2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I

The 2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournaments made up the second level of competition at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 27 March and 2 April 2004 in Amstetten, Austria and the Group B tournament took place between 29 March and 4 April 2004 in Asiago, Italy. Switzerland and Germany won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Romania finished last in Group A and South Korea last in Group B and were both relegated to Division II for 2005.

2004 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I
Tournament details
Host countries Austria
 Italy
Dates27 March – 2 April 2004
29 March – 4 April 2004
Teams12
← 2003
2005 →

Group A tournament

The Group A tournament began on 27 March 2004 in Amstetten, Austria.[1] Austria, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia all returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] Romania gained promotion to Division I after finishing first in lasts years Division II tournament and Switzerland was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship.[4][5]

Switzerland won the tournament after winning all five of their games, finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Slovenia finished in second place and Austria finished third after only losing to Switzerland and Slovenia.[1] Romania finished in last place, managing only to tie one game and lose the other four and were relegated back to Division II for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Rafael Rotter of Austria finished as the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points including five goals and six assists.[6] Latvia's Kristaps Stigis finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 92.93.[7]

Standings
Promoted to the Championship Division for 2005
Relegated to Division II for 2005
Rk Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
1  Switzerland55003510+2510
2 Slovenia53112013+77
3 Austria53022118+36
4 Latvia52122717+105
5 Poland50141220–81
6 Romania5014542–371

Fixtures

All times local.

27 March 2004
13:00		Latvia 5 – 2
(2–0, 1–0, 2–2)		 PolandAmstetten
Attendance: 100
27 March 2004
16:30		Romania 1 – 12
(0–2, 0–4, 1–6)		  SwitzerlandAmstetten
Attendance: 100
27 March 2004
20:00		Austria 2 – 7
(1–3, 0–1, 1–3)		 SloveniaAmstetten
Attendance: 700
28 March 2004
13:00		Slovenia 6 – 1
(3–1, 2–0, 1–0)		 RomaniaAmstetten
Attendance: 50
28 March 2004
16:30		Switzerland  6 – 2
(4–0, 1–1, 1–1)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 70
28 March 2004
20:00		Poland 3 – 4
(2–0, 0–3, 1–1)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 210
30 March 2004
13:00		Romania 0 – 14
(0–3, 0–7, 0–4)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 150
30 March 2004
16:30		Poland 1 – 2
(1–0, 0–1, 0–1)		 SloveniaAmstetten
Attendance: 100
30 March 2004
20:00		Switzerland  4 – 1
(0–1, 3–0, 1–0)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 600
31 March 2004
13:00		Poland 2 – 2
(1–0, 1–1, 0–1)		 RomaniaAmstetten
31 March 2004
16:30		Slovenia 2 – 6
(1–1, 1–1, 0–4)		  SwitzerlandAmstetten
Attendance: 150
31 March 2004
20:00		Latvia 3 – 6
(0–1, 0–2, 3–3)		 AustriaAmstetten
Attendance: 250
2 April 2004
13:00		Switzerland  7 – 4
(2–1, 2–2, 3–1)		 PolandAmstetten
Attendance: 150
2 April 2004
16:30		Slovenia 3 – 3
(0–1, 2–1, 1–1)		 LatviaAmstetten
Attendance: 200
2 April 2004
20:00		Austria 8 – 1
(1–1, 3–0, 4–0)		 RomaniaAmstetten
Attendance: 744

Scoring leaders
Julien Sprunger scored seven goals and two assists to finish second in scoring.

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[6]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Rafael Rotter55611+102F
Julien Sprunger5729+70F
Anze Kopitar5628+30F
Eduards Bullitis5448+32F
Janick Steinmann5437+72F
Anze Ahacic5257+10F
Artjoms Jemeljanenko5257+44F
Jaroslaw Rzeszutko5426-514F
Jurijs Klujevskis5246+214F
Elviss Zelubovskis5415+42F

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.[7]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Kristaps Stigis188:0410382.5592.231
Gasper Kroselj280:00163132.7992.020
Leonardo Genoni234:457361.5391.781
Stefan Horneber180:00103103.3390.290
Daniel Kachniarz266:29139173.8387.770

Group B tournament

The Group B tournament began on 29 March 2004 in Asiago, Italy.[8] France, Germany, Italy and Japan all returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] South Korea gained promotion to Division I after finishing first in lasts years Division II tournament and Kazakhstan was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship.[5][9]

Germany won the tournament after winning all five of their games, finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] Japan finished second after losing only to Germany and Italy finished in third place.[8] South Korea finished in last place, managing only to tie one game and lose the other four and were relegated back to Division II for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] Daniel Pietta of Germany finished as the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points including eight goals and three assists.[10] Japan's Yuto Takashima finished as the tournaments leading goaltender with a save percentage of 96.59.[11]

Standings
Promoted to the Championship Division for 2005
Relegated to Division II for 2005
Rk Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
1 Germany55003812+2610
2 Japan5401141408
3 Italy52121416–25
4 Kazakhstan51131219–73
5 France51131413+13
6 South Korea5014826–181

Fixtures

All times local.

29 March 2004
14:00		France 1 – 2
(0–1, 0–1, 1–0)		 GermanyAsiago
Attendance: 200
29 March 2004
17:00		South Korea 2 – 2
(1–0, 0–0, 1–2)		 KazakhstanAsiago
Attendance: 220
29 March 2004
21:00		Japan 2 – 1
(2–0, 0–1, 0–0)		 ItalyAsiago
Attendance: 1070
30 March 2004
11:00		Kazakhstan 3 – 2
(0–2, 3–0, 0–0)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 880
30 March 2004
14:00		Italy 5 – 1
(3–0, 1–1, 1–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 950
30 March 2004
17:00		Germany 11 – 4
(3–2, 2–1, 6–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 290
1 April 2004
14:00		Kazakhstan 1 – 2
(0–0, 1–1, 0–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 250
1 April 2004
17:00		South Korea 2 – 7
(1–4, 1–1, 0–2)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 230
1 April 2004
20:30		Germany 7 – 1
(4–1, 1–0, 2–0)		 ItalyAsiago
Attendance: 1610
2 April 2004
14:00		France 0 – 2
(0–0, 0–1, 0–1)		 JapanAsiago
Attendance: 320
2 April 2004
17:00		Germany 8 – 2
(2–2, 3–0, 3–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 450
2 April 2004
20:30		Italy 3 – 2
(0–0, 2–0, 1–2)		 KazakhstanAsiago
Attendance: 1580
4 April 2004
12:00		Kazakhstan 4 – 10
(0–2, 2–3, 2–5)		 GermanyAsiago
Attendance: 220
4 April 2004
15:00		Japan 4 – 1
(0–0, 2–1, 2–0)		 South KoreaAsiago
Attendance: 650
4 April 2004
18:30		Italy 4 – 4
(3–0, 0–4, 1–0)		 FranceAsiago
Attendance: 2100

Scoring leaders
Philip Gogulla finished fifth in scoring after recording two goals and five assists.

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[10]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Daniel Pietta58311+56F
Thomas Pielmeier58210+114F
Philipp Schlager52810+84F
Andre Schietzold5459+54F
Philip Gogulla5257+316F
Christoph Gawlik5246+527F
Mats Schobel4325+325F
Moritz Muller5325+24F
Andrei Bordyug5325+16F
Anton Saal5235+90F

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.[11]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Yuto Takashima186:138830.9796.591
Youri Ziffzer160:008541.5095.290
Thomas Tragust285:56165132.7392.120
Sergey Khudyakov280:28159132.7891.821
Joffrey Pingrit298:39133132.6190.230

References
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  2. "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
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