2011 IIHF World Championship

The 2011 IIHF World Championship was the 75th IIHF World Championship, an annual international men's ice hockey tournament. It took place between 29 April and 15 May 2011 in Slovakia. The games were played in the Orange Arena in Bratislava, and the Steel Aréna in Košice. The Czech team was the defending champion.

2011 IIHF World Championship
Majstrovstvá sveta v ľadovom hokeji 2011
2011 IIHF World Championship official logo
Tournament details
Host country Slovakia
Dates29 April – 15 May
Teams16
Arena(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Finland (2nd title)
Runner-up  Sweden
Third place  Czech Republic
Fourth place Russia
Tournament statistics
Matches played56
Goals scored325 (5.8 per match)
Attendance406,804 (7,264 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Jarkko Immonen
(12 points)
MVP Viktor Fasth
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Main article: 2011 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

This was the first time the independent Slovakia hosted the World Championships. However, this was the third time that Bratislava co-hosted the World Championships. The first two times were 1959 and 1992, each time with Prague, and while part of Czechoslovakia.

Finland won the gold medal after beating Sweden in the final 6–1. This was the second title for Finland.

Tournament format

The tournament is divided into four stages. The Preliminary round, Qualification round and Relegation round use a round-robin format with each team playing every other team in its group once. The winner of a game in regulation time will earn 3 points, with the loser earning zero points. The winner of a game decided in overtime or in a shootout will be awarded 2 points, with the loser getting one point. Teams in the Preliminary round are divided into four groups of four teams each; the last-place team in each group moves to the Relegation round while the remainder move to the Qualification round. The Qualification round is divided into two groups of six teams each with the top four teams in each group moving to the Playoff round. Games played in the Preliminary round against teams in the same Qualification round group count for the Qualification round standings; therefore, teams who were previously in the same Preliminary round group do not play each other again in the Qualification round. The Relegation round is a single group of four teams with the bottom 2 teams being relegated to Division I of the World Championships. The tournament concludes with the Playoff round, which is an 8-team tournament, to determine the winners of the gold, silver and bronze medals.

In the event of a tie in points at the conclusion of the Preliminary, Qualification or Relegation rounds, the following tie-breaker format will be used:

  1. Points earned in games against tied teams
  2. Goal differential in games against tied teams
  3. Highest number of goals in games against tied teams
  4. Repetition of steps 1, 2 and 3, in order, including results against the next closest ranked team to the tied teams
  5. Repetition of step 4, including the next closest ranked teams one at a time
  6. 2010 IIHF World Ranking

[1]

Rosters
Main article: 2011 IIHF World Championship rosters

Each teams roster for the 2011 IIHF World Championship consists of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 20 skaters and 3 goaltenders. All sixteen participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate meeting on 28 April 2011.[2]

Summary

Preliminary round
Match between Russia and Slovenia (Group A), 1 May 2011

The first gameday in Group A started with an upset, when Germany went on to win 2–0 against Russia after goals from Thomas Greilinger in the second period and Patrick Reimer, who decided the game with a goal two minutes before the final horn.[3] It was the first win for the German team over Russia in a World Championship and the first one since the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. After the second gameday, the group was decided in the outcome who advances and who would battle against relegation. Germany pulled another surprise victory over host Slovakia; after being down 4–0, Slovakia started a comeback but could only cut the deficit to one, losing by a final of 4–3. Germany was the group winner and advanced alongside Slovakia and Russia into the second round, while Slovenia finished fourth and went to the relegation round.[4] The last time Germany won a preliminary round group was 78 years ago, in 1933.

Group B saw the first overtime of the tournament in a game between Switzerland and France. Julien Vauclair scored the decisive goal after 1:46 minutes played in overtime.[5] Canada defeated Switzerland after overtime to capture first place,[6] while France won against Belarus to go through to the qualifying round and sent Belarus to the relegation round.[7]

In Group C, Sweden played against Norway and it was a back-and-forth game. Sweden went up 3–1 in the first period, but Norway fought back and at the end it was 4–4 after 60 minutes. The overtime went scoreless and so it went into a shootout; Per-Åge Skrøder scored on the first try for Norway and Eriksson missed on the first for Sweden and so Norway won 5–4, making it their first win against the Scandinavian rival in World Championship history.[8] Sweden and the US team both got their second wins as the United States came back from being down 0–2 to win 4–2 against Norway.[9] On the last gameday, Sweden captured the top seed in the group after a 6–2 win over the USA.[10] Norway followed those two in the qualifying round after a 5–0 win over Austria, who found themselves in the relegation round.[11]

