher (3) 04:11 (ES) Steffen Tolzer (2) 12:36 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (5) 19:30 (PP) Patrick Reimer (5) 24:41 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (6) 24:58 (ES) Thomas Greilinger (7) 33:07 (ES) Patrick Reimer (6) 41:56 (ES) Marian Bazany (1) 47:07 (ES)(GWG) Goals Pat Lee (6) 04:32 (ES) Kevin De Vergilio (4) 07:24 (ES) Kyle Gouge (11) 11:13 (ES) Itan Chavira (3) 23:00 (ES) Derek Kern (3) 30:27 (ES) Pat Lee (7) 38:27 (ES) Pat Lee (8) 42:49 (ES)

Gold medal game

June 28, 2008 v

Slovakia

3 - 7 (1-3, 0-2, 1-1, 1-1)

Sweden

Attendance: 5021

	Peter Staron (4) 05:43 (ES) Jakub Ruckay (2) 28:33 (PP) Lubomir Visnovsky (2) 39:03 (ES) Goals Kristian Luukkonen (3) 08:34 (ES) Andreas Svensson (4) 08:54 (ES) Dick Axelsson (9) 09:57 (PP) Daniel Wessner (4) 19:21 (PP) Daniel Brolin (1) 23:41 (SH) Daniel Wessner (5) 34:04 (PP) Kristian Luukkonen (4) 40:19 (ES)

Ranking and statistics

2008 IIHF World Championship Winners  Sweden 4th title Tournament awards Best players selected by the directorate:[1] Best Goalkeeper: Sasu Hovi Best Defenseman: Lee Sweatt Best Forward: Linus Klasen Most Valuable Player: Dick Axelsson

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Rk.	Team
	Sweden
	Slovakia
	Germany
4.	United States
5.	Czech Republic
6.	Finland
7.	Slovenia
8.	Austria

Scoring leaders

List shows the top 10 skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are left out.^[2]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Pat Lee	6	8	10	18	11	0	F
Dick Axelsson	6	9	7	16	9	16	F
Kyle Gouge	6	11	2	13	14	0	F
Linus Klasen	6	8	3	11	4	4.5	F
Jiří Polanský	5	7	4	11	-2	4.5	F
Ales Hemsky	5	6	5	11	1	4.5	D
Patrick Reimer	6	6	5	11	1	3	F
Steven Oleksy	6	2	9	11	6	3	D
Martin Vozdecky	5	2	9	11	7.5	0	F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position

Division I

Preliminary round

Group C

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Great Britain	3	3	0	0	0	30	14	16	9
Brazil	3	2	0	0	1	27	16	11	6
Australia	3	1	0	0	2	20	22	-2	3
Bulgaria	3	0	0	0	3	6	31	-25	0

Group winner advances to qualification round

June 22, 2008 15:00

Australia

7 - 11 (1-4, 1-2, 3-1, 2-4)

Great Britain

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 115

	Daniel Pederson (1) 3:33 (ES) Lee McLauchlan (1) 23:55 (PP) Jordan Gavin (1) 27:22 (PP) Jordan Gavin (2) 30:57 (ES) Jordan Gavin (3) 33:20 (ES) Daniel Pederson (2) 36:20 (ES) Olivier Rozdarz (1) 43:00 (ES) Goals Joe Wightman (1) 4:00 (ES) William Mark Thomas (1) 6:03 (PP) Alex Pearman (1) 9:24 (ES) John Dolan (1) 11:42 (ES) Alex Pearman (2) 12:07 (ES) Alex Pearman (3) 19:55 (ES) William Mark Thomas (2) 29:42 (PP) John Dolan (2) 37:56 (PP)(GWG) William Mark Thomas (3) 38:42 (ES) Simon Hehir (1) 41:13 (PP) Mark Hallam (1) 41:52 (PP)

June 22, 2008 19:00

Bulgaria

2 - 13 (0-2, 1-2, 0-5, 1-4)

