2011 IIHF World Championship Division II

The 2011 IIHF World Championship Division II were international Ice Hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Group A was contested from 4–10 April 2011 in Melbourne, Australia and Group B was contested from 10–16 April 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to the start of the tournament the North Korean national team announced they would withdraw, citing financial reasons. All games against them were counted as a forfeit, with a score of 5–0 for the opposing team.
==Participants==
===Group A===
Team	Qualification
 	Host, Placed 2nd in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 3rd in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 5th in Division II A last year.
 	Placed 4th in Division II B last year.
 	Placed 1st in Division III B and were promoted in 2010.
 	Placed 6th in Division I Group A and were relegated in 2010.
===Group B===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 4th in Division II Group A last year.
 	Placed 5th in Division II Group B last year.
 	Host, Placed 6th in Division I B and were relegated in 2010.
 	Placed 3rd in Division II B last year.
 	Placed 1st in Division III A and were promoted in 2010.
 	Placed 2nd in Division II Group B last year.
==Group A Tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Division I for 2012
	Relegated to Division III for 2012
 	Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	 	5	5	0	0	0	27	6 	+21	15
2	 	5	3	0	0	2	19	8 	+11	9
3	 	5	3	0	0	2	22	11	+11	9
4	 	5	3	0	0	2	19	14	+5 	9
5	 	5	1	0	0	4	8 	31	−23	3
6	 	5	0	0	0	5	0 	25	−25	0
===Fixtures=== 
All times local.
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
Joseph Hughes 	4 	7	4	11 	+4 	4
Lliam Webster 	4 	4	3	7 	+4 	2
Chris Eaden 	4 	5	1	6 	+1 	2
Nathan Walker 	4 	4	2	6 	+7 	4
Bryan Kolodziejczyk	4 	3	3	6 	+2 	14
Greg Oddy 	4 	2	4	6 	+5 	2
Nemanja Vučurević 	4 	1	5	6 	+5 	0
Marko Sretović 	4 	4	1	5 	+2 	2
Paris Heyd 	4 	2	3	5 	+1 	4
Branko Mamić 	4 	1	4	5 	+4 	10
Brett Speirs 	4 	1	4	5 	+2 	8
Nikola Bibić 	4 	0	5	5 	0 	4
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
Rick Parry 	120:00	48 	0 	0.00	100.00	2
Matthew Ezzy 	240:00	116	6 	1.50	95.08 	1
Zak Nothling 	119:21	88 	8 	4.02	91.67 	0
Bjorn Steijlen 	159:51	103	11	4.13	90.35 	0
Arsenije Rankovic	152:53	56 	8 	3.14	87.50 	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
===Tournament Awards===
; Best players selected by the directorate: 
*Best Goalkeeper: 
*Best Forward: 
*Best Defenseman: 
; Best players
Best player of each team seleceted by the coaches.
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==Group B Tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Division I for 2012
	Relegated to Division III for 2012
 	Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	 	5	5	0	0	0	47	8 	+39	15
2	 	5	4	0	0	1	53	10	+43	12
3	 	5	3	0	0	2	24	18	+6 	9
4	 	5	2	0	0	3	26	25	+1 	6
5	 	5	1	0	0	4	17	42	−25	3
6	 	5	0	0	0	5	4 	68	−64	0
===Fixtures=== 
All times local.
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
Marko Lovrenčić 	5 	8	10	18 	+12	2
Borna Rendulić 	5 	8	9 	17 	+10	6
Dominik Kanaet 	5 	7	9 	16 	+12	2
Zsombor Antal 	5 	4	10	14 	+8 	4
István Nagy 	5 	3	8 	11 	+13	3
Egill Thormodsson	5 	6	4 	10 	+4 	0
Szabolcs Papp 	5 	5	5 	10 	+14	0
Mislav Blagus 	5 	4	6 	10 	+11	0
Emil Alengaard 	5 	2	8 	10 	+3 	2
Zhang Weiyang 	5 	8	1 	9 	−3 	4
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
Mate Tomljenović 	208:04	68 	5 	1.44	92.65	1
Adrian Catrinoi Cornea	243:44	86 	7 	1.72	91.86	0
Dennis Hedstrom 	239:09	140	14	3.51	90.00	0
Xie Ming 	183:42	93 	12	3.92	87.10	1
Konstantin Mihaylov 	279:30	242	35	7.51	85.54	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
===Tournament Awards===
; Best players selected by the directorate: 
*Best Goalkeeper: 
*Best Forward: 
*Best Defenseman: 
; Best players
Best player of each team seleceted by the coaches.
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==Team Photos==
2011Australia.jpg|Australia
2011Croatia.jpg|Croatia
2011Newzealand.jpg|New Zealand
==References==
==External links==
*International Ice Hockey Federation
Division Ii