2012 IIHF World Championship Division II

The 2012 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international Ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Group A was contested in Reykjavík, Iceland from April 12–18, 2012 and Group B was contested in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 2–8, 2012.2012 IIHF Championship Program
==Participants==
===Group A===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 2nd in Division II Group B last year.
 	Placed 6th Division I Group B and was relegated in 2011.
 	Host, placed 3rd in Division II Group B last year.
 	Placed 2nd in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 3rd in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 5th Division I Group A and was relegated in 2011.
===Group B===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 4th in Division II Group A last year.
 	Host, placed 5th in Division II Group B last year.
 	Placed 4th in Division II Group B last year.
 	Placed 1st in Division III last year and was promoted.
 	Placed 5th in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 2nd in Division III last year and was promoted.
==Group A Tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Division I B for 2013
	Relegated to Division II B for 2013
Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	5	5	0	0	0	39	11	+28	15
 	5	4	0	0	1	21	9 	+12	12
 	5	3	0	0	2	27	13	+14	9
 	5	2	0	0	3	12	19	–7 	6
 	5	1	0	0	4	27	20	+7 	3
 	5	0	0	0	5	5 	59	–54	0
All times are local (UTC±0).
===Statistics===
====Top 10 scorers====
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
1 	Joel Prpic 	 	5 	3	10	13 	+6 	2
2 	Andrew Sertich 	 	5 	7	5 	12 	+8 	0
3 	Aleksandr Petrov 	 	5 	5	7 	12 	+8 	0
4 	Maksim Ivanov 	 	5 	4	5 	9 	+6 	12
5 	Aleksei Sibirtsev	 	5 	5	3 	8 	+6 	0
6 	Pablo Muñoz 	 	5 	3	5 	8 	+5 	6
6 	Robert Rooba 	 	5 	3	5 	8 	+5 	6
8 	Dmitri Rodin 	 	5 	2	6 	8 	+5 	10
9 	Marko Kovacevic 	 	5 	3	4 	7 	+2 	2
9 	Igor Lazic 	 	5 	3	4 	7 	+4 	2
9 	Kenneth MacAulay 	 	5 	3	4 	7 	+2 	0
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====Goaltending leaders====
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
1 	Ander Alcaine 	 	290:17	9 	95.16	1.86	1
2 	Villem-Henrik Koitmaa	 	235:56	9 	92.56	2.29	0
3 	Mate Tomljenovic 	 	279:04	11	91.54	2.37	0
4 	Dennis Henstrom 	 	299:50	18	90.22	3.60	1
5 	Milan Lukovic 	 	289:39	20	87.34	4.14	0
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===Tournament awards===
* Best players selected by the directorate:
** Best Goalkeeper: Ander Alcaine
**Best Defenseman: Kenny MacAulay
**Best Forward: Aleksandr Petrov
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==Group B Tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Division II A for 2013
	Relegated to Division III for 2013
Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	5	5	0	0	0	49	11	+38	15
 	5	3	0	0	2	28	21	+7 	9
 	5	2	1	0	2	21	28	−7 	8
 	5	2	0	1	2	17	24	−7 	7
 	5	1	1	1	2	19	22	−3 	6
 	5	0	0	0	5	4 	32	−28	0
All times are local (UTC+3).
===Statistics===
====Top 10 scorers====
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
1 	Olivier Roland 	 	5 	10	12	22 	+22	4
2 	Mitch Morgan 	 	5 	6 	15	21 	+20	2
3 	Vincent Morgan 	 	5 	10	8 	18 	+21	0
4 	Eliezer Sherbatov 	 	5 	9 	5 	14 	+6 	0
5 	Stanislav Muhachev	 	5 	4 	10	14 	−1 	0
6 	Daniel Mazour 	 	5 	6 	4 	10 	+4 	14
7 	Alexei Yotov 	 	5 	5 	5 	10 	−1 	2
8 	Zhang Weiyang 	 	5 	5 	4 	9 	+4 	4
9 	Sergei Frenkel 	 	5 	1 	8 	9 	+5 	8
10 	Kristof van Looy 	 	5 	3 	5 	8 	+9 	4
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====Goaltending leaders====
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
1 	Bjorn Steijen 	 	260:00	8 	93.55	1.85	0
2 	Nikola Nikolov 	 	167:19	8 	91.30	2.87	0
3 	Andreas de la Garma	 	149:48	10	90.20	4.01	0
4 	Jevgeni Gusin 	 	257:06	15	88.10	3.50	0
5 	Jack Nebe 	 	180:17	15	87.60	4.99	0
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===Tournament awards===
* Best players selected by the directorate:
** Best Goalkeeper: Bjorn Steijlen
**Best Defenseman: Niki de Herdt
**Best Forward: Stanislav Muhachev
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==Team Photos==
2912NewZealand.png|New Zealand
2012Spain.jpg|Spain
==References==
==External links==
*Group A
*Group B
Category:2012 in hockey
Category:IIHF World Championships