Brazil

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 99

	Plamen Veselinov (1) 12:29 (ES) Anguel Alexandrov (1) 38:52 (PP) Goals Bruno Gomes (1) 1:23 (ES) Bruno Gomes (2) 4:37 (PP) Leandro Silva (1) 12:49 (ES) Pedro Raposo (1) 14:50 (PP) Lucas Ota (1) 25:45 (PP) Pedro Raposo (2) 27:09 (ES) Bruno Gomes (3) 29:57 (PP) Leandro Silva (2) 30:47 (ES) Bruno Gomes (4) 33:47 (SH) Bruno Gomes (5) 37:05 (ES) Luis Custodio (1) 40:25 (ES) Caua Guzman (1) 43:05 (ES) Thiago Souza (1) 47:41 (ES)

June 23, 2008 15:00

Australia

10 - 3 (2-1, 3-0, 2-1, 3-1)

Bulgaria

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 75

	Olivier Rozdarz (2) 9:09 (ES) Lee McLauchlan (2) 11:51 (PP) Sean Jones (1) 14:23 (ES) Lee McLauchlan (3) 18:06 (ES)(GWG) Antony Collins (1) 20:08 (ES) Olivier Rozdarz (3) 26:43 (SH) Peter Matus (1) 27:50 (SH) Olivier Rozdarz (4) 36:18 (ES) Olivier Rozdarz (5) 39:55 (ES) Sean Jones (2) 44:00 (PP) Goals Plamen Veselinov (2) 8:34 (PP) Simeon Radkov (1) 28:16 (ES) Anguel Alexandrov (2) 40:27 (ES)

June 23, 2008 19:00

Brazil

6 - 11 (0-3, 2-4, 3-4, 1-0)

Great Britain

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 45

	Luiz Almedia (1) 13:37 (PP) Pedro Raposo (3) 23:33 (PP) Pedro Raposo (4) 26:30 (PP) Rogerio Polido (1) 27:25 (ES) Lucas Ota (2) 32:41 (ES) Bruno Gomes (6) 41:43 (PP) Goals Alex Pearman (4) 4:34 (ES) John Dolan (3) 7:39 (PP) John Dolan (4) 10:35 (ES) William Mark Thomas (4) 14:11 (PP) John Dolan (5) 16:38 (ES) John Dolan (6) 17:01 (ES) Simon Hehir (2) 21:47 (PP) John Dolan (7) 24:51 (ES) John Dolan (8) 28:28 (ES) Simon Hehir (3) 31:42 (PP) Christopher Colegate (1) 33:29 (PP)

June 24, 2008 15:00

Great Britain

8 - 1 (1-0, 1-0, 4-0, 2-1)

Bulgaria

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 86

	Mark Hallam (2) 8:28 (PP) Joe Wightman (2) 19:47 (ES) Remi Moses (1) 26:34 (PP) Karl Niamatali (1) 27:31 (ES) Remi Moses (2) 28:22 (ES) Scott Glover (1) 29:11 (ES) Karl Niamatali (2) 40:20 (PP) Joe Wightman (3) 45:59 (PP) Goals Stanislav Muhachov (1) 47:44 (ES)

June 24, 2008 19:00

Brazil

8 - 3

Australia

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 113

	Bruno Gomes (7) 00:40 (ES) Lucas Ota (3) 4:11 (ES) Rogerio Polido (2) 25:27 (ES) Henrique Degani (1) 27:59 (ES) Bruno Gomes (8) 28:37 (ES) Henrique Degani (2) 30:19 (ES) Bruno Gomes (9) 31:25 (ES) Bruno Gomes (10) 42:37 (ES) Goals Antony Deboos (1) 26:42 (ES) Peter Matus (2) 34:12 (SH) Peter Matus (3) 40:37 (ES)

Group D

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Canada	3	3	0	0	0	39	3	36	9
Japan	3	1	1	0	1	14	22	-8	5
Hungary	3	1	0	1	1	16	24	-8	4
New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	11	31	-20	0

Group winner advances to qualification round

June 22, 2008 13:00

Hungary

5 - 6 (OT) (1-2, 2-1, 0-1, 2-1, 0-1)

