2005 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in České Budějovice and Plzeň, Czech Republic. The championships began on April 14, 2005 and finished on April 24, 2005. Games were played at Budvar Arena in České Budějovice and ČEZ Aréna in Plzeň. The United States of America defeated Canada 5-1 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the Sweden defeated Czech Republic 4-2 to capture the bronze medal.
==Championship results==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Team 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Canada	4 	3	1	0	24	7 	6
 	4 	3	1	0	9 	6 	6
 	4 	3	1	0	19	12	6
 	4 	1	3	0	10	18	2
 	4 	0	4	0	4 	23	0
====Group B====
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0	0	17	5 	8
 	4 	3	1	0	16	6 	6
 	4 	2	2	0	6 	9 	4
 	4 	1	3	0	6 	13	2
 	4 	0	4	0	4 	16	0
===Relegation round===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0	0	10	5 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	7 	5 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	5 	7 	2
 	3 	0	3	0	5 	10	0
Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:
*April 15th, 2005: 1-3 
*April 15th, 2005: 3–1 
===Final round===
===Final standings===
Rk. 	Team
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align="center"	Canada
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4 	
5 	
6 	
7 	
8 	
9 	
10 	
 and are relegated to Division I for the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Phil Kessel 	 	6 	9	7	16 	2
Nathan Gerbe 	 	6 	4	4	8 	14
Ilya Zubov 	 	6 	3	5	8 	6
Alexey Sopin 	 	6 	6	1	7 	2
Peter Mueller 	 	6 	4	3	7 	20
Vyacheslav Buravchikov	 	6 	3	4	7 	4
Juraj Mikúš 	 	6 	0	7	7 	12
Martin Hanzal 	 	7 	4	3	7 	10
Nicklas Bergfors 	 	7 	6	0	6 	0
Devin Setoguchi 	Canada 	6 	4	2	6 	6
David Kveton 	 	7 	4	2	6 	4
Tomáš Káňa 	 	7 	2	4	6 	8
===Goaltending leaders===
(Minimum 60 minutes played)
Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
Pier-Olivier Pelletier	Canada 	120:00	2 	.959	1.00	0
Jeff Frazee 	 	360:00	8 	.959	1.33	1
Jhonas Enroth 	 	141:08	4 	.942	1.70	0
Ondřej Pavelec 	 	380:51	13	.932	2.05	1
Juha Toivonen 	 	79:59 	3 	.875	2.25	0
==External links==
*Official results and statistics from the International Ice Hockey Federation
**Championship
**Division I - Group A
**Division I - Group B
**Division II - Group A
**Division II - Group B
**Division III
Category:IIHF World U18 Championships
Category:2005 in hockey