2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

The 2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II were a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II tournaments made up the third level of competition at the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 15 and 21 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary and the Group B tournament took place between 12 and 18 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. The Netherlands and Lithuania won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Mexico finished last in Group A and Serbia last in Group B and were both relegated to Division III for 2008.

2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
Tournament details
Host countries Hungary
 Romania
Dates12–18 March 2007
15 – 21 April 2007
Teams12
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Group A tournament

The Group A tournament began on 15 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary.[1] Belgium, Estonia, Mexico and the Netherlands returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] Hungary entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Israel entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.[4][5]

The Netherlands won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Hungary finished in second place, losing only to the Netherlands and Estonia finished in third. Mexico finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Eden Nemenoff of Israel was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.[6] Hungarian Daniel Koger was named the top forward and Mike Dalhuisen of the Netherlands was selected as the top defenceman.[6] Hungary's Bálint Magosi was the tournament's leading scorer with 14 points and Miklos Rajna was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.938.[7][8]

Standings
Promoted to Division I for 2008
Relegated to Division III for 2008
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA GDF PTS
1 Netherlands55000399+3015
2 Hungary54001487+4112
3 Estonia521022123–28
4 Belgium520031737–206
5 Israel510041136–253
6 Mexico50014933–241

Fixtures

All times local.

15 April 2007
13:00		Israel 2 – 5
(0–0, 2–1, 0–4)		 BelgiumMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 400
15 April 2007
16:30		Netherlands 10 – 0
(5–0, 2–0, 3–0)		 MexicoMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 500
15 April 2007
20:00		Estonia 0 – 7
(0–2, 0–2, 0–3)		 HungaryMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 1200
17 April 2007
13:00		Netherlands 11 – 1
(3–0, 4–1, 4–0)		 EstoniaMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 350
17 April 2007
16:30		Mexico 3 – 5
(1–2, 1–2, 1–1)		 IsraelMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 320
17 April 2007
20:00		Hungary 16 – 0
(6–0, 6–0, 4–0)		 BelgiumMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 1300
18 April 2007
13:00		Netherlands 7 – 1
(4–1, 1–0, 2–0)		 IsraelMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 150
18 April 2007
16:30		Estonia 8 – 3
(5–0, 2–1, 1–2)		 BelgiumMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 160
18 April 2007
20:00		Hungary 10 – 0
(5–0, 3–0, 2–0)		 MexicoMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 1300
20 April 2007
13:00		Mexico 2 – 3 GWS
(2–1, 0–1, 0–0)
(OT 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 EstoniaMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 100
20 April 2007
16:30		Belgium 4 – 7
(0–0, 2–5, 2–2)		 NetherlandsMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 270
20 April 2007
20:00		Israel 3 – 12
(2–5, 0–4, 1–3)		 HungaryMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 1400
21 April 2007
13:00		Belgium 5 – 4
(0–1, 0–2, 5–1)		 MexicoMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 120
21 April 2007
16:30		Estonia 9 – 0
(5–0, 2–0, 2–0)		 IsraelMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 250
21 April 2007
20:00		Hungary 3 – 4
(0–2, 1–2, 2–0)		 NetherlandsMiskolc Arena
Attendance: 1800

Scoring leaders
Daniel Koger scored four goals and eight assists to finish fourth in scoring.

List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals.[7]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Bálint Magosi59514+178F
Gergo Nagy58513+1034F
Laszlo Jonkl55712+134F
Daniel Koger54812+92F
Ben van den Bogeart510111–48F
Mike Dalhuisen55611+1214D
Mitch Bruijsten58210+918F
Ritchie van Hulten55510+810F
Dezso Roczanov5729+1027F
Daniel Erlich5459–1232F

Leading goaltenders

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.[8]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Miklos Rajna120:004831.5093.751
David Meretei178:444941.3491.842
Villem Koitmaa239:50125123.0090.400
Tomislav Hrelja300:008091.8088.751
Eden Nemenoff259:46231317.1686.580

Group B tournament

The Group B tournament began on 12 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.[9] Australia, Croatia and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.[3] Serbia made their debut appearance in the World U18 Championships after replacing the Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team, the change in team coinciding with Montenegro's declaration of independence and the eventual split of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.[2] South Korea entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Romania entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.[5][10]

Lithuania won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[9] South Korea finished second after losing only to Lithuania and Estonia finished in third place. Serbia finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[9] Tihomir Filipec of Croatia was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.[11] Lithuanian Povilas Verenis was named the top forward and Cho Hyung Gon of South Korea was selected as the top defenceman.[11] Lithuania's Tadas Kumeliauskas was the tournament's leading scorer with 12 points and Arturas Kuzmicius was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.948.[12][13]

Standings
Promoted to Division I for 2008
Relegated to Division III for 2008
Rk Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA GDF PTS
1 Lithuania55000329+2315
2 South Korea531012714+1311
3 Croatia520212419+58
4 Romania520031525–106
5 Australia502031325–124
6 Serbia500141010–191

Fixtures

All times local.

12 March 2007
13:30		Australia 2 – 6
(0–1, 1–1, 1–4)		 South KoreaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 30
12 March 2007
17:00		Lithuania 6 – 2
(1–1, 0–1, 5–0)		 SerbiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 200
12 March 2007
20:30		Romania 0 – 10
(0–3, 0–4, 0–3)		 CroatiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 200
13 March 2007
13:30		Lithuania 8 – 2
(3–1, 3–0, 2–1)		 AustraliaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 50
13 March 2007
17:00		South Korea 5 – 4 GWS
(1–2, 1–1, 2–1)
(OT 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 CroatiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 100
13 March 2007
20:30		Serbia 4 – 6
(1–3, 2–0, 1–3)		 RomaniaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 300
15 March 2007
13:30		South Korea 8 – 0
(2–0, 4–0, 2–0)		 SerbiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 50
15 March 2007
17:00		Australia 5 – 4 GWS
(2–1, 1–2, 1–1)
(OT 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 CroatiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 130
15 March 2007
20:30		Lithuania 5 – 2
(1–2, 1–0, 3–0)		 RomaniaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 300
16 March 2007
13:30		Serbia 3 – 4 GWS
(1–0, 1–1, 1–2)
(OT 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 AustraliaVakar Lajos Icerink
16 March 2007
17:00		Croatia 1 – 8
(0–0, 1–3, 0–5)		 LithuaniaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 200
16 March 2007
20:30		Romania 3 – 6
(1–1, 1–4, 1–1)		 South KoreaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 350
18 March 2007
12:30		Croatia 5 – 1
(2–0, 3–0, 0–1)		 SerbiaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 50
18 March 2007
16:00		South Korea 2 – 5
(1–1, 1–0, 0–4)		 LithuaniaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 200
18 March 2007
19:30		Australia 0 – 4
(0–4, 0–0, 0–0)		 RomaniaVakar Lajos Icerink
Attendance: 350

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals.[12]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Tadas Kumeliauskas55712+124F
Povilas Verenis57411+128F
Lorand Bartha5549-720F
Vladimir Gurka5549+24F
Yoon Ji Man5459+56F
Park Sang Jin5718+42F
Zsolt Balint5448-516F
Jonas Viknius5268+28F
Arnoldas Bosas5617+56F
Lee Sung Jun5617+614F

Leading goaltenders

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.[13]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Arturas Kuzmicius120:005831.5094.830
Ernestas Kielius180:007962.0092.410
Anthony Kimlin244:47182143.4392.310
Tihomir Filipec310:00195193.6890.261
Yong Hyun Ho242:40112133.2188.390

References
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