Group D saw two wins from the respective favorites at the start: Finland and the Czech Republic. The picture was the same on the second game day, though Finland needed a shootout against Latvia to win 3–2. Jarkko Immonen scored the game-winning goal.[12] Denmark needed a win over Latvia to advance and they got one after a shootout; 3–2 was the end result, Latvia then saw themselves facing the relegation.[13]

Qualifying round

Every game in Group E was close, each was decided by one goal. The Czech team was still perfect after their fifth win, defeating Russia 3–2. Alongside them, Germany, Russia and Finland qualified for the quarterfinals and the Czech team was set to win the group with one more game to play.[14] The host Slovakia was eliminated after losing to Finland 1–2.[15] After the last game day, the Czech team was still perfect after winning 5–2 against Germany.[16]

In Group F, Canada and Sweden played each other to determine the group winner, and the United States also qualified for the quarterfinals.[17] Switzerland and Norway played for the last spot in the final round as Norway will face France which are already eliminated before their last game. Switzerland won 5–3 against the United States but they were still eliminated[18] because Norway defeated France 5–2 to advance to the quarterfinals.[19]

Relegation round

After two game days in Group G every team had three points and so the last two games determined the two teams going down and the two that remained in the top division for the next year. Slovenia faced Belarus, while Latvia played against Austria. Belarus crushed Slovenia into the Division A with a 7–1 win to stay in the top division.[20] Austria joined Slovenia in the second division after losing against Latvia 1–4.[21]

Playoff round

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals started with the undefeated Czech Republic against Team USA. The United States started off better but Jaromír Jágr scored for the Czechs to take a 1–0 into the first intermission. Jágr scored the second goal during a 5 on 3 power play after a strong shot from the right side. The third goal came after a good combination over the whole ice leading to a goal by Tomáš Plekanec. Jágr became the man of the match after he scored his third goal four minutes before the end during another power play and the game ended in a comfortable 4–0 win for the Czech Republic.[22]

In the evening game, Sweden took on Germany and scored the first goal in the first minute by Martin Thörnberg. Germany came right back and tied the game after two minutes as Alexander Barta was credited with the goal. Both teams had chances during the first period but Sweden took the 2–1 lead into the intermission. In the second period Sweden went up 4–1 before Germany came closer by going 2–4 in the last break. Sweden scored a goal in the last period which was disallowed because a whistle occurred before the goal was scored, however Thörnberg scored his second goal of the night shortly after and Sweden won 5–2 at the end. Both, Thörnberg and Berglund were credited with three points.[23]

Day two of the quarterfinals started with a Nordic matchup as Finland faced Norway. After a scoreless opening period, Norway took the lead after Ken André Olimb scored on a penalty shot. Five minutes later, Finland had the lead after two quick goals. Jarkko Immonen scored his second goal to give Finland a two-goal lead before Jani Lajunen scored to make it 4–1 for the Finnish squad. Three of those four goals were scored during a power play. The third and last period went scoreless again and so Finland won 4–1, Mikael Granlund scored two points in the game alongside Immonen.[24]

The last game of the quarterfinal round brought up a rivalry between Russia and Team Canada. Jason Spezza seemed to be the hero after he scored the first goal after 25 minutes and the lead held into the last period, when Alexei Kaigorodov went on his way to score the equalizer shorthanded, he went by two defenders to put the puck high into the Canadian net. Three minutes later, Ilya Kovalchuk scored to give Russia the lead. Canada pulled the goalie with a minute to go but they did not score, and Russia won the game 2–1.[25]

Semifinals

The first semifinal was the matchup between the favourite and defending champion, the Czech Republic against Sweden. After the first period went scoreless Patrik Eliáš brought the lead to the Czechs after just 46 seconds into the second period. Sweden struck back twice with goals from Patrik Berglund and Mikael Backlund to take a one-goal lead into the last intermission. Jimmie Ericsson and Marcus Krüger scored to increase Sweden's lead to 4–1. Six minutes before the end, Eliáš scored his second goal and the Czechs gained hope again. They pulled their goaltender with under a minute to go but Sweden's Berglund scored an empty net goal. The Czech Republic was eliminated and Sweden advanced to the final with a 5–2 win.[26]

