2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2005 World Junior (Under 20) Ice Hockey Championships was held between December 25, 2004 and January 4, 2005 at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, North Dakota and at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. Canada was the winner. North American teams, and to a lesser extent some European teams as well, greatly benefited from the 2004–05 NHL lockout. Several players who would have otherwise been playing professional hockey in the National Hockey League (and thus unable to participate in the Championships), were able to participate in the tournament. As a likely result, some games ended with some of the most lop-sided scores in the tournament's history.

Rosters

Championship Results

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	4	3	1	0	21	9	6
	4	3	1	0	16	9	6
	4	2	2	0	15	16	4
	4	1	3	0	12	17	2
	4	1	3	0	9	22	2

Schedule

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	4	4	0	0	32	5	8
	4	2	2	0	14	13	4
	4	2	2	0	10	15	4
	4	2	2	0	10	10	4
	4	0	4	0	1	24	0

Schedule

Relegation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	0	10	3	6
	3	2	1	0	12	3	4
	3	1	2	0	4	13	2
	3	0	3	0	4	11	0

Note: Matches 5–0 and 5–0 from the Preliminary Round are included as well since these results carry forwardSchedule

and are relegated to Division I for the 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Final Round

Schedule

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Fifth place game

Bronze Medal game

Gold Medal game

Scoring leaders

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Patrice Bergeron	6	5	8	13	6
Ryan Getzlaf	6	3	9	12	8
Alexander Ovechkin	6	7	4	11	4
Jeff Carter	6	7	3	10	6
Rostislav Olesz	7	7	3	10	12
Evgeni Malkin	6	3	7	10	16
Sidney Crosby	6	6	3	9	4
Drew Stafford	7	5	4	9	14
Johannes Salmonsson	6	5	3	8	0
Petr Vrana	7	5	3	8	16

Goaltending leaders

	Mins	GA	GAA	Sv%
Rejean Beauchemin	60	0	0.00	1.000
Dzmitry Milchakou	9	0	0.00	1.000
Vladislav Koutsky	60	1	1.00	.974
Jeff Glass	300	7	1.40	.922
Marek Schwarz	362	13	2.15	.925
Jaroslav Halak	360	13	2.17	.916
Anton Khudobin	263	12	2.73	.901
Tuukka Rask	243	12	2.96	.902
Andrei Kuznetsov	96	5	3.11	.868
Michael Tobler	359	20	3.34	.880

Awards

All-Star Team

Goaltender: Marek Schwarz

Defense: Dion Phaneuf, Ryan Suter

Forwards: Alexander Ovechkin, Patrice Bergeron, Jeff Carter

Most Valuable Player

Patrice Bergeron

Division I

The Division I Championships were held December 13-December 19, 2004 in Sheffield, United Kingdom (Group A) and in Narva, Estonia (Group B)

Final Standings

Group A

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Norway	5	5	0	0	29	12	10
	5	4	1	0	29	15	8
Austria	5	3	2	0	12	16	6
France	5	2	3	0	18	19	4
Italy	5	1	4	0	11	16	2
United Kingdom	5	0	5	0	8	29	0

Leading scorer: Mathis Olimb, Norway (4 goals, 5 assists; 9 points)

Group B

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Latvia	5	4	0	1	28	12	9
Slovenia	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Denmark	5	3	2	0	22	13	6
Poland	5	2	1	2	15	13	6
Ukraine	5	1	3	1	11	19	3
Estonia	5	0	5	0	6	41	0

Leading scorer: Anze Kopitar, Slovenia (10 goals, 3 assists; 13 points)

Norway and Latvia advance to the 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships while the United Kingdom and Estonia are relegated to Division II.

Division II

The Division II Championships were held January 3-January 9, 2005 in Bucharest, Romania (Group A) and December 13-December 19, 2004 in Puigcerdà, Spain (Group B)

Group A

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Japan	5	4	0	1	32	4	9
Romania	5	3	1	1	23	13	7
Netherlands	5	3	2	0	29	14	6
People's Republic of China	5	3	2	0	16	14	6
Serbia and Montenegro	5	1	4	0	11	36	2
Lithuania	5	0	5	0	5	35	0

Group B

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Hungary	5	5	0	0	41	10	10
South Korea	5	4	1	0	46	12	8
Croatia	5	3	2	0	27	21	6
Spain	5	2	3	0	14	32	4
Australia	5	1	4	0	16	40	2
Belgium	5	0	5	0	12	41	0

Leading scorer: Park Woo-Sang, South Korea (12 goals, 8 assists; 20 points)

Hungary and Japan are promoted to Division I; Belgium and Lithuania are relegated to Division III

Division III

The Division III Championships were held January 10-January 16 2005 in Mexico City, Mexico

Teams

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Mexico	5	5	0	0	37	6	10
New Zealand	5	3	1	1	28	15	7
Iceland	5	3	2	0	30	19	6
South Africa	5	2	2	1	15	24	5
Turkey	5	1	4	0	10	27	2
Bulgaria	5	0	5	0	10	39	0

External links

• Live Updates at IIHF.com
• Team Canada: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/junior/2005/index.html
• Team USA: http://www.usahockey.com/2005wjc/