2008 IIHF World Championship Division II

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The 2008 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 7-13, 2008. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Braşov, Romania. Group B's games were played in Newcastle, Australia.

Contents 1 Groupings 1.1 Group A 1.2 Group B 2 Group A Tournament 2.1 Fixtures 2.2 Group A Standings 2.3 Scores 3 Group B Tournament 3.1 Fixtures 3.2 Group B Standings 3.3 Scores 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Groupings

[edit] Group A

Group A was contested in Miercurea-Ciuc:

Team	2007 Result
Belgium	Placed 2nd in Division II-Group A in 2007.
Bulgaria	Placed 5th in Division II-Group A in 2007.
Ireland	Placed 2nd in Division III in 2007.
Israel	Placed 3rd in Division II-Group B in 2007.
Romania	Host, Placed 6th in Division I-Group B and were relegated in 2007.
Serbia	Placed 4th in Division II-Group A in 2007.

[edit] Group B

Group B was contested in Newcastle:

Team	2007 Result
Australia	Host, Placed 2nd in Division II-Group B in 2007.
China	Placed 6th in Division I-Group A and were relegated in 2007.
Spain	Placed 3rd in Division II- Group A in 2007.
Iceland	Placed 4th in Division II-Group B in 2007.
Mexico	Placed 5th in Division II-Group B in 2007.
New Zealand	Placed 1st in Division III and were promoted in 2007.

[edit] Group A Tournament

[edit] Fixtures

All times local.

April 7, 2008 13:30
	Ireland	1–13	Serbia	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 7, 2008 17:00
	Belgium	8–1	Bulgaria	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 7, 2008 20:30
	Israel	0–13	Romania	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 8, 2008 13:30
	Bulgaria	7–4	Ireland	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 8, 2008 17:00
	Romania	10–0	Serbia	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 8, 2008 20:30
	Belgium	6–3	Israel	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 10, 2008 13:30
	Belgium	9–1	Ireland	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 10, 2008 17:30
	Israel	1–4	Serbia	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 10, 2008 20:30
	Romania	16–0	Bulgaria	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 11, 2008 13:30
	Serbia	4–5 (OT)	Belgium	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 11, 2008 17:00
	Bulgaria	4–5 (OT)	Israel	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 11, 2008 20:30
	Ireland	1–21	Romania	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 13, 2008 13:30
	Serbia	11–2	Bulgaria	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 13, 2008 17:00
	Israel	7–1	Ireland	Vakar Lajos Icerink

April 13, 2008 20:30
	Romania	5–1	Belgium	Vakar Lajos Icerink

[edit] Group A Standings

Rk	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1	Romania	5	5	0	0	0	65	2	63	15
2	Belgium	5	3	1	0	1	29	14	15	11
3	Serbia	5	3	0	1	1	32	19	13	10
4	Israel	5	1	1	0	3	16	28	-12	5
5	Bulgaria	5	1	0	1	3	14	44	-30	4
6	Ireland	5	0	0	0	5	8	57	-49	0

Romania is promoted to Division I for 2009.

Ireland is demoted to Division III for 2009.

[edit] Scores

Team	ROU	BEL	SRB	ISR	BUL	IRL
ROU		5-1	10-0	13-0	16-0	21-1
BEL	1-5		5-4 (OT)	6-3	8-1	9-1
SRB	0-10	4-5 (OT)		4-1	11-2	13-1
ISR	0-13	3-6	1-4		5-4 (OT)	7-1
BUL	0-16	1-8	2-11	4-5 (OT)		7-4
IRL	1-21	1-9	1-13	1-7	4-7

[edit] Group B Tournament

[edit] Fixtures

All times local.

April 7, 2008 13:00
	Spain	4–5 (OT)	China	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 7, 2008 16:30
	New Zealand	3–6	Iceland	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 7, 2008 20:00
	Australia	7–1	Mexico	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 9, 2008 13:00
	China	5–4 (OT)	Iceland	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 9, 2008 16:30
	Mexico	2–0	New Zealand	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 9, 2008 20:00
	Australia	5–3	Spain	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 10, 2008 13:00
	China	5–3	Mexico	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 10, 2008 16:30
	Spain	4–3	Iceland	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 10, 2008 20:00
	Australia	4–2	New Zealand	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 12, 2008 13:00
	Mexico	2–4	Spain	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 12, 2008 16:30
	New Zealand	2–6	China	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 12, 2008 20:00
	Iceland	0–3	Australia	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 13, 2008 13:00
	Iceland	4–6	Mexico	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 13, 2008 16:30
	Spain	5–4	New Zealand	Newcastle HISS Arena

April 13, 2008 20:00
	China	0–1	Australia	Newcastle HISS Arena

[edit] Group B Standings

Rk	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1	Australia	5	5	0	0	0	20	6	14	15
2	China	5	2	2	0	1	21	14	7	10
3	Spain	5	3	0	1	1	20	19	1	10
4	Mexico	5	2	0	0	3	14	20	-6	6
5	Iceland	5	1	0	1	3	17	21	-4	4
6	New Zealand	5	0	0	0	5	11	23	-12	0

Australia is promoted to Division I for 2009.

New Zealand is demoted to Division III for 2009.

[edit] Scores

Team	AUS	CHN	ESP	MEX	ISL	NZL
AUS		1-0	5-3	7-1	3-0	4-2
CHN	0-1		5-4 (OT)	5-3	5-4 (OT)	6-2
ESP	3-5	4-5 (OT)		4-2	4-3	5-4
MEX	1-7	3-5	2-4		6-4	7-1
ISL	0-3	4-5 (OT)	3-4	4-6		6-3
NZL	2-4	2-6	4-5	1-7	3-6

[edit] External links

• IIHF Tournaments

[edit] See also

• 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
• 2008 IIHF World Championship
• 2008 IIHF World Championship Division I
• 2008 IIHF World Championship Division II
• 2008 IIHF World Championship Division III
• 2008 IIHF World Championship Division III Qualification