2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
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| Host countries | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania |
| Dates | 12 – 18 March 2007 15 – 21 April 2007 |
| Teams | 12 |
The 2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II were a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II tournaments made up the third level of competition at the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 15 and 21 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary and the Group B tournament took place between 12 and 18 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. The Netherlands and Lithuania won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Mexico finished last in Group A and Serbia last in Group B and were both relegated to Division III for 2008.
Group A tournament
[edit | edit source]The Group A tournament began on 15 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary.[1] Belgium, Estonia, Mexico and the Netherlands returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.[2][3] Hungary entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Israel entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.[4][5]
The Netherlands won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Hungary finished in second place, losing only to the Netherlands and Estonia finished in third. Mexico finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[1] Eden Nemenoff of Israel was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.[6] Hungarian Daniel Koger was named the top forward and Mike Dalhuisen of the Netherlands was selected as the top defenceman.[6] Hungary's Bálint Magosi was the tournament's leading scorer with 14 points and Miklos Rajna was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.938.[7][8]
Standings
[edit | edit source]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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| 1 | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 9 | +30 | 15 | Promoted to Division I for 2008 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 7 | +41 | 12 | |
| 3 | File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 23 | −2 | 8 | |
| 4 | File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 37 | −20 | 6 | |
| 5 | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 36 | −25 | 3 | |
| 6 | File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 33 | −24 | 1 | Relegated to Division III for 2008 |
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Fixtures
[edit | edit source]All times local.
| 15 April 2007 13:00 | Israel File:Flag of Israel.svg | 2 – 5 (0–0, 2–1, 0–4) | File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 400 |
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| 15 April 2007 16:30 | Netherlands File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg | 10 – 0 (5–0, 2–0, 3–0) | File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 500 |
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| 15 April 2007 20:00 | Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg | 0 – 7 (0–2, 0–2, 0–3) | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 1200 |
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| 17 April 2007 13:00 | Netherlands File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg | 11 – 1 (3–0, 4–1, 4–0) | File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 350 |
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| 17 April 2007 16:30 | Mexico File:Flag of Mexico.svg | 3 – 5 (1–2, 1–2, 1–1) | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 320 |
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| 17 April 2007 20:00 | Hungary File:Flag of Hungary.svg | 16 – 0 (6–0, 6–0, 4–0) | File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 1300 |
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| 18 April 2007 13:00 | Netherlands File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg | 7 – 1 (4–1, 1–0, 2–0) | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 150 |
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| 18 April 2007 16:30 | Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg | 8 – 3 (5–0, 2–1, 1–2) | File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 160 |
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| 18 April 2007 20:00 | Hungary File:Flag of Hungary.svg | 10 – 0 (5–0, 3–0, 2–0) | File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 1300 |
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| 20 April 2007 13:00 | Mexico File:Flag of Mexico.svg | 2 – 3 GWS (2–1, 0–1, 0–0) (OT 0–0) (SO: 0–1) | File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 100 |
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| 20 April 2007 16:30 | Belgium File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg | 4 – 7 (0–0, 2–5, 2–2) | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 270 |
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| 20 April 2007 20:00 | Israel File:Flag of Israel.svg | 3 – 12 (2–5, 0–4, 1–3) | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 1400 |
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| 21 April 2007 13:00 | Belgium File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg | 5 – 4 (0–1, 0–2, 5–1) | File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 120 |
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| 21 April 2007 16:30 | Estonia File:Flag of Estonia.svg | 9 – 0 (5–0, 2–0, 2–0) | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 250 |
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| 21 April 2007 20:00 | Hungary File:Flag of Hungary.svg | 3 – 4 (0–2, 1–2, 2–0) | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | Miskolc Arena Attendance: 1800 |
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Scoring leaders
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List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals.[7]
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | POS |
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| Hungary Bálint Magosi | 5 | 9 | 5 | 14 | +17 | 8 | F |
| Hungary Gergo Nagy | 5 | 8 | 5 | 13 | +10 | 34 | F |
| Hungary Laszlo Jonkl | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +13 | 4 | F |
| Hungary Daniel Koger | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +9 | 2 | F |
| Belgium Ben van den Bogeart | 5 | 10 | 1 | 11 | –4 | 8 | F |
| Netherlands Mike Dalhuisen | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +12 | 14 | D |
| Netherlands Mitch Bruijsten | 5 | 8 | 2 | 10 | +9 | 18 | F |
| Netherlands Ritchie van Hulten | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | +8 | 10 | F |
| Hungary Dezso Roczanov | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | +10 | 27 | F |
| Israel Daniel Erlich | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | –12 | 32 | F |
Leading goaltenders
[edit | edit source]Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[8]
| Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
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| Hungary Miklos Rajna | 120:00 | 48 | 3 | 1.50 | 93.75 | 1 |
| Hungary David Meretei | 178:44 | 49 | 4 | 1.34 | 91.84 | 2 |
| Estonia Villem Koitmaa | 239:50 | 125 | 12 | 3.00 | 90.40 | 0 |
| Netherlands Tomislav Hrelja | 300:00 | 80 | 9 | 1.80 | 88.75 | 1 |
| Israel Eden Nemenoff | 259:46 | 231 | 31 | 7.16 | 86.58 | 0 |
Group B tournament
[edit | edit source]The Group B tournament began on 12 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.[9] Australia, Croatia and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.[3] Serbia made their debut appearance in the World U18 Championships after replacing the Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team, the change in team coinciding with Montenegro's declaration of independence and the eventual split of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.[2] South Korea entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Romania entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.[5][10]
Lithuania won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[9] South Korea finished second after losing only to Lithuania and Estonia finished in third place. Serbia finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[9] Tihomir Filipec of Croatia was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.[11] Lithuanian Povilas Verenis was named the top forward and Cho Hyung Gon of South Korea was selected as the top defenceman.[11] Lithuania's Tadas Kumeliauskas was the tournament's leading scorer with 12 points and Arturas Kuzmicius was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.948.[12][13]
Standings
[edit | edit source]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 9 | +23 | 15 | Promoted to Division I for 2008 |
| 2 | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 14 | +13 | 11 | |
| 3 | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 19 | +5 | 8 | |
| 4 | File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 25 | −10 | 6 | |
| 5 | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 25 | −12 | 4 | |
| 6 | File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 29 | −19 | 1 | Relegated to Division III for 2008 |
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Fixtures
[edit | edit source]All times local.
