2006 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Ängelholm and Halmstad, Sweden. The championships began on April 12, 2006 and finished on April 22, 2006. Games were played at Ängelholms Ishall in Ängelholm and Sannarps Isstadion in Halmstad. The United States of America defeated Finland 3-1 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the Czech Republic defeated Canada 4-1 to capture the bronze medal.
==Championship results==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0	0	30	3 	8
 	4 	3	1	0	21	9 	6
 	4 	2	2	0	9 	11	4
 	4 	1	3	0	12	23	2
 	4 	0	4	0	4 	30	0
=====Results=====
====Group B====
Team 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	3	0	1	12	7 	7
 	4 	3	1	0	15	8 	6
Canada	4 	2	1	1	12	5 	5
 	4 	1	3	0	11	16	2
 	4 	0	4	0	7 	21	0
=====Results=====
===Relegation round===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	2	1	0	7 	5 	4
 	3 	1	1	1	8 	5 	3
 	3 	1	1	1	9 	11	3
 	3 	0	1	2	10	13	2
====Results====
Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:
*April 15th, 2006: 2–5 
*April 16th, 2006: 1–5 
===Final round===
====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
===Final standings===
Rk. 	Team
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4 	Canada
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7 	
8 	
9 	
10 	
 and are relegated to Division I for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Patrick Kane 	 	6 	7	5	12 	2
Jamie McBain 	 	6 	2	9	11 	0
Erik Johnson 	 	6 	4	6	10 	27
Ruslan Bashkirov 	 	6 	6	2	8 	4
Mike Carman 	 	6 	4	4	8 	10
Justin Azevedo 	Canada 	7 	4	4	8 	20
François Bouchard	Canada 	7 	3	5	8 	6
Bill Sweatt 	 	6 	5	2	7 	4
Jiří Tlustý 	 	7 	4	3	7 	8
Martin Ylven 	 	6 	2	5	7 	4
David Kveton 	 	7 	2	5	7 	2
Ben Maxwell 	Canada 	7 	2	5	7 	10
===Goaltending leaders===
(Minimum 60 minutes played)
Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
Stanislav Galimov	 	60:00 	0 	1.000	0.00	1
Brett Bennett 	 	120:00	1 	.969 	0.50	1
Jakub Kovar 	 	105:08	2 	.964 	1.14	0
Joe Palmer 	 	246:50	6 	.949 	1.46	1
Jonathan Bernier 	Canada 	420:32	12	.943 	1.71	1
==Division I==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Miskolc, Hungary from April 3 through April 9, 2006.
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	0	1	18	10	9
 	5 	4	1	0	19	12	8
 	5 	2	2	1	25	20	5
 	5 	1	2	2	20	26	4
 	5 	1	3	1	22	26	3
 	5 	1	4	1	14	24	1
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and is relegated to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
=====Results=====
Team	AUT 	FRA 	HUN 	KAZ 	SLO 	SUI
AUT 	 	4 - 4 	7 - 3 	4 - 10	4 - 5 	3 - 4
FRA 	4 - 4 	 	4 - 4 	7 - 5 	2 - 7 	3 - 6
HUN 	3 - 7 	4 - 4 	 	3 - 5 	2 - 3 	2 - 5
KAZ 	10 - 4	5 - 7 	5 - 3 	 	3 - 4 	2 - 2
SLO 	5 - 4 	7 - 2 	3 - 2 	4 - 3 	 	0 - 1
SUI 	4 - 3 	6 - 3 	5 - 2 	2 - 2 	1 - 0 	 
===Group B===
The following teams took part in Group B of the Division I tournament, which was played in Riga, Latvia at the Riga Arena and Volvo Sportcenter from April 2 through April 8, 2006.