Japan

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 189

	Csaba Deak (1) 8:25 (ES) Marton Vas (1) 13:34 (SH) Marton Vas (2) 20:58 (ES) Marton Vas (3) 40:03 (ES) Marton Vas (4) 46:01 (PP) Goals Taku Kanatani (1) 7:30 (ES) Aguri Suzuki (1) 10:29 (ES) Aguri Suzuki (2) 20:24 (ES) Taku Kanatani (2) 35:35 (ES) Yoshinori Ishioka (1) 47:57 (ES) Yutaka Ono (1) 49:34 (ES)(GWG)

June 22, 2008 17:00

Canada

13 - 2 (7-0, 2-0, 0-1, 4-1)

New Zealand

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 134

	David Hammond (1) 3:24 (ES) Johnathon Clewlow (1) 4:11(ES) Adam Ross (1) 6:43 (ES)(GWG) Cory Conacher (1) 7:09 (ES) Cory Conacher (2) 11:20 (ES) Adam Ross (2) 11:36 (ES) Johnathon Clewlow (2) 11:58(ES) Johnathon Spady (1) 20:11(ES) David Hammond (2) 23:01 (ES) Johnathon Spady (2) 42:27(ES) Kye Benjaminsen (1) 44:19(ES) Johnathon Spady (3) 45:06(ES) Derek Eison (1) 47:57(ES) Goals Craig Lawson (1) 31:47 (ES) Samuel Kay (1) 43:19 (ES)

June 23, 2008 14:00

Hungary

0 - 14 (0-4, 0-4, 0-4, 0-2)

Canada

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 157

	Goals Adam Ross (3) 5:54 (ES)(GWG) Mitchell Vevang (1) 7:27 (ES) Gregory Smith (1) 9:57 (ES) Kye Benjaminsen (2) 11:25(ES) Adam Ross (4) 13:12 (PP) David Hammond (3) 15:42 (ES) David Hammond (4) 18:54 (PP) Kirk French (1) 22:51 (ES) Cory Conacher (3) 29:14 (ES) Gregory Smith (2) 30:56 (ES) Jeremy McKibbon (1) 33:59 (ES) David Hammond (5) 33:59 (ES) Adam Ross (5) 38:00 (ES) Mitchell Vevang (2) 38:13 (ES)

June 23, 2008 17:00

New Zealand

5 -7 (1-1, 0-1, 3-2, 1-3)

Japan

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 180

	Matthew Harper (1) 8:21 (ES) Ryan Ruddle (1) 27:43 (PP) Craig Lawson (2) 30:49 (ES) James Trevena-Brown (1) 31:31 (ES) James Trevena-Brown (2) 43:39 (ES) Goals Yutaka Ono (2) 1:47 (ES) Osamu Ishibashi (1) 19:01 (ES) Daisuke Ohto (1) 30:11 (PP) Daisuke Ohto (2) 35:32 (ES) Osamu Ishibashi (2) 36:11 (ES) Daisuke Ohto (3) 41:10 (PP)(GWG) Shuhei Tadamura (1) 47:57 (ENG)

June 24, 2008 13:00

Japan

1 - 12 (0-3, 1-2, 0-3, 0-4)

Canada

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 272

	Taku Kanatani (3) 16:24 (ES) Goals Gregory Smith (3) 6:24 (ES) Cory Conacher (4) 8:11 (ES) Cory Conacher (5) 10:44 (ES) Johnathon Clewlow (3) 17:21(ES) David Hammond (6) 20:41 (ES) Paul Patterson (1) 26:45 (ES) Gregory Smith (4) 29:03 (PP) David Filewich (1) 35:25 (ES) Kirk French (2) 38:18 (ES) Adam Ross (6) 41:51 (ES) Cory Conacher (6) 44:54 (PP) Johnathon Clewlow (4) 46:39 (ES)

June 24, 2008 17:00

New Zealand

4 - 11 (1-1, 2-3, 0-3, 1-4)

