2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2005 World Junior (Under 20) Ice Hockey Championships (2005 WJHC) was held between December 25, 2004, and January 4, 2005, at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. Canada was the winner. North American teams, and to a lesser extent some European teams as well, greatly benefited from the 2004–05 NHL lockout. Several players who would have otherwise been playing professional hockey in the National Hockey League (and thus unable to participate in the Championships), were able to participate in the tournament. As a likely result, some games ended with some of the most lop-sided scores in the tournament's history. 
==Rosters==
==Championship results==
===Preliminary round===
====Group A====
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	4 	3	1	0	21	9 	6
 	4 	3	1	0	16	9 	6
 	4 	2	2	0	15	16	4
 	4 	1	3	0	12	17	2
 	4 	1	3	0	9 	22	2
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====Group B====
Team 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4 	4	0	0	32	5 	8
 	4 	2	2	0	14	13	4
 	4 	2	2	0	10	15	4
 	4 	2	2	0	10	10	4
 	4 	0	4	0	1 	24	0
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===Relegation round===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	10	3 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	12	3 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	4 	13	2
 	3 	0	3	0	4 	11	0
Note: Matches 5–0 and 5–0 from the preliminary round are included as well since these results carry forward.
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 and are relegated to Division I for the 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
===Final round===
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====Quarterfinals====
====Semifinals====
====Fifth place game====
====Bronze medal game====
====Gold medal game====
===Scoring leaders===
  	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Canada Patrice Bergeron 	6 	5	8	13 	6
Canada Ryan Getzlaf 	6 	3	9	12 	8
Russia Alexander Ovechkin 	6 	7	4	11 	4
Canada Jeff Carter 	6 	7	3	10 	6
Czech Republic Rostislav Olesz	7 	7	3	10 	12
Russia Evgeni Malkin 	6 	3	7	10 	16
Canada Sidney Crosby 	6 	6	3	9 	4
United States Drew Stafford 	7 	5	4	9 	14
Sweden Johannes Salmonsson 	6 	5	3	8 	0
Czech Republic Petr Vrána 	7 	5	3	8 	16
===Goaltending leaders===
  	Mins	GA	GAA 	Sv%
Canada Réjean Beauchemin 	60 	0 	0.00	1.000
Belarus Dzmitry Milchakou 	9 	0 	0.00	1.000
Czech RepublicVladislav Koutsky	60 	1 	1.00	.974
Canada Jeff Glass 	300 	7 	1.40	.922
Czech Republic Marek Schwarz 	362 	13	2.15	.925
Slovakia Jaroslav Halák 	360 	13	2.17	.916
Russia Anton Khudobin 	263 	12	2.73	.901
Finland Tuukka Rask 	243 	12	2.96	.902
Russia Andrei Kuznetsov 	96 	5 	3.11	.868
Switzerland Michael Tobler 	359 	20	3.34	.880
===Awards===
====All-Star Team====
Goaltender: 
Czech RepublicMarek Schwarz
Defense: 
Canada Dion Phaneuf, 
United States Ryan Suter
Forwards: 
Russia Alexander Ovechkin, 
Canada Patrice Bergeron, 
Canada Jeff Carter
====Most Valuable Player====
Canada Patrice Bergeron
==Division I==
The Division I Championships were held December 13-December 19, 2004, in Sheffield, United Kingdom (Group A), and in Narva, Estonia (Group B).
Final standings
===Group A===
  	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Norway 	5 	5	0	0	29	12	10
Kazakhstan 	5 	4	1	0	29	15	8
Austria 	5 	3	2	0	12	16	6
France 	5 	2	3	0	18	19	4
Italy 	5 	1	4	0	11	16	2
United Kingdom	5 	0	5	0	8 	29	0
Leading scorer: Mathis Olimb, Norway (4 goals, 5 assists; 9 points).
===Group B===
  	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Latvia 	5 	4	0	1	28	12	9
Slovenia	5 	3	2	0	28	12	6
Denmark 	5 	3	2	0	22	13	6
Poland 	5 	2	1	2	15	13	6
Ukraine 	5 	1	3	1	11	19	3
Estonia 	5 	0	5	0	6 	41	0
Leading scorer: Anže Kopitar, Slovenia (10 goals, 3 assists; 13 points).
Norway and Latvia advance to the 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships while the United Kingdom and Estonia are relegated to Division II.
==Division II==
The Division II Championships were held January 3-January 9, 2005, in Bucharest, Romania (Group A), and December 13-December 19, 2004, in Puigcerdà, Spain (Group B).
===Group A===
  	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Japan 	5 	4	0	1	32	4 	9
Romania 	5 	3	1	1	23	13	7
Netherlands 	5 	3	2	0	29	14	6
China 	5 	3	2	0	16	14	6
Serbia and Montenegro	5 	1	4	0	11	36	2
Lithuania 	5 	0	5	0	5 	35	0
===Group B===
  	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Hungary 	5 	5	0	0	41	10	10
South Korea	5 	4	1	0	46	12	8
Croatia 	5 	3	2	0	27	21	6
Spain 	5 	2	3	0	14	32	4
Australia 	5 	1	4	0	16	40	2
Belgium 	5 	0	5	0	12	41	0
Leading scorer: Park Woo-Sang, South Korea (12 goals, 8 assists; 20 points).
Hungary and Japan are promoted to Division I; Belgium and Lithuania are relegated to Division III.
==Division III==
The Division III Championships were held January 10-January 16, 2005, in Mexico City, Mexico.
===Teams===
  	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Mexico 	5 	5	0	0	37	6 	10
New Zealand 	5 	3	1	1	28	15	7
Iceland 	5 	3	2	0	30	19	6
South Africa	5 	2	2	1	15	24	5
Turkey 	5 	1	4	0	10	27	2
Bulgaria 	5 	0	5	0	10	39	0
==Team Photos==
05CanadaJunior.jpg|Canada
==External links==
* Live Updates at IIHF.com
* Team Canada: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/junior/2005/index.html
* Team USA: http://www.usahockey.com/2005wjc/
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