2003 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2003 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere in Finland from April 26 to May 11.
In the quarterfinals, between Sweden and Finland, the Swedes completed an outstanding comeback, being down 4 goals 5–1 7 minutes into the second period. At that time, Sweden decided to change goalie, from Tommy Salo to Mikael Tellqvist. After the change, the Swedes scored 3 goals in a row in the second period to reduce the lead to 5–4. In the third period, Peter Forsberg scored a notable goal, when he skated from his own half of the rink all the way to Finland's offensive zone, scoring on a wrap around. Per Johan Axelsson scored the game winning goal in the third period to win the game 6–5 for the Swedes.
==Preliminary round==
==== Group A ====
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	22	5 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	9 	8 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	9 	13	2
 	3 	0	3	0	6 	20	0
===Group B===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	14	5 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	9 	7 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	8 	14	2
 	3 	0	3	0	4 	9 	0
===Group C===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	12	2 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	6 	5 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	6 	9 	2
 	3 	0	3	0	1 	9 	0
===Group D===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	15	4 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	18	3 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	8 	15	2
 	3 	0	3	0	4 	23	0
==Qualification round==
====Group E====
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	0	1	27	9 	9
 	5 	4	0	1	22	7 	9
 	5 	2	2	1	18	10	5
 	5 	2	2	1	11	11	5
 	5 	1	4	0	9 	27	2
 	5 	0	5	0	8 	31	0
===Group F===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	0	1	18	6 	9
 	5 	4	1	0	20	9 	8
 	5 	2	3	0	16	14	4
 	5 	2	3	0	14	16	4
 	5 	2	3	0	10	16	4
 	5 	0	4	1	8 	25	1
==Final round==
==Relegation round==
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	19	5 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	9 	8 	4
 	3 	0	2	1	8 	14	1
 	3 	0	2	1	5 	14	1
 avoids relegation by defeating 4-1 in the 2004 IIHF World Championship Far East Qualification game.
 and are demoted to Division I at the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.
==Scoring leaders==
Player 	GP	G	A 	Pts	PIM
Žigmund Pálffy 	9 	7	8 	15 	18
Jozef Stümpel 	9 	4	11	15 	0
Ľubomír Višňovský	9 	4	8 	12 	2
Teemu Selänne 	7 	8	3 	11 	2
Saku Koivu 	7 	1	10	11 	4
Dany Heatley 	9 	7	3 	10 	10
Mats Sundin 	7 	6	4 	10 	10
Miroslav Šatan 	9 	6	4 	10 	2
Martin Straka 	9 	6	4 	10 	4
Kimmo Rintanen 	7 	5	4 	9 	0
==Goaltending leaders==
Player 	MINS	GA	GAA 	SO	Sv%
Sean Burke 	328 	7 	1.28	1 	.955
Oliver Jonas 	180 	4 	1.33	0 	.960
Mikael Tellqvist	393 	9 	1.37	0 	.940
Marco Bührer 	297 	9 	1.82	1 	.934
Ján Lašák 	359 	11	1.84	0 	.935
==Division I==
===Group A===
Played at Budapest, Hungary April 15-21
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	34	9 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	24	9 	8
 	5 	2	2	1	14	13	5
 	5 	1	3	1	17	22	3
 	5 	1	3	1	13	26	3
 	5 	0	4	1	7 	30	1
===Group B===
Played at Zagreb, Croatia April 13-20
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	0	1	21	5 	9
 	5 	4	1	0	19	9 	8
 	5 	2	3	0	12	20	4
 	5 	2	3	0	16	11	4
 	5 	1	3	1	16	14	3
 	5 	1	4	0	10	35	2
 and are promoted to the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, and are demoted to Division II.
==Division II==
===Group A===
Played at Seoul, South Korea April 5-12
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	50	10	10
 	5 	4	1	0	46	11	8
 	5 	3	2	0	27	23	6
 	5 	2	3	0	25	26	4
 	5 	1	4	0	19	32	2
 	5 	0	5	0	5 	70	0
===Group B===
Played at Sofia, Bulgaria March 24-30
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	1	0	29	8 	8
 	5 	4	1	0	19	13	8
 	5 	2	2	1	15	10	5
 	5 	2	2	1	16	13	5
 	5 	1	2	2	11	19	4
 	5 	0	5	0	4 	31	0
 and are promoted to Division I, and are demoted to Division III.
==Division III==
Played at Auckland, New Zealand April 3-6
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	2 	2	0	0	14	3 	4
 	2 	1	1	0	7 	10	2
 	2 	0	2	0	4 	12	0
 and are promoted to Division II.
thumb|160px|Ice Hockey World Championships 2003 commemorative coin
==See also==
To celebrate the games, the Finnish government issued a high value commemorative coin: the 2003 Ice Hockey World Championships commemorative coin, minted also in 2003. On the reverse, three ice hockey sticks with a puck can be seen.
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