# 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

The 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was the fourth IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships held between March 29, 2008, and April 5, 2008, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, at the New England Sports Center. Organized by Massachusetts Hockey in co-operation with US Paralympics, around 200 athletes from ten countries participated in the 10-team round robin tournament which featured two divisions: six teams in group A and four teams in group B.

## A Tournament

The A Tournament was held between Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and the United States, all teams which had competed at the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games and which were then-ranked as the world's best sledge hockey teams.

### Final rankings

| Gold | Silver | Bronze | 4th | 5th | 6th |
| Canada Bradley Bowden Billy Bridges A Adam Dixon Marc Dorion Raymond Grassi Jean Labonté C Hervé Lord A Shawn Matheson Graeme Murray Todd Nicholson Mark Noot Paul Rosen Benoît St-Amand Dany Verner Greg Westlake | Norway Audun Bakke [no] Helge Bjørnstad Eskil Hagen Lloyd Remi Johansen Roger Johansen Knut André Nordstoga [no] Rolf Einar Pedersen Tommy Rovelstad Kjell Vidar Røyne [no] Stig Tore Svee Johan Siqveland Morten Værnes C | United States Mike Blabac Steve Cash Taylor Chace Jim Connelly Brad Emmerson Mike Hallman [no] Tim Jones Taylor Lipsett Chris Manns C Bruce Nelson Adam Page Alex Salamone Greg Shaw Nick Teodoro Bubba Torres | Japan Mikio Annaka Takayuki Endo Shinobu Fukushima Naohiko Ishida Noritaka Ito Makoto Majima Eiji Misawa Mitsuru Nagase Toshiyuki Nakamura Satoru Sudo Kazuhiro Takahashi Daisuke Uehara Mamoru Yoshikawa | Germany Gerd Bleidorn Sebastiaan Disveld Thorsten Ellmer Sebastian Kessler Matthias Koch Marco Lahrs Robert Pabst Christian Pilz Rolf Rabe Frank Rennhack Udo Segreff Sven Stumpe Jorg Wedde Rolf-Dieter Wesler | Italy Bruno Balossetti Gianluca Cavaliere Andrea Chiarotti Giuseppe Condello Valerio Corvino Ivan Ghironzi Rupert Kanestrin Gregory Leperdi Florian Planker Gianluigi Rosa Santino Stillitano Werner Winkler |

### Preliminary round
#### Standings

| Rk. | Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | DIF | PIM | SHOTS | SV | PTS |
| 1 | Canada | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 5 | +23 | 75 | 123 | 61 | 10 |
| 2 | Norway | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 56 | 92 | 69 | 8 |
| 3 | United States | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 66 | 68 | 66 | 6 |
| 4 | Japan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -5 | 48 | 81 | 65 | 4 |
| 5 | Italy | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 28 | -23 | 64 | 38 | 96 | 2 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 141 | 108 | 64 | 0 |
* PIM, SHOTS and SV counted in 6 games

##### Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)
| Herve Lord 6:05 , 37:50 Greg Westlake 11:27 , 17:22 Billy Bridges 24:47 (PP), 34:21 , 43:37 Marc Dorion 25:34 Todd Nicholson 37:13 Raymond Grassi 41:44 (PP) Graeme Murray 42:21 | Goals |
| Goals | 41:54 Tommy Rovelstad |
| Taylor Lipsett 12:22, 14:56, 18:15 Taylor Chace 22:06 Jimmy Connelly 28:44 | Goals | 25:20 (PP) Mamoru Yoshikawa |
| Jimmy Connelly 12:54 Taylor Chace 20:41 Chris Manns 39:40 (PP) Taylor Lipsett 43:28 | Goals |
| Rolf Einar Pedersen 24:19 , 24:25 , 28:35 Helge Bjørnstad 29:03 , 34:12 | Goals | 12:54 Takahiko Sudo |
| Billy Bridges 4:26 , 10:37 (SHG), 40:24 Greg Westlake 12:34 Jean Labonté 30:33 Adam Dixon 34:34 (PP) | Goals | 20:24 (PP) Bas Disveld 33:59 (PP) Sebastien Kessler 40:50 Jorg Wedde |
| Florian Planker 8:39 , 37:34 Bruno Balossetti 34:05 Andrea Chiarotti 50:00 (PS) | Goals | 7:55 Udo Segreff 14:43 Sebastian Kessler 31:44 Gerd Bleidorn |
| Satoru Sudo 34:04 | Goals | 5:01 Graeme Murray 15:20 Bradley Bowden 21:58 Todd Nicholson |
| Morten Værnes 1:51 Helge Bjørnstad 17:31 Tommy Rovelstad 20:28 (PP) | Goals | 27:33 (PP), 36:46 (PP) Chris Manns |
| Daisuke Uehara 23:49 (PP) Satoru Sudo 32:15 (PP) Naohiko Ishida 37:55 | Goals | 21:11 (SH) Jörg Wedde 39:25 Frank Rennhack |
| Stig Tore Svee 2:49 Eskil Hagen 3:21 Rolf Einar Pedersen16:15 Knut André Nordstoga 22:48 Helge Bjørnstad 33:31 Tommy Rovelstad 37:16 | Goals | 5:31 Werner Winkler |
| Bradley Bowden 0:33 Adam Dixon 29:41 , 38:13 (PP) | Goals |
| Goals | 3:45 Kazuhiro Takahashi 34:52 Takayuki Endo 35:51 Satoru Sudo 43:01 Naohiko Ishida |
| Brad Emmerson 0:27, 35:49 Adam Page 5:58 Bubba Torres 13:30 (PP) Greg Shaw 44:23 (PP) | Goals | 18:13 Adam Page |
| Rolf Einar Pedersen 22:36 (SH) | Goals | 4:17 (SH) Marc Dorion 7:45 (PP) Adam Dixon 26:03 Bradley Bowden 36:50, 40:15 Greg Westlake |

