2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2006 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	December 26 - January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (12th title)
Runner-up	Russia
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	195 (6.29 per match)
Attendance	325,138 (10,488 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Phil Kessel (11 points)
MVP	Evgeni Malkin
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The 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2006 WJHC) were held in Vancouver, Kelowna and Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The championships began on December 26, 2005, and finished on January 5, 2006. Games were played at GM Place and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops and Prospera Place in Kelowna. Team Canada was the winner defeating Russia 5–0 in the gold medal game. Total attendance was 325,138 (a new record) spread over 31 games, for an average of 10,488 per game.^[1]

Venues

GM Place Capacity: 18,630	Pacific Coliseum Capacity: 16,281	Prospera Place Capacity: 6,886	Interior Savings Centre Capacity: 5,658
Canada – Vancouver	Canada – Vancouver	Canada – Kelowna	Canada – Kamloops

Championship results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4	4	0	0	16	6	8
United States	4	2	1	1	21	12	5
Finland	4	2	2	0	19	13	4
Switzerland	4	1	2	1	8	10	3
Norway	4	0	4	0	3	30	0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

December 26, 2005 16:00

Finland

1–5

Canada

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)

	Seitsonen 48:49 (PP1)		Boyd 10:23 (PP1), 34:24 Comeau 15:52 Bolland 23:17 (PP1) Chipchura 54:03

December 26, 2005 20:00

Norway

2–11

United States

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,232 (Cap. 16,083)

	Sveum 29:00 (PP1) Olimb 43:44 (PP1)		Oshie 2:19 E. Johnson 12:22 (PP1) Skille 17:30 (PP1) Bourque 21:23, 27:32, 31:11 (PP1), 51:38, 53:03 (SH1) Mueller 26:14 Porter 34:54 (PP1) Schremp 40:32

December 27, 2005 19:00

Switzerland

2–0

Norway

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 11,976 (Cap. 16,083)

	Joggi 33:52 (PP1) Burgler 54:04 (PP1)

December 28, 2005 16:00

Canada

4–3

Switzerland

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,123 (Cap. 16,083)

	Downie 8:45 (PP1) Boyd 17:45 Pyatt 30:00 Bolland 33:39 (PP1)		Blum 5:33 (PP2) Weber 34:37 Sprünger 42:42 (PP1)

December 28, 2005 20:00

United States

6–5

Finland

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,209 (Cap. 16,083)

	Fritsche 9:42 (PP1) Wheeler 17:05, 39:18 Lee 19:49 (PP1) Ryan 28:01 (PP1) Porter 49:49 (PP1)		Alikoski 6:21 Korpikoski 8:26 (SH1) Seitsonen 21:28 (PP1) Tukonen 55:34 Laakso 58:48 (PP1)

December 29, 2005 16:00

Norway

0–4

Canada

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)

			Barker 15:27 (PP1) Bolland 34:50 (PP1) Chipchura 35:16 Bourdon 36:41

December 30, 2005 16:00

United States

2–2

Switzerland

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 12,130 (Cap. 16,083)

	Paukovich 6:16 Ryan 16:59		Blum 47:53 (PP1) Joggi 54:08 (PP2)

December 30, 2005 20:00

Finland

9–1

Norway

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 10,766 (Cap. 16,083)

	Seppänen 1:10, 8:49 Lindgren 3:26 Jokinen 12:34 (PP1) Tukonen 15:30 (PP1) Heino 17:13 Seitsonen 18:32, 29:04 Kolehmainen 49:53		Sveum 35:10 (PP1)

December 31, 2005 16:00

Canada

3–2

United States

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 16,083 (Cap. 16,083)

	Barker 2:35 (PP1) Boyd 6:42 Chipchura 59:27 (EN)		Bourque 10:27 (PP1) Mueller 28:10 (PP1)

December 31, 2005 20:00

Switzerland

1–4

Finland

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 8,335 (Cap. 16,083)

	Joggi 52:23 (PP1)		Kolehmainen 2:45 (PP1) Sinisalo 42:24 Lindgren 42:34 Laakso 59:49 (EN

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Russia	4	4	0	0	21	6	8
Sweden	4	3	1	0	20	9	6
Czech Republic	4	2	2	0	14	14	4
Slovakia	4	1	3	0	12	21	2
Latvia	4	0	4	0	8	25	0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

December 26, 2005 19:00

Latvia

1–5

Czech Republic

Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,653 (Cap. 6,400)

	Meija 11:16		01:13 Hromas 08:16 Kalus 28:47 Pohl 29:37 Meidl 37:52 Pohl

December 26, 2005 19:00

Sweden

1–5

Russia

Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,982 (Cap. 6,886)