In the evening game of the semifinals Finland played against Russia. Despite having a so-so tournament so far the Russian team qualified for this late stage of it. Konstantin Barulin was again the goaltender instead of Evgeni Nabokov and the first period ended scoreless. Mikael Granlund scored an airhook goal to take the Finnish team into a 1–0 lead in the second period. The goal has been noted by multiple media outlets worldwide as the finest goal in the tournament, and as one of the finest in the history of international hockey. In the last period Jani Lajunen scored the second goal before Immonen decided the game with the 3–0 goal, assisted by Granlund. Both players received their second point in the game.[27]

Bronze medal game

The Czech Republic took on Russia for the bronze medal. The first period was a wild one ending in a 3–2 advantage for the Russian team while Ilya Kovalchuk scored two goals. The second period belonged to the Czech team after Petr Průcha scored his second point and Roman Červenka his second goal in the game. After the lead grew to 5–3 Vladimir Tarasenko brought Russia back into the game making it a one-goal game before the last period. After Jan Marek scored to make it 6–4, the Russian team pulled their goalie with two minutes to go. The Czech's Tomáš Plekanec scored an empty net goal to decide the game and give the Czech Republic the bronze medal after winning 7–4.[28]

Gold medal game
Main article: 2011 IIHF World Championship Final
Captain Mikko Koivu holds the trophy as the Finnish team arrives at Market Square in Helsinki to celebrate the title with about 100,000 fans.

The gold medal game was played between Sweden and Finland at the Orange Arena on 15 May.[29]

After a goal-less first period, Sweden opened the game with a 1–0 goal by Magnus Pääjärvi in the second period at 27:40. Seven seconds before the period's end, Finland's Jarkko Immonen scored to tie the game 1–1. Finland took the lead early in the third period, scoring two goals at 42:35 and 43:21 by Nokelainen and Kapanen. Sweden took a time-out before the last period's half but did not manage to regroup, and the tournament was decided by a clear 6–1 victory to Finland by Janne Pesonen's, Mika Pyörälä's and Pihlström goals.[30]

Host selection

Four nations, all located in Europe placed formal bids to host the 2011 IIHF World Championship. Those nations were:

Finland withdrew from bidding before voting began in order to apply for the 2012 World Championship. Finland and Sweden would both later win respective bids to host in 2012 and 2013, but this decision was later changed instead for the two Nordic countries to be joint hosts of the 2012, and 2013 IIHF World Championship editions.[31]

After one round of voting, the winning bid was announced by IIHF president René Fasel on 19 May 2006, at the delegates congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Riga, Latvia. Slovakia's bidding cities received 70 votes, followed by the Swedish bid cities of Stockholm, and Gothenburg with 20 votes, and finally the Hungarian bid with 14 votes. The required 50% of the vote had been attained in the first round, which finalized Slovakia's successful bid.[32]

Ivan Gašparovič, the President of Slovakia, was instrumental in Slovakia winning its successful bid, as he came in person to the delegates congress in Riga to endorse his country's bid, and convince the IIHF delegates of the viability of Slovakia. Gašparovič is himself an avid hockey fan and past vice-president of the Slovak Extraliga team, HC Slovan Bratislava.[33]

Voting results
Country Votes
 Slovakia70
 Sweden20
 Hungary14
  •  Finland withdrew from the 2011 bid prior to the start of the congress, postponed 2012.

Promotions
Goooly, mascot of the 2011 World Championship

Official song

Song Life is a Game by Slovak singer Kristina was officially released on 18 March.

Mascot

Goooly[34] is the official mascot of the tournament. Goooly is a Gray wolf, and Igor Nemeček, the 2011 IIHF World Championship general director, said he was chosen because: "Wolves are animals which are typically Slovak, evoking our forests and countryside".[35] Over 14,000 entries were submitted for a national contest to name the mascot organized in association with Radio Expres and the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation.[36] It is a word-play on the Slovak words for goal, and/or goals (Slovak: gól, góly).[37] Goooly, the mascot, was subjected to considerable ridicule in the English-speaking world because "gooly" is a well known slang term for a testicle.[38]

Motto

Slovenská republika. Hokejová republika. (Slovak Republic. Hockey Republic).