Hungary

Bratislava, Slovakia Attendance: 128

	Matthew Harper (2) 4:36 (PP) Craig Lawson (2) 30:49 (ES) Ryan Ruddle (3) 14:38 (ES) James Trevena-Brown (3) 47:43 (ES) Goals Viktor Tokaji (1) 11:30 (PP) Szilard Sandor (1) 18:26 (ES) Marton Vas (5) 23:22 (ES) Gergely Borbas (1) 23:43 (ES) David Szappanos (1) 24:53 (ES) Zoltan Revak (1) 26:50 (ES) Csaba Deak (2) 28:34 (PP) Arnold Feil (1) 36:47 (ES) Szilard Sandor (2) 38:11 (PS) Attila Hoffmann (1) 41:01 (PP) Zoltan Revak (2) 42:58 (ES)

Playoff round

Draw

Quarterfinal

C3

Australia

5

D2

Japan

4

Semifinal

QF1

Australia

0

Quarterfinal

QF2

Canada

8

D4

New Zealand

0

QRL1

Great Britain

7

Final

SF2

Canada

7

Quarterfinal

SF1

Great Britain

4

C2

Brazil

5

D3

Hungary

3

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

QF3

Brazil

3

SF1

Australia

3

Quarterfinal

QF4

Great Britain

4

SF2

Brazil

4

C4

Bulgaria

1

QRL2

Canada

9

Quarterfinals

June 26, 2008 13:00

Japan

4 - 5 (0-1, 0-2, 3-1, 1-1)

Australia

Attendance: 120

	Yuji Kuchiba (1) 25:55 (PP) Shohei Asanuma (1) 34:09 (ES) Daisuke Ohto (4) 35:02 (ES) Yuji Kuchiba (2) 41:59 (PP) Goals Lee McLauchlan (4) 11:39 (PP) Sean Jones (3) 15:05 (PP) Jordan Gavin (4) 23:03 (ES) Jordan Gavin (5) 27:14 (PP) Olivier Rozdarz (6) 44:33 (PP)(GWG)

June 26, 2008 15:00

Brazil

5 - 3 (1-0, 1-2, 2-1, 1-0)

Hungary

Attendance: 200

	Pedro Raposo (5) 1:42 (PP) Diego Araujo (1) 21:50 (PP) Jose Guilardi (1) 32:11 (PP) Henrique Degani (3) 33:49 (ES)(GWG) Luiz Almedia (2) 40:43 (ES) Goals Marton Bontovics (1) 17:08 (PP) Gergely Borbas (2) 23:25 (ES) David Szappanos (2) 34:01 (ES)

June 26, 2008 17:00

Canada

9 - 1 (2-1, 3-0, 1-0, 3-0)

Bulgaria

Attendance: 199

	Johnathon Clewlow (5) 00:16 (ES) Johnathon Spady (4)(GWG) 08:39 (ES) Kye Benjaminsen (3) 13:22 (ES) Jeremy McKibbon (2) 16:11 (ES) Cory Conacher (7) 20:17 (PP) Gregory Smith (5) 27:45 (PP) Kirk French (3) 41:14 (ES) Paul Patterson (2) 41:46 (ES) Gregory Smith (6) 42:38 (ES) Goals Anguel Atanasov (1) 08:15 (ES)

June 26, 2008 19:00

Great Britain

7 - 0 (1-0, 1-0, 2-0, 3-0)

New Zealand

Attendance: 100

	Alex Pearman (5) 05:53 (ES) John Dolan (9) 13:14 (ES) Christopher Colegate (2) 25:52 (ES) Joe Wightman (4) 31:01 (ES) Mark Corfield (1) 31:01 (ES) John Dolan (10) 43:10 (ES) John Dolan (11) 43:43 (ES) Goals

Semifinals

June 27, 2008 19:00

Australia

0 - 8 (0-3, 0-1, 0-4, 0-0)

Canada

Attendance: 79

	Goals David Hammond (7) 02:11 (PP) Cory Conacher (8) 03:38 (ES) Kye Benjaminsen (4) 11:59 (ES) Jeremy McKibbon (3) 18:14 (ES) Jeremy McKibbon (4) 25:48 (ES) David Hammond (8) 26:44 (ES) Cory Conacher (9) 29:18 (ES) Adam Ross (7) 32:56 (ES)