	Bergfors (PP) 07:37		08:45 (PP) Malkin 13:51 (PP) Kulemin 38:03 Voloshenko 47:49 Shirokov 52:00 (SH) Kulemin

December 27, 2005 19:00

Slovakia

7–4

Latvia

Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,790 (Cap. 6,886)

	Valábik 11:42 Lascek (PP) 18:30 Zagrapan 21:05 Lascek 28:28 Gračík 30:36 Lascek 39:03 Piatak 47:41		29:27 (PP) Galviņš 37:25 Klujevskis 39:24 Zelubovskis 50:05 E. Zelubovskis

December 28, 2005 19:00

Czech Republic

2–3

Sweden

Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 5,323 (Cap. 6,400)

	Sobotka (PP) 36:25 Káňa (PP) 52:48		02:08 Karlsson 03:49 Salmonsson 20:52 O. Hedman

December 28, 2005 19:00

Russia

6–2

Slovakia

Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,948 (Cap. 6,886)

	Churilov 07:37 Lemtyugov (PP) 09:45 Lisin 10:32 Zubov (PP) 16:41 Malkin (PP) 19:09 Emelin (PP) 47:11		17:30 (PP) Sekera 30:29 Lascek

December 29, 2005 19:00

Latvia

1–3

Russia

Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,831 (Cap. 6,400)

	Klujevskis (PP) 32:58		03:54 (PP) Malkin 04:00 Lemtyugov 36:26 Lemtyugov

December 30, 2005 19:00

Czech Republic

5–3

Slovakia

Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 5,979 (Cap. 6,886)

	Krejčí 00:26 Kudělka (PP) 10:01 Krejčí 10:22 Krejčí 30:36 Pohl 45:10		01:38 (PP) Zagrapan 46:45 (PP) Gračík 56:05 (PP) Scurko

December 30, 2005 19:00

Sweden

10–2

Latvia

Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,797 (Cap. 6,400)

	Karlsson 01:06 Bäckström (PP) 14:40 Viklund (PP) 15:57 Pettersson 18:17 Bergfors (PP) 20:40 Bäckström 25:25 Salmonsson (SH) 29:35 Bäckström 41:25 Ritola 51:59 Pettersson (PP) 57:42		16:58 Karsums 51:52 Karkliņš

December 31, 2005 19:00

Slovakia

0–6

Sweden

Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops Attendance: 4,712 (Cap. 6,400)

			07:07 Lindqvist 13:01 (PP) Ritola 34:20 Ryno 43:33 Pettersson 49:44 Axelsson 52:22 Karlsson

December 31, 2005 19:00

Russia

7–2

Czech Republic

Prospera Place, Kelowna Attendance: 6,027 (Cap. 6,886)

	Shirokov (PP) 16:20 Voloshenko 33:46 Malkin 41:07 Zubov (PP) 44:15 Voloshenko 46:14 Lisin 51:09 Radulov 56:07		48:47 Pohl 49:35 (PP) Sobotka

Relegation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Switzerland	3	2	0	1	10	5	5
Slovakia	3	2	0	1	14	10	5
Latvia	3	1	2	0	10	12	2
Norway	3	0	3	0	3	10	0

Note: Matches  Slovakia 7–4  Latvia and   Switzerland 2–0  Norway from the preliminary round (both on December 27, 2005) are included as well since these results carry forward.

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

January 2, 2006 13:00

Switzerland

5–2

Latvia

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 7,616 (Cap. 16,083)

January 3, 2006 13:00

Slovakia

4–3

Norway

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 5,038 (Cap. 16,083)

January 4, 2006 12:00

Latvia

4–0

Norway

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 4,540 (Cap. 16,083)

January 4, 2006 16:00

Switzerland

3–3

Slovakia

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver Attendance: 6,667 (Cap. 16,083)

Final round

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

QF1

United States

1

A2

United States

2

B1

Russia

5

B3

Czech Republic

1

SF1

Russia

0

SF2

Canada

5

QF2

Finland

0

B2

Finland

1

A1

Canada

4

A3

Sweden

0

Schedule

All times local (UTC -8)

Quarter-finals

January 2, 2006 16:00

Sweden

0–1 OT

Finland

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)

			69:26 (PP) Laakso

January 2, 2006 20:00

United States

2–1

Czech Republic

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 14,890 (Cap. 18,630)

	Kessel (PP) 03:23 Bourque 11:08		12:17 (PP) Šmíd

Semi-finals

January 3, 2006 16:00

Canada

4–0

Finland

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)

