2008 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Kazan, Russia. The championships began on April 13, 2008 and finished on April 24, 2008. Games were played at TatNeft Arena and Arena Kazan in Kazan. Canada defeated Russia 8–0 in the final to claim the gold medal, while the United States defeated Sweden 6–3 to capture the bronze medal.
==Championship results==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Team 	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	26	9 	12
Canada	4 	3	0 	0 	1	21	7 	9
 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	13	19	5
 	4 	1	0 	1 	2	13	19	4
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	4 	23	0
=====Results=====
====Group B====
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	23	9 	12
 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	20	12	9
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	15	15	6
 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	9 	21	3
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	9 	19	0
=====Results=====
===Relegation round===
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	3 	3	0 	0 	0	14	5 	9
 	3 	2	0 	0 	1	12	6 	6
 	3 	1	0 	0 	2	9 	12	3
 	3 	0	0 	0 	3	5 	17	0
====Results====
Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:
*April 14, 2008: 5–2 
*April 16, 2008: 4–2 
===Final round===
====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
===Final standings===
Rk. 	Team
align="center"	Canada
align="center"	
align="center"	
4 	
5 	
6 	
7 	
8 	
9 	
10 	
 and are relegated to Division I for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.
===Scoring leaders===
Player 	Country	GP	G	A 	Pts	PIM
Cody Hodgson 	Canada 	7 	2	10	12 	8
Igor Revenko 	 	6 	3	8 	11 	6
Richard Panik 	 	6 	4	6 	10 	0
Jordan Eberle 	Canada 	7 	4	6 	10 	0
Taylor Hall 	Canada 	7 	4	5 	9 	4
Nikita Filatov 	 	6 	3	6 	9 	29
Alexander Fomin 	 	6 	6	2 	8 	0
Jeremy Morin 	 	7 	6	2 	8 	6
Matthew Duchene 	Canada 	7 	5	3 	8 	6
Andre Petersson 	 	6 	4	4 	8 	2
Mattias Tedenby 	 	5 	4	4 	8 	35
Andrei Loktionov	 	6 	3	5 	8 	29
Robbie Czarnik 	 	7 	3	5 	8 	10
===Goaltending leaders===
(Minimum 60 minutes played)
Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	Sv% 	GAA 	SO
Jake Allen 	Canada 	420:00	10	.948	1.43	2
Brandon Maxwell 	 	298:23	11	.926	2.21	0
Danila Alistratov	 	144:05	7 	.870	2.91	0
Marek Ciliak 	 	180:00	9 	.906	3.00	0
Jacob Markström 	 	355:09	18	.863	3.04	1
===Tournament awards===
====All-Star team====
*Goaltender: Jake Allen
*Defensemen: Victor Hedman, Vyacheslav Voinov
*Forwards: Nikita Filatov, Kirill Petrov, Mattias Tedenby
====Best players====
*Top Goaltender: Jake Allen
*Top Defenseman: Erik Karlsson
*Top Forward: Kirill Petrov
====MVP====
* Jake Allen
==Division I==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division I tournament, which was played in Toruń, Poland from April 2 through April 8, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	36	5 	15
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	19	13	9
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	13	26	6
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	7 	18	6
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	8 	12	6
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	15	24	3
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and is relegated to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	CZE 	KAZ 	LTU 	POL 	SLO 	UKR
CZE 	 	7 - 0 	7 - 1 	9 - 0 	8 - 2 	5 - 2
KAZ 	0 - 7 	 	9 - 0 	1 - 4 	7 - 2 	2 - 0
LTU 	1 - 7 	0 - 9 	 	2 - 3 	6 - 5 	4 - 2
POL 	0 - 9 	4 - 1 	3 - 2 	 	0 - 5 	0 - 1
SLO 	2 - 8 	2 - 7 	5 - 6 	5 - 0 	 	1 - 3
UKR 	2 - 5 	0 - 2 	2 - 4 	1 - 0 	3 - 1 	 
===Group B===
The following teams will take part in Group B of the Division I tournament, which will be played in Riga, Latvia from April 2 through April 8, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	15	3 	15
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	21	2 	12
 	5 	2	1 	0 	2	11	6 	8
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	17	10	7
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	12	26	3
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	4 	33	0
 is promoted to the Championship tournament and is relegated to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.
====Results====
Team	AUT 	ITA 	JPN 	LAT 	NED 	NOR
AUT 	  	2 - 1 (OT)	6 - 1 	0 - 2 	2 - 0 	1 - 2
ITA 	1 - 2 (OT)	  	4 - 3 	1 - 3 	10 - 0	1 - 2
JPN 	1 - 6 	3 - 4 	 	0 - 9 	7 - 4 	1 - 3
LAT 	2 - 0 	3 - 1 	9 - 0 	 	7 - 0 	0 - 1
NED 	0 - 2 	0 - 10 	4 - 7 	0 - 7 	 	0 - 7
NOR 	2 - 1 	2 - 1 	3 - 1 	1 - 0 	7 - 0 	 
==Division II==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of the Division II tournament, which was played in Meribel and Courchevel, France from March 30 through April 5, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	5	0 	0 	0	53	4 	15
 	5 	3	1 	0 	1	31	9 	11
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	32	24	9
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	14	30	7
 	5 	1	0 	0 	4	14	52	3
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	8 	33	0
 is promoted to Division I and is relegated to Division III for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
===Group B===
The following teams took part in Group B of the Division II tournament, which was played in Tallinn, Estonia at Arena Premia from March 23 through March 29, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	37	12	12
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	27	11	12
 	5 	3	0 	0 	2	20	14	9
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	32	21	6
 	5 	2	0 	0 	3	20	21	6
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	11	68	0
 is promoted to Division I and is relegated to Division III for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
*Official Tournament Reports
==Division III==
===Group A===
The following teams took part in Group A of Division III tournament, which was played in Mexico City, Mexico at San Jeronimo Arena from March 2 through March 9, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	32	2 	12
 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	31	23	9
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	45	18	6
 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	18	26	3
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	7 	64	0
 
 is promoted to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
===Group B===
The following teams took part Group B of the Division III tournament, which was played in Izmit, Turkey at K.B.B. Ice Arena from March 3 through March 8, 2008.
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	45	0 	12
 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	48	7 	9
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	34	26	6
 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	27	35	3
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	1 	87	0
 is promoted to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
==See also==
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championships
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championships - Division I
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championships - Division II
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championships - Division III
==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 – Group A
**Division III – Group B
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