# 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship

The 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship was the 20th and final IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The World Championship runs alongside the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament and took place between 25 June and 1 July 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia at the Ondrej Nepela Arena. The tournament was won by the United States, earning their seventh World Championship title. Finland finished in second place and the Czech Republic in third after defeating Sweden in the bronze medal match.

## Qualification

Seven of the eight teams automatically qualified for the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship while the eighth spot was awarded to the winner of the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The 2015 Division I tournament was won by Croatia who defeated Australia in the final to earn promotion to the World Championship.
* Canada − Finished first in the 2015 World Championship
* Croatia − Winner of 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
* Czech Republic − Finished sixth in the 2015 World Championship
* Finland − Finished second in the 2015 World Championship
* Germany − Finished seventh in the 2015 World Championship
* Slovakia − Finished fourth in the 2015 World Championship
* Sweden − Finished third in the 2015 World Championship
* United States − Finished fifth in the 2015 World Championship

## Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I. The World Championship groups are named Group A and Group B while the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament use Group C and Group D, as both tournaments were held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

## Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.
All times are local (UTC+2).

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 5 | +19 | 9 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 18 | −1 | 6 |
| Canada | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 18 | −2 | 3 |
| Croatia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 21 | −16 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Finland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 8 |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 13 | +2 | 7 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 3 |
| Germany | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 0 |

## Playoff round

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the classification round. Slovakia defeated Croatia and Canada defeated Germany in the classification round to finish fifth and sixth respectively. Croatia and Germany moved on to the relegation game where Croatia was defeated 5–8 and was relegated back to Division I for 2019. In the semifinals the United States defeated the Czech Republic and Finland beat Sweden, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals the Czech Republic and Sweden played off for the bronze medal with the Czech Republic winning 5–2. The United States defeated Finland 4–2 in the gold medal game, earning their seventh World Championship title.
| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| A1 | United States | 4 | | | | | | |
| B4 | Germany | 1 | | | | | | |
| B4 | Germany | 1 | A1 | United States | 5 | | | |
| | | | B2 | Czech Republic | 4 | | | |
| B2 | Czech Republic | 8 | B2 | Czech Republic | 4 | | | |
| A3 | Canada | 2 | | | | | | |
| A3 | Canada | 2 | | | | A1 | United States | 4 |
| | | | | | | B1 | Finland | 2 |
| B1 | Finland | 11 | | | | | | | B1 | Finland | 2 |
| A4 | Croatia | 2 | | | |
| A4 | Croatia | 2 | B1 | Finland | 6 | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| | | | B3 | Sweden | 5 |
| A2 | Slovakia | 4 | B3 | Sweden | 5 | B2 | Czech Republic | 5 |
| B3 | Sweden | 6 | | | | B3 | Sweden | 2 |
All times are local (UTC+2).

### Gold medal game
## Ranking and statistics

* 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship winners
* United States 7th title

### Tournament Awards

* Best players selected by the directorate:
** Best Goalkeeper: Troy Redmann
** Best Defenseman: Petri Partanen
** Best Forward: Matt White

### Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
| Rk. | Team |
| | United States |
| | Finland |
| | Czech Republic |
| 4. | Sweden |
| 5. | Slovakia |
| 6. | Canada |
| 7. | Germany |
| 8. | Croatia |

### 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.
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | POS |
| Teemu Lepaus | 6 | 11 | 11 | 22 | +8 | 1.5 | F |
| Matt White | 6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +11 | 3.0 | F |
| Eemeli Suomi | 6 | 4 | 12 | 16 | +8 | 1.5 | F |
| Markus Kinisjarvi | 6 | 5 | 9 | 14 | +2 | 1.5 | F |
| Jakub Petružálek | 6 | 5 | 8 | 13 | +5 | 3.0 | F |
| Jack Combs | 6 | 9 | 3 | 12 | +10 | 6.0 | F |
| Linus Svedlund | 6 | 5 | 7 | 12 | –1 | 3.0 | F |
| Petr Kafka | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +3 | 0.0 | F |
| Filip Novák | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 3.0 | F |
| Juraj Jurik | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 7.5 | F |
| Peter Lichanec | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +3 | 0.0 | F |
| Jakub Ruckay | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +1 | 4.5 | D |
| Derrick Burnett | 6 | 0 | 10 | 10 | +11 | 14.5 | D |

### 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.
| Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
| Troy Redmann | 192:00 | 82 | 9 | 2.25 | 89.02 | 0 |
| Dominik Frodl | 244:54 | 108 | 18 | 3.53 | 83.33 | 0 |
| Siniša Martinović | 199:51 | 114 | 21 | 5.04 | 81.58 | 0 |
| Robert Kinisjarvi | 285:50 | 128 | 25 | 4.20 | 80.47 | 0 |
| Vladimir Neumann | 214:15 | 124 | 26 | 5.83 | 79.03 | 0 |