2007 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Rauma and Tampere, Finland. The championships began on April 11, 2007 and finished on April 22, 2007. Games were played at Äijänsuo Arena in Rauma and Hakametsän jäähalli in Tampere. Russia defeated the United States 6-5 in the final to claim the gold medal, while Sweden defeated Canada 8-3 to capture the bronze medal.
==Championship results==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Team 	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Canada	4 	3	1 	0 	0	24	8 	11
 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	16	12	9
 	4 	2	0 	1 	1	22	9 	7
 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	8 	21	3
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	6 	26	0
=====Results=====
====Group B====
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	2	1 	0 	1	10	7 	8
 	4 	2	0 	1 	1	9 	10	7
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	11	7 	6
 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	9 	11	5
 	4 	1	0 	1 	2	6 	10	4
=====Results=====
===Relegation round===
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	14	8 	9
 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	12	9 	6
 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	9 	11	3
 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	6 	13	0
====Results====
Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:
*April 15th, 2007: 4–2 
*April 16th, 2007: 2–3 
===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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 and are relegated to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
James van Riemsdyk	 	7 	5	7	12 	4
Colin Wilson 	 	7 	5	7	12 	4
Jordan Schroeder 	 	7 	4	7	11 	0
Steven Stamkos 	Canada 	6 	2	8	10 	8
Adam Bezak 	 	6 	4	5	9 	6
Simon Hjalmarsson 	 	6 	4	5	9 	4
Nikita Filatov 	 	7 	4	5	9 	6
Alexei Cherepanov 	 	7 	5	3	8 	6
Jamie Arniel 	Canada 	6 	3	5	8 	10
===Goaltending leaders===
(Minimum 60 minutes played)
Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
Juha Metsola 	 	198:38	7 	.919	2.11	0
Robert Mayer 	 	304:15	11	.924	2.17	1
Mark Owuya 	 	345:00	13	.909	2.26	2
Josh Unice 	 	373:49	15	.907	2.41	1
Zdenko Kotvan	 	97:23 	4 	.918	2.46	0
===Tournament awards===
====All-Star team====
*Goaltender: Josh Unice
*Defensemen: Victor Hedman, Kevin Shattenkirk
*Forwards: Alexei Cherepanov, Steven Stamkos, James van Riemsdyk
====Best players====
*Top Goaltender: Josh Unice
*Top Defenseman: Kevin Shattenkirk
*Top Forward: James van Riemsdyk
====MVP====
* James van Riemsdyk
==Division I==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Maribor, Slovenia at Ledna dvorana TABOR from April 6 through April 12, 2007.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	1 	0 	0	37	10	14
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	22	20	10
 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	24	18	8
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	19	20	7
 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	14	21	4
 	5 	0	1 	0 	4	13	40	2
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and is relegated to Division II for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	AUT 	BLR 	FRA 	ITA 	KAZ 	SLO
AUT 	  	0 - 4 	4 - 5 (OT)	3 - 4 	4 - 3 	3 - 5
BLR 	4 - 0 	  	15 - 1 	5 - 4 (OT)	6 - 2 	7 - 3
FRA 	5 - 4 (OT)	1 - 15 	  	2 - 7 	3 - 8 	2 - 6
ITA 	4 - 3 	4 - 5 (OT)	7 - 2 	  	1 - 6 	3 - 4
KAZ 	3 - 4 	2 - 6 	8 - 3 	6 - 1 	  	5 - 4 (OT)
SLO 	5 - 3 	3 - 7 	6 - 2 	4 - 3 	4 - 5 (OT)	 
===Group B===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Sanok, Poland at Sanok Arena from April 4 through April 10, 2007.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	22	6 	15
 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	22	13	11
 	5 	2	0 	2 	1	22	19	8
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	16	26	6
 	5 	1	1 	0 	3	15	17	5
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	10	26	0
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and will is relegated to Division II for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	DEN 	GBR 	JPN 	NOR 	POL 	UKR
DEN 	 	3 - 1 	2 - 1 	4 - 2 	9 - 1 	4 - 1
GBR 	1 - 3 	 	1 - 6 	2 - 7 	3 - 5 	3 - 5
JPN 	1 - 2 	6 - 1 	  	4 - 3 (OT)	7 - 4 	4 - 3
NOR 	2 - 4 	7 - 2 	3 - 4 (OT)	  	6 - 4 	4 - 5 (OT)
POL 	1 - 9 	5 - 3 	4 - 7 	4 - 6 	 	2 - 1
UKR 	1 - 4 	5 - 3 	3 - 4 	5 - 4 (OT)	1 - 2 	 
==Division II==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division II tournament, which was played in Miskolc, Hungary at Miskolc Arena from April 15 through April 21, 2007.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	39	9 	15
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	48	7 	12
 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	21	23	8
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	17	37	6
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	11	36	3
 	5 	0	0 	1 	4	9 	33	1
 is promoted to Division I and will is relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	BEL 	EST 	HUN 	ISR 	MEX 	NED
BEL 	 	3 - 8 	0 - 16	5 - 2 	5 - 4 	4 - 7
EST 	8 - 3 	  	0 - 7 	9 - 0 	3 - 2 (SO)	1 - 11
HUN 	16 - 0	7 - 0 	 	12 - 3	10 - 0 	3 - 4
ISR 	2 - 5 	0 - 9 	3 - 12	 	5 - 3 	1 - 7
MEX 	4 - 5 	2 - 3 (SO)	0 - 10	3 - 5 	  	1 - 10
NED 	7 - 4 	11 - 1 	4 - 3 	7 - 1 	10 - 1 	 
===Group B===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania at Vakar Lajos Icerink from March 12 through March 18, 2007.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	32	9 	15
 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	27	14	11
 	5 	2	0 	2 	1	24	19	8
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	15	25	6
 	5 	0	2 	0 	3	13	25	4
 	5 	0	0 	1 	4	10	29	1
 is promoted to Division I and will is relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	AUS 	CRO 	KOR 	LTU 	ROM 	SER
AUS 	  	5 - 4 (OT)	2 - 6 	2 - 8 	0 - 4 	4 - 3 (OT)
CRO 	4 - 5 (OT)	  	4 - 5 (OT)	1 - 8 	10 - 0	5 - 1
KOR 	6 - 2 	5 - 4 (OT)	  	2 - 5 	6 - 3 	8 - 0
LTU 	8 - 2 	8 - 1 	5 - 2 	 	6 - 4 	5 - 2
ROM 	4 - 0 	0 - 10 	3 - 6 	4 - 6 	 	6 - 4
SER 	3 - 4 (OT)	1 - 5 	0 - 8 	2 - 5 	4 - 6 	 
==Division III==
The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, which was played in Beijing, China at the Hosa Skating Center from March 5 through March 11, 2007.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	54	9 	15
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	46	16	12
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	41	17	9
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	30	25	6
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	11	53	3
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	6 	68	0
 and are promoted to Division II for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	CHN 	ESP 	ISL 	NZL 	RSA 	TUR
CHN 	 	4 - 9 	6 - 3 	11 - 2	10 - 2	15 - 0
ESP 	9 - 4 	 	6 - 3 	5 - 1 	18 - 1	16 - 0
ISL 	3 - 6 	3 - 6 	 	5 - 2 	14 - 2	16 - 1
NZL 	11 - 2	1 - 5 	2 - 5 	 	9 - 1 	16 - 3
RSA 	2 - 10	1 - 18	2 - 14	1 - 9 	 	5 - 2
TUR 	0 - 15	0 - 16	1 - 16	3 - 16	2 - 5 	 
==Team Photos==
2007Spain U18.jpg|Spain
==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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