2004 World Championship

The 2004 Men's Ice Hockey Championships were held April 24-May 9, 2004, in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic. Games for this Ice Hockey World Championships tournament were played at Sazka Arena and ČEZ Aréna. The attendance set at this tournament was a record that still stands, with an overall attendance at 552,097, and the record for the most average spectators per game at 9,858.Mistrovství světa v ledním hokeji 2004 | Praha | Ostrava
== Championship ==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	15	2 	6
 	3 	1	1	1	5 	5 	3
 	3 	1	1	1	6 	8 	3
 	3 	0	3	0	3 	14	0
*April 24: 1–3 
*April 24: 4–2 
*April 26: 1–1 
*April 26: 7–0 
*April 27: 1–4 
*April 28: 5–1 
====Group B====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	10	5 	5
 	3 	2	1	0	11	8 	4
 	3 	1	1	1	12	8 	3
 	3 	0	3	0	2 	14	0
*April 24: 2–0 
*April 24: 4–2 
*April 26: 5–1 
*April 26: 3–3 
*April 28: 1–7 
*April 28: 5–2 
====Group C====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	13	4 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	14	6 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	7 	14	2
 	3 	0	3	0	5 	15	0
*April 24: 1–5 
*April 25: 6–2 
*April 25: 5–1 
*April 27: 3–4 
*April 27: 3–2 
*April 28: 6–1 
====Group D====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	8 	3 	5
 	3 	1	0	2	12	6 	4
 	3 	1	1	1	11	7 	3
 	3 	0	3	0	0 	15	0
*April 24: 0–6 
*April 25: 6–0 
*April 25: 2–2 
*April 27: 3–0 
*April 27: 4–4 
*April 28: 3–1 
===Qualification round===
Game results against teams from the same group are carried over from the preliminary round.
====Group E====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0	0	19	5 	10
 	5 	3	1	1	15	10	7
 	5 	1	2	2	8 	9 	4
 	5 	1	2	2	8 	11	4
 	5 	1	3	1	6 	14	3
 	5 	0	3	2	9 	16	2
*April 30: 2–0 
*April 30: 2–0 
*May 1: 1–1 
*May 1: 1–3 
*May 2: 1–3 
*May 2: 6–1 
*May 3: 5–2 
*May 3: 6–2 
*May 4: 0–1 
====Group F====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	3	0	2	18	5 	8
 	5 	3	0	2	12	5 	8
 	5 	3	1	1	17	8 	7
 	5 	2	2	1	17	15	5
 	5 	1	4	0	10	14	2
 	5 	0	5	0	6 	33	0
*April 30: 1–1 
*April 30: 2–0 
*May 1: 6–0 
*May 1: 2–3 
*May 2: 0–8 
*May 2: 3–1 
*May 3: 4–0 
*May 3: 0–0 
*May 4: 8–3 
===Relegation round===
====Group G====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	12	5 	5
 	3 	1	0	2	10	6 	4
 	3 	0	1	2	7 	9 	2
 	3 	0	2	1	4 	13	1
Note: and are demoted to Division I at the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.
===Final round===
====Quarter-finals====
May 5
4	1
Goals
#Höglund
#Alfredsson
#Tärnström
#Axelsson	
Goals
#Ignatjevs
<BR>
2	3
Goals
#Skoula
#Jágr	
Goals
#Park
#Westrum
#Roach
<BR>
May 6
5	4
Goals
#Heatley
#Bouwmeester
#Brewer
#Staios 
#Heatley (OT)	
Goals
#Peltonen
#Kallio
#Niemi
#Rintanen
<BR>
3	1
Goals
#Strbak
#Chára
#Demitra	
Goals
#Wichser
<BR>
====Semi-finals====
May 8
1	2
Goals
#Šatan	
Goals
#Brière
#Horcoff
<BR>
2	3
Goals
#Park
#Halpern	
Goals
#Tärnström
#Höglund
#Axelsson
<BR>
====Bronze medal game====
May 9
0	1
Goals	
Goals
#Roach (SO)
<BR>
====Gold medal game====
May 9
3	5
Goals
#Höglund
#Alfredsson
#Salomonsson	
Goals
#Smyth
#Heatley
#R. Niedermayer
#Bouwmeester
#Cooke
===Scoring leaders===
Player	G	A	P
 	8	3	11
 	4	6	10
 	5	4	9
 	5	4	9
 	5	3	8
 	5	3	8
 	4	4	8
 	4	4	8
 	2	6	8
===Goaltending leaders===
Player	GAA 	SV%
 	0.00	1.000
 	0.00	1.000
 	0.00	1.000
 	0.50	0.975
 	1.00	0.954
 	1.00	0.944
 	1.00	0.909
 	1.11	0.944
 	1.64	0.925
 	1.80	0.925
==Division I==
===Group A===
Division I, Group A played at Oslo, Norway, April 4-18.
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0	0	34	9 	10
 	5 	3	1	1	31	14	7
 	5 	2	2	1	21	22	5
 	5 	2	2	1	20	24	5
 	5 	1	3	1	18	18	3
 	5 	0	5	0	7 	44	0
===Group B===
Division I, Group B played at Gdańsk, Poland, April 12-18.
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0	0	33	5 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	26	7 	8
 	5 	2	2	1	25	14	5
 	5 	2	2	1	26	23	5
 	5 	1	4	0	9 	35	2
 	5 	0	5	0	7 	42	0
 and are promoted to the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. and are demoted to Division II.
==Division II==
===Group A===
Division II, Group A played at Jaca, Spain, April 12-18.
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	4	1	0	39	13	8
 	5 	4	1	0	32	6 	8
 	5 	3	1	1	40	18	7
 	5 	2	2	1	29	13	5
 	5 	0	4	1	3 	28	1
 	5 	0	4	1	5 	70	1
===Group B===
Division II, Group B played at Elektrenai, Lithuania, April 12-18.
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0	0	70	7 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	55	23	8
 	5 	3	2	0	22	20	6
 	5 	2	3	0	20	30	4
 	5 	1	4	0	13	61	2
 	5 	0	5	0	9 	48	0
 and are promoted to Division I while and are demoted to Division III.
==Division III==
Division III was played at Reykjavík, Iceland, March 16-21.
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	4 	3	0	1	46	8 	7
 	4 	3	1	0	26	14	6
 	4 	2	1	1	29	8 	5
 	4 	1	3	0	23	23	2
 	4 	0	4	0	2 	73	0
 and are promoted to Division II
==References==
==External links==
* Official site
World Ice Hockey Championships - Men's
Category:IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships