2013 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2013 IIHF World U20 Championship was the 37th World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (WJHC). It was hosted in Ufa, Russia. It began on December 26, 2012, and ended with the gold medal game played on January 5, 2013. The United States defeated defending-champion Sweden 3–1 to win their third title, their first one since 2010. American goalie John Gibson was named MVP of the tournament.
Russia defeated Canada 6–5 in overtime to win the bronze medal, sending the Canadians home without a medal for the first time since 1998. Latvia was relegated to Division I and Norway was promoted to the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
==Venues==
Ufa ArenaCapacity: 8,250	Ice Palace Salavat YulaevCapacity: 4,043
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– Ufa 	– Ufa
==Officials==
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship
They were the following:
;Referees
* Harry Dumas
* Roman Gofman
* Pavel Hodek
* Georg Jablukov
* Sergei Kulakov
* Jari Levonen
* Didier Massy
* Mikael Nord
* Steve Patafie
* Mikael Sjöqvist
* Pat Smith
* Daniel Sticker
;Linesmen
* Francois Dussureault
* Tommy George
* Tobias Haster
* Raivis Jucers
* Roman Kaderli
* Masi Puolakka
* Stanislav Raming
* Anton Semjonov
* Dmitry Sivov
* Peter Stano
== Top division ==
Each round will be a round-robin tournament, where the teams play each other once within their group. The Preliminary Round is divided into two groups: Group A and Group B, which includes five teams each. From each group, the top three teams will qualify for the playoffs; the 1st-ranked teams earn a direct trip to the Semifinals, while the 2nd and 3rd-ranked teams qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 4th and 5th-ranked teams have to play in the Relegation Round, where the three best teams qualify for the Top Division tournament the following year, with the last-placed team being relegated to the Division I tournament the following year. In the Semifinals, the directly-qualified Semifinalists face the winners from the Quarterfinals.
=== Rosters ===
=== Preliminary round ===
Legend
Advance to the Semifinals
Advance to the Quarterfinals
Advance to the Relegation Round
====Group A====
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts	Advanced to
 	4 	3	1 	0 	0	19	8 	11 	Semifinals
 	4 	2	1 	0 	1	12	10	8 	Quarterfinals
 	4 	1	0 	3 	0	16	14	6 	Quarterfinals
 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	15	15	5 	Relegation Round
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	6 	21	0 	Relegation Round
All times local (UTC+6)
====Group B====
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts	Advanced to
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	21	8 	12 	Semifinals
 	4 	2	1 	0 	1	13	7 	8 	Quarterfinals
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	19	7 	6 	Quarterfinals
 	4 	0	1 	1 	2	10	19	3 	Relegation Round
 	4 	0	0 	1 	3	4 	26	1 	Relegation Round
All times local (UTC+6)
=== Relegation round ===
The results from matches between teams from the same group in the preliminary round are carried forward to this round.
Legend
Advance to the 2014 World Junior Championships Top Division
Relegated to Division I A for 2014
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	24	5 	9
 	3 	1	1 	0 	1	11	15	5
 	3 	1	0 	1 	1	6 	12	4
 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	6 	15	0
All times local (UTC+6)
=== Final round ===
;Bracket
==== Quarterfinals ====
==== Semifinals ====
==== Fifth place game ====
==== Bronze medal game ====
==== Final ====
=== Statistics ===
==== Scoring leaders ====
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
1 	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	 	6 	4	11	15 	+6 	4
2 	Joel Armia 	 	6 	6	6 	12 	0 	12
3 	Markus Granlund 	 	6 	5	7 	12 	−1 	4
4 	Teuvo Teräväinen 	 	6 	5	6 	11 	+6 	2
5 	John Gaudreau 	 	7 	7	2 	9 	+2 	4
6 	Marko Daňo 	 	6 	4	5 	9 	−1 	12
7 	Jacob Trouba 	 	7 	4	5 	9 	+2 	10
8 	Jonathan Huberdeau 	 	6 	3	6 	9 	0 	4
9 	J. T. Miller 	 	7 	2	7 	9 	+5 	2
10 	Sven Andrighetto 	 	6 	5	3 	8 	+1 	4
10 	Mark Scheifele 	 	6 	5	3 	8 	+1 	2
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF.com
==== Goaltending leaders ====
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	TOI 	GA	GAA 	Sv% 	SO
1 	John Gibson 	 	398:07	9 	1.36	95.54	1
2 	Andrei Vasilevski	 	264:50	8 	1.81	95.00	1
3 	Niklas Lundström 	 	224:25	6 	1.60	94.39	0
4 	Andrei Makarov 	 	180:31	9 	2.99	93.28	0
5 	Melvin Nyffeler 	 	261:39	16	3.67	90.24	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===
References: 1 2
;Most Valuable Player
* Goaltender: John Gibson
;All-star team
* Goaltender: John Gibson
* Defencemen: Jacob Trouba, Jake McCabe
* Forwards: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Filip Forsberg, John Gaudreau
;IIHF best player awards
* Goaltender: John Gibson
* Defenceman: Jacob Trouba
* Forward: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
===Final standings===