June 27, 2008 17:00

Brazil

3 - 4 (2-0, 0-1, 0-1, 1-2)

Great Britain

Attendance: 66

	Lucas Ota (4) 05:31 (ES) Pedro Raposo (6) 07:59 (PP) Diego Araujo (1) 38:18 (ES) Goals Joe Wightman (5) 13:16 (ES) Andrew Sillitoe (1) 28:58 (ES) John Dolan (11) 37:41 (ES) Simon Hehir (4) 42:06 (ES)(GWG)

5th place game

June 27, 2008 v

Hungary

7 - 6 (3-2, 2-1, 2-2, 0-1)

New Zealand

Attendance: 123

	Szilard Sandor (3) 05:16 (ES) Csaba Deak (3) 07:18 (ES) Gergely Borbas (3) 08:30 (ES) Marton Bontovics (2) 20:24 (PP) Zoltan Revak (3) 22:13 (PP) Tamas Dobos (1) 27:59 (ES) Szilard Sandor (4) 33:27 (PP)(GWG) Goals Ryan Ruddle (3) 00:52 (ES) James ODonnel (1) 08:02 (ES) James Trevena-Brown (4) 18:31 (PP) James Trevena-Brown (5) 32:14 (ES) Ryan Ruddle (4) 34:58 (ES) James Trevena-Brown (6) 46:04 (ES)

7th place game

June 27, 2008 v

Japan

11 - 5 (2-1, 3-2, 2-1, 4-1)

Bulgaria

Attendance: 88

	Yuji Kuchiba (3) 01:50 (ES) Shuhei Tadamura (2) 06:11 (ES) Osamu Ishibashi (3) 14:39 (PP) Shuhei Tadamura (3) 17:08 (SH) Shohei Asanuma (2) 23:26 (ES) Osamu Ishibashi (4) 26:40 (ES)(GWG) Tomoyo Goto (1) 34:14 (ES) Taku Kanatani (4) 37:23 (ES) Taku Kanatani (5) 39:27 (ES) Shohei Asanuma (3) 42:05 (ES) Keisuke Matsuya (1) 45:12 (PP) Goals Simeon Radkov (2) 03:35 (ES) Aleksey Yotov (1) 16:31 (ES) Tsveatn Mihaylov (1) 22:11 (ES) Aleksey Yotov (2) 27:19 (ES) Aleksey Yotov (3) 36:55 (ES)

Bronze medal game

June 28, 2008 12:00

Australia

3 - 4 (0-0, 0-1, 1-3, 2-0)

Brazil

Attendance: 849

	Jordan Gavin (6) 31:00 (ES) Antony Collins (2) 44:54 (ES) Jordan Gavin (7) 47:55 (ES) Goals Andrew Branco (1) 14:16 (ES) Luiz Almedia (3) 29:12 (ES) Lucas Ota (5) 31:22 (ES) Jose Guilardi (1) 33:07 (PP)

Gold medal game

June 28, 2008 14:00

Canada

7 - 4 (1-0, 1-1, 2-3, 3-0)

Great Britain

Attendance: 1079

	David Hammond (9) 00:14 (ES) David Hammond (10) 13:39 (PP) Paul Patterson (3) 25:01 (ES) Cory Conacher (10) 25:22 (ES) Cory Conacher (11) 39:43 (PP)(GWG) Mitchell Vevang (3) 41:08 (ES) Paul Patterson (4) 44:03 (ES) Goals Stu Brian (1) 19:32 (ES) Christopher Colegate (3) 24:27 (ES) Joe Wightman (6) 33:20 (ES) John Dolan (13) 35:05 (ES)

Ranking and statistics

Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: Rk. Team  Canada  Great Britain  Brazil 4.  Australia 5.  Hungary 6.  New Zealand 7.  Japan 8.  Bulgaria

Tournament awards Best players selected by the directorate:[3] Best Goalkeeper: Derek Shybunka Best Defenseman: Luiz Almedia Best Forward: John Dolan

References

1. http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/134/IHM134000_85I_1_0.pdf
2. http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/134/IHM134Z08_85B_1_0.pdf
3. http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/135/IHM135000_85I_1_0.pdf