### Final round
#### 5th place playoff

| Frank Rennhack 1:12 Udo Segreff 2:59, 34:24 (SH) Gerd Bleidorn 4:29 Sebastian Kessler 14:29 (PP) Sven Stumpe 30:26 | Goals | 16:41 Gregory Leperdi |

#### Bronze medal game

| Jimmy Connelly 5:29 (PP) Alex Salamone 14:59, 26:38 | Goals | 39:15 (PP) Daisuke Uehara |

#### Gold medal game

| Billy Bridges 7:51 Adam Dixon 36:41 (PP) Greg Westlake 44:50 | Goals | 15:23 (PP) Kjell Vidar Røyne 30:41 Eskil Hagen |

## B Tournament

The B Tournament was held between Czech Republic, Estonia, South Korea and Poland, the second tier elite teams all vying for a position in the 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A Tournament.

### Final rankings

| Rank | Nation | Roster |
| 1 | South Korea | Cho Byeong-seok, Cho Young-jae, Choi Hyuk-jun, Han Min-su, Hong Jae-wa, Jang Jong-ho, Jung Hee-chul, Jung Seung-hwan, Jung Young-hoon, Lee Hae-man, Lee Jong-kyung, Lee Yong-min, Park Sang-hyun, Park Woo-chul, Sa Seong-keun. |
| 2 | Czech Republic | Jiří Berger C, Erik Fojtík A, Michal Geier, Zdeněk Hábl, Miroslav Hrbek, Daniel Kalina, Zdeněk Klíma, Martin Kovář, Zdeněk Krupička, Pavel Kubeš, Tomáš Kvoch, Jan Matoušek, Michal Vápenka. |
| 3 | Estonia | Aare Aasamets, Tarmo Eerma, Valeri Falkenberg, Aleksander Jarlõkov, Kaido Kalm C, Tarmo Kolk, Ivar Liiv, Arvi Piirioja, Andrei Sokolov, Imre Tiitsu, Alar Õige. |
| 4 | Poland | Łukasz Ciuła, Sylwester Czyż, Jarosław Czyżewski, Sylwester Flis, Rafał Fusiek, Marcin Hebda, Zbigniew Kempiński, Jacek Kozłowski, Jan Maliszak, Andrzej Młynarczyk, Jacek Sapela, Jan Skapowicz, Michał Suliga, Arkadiusz Zoga, Piotr Truszkowski, Krzysztof Wojtaszek, Tomasz Woźny. |

### Preliminary round
#### Standings

| Rk. | Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | DIF | PIM | SHOTS | SV | PTS |
| 1 | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 22 | 18 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 4 |
| 3 | Estonia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 40 | 10 | 15 | 2 |
| 4 | Poland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | -21 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 0 |

##### Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)
| Byeongseok Cho 3:55 Minsu Han 21:24 | Goals | 1:12 Jiří Berger |
| Goals | 1:19, 27:49 Imre Tiitsu 20:24, 39:08 Ivar Liiv 21:37 Tarmo Eerma 41:08 Arvi Piirioja |
| Lee Yong-min 3:37, 21:27 Park Woo-chul 10:28 Jung Seung-hwan 13:50 | Goals | 0:20 Kaido Kalm 10:53 Imre Tiitsu |
| Goals | 0:12 Erik Fojtík 3:53, 16:06 Zdeněk Krupička 13:30, 28:38 Jiří Berger 16:34 Martin Kovář 21:43 Michal Geier 30:44 Zdeněk Hábl |
| Jiří Berger 13:32 Michal Geier 36:37 | Goals | 1:29 Imre Tiitsu |
| Sylwester Flis 3:46 | Goals | 11:39 Han Min-su 12:38 Lee Yong-min 15:59 , 26:46 Jung Seung-hwan 21:17 Park Sang-hyun 28:28 Lee Jong-kyung 32:20 Cho Byeong-seok 41:43 Cho Young-jae |

### Final round
#### 9th place playoff

| Imre Tiitsu 6:53, 35:47 Kaido Kalm 19:11, 22:54, 34:12 Ivar Liiv 20:06 Tarmo Eerma 28:32 Andrei Sokolov 39:27 | Goals | 31:30, 33:10 Sylwester Flis |

#### 7th place playoff

| Seongkeun Sa 2:24 Minsu Han 7:56 | Goals |