# 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.

## 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.
* Australia – Finished fourth in 2007 World Championship Division I
* Brazil – Finished first in 2007 World Championship Division I
* Bulgaria – Qualification spot
* Canada – Qualification spot
* Great Britain – Finished fifth in 2007 World Championship Division I
* Hungary – Finished third in 2007 World Championship Division I
* Japan – Finished sixth in 2007 World Championship Division I
* New Zealand – Finished second in 2007 World Championship Division I

## 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. 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. 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, 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. Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.
All times are local (UTC+2).

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Great Britain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 14 | +16 | 9 | Qualifying round |
| Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 16 | +11 | 6 | Playoff round |
| Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 22 | −2 | 3 | Playoff round |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 31 | −25 | 0 | Playoff round |

### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 3 | +36 | 9 | Qualifying round |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 22 | −8 | 5 | Playoff round |
| Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 24 | −8 | 4 | Playoff round |
| New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 31 | −20 | 0 | Playoff round |

## Qualifying round

Great Britain and Canada advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively. 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. 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.
All times are local (UTC+2).

## 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. In the relegation round New Zealand and Bulgaria lost their games to Hungary and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications. In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Canada beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game. 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.

### Draw

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| QR1 | Canada | 9 | | | | | | |
| C4 | Bulgaria | 1 | | | | | | |
| C4 | Bulgaria | 1 | QF1 | Canada | 8 | | | |
| | | | QF2 | Australia | 0 | | | |
| D2 | Japan | 4 | QF2 | Australia | 0 | | | |
| C3 | Australia | 5 | | | | | | |
| C3 | Australia | 5 | | | | SF1 | Canada | 7 |
| | | | | | | SF2 | Great Britain | 4 |
| QR2 | Great Britain | 7 | | | | | | | SF2 | Great Britain | 4 |
| D4 | New Zealand | 0 | | | |
| D4 | New Zealand | 0 | QF3 | Great Britain | 4 | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| | | | QF4 | Brazil | 3 |
| C2 | Brazil | 5 | QF4 | Brazil | 3 | SF1 | Australia | 3 |
| D3 | Hungary | 3 | | | | SF2 | Brazil | 4 |

### Quarterfinals

Game reference :
| 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) |
Game reference :
| 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) |
Game reference :
| 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) |
Game reference :
| 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 |

### Relegation round

Game reference :
| 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) |
Game reference :
| 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) |

### Semifinals

Game reference :
| 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) | Goals | Lucas Ota (4) 05:31 (ES) Pedro Raposo (6) 07:59 (PP) Diego Araujo (1) 38:18 (ES) |
Game reference :
| 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) | Goals |

### Bronze medal game

Game reference :
| 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

Game reference :
| 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
### 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.
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM | POS |
| 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.
| Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
| 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 |