2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I

The 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Division I is played in two groups of six teams each. In each group the first place team is promoted to the next level, while the last place team is relegated to play in a lower level. This year, for the first time, the winner of Group B is promoted to Group A and the winner of Group A is promoted to the top division.Group A formatGroup B format Previously the winners of both were promoted to the top division. Group A was played in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, between December 11 and December 17, 2011. Group B was played in Tychy, Poland, between December 12 and December 18, 2011.Official Group A siteOfficial Group B site
==Group A==
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	34	9 	15
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	21	10	10
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	19	13	9
 	5 	1	2 	0 	2	16	12	7
 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	11	26	4
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	6 	37	0
Promoted to Top Division	Relegated to Division I B
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== Statistics ==
===Top 10 scorers===
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1 	Tobias Rieder 	 	5 	5	8	13 	+6 	4
2 	David Elsner 	 	5 	4	5	9 	+6 	8
3 	Marcel Noebels 	 	5 	4	5	9 	+5 	6
4 	Sondre Olden 	 	5 	2	6	8 	+4 	2
5 	Jonas Knutsen 	 	5 	5	2	7 	+4 	6
6 	Gal Koren 	 	5 	4	3	7 	0 	0
7 	Bernhard Keil 	 	5 	2	5	7 	+5 	14
7 	Patrick Obrist 	 	5 	2	5	7 	+1 	2
9 	Konrad Abeltshauser	 	5 	1	6	7 	+10	4
10 	Leo Pföderl 	 	5 	3	3	6 	+5 	0
=== Goaltending leaders ===
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
1 	Yan Shelepnyov 	 	284:21	8 	92.73	1.69	0
2 	Mathias Niederberger	 	260:00	7 	92.13	1.62	0
3 	Luka Gračnar 	 	269:45	11	91.47	2.45	0
4 	Lars Volden 	 	300:00	13	91.10	2.60	0
5 	Declan Ryan 	 	192:15	22	82.95	6.87	0
IIHF Best Players awards
* Goaltender: Mathias Niederberger
* Defenceman: Konrad Abeltshauser
* Forward: Sondre Olden
Division I A Champion
Division I A ChampionGermany	Konrad Abeltshauser, David Elsner, Richard Gelke, Henry Haase, Jimmy Hertel, Mirko Höfflin, Bernhard Keil, Kilian Keller, Nicolas Krämmer, Stephan Kronthaler, Nickolas Latta, Corey Mapes, Thomas Merl, Mathias Niederberger, Marcel Noebels, Andreas Pauli, Leo Pföderl, Maximilian Renner, Tobias Rieder, Lukas Steinhauer, Thomas Supis, Sebastian Uvira, Pascal ZerressenHead Coach: Ernst Höfner
==Group B==
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	19	6 	12
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	9 	7 	10
 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	14	9 	8
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	16	12	7
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	12	25	6
 	5 	0	1 	0 	4	9 	20	2
Promoted to Division I A	Relegated to Division II A
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== Statistics ==
===Top 10 scorers===
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1 	Damian Kapica 	 	5 	6	4	10 	+10	0
2 	Mateusz Michalski	 	5 	2	7	9 	+9 	0
3 	Kamil Kalinowski 	 	5 	3	4	7 	+5 	2
3 	Borna Rendulic 	 	5 	3	4	7 	-2 	0
5 	Norbert Abramov 	 	5 	4	2	6 	+6 	4
6 	Petar Trstenjak 	 	5 	1	5	6 	-5 	2
7 	Igor Lazic 	 	5 	3	2	5 	-3 	6
8 	Dimitri Thillet 	 	5 	2	3	5 	+6 	2
9 	Makuru Fukuhashi 	 	5 	3	1	4 	+4 	0
9 	Nicolas Ritz 	 	5 	3	1	4 	+6 	20
=== Goaltending leaders ===
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
1 	Julian Barrier-Heyligen	 	240:00	3 	96.34	0.75	1
2 	Pavel Poluektov 	 	304:49	7 	94.66	1.38	1
3 	Massimo Quagliato 	 	304:29	9 	93.28	1.77	1
4 	Takuto Onoda 	 	178:23	8 	91.67	2.69	0
5 	Mariusz Ryszkaniec 	 	180:00	7 	91.57	2.33	0
IIHF Best Players awards
* Goaltender: Pavel Poluektov
* Defenceman: Aziz Baazzi
* Forward: Borna Rendulic
Division I B Champion
Division I B ChampionFrance	Norbert Abramov, Jérémy Arès, Aziz Baazzi, Julien Barrier-Heyligen, Joris Bedin, Antoine Bonvalot, Mathieu Briand, Martin Charpentier, Florian Chakiachvili, Aurélien Dorey, Raphaël Faure, Romain Gutierrez, Maxime Joly, Nicolas Leclerc, Vincent Llorca, Yann Millet, Anthony Rech, Nicolas Ritz, Marius Serer, Dimitri Thillet, Nicolas Thos, Hugo VinatierHead Coach: Lionel Charrier
==Team Photos==
2011-12FranceJunior.jpg|France
==References==
==External links==
*IIHF.com
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