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	27	7 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	24	12	8
 	5 	2	2	1	19	16	5
 	5 	2	3	0	16	15	4
 	5 	1	4	0	7 	31	2
 	5 	0	4	1	11	23	1
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and is relegated to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
=====Results=====
Team	DEN 	JPN 	KOR 	LAT 	POL 	UKR
DEN 	 	5 - 2 	3 - 1 	4 - 7 	5 - 2 	7 - 0
JPN 	2 - 5 	 	3 - 3 	1 - 6 	5 - 1 	8 - 1
KOR 	1 - 3 	3 - 3 	 	2 - 6 	3 - 6 	2 - 5
LAT 	7 - 4 	6 - 1 	6 - 2 	 	1 - 0 	7 - 0
POL 	2 - 5 	1 - 5 	6 - 3 	0 - 1 	 	7 - 1
UKR 	0 - 7 	1 - 8 	5 - 2 	0 - 7 	1 - 7 	 
==Division II==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division II tournament, which was played in Meran, Italy from April 2 through April 8, 2006.
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	35	2 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	28	8 	8
 	5 	2	2	1	13	20	5
 	5 	1	3	1	12	23	3
 	5 	1	4	0	15	26	2
 	5 	1	4	0	8 	32	2
 is promoted to Division I and is relegated to Division III for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
=====Results=====
Team	BEL 	ESP 	EST 	ITA 	NED 	SCG
BEL 	 	3 - 5 	2 - 2 	1 - 10	0 - 5 	6 - 1
ESP 	5 - 3 	 	0 - 2 	0 - 7 	1 - 10	2 - 10
EST 	2 - 2 	2 - 0 	 	1 - 9 	2 - 8 	6 - 1
ITA 	10 - 1	7 - 0 	9 - 1 	 	2 - 0 	7 - 0
NED 	5 - 0 	10 - 1	8 - 2 	0 - 2 	 	5 - 3
SCG 	1 - 6 	10 - 2	1 - 6 	0 - 7 	3 - 5 	 
===Group B===
The following teams took part in Group B of the Division II tournament, which was played in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania from March 15 through March 21, 2006.
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	40	5 	10
 	5 	4	1	0	39	12	8
 	5 	2	3	0	22	23	4
 	5 	2	3	0	10	21	4
 	5 	2	3	0	13	30	4
 	5 	0	5	0	7 	40	0
 is promoted to Division I and is relegated to Division III for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
=====Results=====
Team	AUS 	CRO 	GBR 	ISL 	LTU 	MEX
AUS 	 	5 - 2 	0 - 11	5 - 3 	0 - 10	3 - 4
CRO 	2 - 5 	 	0 - 6 	11 - 1	5 - 11	4 - 0
GBR 	11 - 0	6 - 0 	 	14 - 2	3 - 1 	6 - 2
ISL 	3 - 5 	1 - 11	2 - 14	 	1 - 9 	0 - 1
LTU 	10 - 0	11 - 5	1 - 3 	9 - 1 	 	8 - 3
MEX 	4 - 3 	0 - 4 	2 - 6 	1 - 0 	3 - 8 	 
==Division III==
The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, which was played in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania at the Vákár Lajos Icerink from March 13 through March 19, 2006.
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0	0	68	3 	10
 	5 	3	1	1	42	26	7
 	5 	2	2	1	25	22	5
 	5 	1	1	3	28	26	5
 	5 	1	3	1	10	41	3
 	5 	0	5	0	8 	63	0
 and are promoted to Division II for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	BUL 	ISR 	NZL 	ROM 	RSA 	TUR
BUL 	 	1 - 14	3 - 3 	0 - 18	1 - 4 	5 - 2
ISR 	14 - 1	 	4 - 4 	2 - 13	8 - 5 	14 - 3
NZL 	3 - 3 	4 - 4 	 	0 - 14	4 - 4 	17 - 1
ROM 	18 - 0	13 - 2	14 - 0	 	8 - 0 	15 - 1
RSA 	4 - 1 	5 - 8 	4 - 4 	0 - 8 	 	12 - 1
TUR 	2 - 5 	3 - 14	1 - 17	1 - 15	1 - 12	 
==External links==
*Official results and statistics from the International Ice Hockey Federation
**Championship
**Division I - Group A
**Division I - Group B
**Division II - Group A
**Division II - Group B
**Division III
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Category:IIHF World U18 Championships