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
 	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
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10 	
 and are relegated to Division I for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.
==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	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	7 - 0 	7 - 1 	9 - 0 	8 - 2 	5 - 2
 	0 - 7 	 	9 - 0 	1 - 4 	7 - 2 	2 - 0
 	1 - 7 	0 - 9 	 	2 - 3 	6 - 5 	4 - 2
 	0 - 9 	4 - 1 	3 - 2 	 	0 - 5 	0 - 1
 	2 - 8 	2 - 7 	5 - 6 	5 - 0 	 	1 - 3
 	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	 	 	 	 	 	
 	  	2 - 1 (OT)	6 - 1 	0 - 2 	2 - 0 	1 - 2
 	1 - 2 (OT)	  	4 - 3 	1 - 3 	10 - 0	1 - 2
 	1 - 6 	3 - 4 	 	0 - 9 	7 - 4 	1 - 3
 	2 - 0 	3 - 1 	9 - 0 	 	7 - 0 	0 - 1
 	0 - 2 	0 - 10 	4 - 7 	0 - 7 	 	0 - 7
 	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.
====Results====
Team	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	1 - 2 	4 - 5 	1 - 6 	2 - 10	0 - 10
 	2 - 1 	  	5 - 4 	4 - 5 	0 - 16	3 - 4 (OT)
 	5 - 4 	4 - 5 	 	5 - 17	0 - 16	0 - 10
 	6 - 1 	5 - 4 	17 - 5	 	1 - 8 	3 - 6
 	10 - 2	16 - 0 	16 - 0	8 - 1 	 	3 - 1
 	10 - 0	4 - 3 (OT)	10 - 0	6 - 3 	1 - 3 	 
===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.
====Results====
Team	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	1 - 2 	2 - 4 	4 - 3 	12 - 4	1 - 8
 	2 - 1 	 	3 - 5 	2 - 3 	10 - 3	3 - 2
 	4 - 2 	5 - 3 	 	1 - 3 	12 - 0	5 - 3
 	3 - 4 	3 - 2 	3 - 1 	 	19 - 1	9 - 4
 	4 - 12	3 - 10	0 - 12	1 - 19	 	3 - 15
 	8 - 1 	2 - 3 	3 - 5 	4 - 9 	15 - 3	 
==Division III==
Division III consisted of two separate tournaments. The Group A tournament was held between 2 and 8 March 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico and the Group B tournament was held between 3 and 9 March 2008 in İzmit, Turkey. Mexico and Serbia won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division II for the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships.
;Final standings
Group A
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Group B
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==See also==
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
*2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III
==References==
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==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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