2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship (2019 WJC) was the 43rd Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It began on December 26, 2018, and ended with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2019. This marked the 13th time that Canada hosted the WJC.
On December 1, 2016, it was announced that Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia had won the bid to host the 2019 World Juniors. This is the second time that Vancouver has been the primary host of the tournament and the first time that Victoria has hosted in any capacity.
==Venues==
Rogers ArenaCapacity: 18,910	Save-On-Foods Memorial CentreCapacity: 7,006
 	
– Vancouver 	– Victoria
===Format===
The preliminary round is a two group of five teams each internal round-robin format, followed by a three-round playoff. In the round-robin, three points are allotted for a regulation win, and two points for a overtime or shootout win. One point is allotted for an overtime or shootout loss.
The four highest-ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advance to the quarterfinals while the last-place team from each group will play a best-of-three series, the loser relegated to Division IA for 2020, being replaced by the winner of Division IA. All other teams will retain their Top Division status for the 2020 edition.
===Preliminary round===
All times are local. (Pacific Standard Time – UTC-8)
====Group A====
Team	GP	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	4	0 	0 	0	15	6 	12
 	4 	3	0 	0 	1	23	5 	9
 	4 	1	1 	0 	2	8 	8 	5
 	4 	1	0 	1 	2	11	12	4
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	0 	26	0
====Group B====
Team	GP	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	PTS
 	4 	3	1 	0 	0	16	8 	11
 	4 	3	0 	1 	0	18	9 	10
 	4 	2	0 	0 	2	12	7 	6
 	4 	1	0 	0 	3	15	14	3
 	4 	0	0 	0 	4	5 	28	0
===Relegation===
===Playoff round===
====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Bronze medal game====
====Final====
===Statistics===
==== Scoring leaders ====
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
1 	Grigori Denisenko 	 	7 	4	5	9 	+3 	4
2 	Aleksi Heponiemi 	 	7 	3	6	9 	+7 	4
3 	Artur Gatiyatov 	 	6 	5	3	8 	0 	0
4 	Ryan Poehling 	 	7 	5	3	8 	+5 	2
5 	Morgan Frost 	 	5 	4	4	8 	+8 	12
6 	Alexander Romanov 	 	7 	1	7	8 	+12	0
7 	Philipp Kurashev 	 	7 	6	1	7 	-5 	4
8 	Kirill Slepets 	 	7 	5	2	7 	+7 	4
9 	Alexander Chmelevski	 	7 	4	3	7 	0 	2
9 	Aarne Talvitie 	 	7 	4	3	7 	+9 	14
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource: IIHF
==== Goaltending leaders ====
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Pos	Player 	Country	TOI 	GA	GAA 	SA 	Sv% 	SO
1 	Lukáš Dostál 	 	239:10	5 	1.25	115	95.65	1
2 	Pyotr Kochetkov 	 	290:31	7 	1.45	149	95.30	0
3 	Michael DiPietro 	 	243:16	5 	1.23	103	95.15	1
4 	Cayden Primeau 	 	298:55	8 	1.61	126	93.65	0
5 	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	 	367:16	11	1.80	162	93.21	0
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource: IIHF
===Final standings===
===Awards===
*Best players selected by the directorate:
**Best Goaltender: Pyotr Kochetkov
**Best Defenceman: Alexander Romanov
**Best Forward: Ryan Poehling
Source: IIHF
*Media All-Stars:
**MVP: Ryan Poehling
**Goaltender: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
**Defencemen: Alexander Romanov / Erik Brännström
**Forwards: Grigori Denisenko / Philipp Kurashev / Ryan Poehling
Source: IIHF
==References==
==External links==
*2019 IIHF World Junior Championship
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Category:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
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