	Russell 18:16 Comeau 38:58 Letang (PP) 49:40 Cogliano 53:32

January 3, 2006 20:00

Russia

5–1

United States

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)

	Kulemin 12:32 Kulemin (PP) 41:42 Emelin 43:13 Shirokov 53:01 Lemtyugov 55:15		42:34 (PP) Skille

Fifth place game

January 4, 2006 20:00

Sweden

3–1

Czech Republic

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 10,684 (Cap. 18,630)

	Rynol 41:42 Bergfors 42:07 Bäckström 59:12		43:16 Káňa

Bronze medal game

January 5, 2006 12:00

Finland

4–2

United States

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 15,107 (Cap. 18,630)

	Sailio 33:32 Joensuu 34:51 Tukonen 53:20 Joensuu 55:24		12:11 Ryan 51:03 (PP) J. Johnson

Gold medal game

January 5, 2006 16:00

Russia

0–5

Canada

General Motors Place, Vancouver Attendance: 18,630 (Cap. 18,630)

			17:13 Downie 18:56 Comeau 32:02 (PP) Blunden 34:44 (PP) Blunden 57:15 Chipchura

Scoring leaders

Player	Nationality	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Phil Kessel	United States	7	1	10	11	2
Evgeni Malkin	Russia	6	4	6	10	12
Lauri Tukonen	Finland	7	3	7	10	0
Stanislav Lascek	Slovakia	6	6	3	9	8
Chris Bourque	United States	7	7	1	8	12
Nicklas Bäckström	Sweden	6	4	3	7	2
Mathias Joggi	Switzerland	6	4	3	7	14
Bobby Ryan	United States	7	3	4	7	0
Blake Comeau	Canada	6	3	4	7	8
Marek Zagrapan	Slovakia	6	2	5	7	18
Alexei Emelin	Russia	6	2	5	7	39

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
1	Justin Pogge	Canada	360:00	6	1.00	95.20	3
2	Daniel Larsson	Sweden	249:26	4	0.96	95.18	1
3	Tuukka Rask	Finland	369:26	13	2.11	93.98	1
4	Anton Khudobin	Russia	300:00	11	2.20	93.29	0
5	Cory Schneider	United States	359:06	16	2.67	91.21	0

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

Source: IIHF.com

Tournament awards

Most Valuable Player

Evgeni Malkin

All-Star Team

Selected by the media.

Goaltender: Tuukka Rask

Defense: Luc Bourdon, Jack Johnson

Forwards: Evgeni Malkin, Lauri Tukonen, Steve Downie

Best players

Selected by the directorate.

Goaltender: Tuukka Rask

Defenseman: Marc Staal

Forward: Evgeni Malkin

Division I

Group A

Held December 11–17, 2005, in Bled, Slovenia.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Germany	5	5	0	0	20	2	10
Denmark	5	3	1	1	20	17	7
Slovenia	5	3	2	0	17	8	6
France	5	1	2	2	8	7	4
Ukraine	5	1	3	1	10	22	3
Japan	5	0	5	0	10	29	0

Group B

Held December 12–18, 2005, in Minsk, Belarus.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Belarus	5	4	0	1	24	6	9
Kazakhstan	5	4	1	0	21	8	8
Italy	5	2	2	1	14	15	5
Poland	5	1	2	2	9	14	4
Austria	5	0	3	2	5	16	2
Hungary	5	0	3	2	6	20	2

Division II

Group A

Held December 12–18, 2005, in Bucharest, Romania.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Great Britain	5	5	0	0	53	3	10
Netherlands	5	3	1	1	38	8	7
Romania	5	3	1	1	31	11	7
Spain	5	2	3	0	15	33	4
Australia	5	1	4	0	17	37	2
New Zealand	5	0	5	0	2	64	0

Group B

Held January 10–16, 2006, in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Estonia	5	5	0	0	46	8	10
Croatia	5	3	2	0	22	15	6
South Korea	5	2	2	1	20	15	5
Serbia and Montenegro	5	2	2	1	14	16	5
Mexico	5	1	4	0	11	40	2
China	5	1	4	0	12	31	2

Division III

Held at Elektrenai and Kaunas, Lithuania January 3–9, 2006.

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Lithuania	4	4	0	0	81	3	8
Iceland	4	3	1	0	79	6	6
Turkey	4	2	2	0	35	40	4
Bulgaria	4	1	3	0	26	32	2
Armenia	4	0	4	0	6	146	0

External links

• IIHF official site
• Official website at www.hockeycanada.ca

References

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