2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 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.

Championship Results

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	4	4	0	0	16	6	8
	4	2	1	1	21	12	5
	4	2	2	0	19	13	4
	4	1	2	1	8	10	3
	4	0	4	0	3	30	0

Schedule All times local (UTC -8)

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	4	4	0	0	21	6	8
	4	3	1	0	20	9	6
	4	2	2	0	14	14	4
	4	1	3	0	12	21	2
	4	0	4	0	8	25	0

Schedule All times local (UTC -8)

Relegation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	3	2	0	1	10	5	5
	3	2	0	1	14	10	5
	3	1	2	0	10	12	2
	3	0	3	0	3	10	0

Note: Matches 7–4 and 2–0 from the Preliminary Round (both on Dec 27th, 2006) are included as well since these results carry forwardSchedule All times local (UTC -8)

Final Round

Schedule All times local (UTC -8)

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Fifth place game

Bronze Medal game

Gold Medal game

Scoring leaders

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

Goaltending leaders

(Minimum 90 minutes played)

Player	Nationality	Mins	GA	GAA	SO	Pct.
Daniel Larsson		249	4	0.96	1	.952
Justin Pogge		360	6	1.00	3	.952
Tuukka Rask		369	13	2.11	1	.940
Anton Khudobin		300	11	2.20	0	.933
Reto Berra		358	14	2.34	1	.910

Tournament awards

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
	5	5	0	0	20	2	10
	5	3	1	1	20	17	7
	5	3	2	0	17	8	6
	5	1	2	2	8	7	4
	5	1	3	1	10	22	3
	5	0	5	0	10	29	0

Group B

Held December 12-18, 2005 in Minsk, Belarus

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
	5	4	0	1	24	6	9
	5	4	1	0	21	8	8
	5	2	2	1	14	15	5
	5	1	2	2	9	14	4
	5	0	3	2	5	16	2
	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
	5	5	0	0	53	3	10
	5	3	1	1	38	8	7
	5	4	1	1	31	11	7
	5	1	3	0	15	33	4
	5	1	4	0	17	37	2
	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
	5	5	0	0	46	8	10
	5	3	2	0	22	15	6
	5	2	2	1	20	15	5
	5	2	2	1	14	16	5
	5	1	4	0	11	40	2
	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
	4	4	0	0	81	3	8
	4	3	1	0	79	6	6
	4	2	2	0	35	40	4
	4	1	3	0	26	32	2
	4	0	4	0	6	146	0

External links

• IIHF Official Site
• Official website at www.hockeycanada.ca

References