| 12 March 2007 13:30 | Australia File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg | 2 – 6 (0–1, 1–1, 1–4) | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 30 |
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| 12 March 2007 17:00 | Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg | 6 – 2 (1–1, 0–1, 5–0) | File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 200 |
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| 12 March 2007 20:30 | Romania File:Flag of Romania.svg | 0 – 10 (0–3, 0–4, 0–3) | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 200 |
| 13 March 2007 13:30 | Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg | 8 – 2 (3–1, 3–0, 2–1) | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 50 |
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| 13 March 2007 17:00 | South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg | 5 – 4 GWS (1–2, 1–1, 2–1) (OT 0–0) (SO: 1–0) | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 100 |
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| 13 March 2007 20:30 | Serbia File:Flag of Serbia.svg | 4 – 6 (1–3, 2–0, 1–3) | File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 300 |
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| 15 March 2007 13:30 | South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg | 8 – 0 (2–0, 4–0, 2–0) | File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 50 |
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| 15 March 2007 17:00 | Australia File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg | 5 – 4 GWS (2–1, 1–2, 1–1) (OT 0–0) (SO: 1–0) | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 130 |
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| 15 March 2007 20:30 | Lithuania File:Flag of Lithuania.svg | 5 – 2 (1–2, 1–0, 3–0) | File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 300 |
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| 16 March 2007 13:30 | Serbia File:Flag of Serbia.svg | 3 – 4 GWS (1–0, 1–1, 1–2) (OT 0–0) (SO: 0–1) | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | Vakar Lajos Icerink |
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| 16 March 2007 17:00 | Croatia File:Flag of Croatia.svg | 1 – 8 (0–0, 1–3, 0–5) | File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 200 |
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| 16 March 2007 20:30 | Romania File:Flag of Romania.svg | 3 – 6 (1–1, 1–4, 1–1) | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 350 |
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| 18 March 2007 12:30 | Croatia File:Flag of Croatia.svg | 5 – 1 (2–0, 3–0, 0–1) | File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 50 |
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| 18 March 2007 16:00 | South Korea File:Flag of South Korea.svg | 2 – 5 (1–1, 1–0, 0–4) | File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 200 |
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| 18 March 2007 19:30 | Australia File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg | 0 – 4 (0–4, 0–0, 0–0) | File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania | Vakar Lajos Icerink Attendance: 350 |
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Scoring leaders
[edit | edit source]List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals.[12]
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | POS |
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| Lithuania Tadas Kumeliauskas | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +12 | 4 | F |
| Lithuania Povilas Verenis | 5 | 7 | 4 | 11 | +12 | 8 | F |
| Romania Lorand Bartha | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 20 | F |
| Croatia Vladimir Gurka | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | +2 | 4 | F |
| South Korea Yoon Ji Man | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +5 | 6 | F |
| South Korea Park Sang Jin | 5 | 7 | 1 | 8 | +4 | 2 | F |
| Romania Zsolt Balint | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 16 | F |
| Lithuania Jonas Viknius | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +2 | 8 | F |
| Lithuania Arnoldas Bosas | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | +5 | 6 | F |
| South Korea Lee Sung Jun | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | +6 | 14 | F |
Leading goaltenders
[edit | edit source]Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[13]
| Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
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| Lithuania Arturas Kuzmicius | 120:00 | 58 | 3 | 1.50 | 94.83 | 0 |
| Lithuania Ernestas Kielius | 180:00 | 79 | 6 | 2.00 | 92.41 | 0 |
| Australia Anthony Kimlin | 244:47 | 182 | 14 | 3.43 | 92.31 | 0 |
| Croatia Tihomir Filipec | 310:00 | 195 | 19 | 3.68 | 90.26 | 1 |
| South Korea Yong Hyun Ho | 242:40 | 112 | 13 | 3.21 | 88.39 | 0 |
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