Ambassadors

The official ambassadors of the 2011 IIHF World Championship Slovakia are Slovak hockey players Peter Bondra, Zdeno Chára, Marián Gáborík, Ľubomír Višňovský, Pavol Demitra, Jozef Stümpel, Marián Hossa, Miroslav Šatan and Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič.[39]

Venues

The Orange Arena in Bratislava, also known as the Ondrej Nepela Arena, was substantially upgraded for the championship, in line with IIHF, Slovak, and international specifications, largely funded by the Slovakian government. Construction began on 23 April 2009 and was completed on 30 November 2010.[40] More than €65 million ($90 million USD) was spent to install a new roof, modernize facilities, build two new adjacent practice arenas, and bring the seating from 8,350 to 10,000.[41][42] The Steel Aréna, also known as the Ladislav Troják Arena, which was newly constructed in 2006, had a new €11 million practice rink built adjacent, between April 2009 and February 2010 for the World Championship legacy of future hockey development in Slovakia.[43] The stadium would have the name Orange Arena, but only for the time of World Championship 2011 29 April 2011 to 15 May 2011[44]

Both arenas were known by their Slovak honorific titles during the 2011 World Championship to correspond with IIHF neutral non-inclusive sponsorship rules.[45] (Samsung Arena as the Ondrej Nepela Arena, and Steel Aréna as the Ladislav Troják Arena.)

Bratislava
Host cities of the 2011 World Championship in Slovakia
 Košice
Orange Arena1 Steel Arena2
48°08′38″N 17°06′35″E 48°43′16″N 21°15′27″E
Capacity: 9 246[46] Capacity: 7 628[46]
  • ^1 As Ondrej Nepela Arena
  • ^2 As Ladislav Troják Arena

Nations

The following 16 nations qualified for the elite-pool tournament. 14 nations from Europe, and two nations from North America were represented.

* = Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2010 IIHF World Championship
^ = Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2010 IIHF World Championship Division I
† = Qualified as hosts (and as automatic qualifier)

Seeding and Groups
See also: IIHF World Ranking

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2010 IIHF World Ranking, which ends at the conclusion of the 2010 IIHF World Championship.[48] The 2010 Olympics were included. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding (in parenthesis is the corresponding world ranking):

Preliminary round

Sixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the Qualifying Round. The last team in each group competes in the Relegation Round.

Groups A and D played in Bratislava, and groups B and C played in Košice.

     Team advanced to Qualifying Round
     Team competes in Relegation Round

Group A
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Germany 3210095+48
 Russia 32001109+16
 Slovakia 310029903
 Slovenia 30012712−51

All times are local (UTC+2).

29 April 2011
16:15		Germany 2–0
(0–0, 1–0, 1–0)		 RussiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,049
29 April 2011
20:15		Slovakia 3–1
(0–0, 1–1, 2–0)		 SloveniaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,248
1 May 2011
16:15		Russia 6–4
(1–0, 1–1, 4–3)		 SloveniaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,090
1 May 2011
20:15		Slovakia 3–4
(0–0, 0–3, 3–1)		 GermanyOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,303
3 May 2011
16:15		Slovenia 2–3 GWS
(1–0, 1–1, 0–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 GermanyOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 8,010
3 May 2011
20:15		Russia 4–3
(2–1, 1–2, 1–0)		 SlovakiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,314

Group B
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Canada 32100175+128
  Switzerland 3111085+36
 France 30111311−83
 Belarus 30012310−71

All times are local (UTC+2).

29 April 2011
16:15		Switzerland  1–0 OT
(0–0, 0–0, 0–0)
( OT: 1–0 )		 FranceSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 2,964
29 April 2011
20:15		Belarus 1–4
(1–1, 0–1, 0–2)		 CanadaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 6,025
1 May 2011
16:15		Canada 9–1
(3–0, 2–1, 4–0)		 FranceSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,457
1 May 2011
20:15		Switzerland  4–1
(1–0, 3–1, 0–0)		 BelarusSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 3,193
3 May 2011
16:15		Canada 4–3 OT
(0–1, 2–0, 1–2)
( OT: 1–0 )		  SwitzerlandSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 7,214
3 May 2011
20:15		France 2–1 OT
(1–0, 0–0, 0–1)
( OT: 1–0 )		 BelarusSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 3,968

Group C
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Sweden 32010137+67
 United States 32001119+26
 Norway 31101128+45
 Austria 30003113−120

All times are local (UTC+2).

