2005 World Championship

The 2005 Men's Ice Hockey Championships was held in May 2005 in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 69th annual event, and was run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
==Preliminary round==
Sixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the qualifying round. The last team in each group competed in the relegation round.
    	Team advanced to the Qualifying round
    	Team sent to compete in the Relegation round
=== Group A ===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	3 	2	1	0	13	5 	8 	5
 	3 	2	1	0	9 	5 	4 	5
 	3 	1	0	2	6 	4 	2 	2
 	3 	0	0	3	3 	17	-14	0
All times local (UTC +3)
=== Group B ===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	17	5 	12 	6
 	3 	2	0	1	11	4 	7 	4
 	3 	1	0	2	8 	10	-2 	2
 	3 	0	0	3	1 	18	-17	0
All times local (UTC +3)
=== Group C ===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	15	3 	12 	6
 	3 	2	0	1	7 	7 	0 	4
 	3 	1	0	2	5 	8 	-3 	2
 	3 	0	0	3	2 	11	-9 	0
All times local (UTC +3)
=== Group D ===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	6 	1 	5 	6
 	3 	2	0	1	8 	5 	3 	4
 	3 	1	0	2	3 	4 	-1 	2
 	3 	0	0	3	2 	9 	-7 	0
All times local (UTC +3)
==Qualifying round==
The top three teams from each group in the First Round advance to the qualifying round. The top three teams from Groups A and D advance to Group E, and the top three teams from Groups B and C advance to Group F.
Teams in the qualifying round carry forward the results and points gained in the preliminary round with the teams that they have played and advance with. Teams, which have played in the preliminary round, do not meet again in the qualifying round.
    	Team advanced to the Playoff round
    	Team eliminated from advancing
===Group E===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	5 	3	2	0	13	8 	5 	8
 	5 	4	0	1	15	5 	10 	8
 	5 	3	1	1	12	11	1 	7
 	5 	2	1	2	9 	10	-1 	5
 	5 	1	0	4	4 	11	-7 	2
 	5 	0	0	5	3 	11	-8 	0
All times local (UTC+3)
===Group F===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	5 	4	0	1	23	13	10 	8
 	5 	3	1	1	18	14	4 	7
 	5 	2	2	1	14	10	4 	6
 	5 	1	3	1	12	13	-1 	5
 	5 	1	1	3	9 	18	-9 	3
 	5 	0	1	4	5 	13	-8 	1
==Relegation round==
The consolation round is composed of the four teams that placed last in Groups A through D. They play in a round-robin fashion, and the bottom two teams get relegated to the Division I group in next year's World Championships.
    	Team qualified for the 2006 IIHF World Championship
    	Team relegated to Division I
===Group G===
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	3 	2	0	1	11	14	-3 	4
 	3 	2	0	1	10	9 	1 	4
 	3 	1	1	1	13	5 	8 	3
 	3 	0	1	2	7 	12	-5 	1
All times local (UTC +3)
==Playoff round==
=== Bracket ===
===Quarter-finals===
===Semi-finals===
===Bronze medal game===
===Gold medal game===
==Ranking and statistics==
 	
===Tournament Awards===
*Best players selected by the directorate:
**Best Goalkeeper: Tomas Vokoun
**Best Defenseman: Wade Redden
**Best Forward: Alexei Kovalev
**Most Valuable Player: Joe Thornton
===Final standings===
The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
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===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 left out.
Player 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Joe Thornton 	9	6	10	16	+7	4 	F
Rick Nash 	9	9	6 	15	+7	8 	F
Simon Gagne 	9	3	7 	10	+7	0 	F
Zigmund Palffy 	7	5	4 	9 	+1	10	F
Daniel Sedin 	9	5	4 	9 	+4	2 	F
Daniel Alfredsson 	9	3	6 	9 	+6	6 	F
Jaromir Jagr 	8	2	7 	9 	+4	5 	F
Alexander Ovechkin	8	5	3 	8 	+7	4 	F
Lubomir Visnovsky 	7	2	6 	8 	+2	0 	D
Vaclav Prospal 	9	2	6 	8 	+4	4 	F
Source: 
===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 	 	 	 	 	 	
Andrei Mezin 	297:24	175	5 	1.01	97.14	2
Tomas Vokoun 	499:17	190	9 	1.08	95.26	2
Vitaliy Kolesnik	279:20	168	8 	1.72	95.24	0
Martin Gerber 	359:17	186	10	1.67	94.62	1
Arturs Irbe 	283:03	124	7 	1.48	94.35	2
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==Team Photos==
2005Suisse.jpg|Switzerland
2005Finland.jpg|Finland
World Ice Hockey Championships - Men's
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