2006 IIHF World Championship Division II

The 2006 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from March 27 to April 29, 2006. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Sofia, Bulgaria. Group B's games were played in Auckland, New Zealand. Romania and China finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to Division I for 2007. While South Africa finished last in Group A and New Zealand last in Group B and were relegated to Division III for 2007.
==Participants==
===Group A===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 6th in Division I-Group B and were relegated in 2005.
 	Placed 2nd in Division II-Group B in 2005.
 	Placed 4th in Division II-Group B in 2005.
 	Host, placed 4th in Division II-Group A in 2005.
 	Placed 5th in Division II-Group B in 2005.
 	Placed 2nd in Division III and were promoted in 2005.
===Group B===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 6th in Division I-Group A and were relegated in 2005.
 	Placed 2nd in Division II-Group A in 2005.
 	Placed 3rd in Division II-Group A in 2005.
 	Placed 3rd in Division II-Group B in 2005.
 	Host, Placed 5th in Division II-Group A in 2005.
 	Placed 1st in Division III and were promoted in 2005.
==Group A tournament==
===Fixtures===
All times local.
===Ranking and statistics===
	Promoted to Division I for 2007
	Relegated to Division III for 2007
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	59	9 	50 	10
 	5 	3	1	1	25	17	8 	7
 	5 	2	2	1	19	10	9 	6
 	5 	2	1	2	23	23	0 	5
 	5 	1	0	4	10	30	-20	2
 	5 	0	0	5	12	59	-47	0
====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 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Catalin Geru 	5 	13	8 	21 	+19	4 	F
Nutu Andrei 	5 	5 	13	18 	+20	0 	F
Ioan Timaru 	5 	7 	6 	13 	+11	2 	F
Levente Elekes 	5 	7 	6 	13 	+8 	4 	F
Laszlo Vargyas 	5 	4 	8 	12 	+17	0 	D
Ivan Prokic 	5 	4 	7 	11 	+5 	22 	F
Attila Goga 	5 	3 	7 	10 	+12	8 	D
Viorel Nicolescu	5 	2 	8 	10 	+8 	0 	F
Ervin Moldovan 	5 	6 	3 	9 	+9 	0 	F
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position
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
Konstantin Mihaylov	280:00	151	10	2.14	93.38	0
Bjorn Stejlen 	299:16	104	10	2.00	90.38	2
Viorel Radu 	140:00	28 	3 	1.29	89.29	2
Adrian Catrinoi 	160:00	47 	6 	2.25	87.23	0
Jose Luis Alonso 	250.42	92 	17	4.07	81.52	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
==Group B tournament==
===Fixtures===
All times local.
===Ranking and statistics===
	Promoted to Division I for 2007
	Relegated to Division III for 2007
Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
 	5 	4	1	0	34	11	23 	9
 	5 	4	0	1	35	12	23 	8
 	5 	3	1	1	27	14	13 	7
 	5 	2	0	3	10	24	-14	4
 	5 	1	0	4	9 	34	-25	2
 	5 	0	0	5	6 	26	-20	0
GP = Games played; W = Wins; T = Ties;L = Losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GDF = Goal difference; PTS = Points
====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 	GP	G 	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Ki-Sung Kim 	5 	10	8	18 	+16	4 	F
Kyu-Hun Kim 	5 	5 	5	10 	+4 	6 	F
Kyung-Tae Kim	5 	3 	6	9 	+12	2 	F
Chao du 	5 	6 	2	8 	+5 	12 	F
Lei Chen 	5 	2 	6	8 	+7 	14 	F
Zhiqiang Wang	5 	6 	1	7 	+3 	4 	F
Yong-Jun Lee 	5 	3 	4	7 	+7 	6 	D
Kai Yin 	5 	3 	3	6 	+8 	6 	D
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position
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
Yang Yu 	240:00	123	9 	2.25	92.68	1
Ho-Seung Son 	220:00	76 	6 	1.64	92.11	0
Mike Parsons 	220:00	208	18	4.91	91.35	0
Matthew Ezzy 	179:31	96 	9 	3.01	90.62	0
Stuart Denman	120:00	35 	4 	2.00	88.57	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
==Team Photos==
2006Australia.jpg|Australia
==References==
Category:2006 in hockey
Category:IIHF World Championships