30 April 2011
16:15		United States 5–1
(2–0, 1–1, 2–0)		 AustriaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,495
30 April 2011
20:15		Norway 5–4 GWS
(1–3, 2–0, 1–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 SwedenSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 5,147
2 May 2011
16:15		United States 4–2
(0–2, 0–0, 4–0)		 NorwaySteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,149
2 May 2011
20:15		Sweden 3–0
(1–0, 1–0, 1–0)		 AustriaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 3,704
4 May 2011
16:15		Austria 0–5
(0–3, 0–1, 0–1)		 NorwaySteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,355
4 May 2011
20:15		Sweden 6–2
(1–1, 3–0, 2–1)		 United StatesSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 7,401

Group D
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Czech Republic 33000123+99
 Finland 3110195+45
 Denmark 30102413−92
 Latvia 30021610−42

All times are local (UTC+2).

30 April 2011
16:15		Finland 5–1
(0–0, 2–0, 3–1)		 DenmarkOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,125
30 April 2011
20:15		Czech Republic 4–2
(1–1, 1–1, 2–0)		 LatviaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,219
2 May 2011
16:15		Czech Republic 6–0
(1–0, 4–0, 1–0)		 DenmarkOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,217
2 May 2011
20:15		Latvia 2–3 GWS
(0–1, 1–0, 1–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 FinlandOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,210
4 May 2011
16:15		Denmark 3–2 GWS
(1–0, 1–2, 0–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 LatviaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 8,870
4 May 2011
20:15		Finland 1–2
(0–0, 0–1, 1–1)		 Czech RepublicOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,310

Qualifying round

The top three teams from each group of the Preliminary Round advanced to the Qualifying Round. They were placed into two groups: teams from Groups A and D were placed into Group E, while teams from Groups B and C were placed into Group F. Every team kept the points from preliminary round matches against teams who also advanced. The teams played a single round robin, but didn't play against teams that they had already met in preliminary groups.[49]

The top four teams in both groups E and F advanced to the Playoff Round.

     Team advanced to the Playoff Round
     Team eliminated from advancing

Group E
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Czech Republic 55000197+1215
 Finland 522011610+610
 Germany 520211517−28
 Russia 520121214−27
 Slovakia 510041314−13
 Denmark 50104922−132

All times are local (UTC+2).

5 May 2011
20:15		Russia 4–3
(1–2, 2–0, 1–1)		 DenmarkOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,204
6 May 2011
16:15		Germany 4–5 GWS
(1–1, 3–2, 0–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 FinlandOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,255
6 May 2011
20:15		Czech Republic 3–2
(1–0, 0–1, 2–1)		 SlovakiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,313
7 May 2011
16:15		Denmark 4–3 GWS
(1–1, 1–1, 1–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 GermanyOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,299
7 May 2011
20:15		Finland 2–1
(0–1, 0–0, 2–0)		 SlovakiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,321
8 May 2011
16:15		Czech Republic 3–2
(2–0, 0–1, 1–1)		 RussiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,308
9 May 2011
12:15		Slovakia 4–1
(2–1, 0–0, 2–0)		 DenmarkOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,307
9 May 2011
16:15		Russia 2–3 GWS
(2–0, 0–2, 0–0)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)		 FinlandOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,292
9 May 2011
20:15		Germany 2–5
(1–2, 0–3, 1–0)		 Czech RepublicOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,305

Group F
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Canada 532002311+1213
 Sweden 530111810+810
 Norway 521021715+28
 United States 520121519−47
  Switzerland 511121112−16
 France 50014522−171

All times are local (UTC+2).