 	Team
 	
 	
 	
4th 	
5th 	
6th 	
7th 	
8th 	
9th 	
10th	
===Medalists===
Gold: 	Silver: 	Bronze:
USA #3 – Seth Jones #5 – Connor Murphy #6 – Mike Reilly #7 – Sean Kuraly #8 – Jacob Trouba #10 – J. T. Miller #12 – Mario Lucia #13 – John Gaudreau #14 – Shayne Gostisbehere #15 – Alex Galchenyuk #16 – Riley Barber #18 – Cole Bardreau #19 – Jake McCabe #20 – Blake Pietila #21 – Ryan Hartman #22 – Tyler Biggs #23 – Rocco Grimaldi #25 – Vincent Trocheck #26 – Jimmy Vesey #27 – Patrick Sieloff #29 – Garret Sparks #30 – Jon Gillies #35 – John Gibson	Sweden #1 – Joel Lassinantti #4 – Christian Djoos #5 – Rasmus Bengtsson #6 – Emil Djuse #7 – Tom Nilsson #8 – Linus Arnesson #9 – Mikael Vikstrand #10 – Alexander Wennberg #11 – Jeremy Boyce-Rotevall #13 – Viktor Arvidsson #14 – Robert Hägg #15 – Sebastian Collberg #16 – Filip Forsberg #17 – William Karlsson #19 – Elias Lindholm #23 – Victor Rask #24 – Rickard Rakell #25 – Jacob de la Rose #26 – Nick Sörensen #27 – Filip Sandberg #29 – Emil Molin #30 – Niklas Lundström #35 – Oscar Dansk	Russia #1 – Igor Ustinski #5 – Albert Yarullin #7 – Artyom Sergeyev #8 – Maxim Shalunov #9 – Nikita Nesterov #10 – Nail Yakupov #11 – Yevgeni Mozer #12 – Andrei Sigaryov #14 – Vladimir Tkachyov #15 – Valeri Nichushkin #16 – Nikita Kucherov #17 – Anton Slepyshev #18 – Yaroslav Kosov #19 – Alexander Khokhlachev #20 – Andrei Makarov #21 – Kirill Kapustin #22 – Andrei Mironov #25 – Mikhail Grigorenko #26 – Daniil Zharkov #27 – Kirill Dyakov #28 – Yaroslav Dyblenko #29 – Pavel Koledov #30 – Andrei Vasilevski
Source:
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==Division I==
===Group A===
The Division I Group A competition was played from 9 December to 15 December 2012 in Amiens, France.
Participants
* — Relegated from Top Division 2012
*
*
*
*
* — Promoted from Division I B 2012
Final standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	4	1 	0 	0	19	7 	14
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	19	8 	12
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	20	15	10
 	5 	1	1 	0 	3	13	14	5
 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	13	21	4
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	9 	28	0
Promoted to Top Division	Relegated to Division I B
===Group B===
The Division I Group B competition was played from 10 December to 16 December 2012 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Participants
* — Relegated from Division I A 2012
*
*
*
*
* — Promoted from Division II A 2012
Final standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	20	9 	12
 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	16	9 	11
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	15	6 	9
 	5 	2	1 	1 	1	8 	7 	9
 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	8 	18	4
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	1 	19	0
Promoted to Division I A	Relegated to Division II A
==Division II==
===Group A===
The Division II Group A competition was played from 9 December to 15 December 2012 in Brasov, Romania.
Participants
* — Relegated from Division I B 2012
*
*
*
*
* — Promoted from Division II B 2012
Final standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	31	8 	15
 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	22	16	11
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	18	19	9
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	17	23	7
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	14	19	3
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	12	29	0
Promoted to Division I B	Relegated to Division II B
===Group B===
The Division II Group B competition was played from 12 January to 18 January 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Participants
* — Relegated from Division II A 2012
*
*
*
*
* — Promoted from Division III 2012
Final standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Pts
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	62	6 	15
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	23	14	12
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	17	21	6
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	12	22	6
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	12	29	6
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	13	47	0
Promoted to Division II A	Relegated to Division III
==Division III==
The Division III competition was played from 14 January to 20 January 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Participants
* — Relegated from Division II B 2012
*
*
*
*
*
Final standings
Team	GP 	W 	OTW 	OTL 	L 	GF 	GA 	Pts
 	5 	5 	0 	0 	0 	32 	6 	15
 	5 	4 	0 	0 	1 	19 	14 	12
 	5 	3 	0 	0 	2 	13 	12 	9
 	5 	2 	0 	0 	3 	18 	12 	6
 	5 	1 	0 	0 	4 	15 	28 	3
* 	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified	Disqualified
promoted to Division II B
* were disqualified and all games counted as 5-0 wins for their opponents.
==Team Photos==
2013SlovakiaJr.jpg|Slovakia
==References==
==External links==
*Official site
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