2015 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 17th IIHF World U18 Championship, and was hosted by Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament began on 16 April 2015, with the gold medal game played on 26 April 2015.Top Division statistics
==Top Division==
===Officials===
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship.
They were the following:
Referees
* Jimmy Bergamelli
* Andreas Harnebring
* Brett Iverson
* Andreas Koch
* Petri Lindqvist
* Robert Mullner
* Yuri Oskirko
* Vladimír Pešina
* Christopher Pitoscia
* Marian Rohatsch
* Ladislav Smetana
* Per Gustav Solem
Linesmen
* Markku Buese
* Franco Espinoza
* Jiří Gebauer
* Martin Korba 
* Ludvig Lundgren
* Brian Oliver
* Alexander Otmakhov
* Nicolas Piche
* Hannu Sormunen
* Michael Tscherrig
===Preliminary round===
	Team qualified to Quarterfinals
	Team will play in Relegation round
====Group A====
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All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)
====Group B====
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All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)
=== Relegation round ===
The last-placed teams played a best-of-three series.
* Germany is relegated to next year's Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.
===Knockout stage===
====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
Auston Matthews 	7 	8	7 	15 	+11	0
Jeremy Bracco 	7 	3	10	13 	+10	2
Mathew Barzal 	7 	3	9 	12 	+2 	0
Matthew Tkachuk 	7 	2	10	12 	+10	2
Patrik Laine 	7 	8	3 	11 	+6 	0
Jack Roslovic 	7 	6	5 	11 	+11	4
Mitchell Stephens	7 	5	5 	10 	+1 	10
Colin White 	7 	6	3 	9 	+8 	0
Clayton Keller 	7 	4	5 	9 	+7 	0
Martins Dzierkals	6 	3	6 	9 	+2 	10
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF.com
===Leading goaltenders===
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.
Player 	TOI 	SA 	GA	GAA 	Sv% 	SO
Anton Krasotkin 	120:00	85 	4 	2.00	95.29	1
Veini Vehvilainen	437:12	233	12	1.65	94.85	1
Ilya Samsonov 	180:00	121	8 	2.67	93.39	0
Evan Sarthou 	312:44	82 	6 	1.15	92.68	1
Adam Húska 	278:39	160	14	3.01	91.25	0
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com Goalkeepers statistics
===Tournament awards===
Most Valuable Player
* Forward: Auston Matthews
All-star team
* Goaltender: Veini Vehviläinen
* Defencemen: Vili Saarijärvi, Jonas Siegenthaler
* Forwards: Patrik Laine, Denis Malgin, Auston Matthews
IIHF best player awards
* Goaltender: Ilya Samsonov
* Defenceman: Vili Saarijärvi
* Forward: Auston Matthews
References: , 
===Final standings===
 	Team
 	
 	
 	
4th 	
5th 	
6th 	
7th 	
8th 	
9th 	
10th	
Relegated to the 2016 Division I A
==Division I==
===Division I A===
The Division I A tournament was played in Debrecen, Hungary, from 12 to 18 April 2015.Division I A statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Top Division	Relegated to the 2016 Division I B
===Division I B===
The Division I B tournament was played in Maribor, Slovenia, from 12 to 18 April 2015.Division I B statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Division I A	Relegated to the 2016 Division II A
==Division II==
===Division II A===
The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 22 to 28 March 2015.Division II A statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Division I B	Relegated to the 2016 Division II B
===Division II B===
The Division II B tournament was played in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 16 to 22 March 2015.Division II B statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Division II A	Relegated to the 2016 Division III A
==Division III==
===Division III A===
The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 22 to 28 March 2015.Division III A statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Division II B	Relegated to the 2016 Division III B
===Division III B===
The Division III B tournament was played in Auckland, New Zealand, from 17 to 19 March 2015.Division III B statistics
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Promoted to the 2016 Division III A
==References==
==External links==
*Website
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