5 May 2011
20:15		Switzerland  2–3
(0–2, 1–0, 1–1)		 NorwaySteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 2,820
6 May 2011
16:15		Canada 4–3 GWS
(0–0, 1–2, 2–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–0)		 United StatesSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 7,485
6 May 2011
20:15		Sweden 4–0
(3–0, 0–0, 1–0)		 FranceSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,761
7 May 2011
16:15		Norway 2–3
(0–1, 0–1, 2–1)		 CanadaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,978
7 May 2011
20:15		United States 3–2
(1–1, 2–0, 0–1)		 FranceSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 3,101
8 May 2011
16:15		Sweden 2–0
(0–0, 0–0, 2–0)		  SwitzerlandSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 5,941
9 May 2011
12:15		France 2–5
(1–3, 1–1, 0–1)		 NorwaySteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 3,178
9 May 2011
16:15		Switzerland  5–3
(2–1, 2–1, 1–1)		 United StatesSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,939
9 May 2011
20:15		Canada 3–2
(2–1, 0–1, 1–0)		 SwedenSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 7,633

Relegation round

The bottom team in the standings from each group of the Preliminary Round plays in the Relegation Round. The bottom two teams in the Relegation Round move down to Division 1 for the 2012 World Championship.

     Team qualified for the 2012 IIHF World Championship
     Team relegated to Division I

Group G
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Latvia 32001129+36
 Belarus 32001179+86
 Austria 31002613−73
 Slovenia 31002812−43

All times are local (UTC+2).

5 May 2011
16:15		Slovenia 5–2
(0–0, 3–0, 2–2)		 LatviaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 7,467
5 May 2011
16:15		Belarus 7–2
(3–0, 2–0, 2–2)		 AustriaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,483
7 May 2011
12:15		Austria 3–2
(1–0, 1–2, 1–0)		 SloveniaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,033
7 May 2011
12:15		Belarus 3–6
(1–3, 1–1, 1–2)		 LatviaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,976
8 May 2011
20:15		Slovenia 1–7
(0–2, 1–3, 0–2)		 BelarusOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 8,708
8 May 2011
20:15		Latvia 4–1
(2–0, 1–0, 1–1)		 AustriaSteel Aréna, Košice
Attendance: 4,110

Playoff round
  Quarterfinals Semifinals
                           
  E1  Czech Republic 4  
F4  United States 0  
  QF1  Czech Republic 2  
  QF2  Sweden 5  
F2  Sweden 5 Final
  E3  Germany 2  
    SF1  Sweden 1
  SF2  Finland 6
  F1  Canada 1  
E4  Russia 2  
  QF3  Russia 0 Bronze medal game
  QF4  Finland 3  
E2  Finland 4 SF1  Czech Republic 7
  F3  Norway 1   SF2  Russia 4

Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC+2).

11 May 2011
16:15		Czech Republic 4–0
(1–0, 1–0, 2–0)		 United StatesOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,311
11 May 2011
20:15		Sweden 5–2
(2–1, 2–1, 1–0)		 GermanyOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 8,986
12 May 2011
16:15		Finland 4–1
(0–0, 4–1, 0–0)		 NorwayOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 8,947
12 May 2011
20:15		Canada 1–2
(0–0, 1–0, 0–2)		 RussiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,300

Semifinals

All times are local (UTC+2).

13 May
16:15		Czech Republic 2–5
(0–0, 1–2, 1–3)		 SwedenOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,285
13 May
20:15		Finland 3–0
(0–0, 1–0, 2–0)		 RussiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,272

Bronze medal game

Time is local (UTC+2).

15 May
16:00		Czech Republic 7–4
(2–3, 3–1, 2–0)		 RussiaOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,283

Gold medal game

Time is local (UTC+2).

Main article: 2011 IIHF World Championship Final
15 May
20:30		Sweden 1–6
(0–0, 1–1, 0–5)		 FinlandOrange Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 9,166

Ranking and statistics
 


 2011 IIHF World Championship Winners 

Finland
2nd title

Tournament awards

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

 Finland
 Sweden
 Czech Republic
4 Russia
5 Canada
6 Norway
7 Germany
8 United States
9  Switzerland
10 Slovakia
11 Denmark
12 France
13 Latvia
14 Belarus
15 Austria
16 Slovenia

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS
Jarkko Immonen99312+22FW
Patrik Berglund98210+68FW
Tomáš Plekanec86410+36FW
Roman Červenka94610+74FW
John Tavares7549+612FW
Jaromír Jágr9549+54FW
Patrik Eliáš9459+46FW
Mikael Granlund9279+32FW
Mathis Olimb718904FW
Marius Holtet7628+64FW

