2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
The 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 22 and 28 June 2008 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The tournament was won by Canada who upon winning gained promotion to the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Bulgaria and New Zealand were relegated to the continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games.
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Host country | Slovakia |
Dates | 22–28 June 2008 |
Teams | 8 |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Canada (1st title) |
Runner-up | Great Britain |
Third place | Brazil |
Fourth place | Australia |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 24 |
Goals scored | 280 (11.67 per match) |
Attendance | 5,465 (228 per match) |
Scoring leader(s) | Cory Conacher |
← 2007 2009 → |
Qualification
Six nations returned to Division I after automatically qualifying based on their results from the 2007 Division I tournament. Bulgaria and Canada qualified for the two remaining spots, replacing Namibia and South Africa who were relegated after losing their 2007 relegation round games.[1]
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Seeding and groups
The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2007 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament.[2] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Bratislava, Slovakia.[2] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):[2]
Group C
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Group D
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Preliminary round
Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[2] Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.
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All times are local (UTC+2).
Group C
Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
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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 |
22 June 2008 15:00 | Australia | 7–11 (1–4, 1–2, 3–1, 2–4) | Great Britain | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 115 |
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12.0 min | Penalties | 6.0 min | |||
22 June 2008 19:00 | Bulgaria | 2–13 (0–2, 1–2, 0–5, 1–4) | Brazil | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 99 |
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13.5 min | Penalties | 9.0 min | |||
23 June 2008 15:00 | Australia | 10–3 (2–1, 3–0, 2–1, 3–1) | Bulgaria | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 58 |
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23 June 2008 19:00 | Brazil | 6–11 (0–3, 2–4, 3–4, 1–0) | Great Britain | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 45 |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 9.0 min | |||
24 June 2008 15:00 | Great Britain | 8–1 (1–0, 1–0, 4–0, 2–1) | Bulgaria | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 86 |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 12.0 min | |||
31 | Shots | 21 |
24 June 2008 19:00 | Brazil | 8–3 (2–0, 0–0, 5–2, 1–1) | Australia | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 113 |
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3.0 min | Penalties | 10.5 min | |||
33 | Shots | 21 |
Group D
Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
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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 |
22 June 2008 13:00 | Hungary | 5 – 6 (OT) (1–2, 2–1, 0–1, 2–1, 0–1) | Japan | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 189 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 13.5 min | |||
22 June 2008 17:00 | Canada | 13–2 (7–0, 2–0, 0–1, 4–1) | New Zealand | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 134 |
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6.0 min | Penalties | 1.5 min | |||
23 June 2008 14:00 | Hungary | 0–14 (0–4, 0–4, 0–4, 0–2) | Canada | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 157 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 3.0 min | |||
23 June 2008 17:00 | New Zealand | 5–7 (1–1, 0–1, 3–2, 1–3) | Japan | Small Arena, Bratislava |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 4.5 min | |||
24 June 2008 13:00 | Japan | 1–12 (0–3, 1–2, 0–3, 0–4) | Canada | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 272 |
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3.0 min | Penalties | 7.5 min | |||
24 | Shots | 44 |
24 June 2008 17:00 | New Zealand | 4–11 (1–1, 2–3, 0–3, 1–4) | Hungary | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 128 |
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6.0 min | Penalties | 10.5 min | |||
24 | Shots | 33 |
Qualifying round
Great Britain and Canada advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively.[3] Great Britain faced off against Austria, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Canada was drawn against Germany, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[4][5] Both Great Britain and Canada lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, while Austria and Germany advanced to the Top Division playoffs.[5]
All times are local (UTC+2).