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position

Source: IIHF.com

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO
Petri Vehanen388:1317581.2495.431
Viktor Fasth420:00221121.7194.573
Ondřej Pavelec479:16247151.8893.932
Tobias Stephan240:4811171.7493.690
Lars Haugen422:18257192.7092.611

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts

Source: IIHF.com

Officials

The IIHF selected 16 referees and 16 linesmen to work the 2011 IIHF World Championship. They are the following:[50]

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gollark: > `import hashlib`Hashlib is still important!> `for entry, ubq323 in {**globals(), **__builtins__, **sys.__dict__, **locals(), CONSTANT: Entry()}.items():`Iterate over a bunch of things. I think only the builtins and globals are actually used.The stuff under here using `blake2s` stuff is actually written to be ridiculously unportable, to hinder analysis. This caused issues when trying to run it, so I had to hackily patch in the `/local` thing a few minutes before the deadline.> `for PyObject in gc.get_objects():`When I found out that you could iterate over all objects ever, this had to be incorporated somehow. This actually just looks for some random `os` function, and when it finds it loads the obfuscated code.> `F, G, H, I = typing(lookup[7]), typing(lookup[8]), __import__("functools"), lambda h, i, *a: F(G(h, i))`This is just a convoluted way to define `enumerate(range))` in one nice function.> `print(len(lookup), lookup[3], typing(lookup[3])) #`This is what actually loads the obfuscated stuff. I think.> `class iｎt(typing(lookup[0])):`Here we subclass `complex`. `complex` is used for 2D coordinates within the thing, so I added some helper methods, such as `__iter__`, allowing unpacking of complex numbers into real and imaginary parts, `abs`, which generates a complex number a+ai, and `ℝ`, which provvides the floored real parts of two things.> `class Mаtrix:`This is where the magic happens. It actually uses unicode homoglyphs again, for purposes.> `self = typing("dab7d4733079c8be454e64192ce9d20a91571da25fc443249fc0be859b227e5d")`> `rows = gc`I forgot what exactly the `typing` call is looking up, but these aren't used for anything but making the fake type annotations work.> `def __init__(rows: self, self: rows):`This slightly nonidiomatic function simply initializes the matrix's internals from the 2D array used for inputs.> `if 1 > (typing(lookup[1]) in dir(self)):`A convoluted way to get whether something has `__iter__` or not.
gollark: If you guess randomly the chance of getting none right is 35%ish.
gollark: Anyway, going through #12 in order:> `import math, collections, random, gc, hashlib, sys, hashlib, smtplib, importlib, os.path, itertools, hashlib`> `import hashlib`We need some libraries to work with. Hashlib is very important, so to be sure we have hashlib we make sure to keep importing it.> `ℤ = int`> `ℝ = float`> `Row = "__iter__"`Create some aliases for int and float to make it mildly more obfuscated. `Row` is not used directly in anywhere significant.> `lookup = [...]`These are a bunch of hashes used to look up globals/objects. Some of them are not actually used. There is deliberately a comma missing, because of weird python string concattey things.```pythondef aes256(x, X): import hashlib A = bytearray() for Α, Ҙ in zip(x, hashlib.shake_128(X).digest(x.__len__())): A.append(Α ^ Ҙ) import zlib, marshal, hashlib exec(marshal.loads(zlib.decompress(A)))```Obviously, this is not actual AES-256. It is abusing SHAKE-128's variable length digests to implement what is almost certainly an awful stream cipher. The arbitrary-length hash of our key, X, is XORed with the data. Finally, the result of this is decompressed, loaded (as a marshalled function, which is extremely unportable bytecode I believe), and executed. This is only used to load one piece of obfuscated code, which I may explain later.> `class Entry(ℝ):`This is also only used once, in `typing` below. Its `__init__` function implements Rule 110 in a weird and vaguely golfy way involving some sets and bit manipulation. It inherits from float, but I don't think this does much.> `#raise SystemExit(0)`I did this while debugging the rule 110 but I thought it would be fun to leave it in.> `def typing(CONSTANT: __import__("urllib3")):`This is an obfuscated way to look up objects and load our obfuscated code.> `return getattr(Entry, CONSTANT)`I had significant performance problems, so this incorporates a cache. This was cooler™️ than dicts.
gollark: The tiebreaker algorithm is vulnerable to any attack against Boris Johnson's Twitter account.
gollark: I can't actually shut them down, as they run on arbitrary google services.
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