25 June 2008 16:00 | Germany | 11–3 (3–0, 2–1, 3–1, 3–1) | Canada | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 660 |
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27.5 min | Penalties | 18.0 min | |||
54 | Shots | 48 |
25 June 2008 18:00 | Austria | 6–1 (0–1, 4–0, 2–0, 0–0) | Great Britain | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 506 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 7.5 min | |||
40 | Shots | 41 |
Playoff round
Great Britain and Canada advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round.[6] In the relegation round New Zealand and Bulgaria lost their games to Hungary and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications.[6] In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Canada beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game.[6] After losing the semifinals Australia and Brazil played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4–3. Canada defeated Great Britain 7–4 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.[6]
Draw
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QR1 | Canada | 9 | |||||||||||
C4 | Bulgaria | 1 | |||||||||||
QF1 | Canada | 8 | |||||||||||
QF2 | Australia | 0 | |||||||||||
D2 | Japan | 4 | Final | ||||||||||
C3 | Australia | 5 | |||||||||||
SF1 | Canada | 7 | |||||||||||
SF2 | Great Britain | 4 | |||||||||||
QR2 | Great Britain | 7 | |||||||||||
D4 | New Zealand | 0 | |||||||||||
QF3 | Great Britain | 4 | Bronze medal game | ||||||||||
QF4 | Brazil | 3 | |||||||||||
C2 | Brazil | 5 | SF1 | Australia | 3 | ||||||||
D3 | Hungary | 3 | SF2 | Brazil | 4 |
Quarterfinals
26 June 2008 13:00 | Japan | 4–5 (0–1, 0–2, 3–1, 1–1) | Australia | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 120 |
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26 June 2008 15:00 | Brazil | 5–3 (1–0, 1–2, 2–1, 1–0) | Hungary | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 200 |
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26 June 2008 17:00 | Canada | 9–1 (2–1, 3–0, 1–0, 3–0) | Bulgaria | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 199 |
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26 June 2008 19:00 | Great Britain | 7–0 (1–0, 1–0, 2–0, 3–0) | New Zealand | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 100 |
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Relegation round
27 June 2008 13:00 | Hungary | 7–6 (3–2, 2–1, 2–2, 0–1) | New Zealand | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 123 |
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27 June 2008 15:00 | Japan | 11–5 (2–1, 3–2, 2–1, 4–1) | Bulgaria | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 88 |
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Semifinals
27 June 2008 17:00 | Great Britain | 4–3 (0–2, 1–0, 1–0, 2–1) | Brazil | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 66 |
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27 June 2008 19:00 | Canada | 8–0 (3–0, 1–0, 4–0, 0–0) | Australia | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 79 |
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Bronze medal game
28 June 2008 12:00 | Australia | 3–4 (0–0, 0–1, 1–3, 2–0) | Brazil | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 849 |
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Gold medal game
28 June 2008 14:00 | Canada | 7–4 (1–0, 1–1, 2–3, 3–0) | Great Britain | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 1079 |
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Ranking and statistics
Final standingsThe final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[7]
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Tournament Awards
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Scoring leaders
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[9]
Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM | POS |
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Cory Conacher | 6 | 11 | 10 | 21 | +23 | 1.5 | F |
John Dolan | 6 | 13 | 7 | 20 | +6 | 1.5 | F |
Bruno Gomes | 6 | 10 | 7 | 17 | +4 | 3.0 | F |
David Hammond | 6 | 10 | 7 | 17 | +12 | 6.0 | F |
Adam Ross | 6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +26 | 4.5 | D |
Mark Thomas | 6 | 4 | 11 | 15 | +12 | 7.5 | D |
Johnathon Clewlow | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | +21 | 3.0 | F |
Christopher Colgate | 6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +5 | 4.5 | F |
Kirk French | 6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +14 | 6.0 | D |
Pedro Raposo | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | +2 | 1.5 | F |
Jonathan Spady | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +17 | 3.0 | F |
Mitchell Vevang | 6 | 3 | 9 | 12 | +12 | 6.0 | D |
Diego Araujo | 6 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +2 | 6.0 | F |
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. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[10]
Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
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Derek Shybunka | 216:00 | 98 | 5 | 0.83 | 94.90 | 2 |
James Tanner | 240:00 | 155 | 23 | 3.45 | 85.16 | 1 |
Shingo Imagawa | 192:08 | 154 | 23 | 4.31 | 85.06 | 0 |
Jeremy Muir | 191:21 | 150 | 24 | 4.52 | 84.00 | 0 |
Danilo Gazinhato | 252:01 | 142 | 23 | 3.29 | 83.80 | 0 |
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