2006 World Ice Hockey Championships

2006 World Hockey Championship

Riga, Latvia
May 05 - May 21, 2006

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Sweden Wins World Championship

Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 in the final and became the first nation in history to capture Olympic and IIHF World Championship gold in the same year.

Finland beat Canada 5-0 in the bronze-medal game.

Final round:

Quarterfinal
Sweden - USA 6-0 (2-0, 2-0, 2-0)	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Canada - Sweden 4-5 (2-3, 1-2, 1-0)
Canada - Slovakia 4-1 (0-1, 1-0, 3-0)		Final
Quarterfinal		Sweden - Czech Republic 4-0 (2-0, 2-0, 0-0)
Russia - Czech Republic 3-4 (1-0, 0-1, 2-2, 0-1)	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Finland - Czech Republic 1-3 (1-0, 0-1, 0-2)
Finland - Belarus 3-0 (1-0, 0-0, 2-0)

Teams were divided to four groups (A, B, C, D) for round-robin Preliminary Round.
Top three teams of each group advanced to the Qualifying Round in two groups (E,F).
Top four teams of each group advance to Quarterfinals.

Note: Results from the Preliminary round among advancing teams carry over to the Qualifying round.

Qualifying Round:

May 11
Russia - Ukraine	6-0 (1-0, 0-0, 5-0)
Canada - Latvia	11-0 (4-0, 1-0, 6-0)
May 12
Czech Republic - Norway	3-1 (0-1, 2-0, 1-0)
Switzerland - Slovakia	2-2 (0-1, 0-1, 2-0)
Finland - USA	4-0 (1-0, 2-0, 1-0)
Sweden - Belarus	4-1 (4-0, 0-0, 0-1)
May 13
USA - Latvia	4-2 (0-0, 2-1, 2-1)
Belarus - Ukraine	9-1 (1-0, 3-1, 5-0)
May 14
Norway - Finland	0-3 (0-1, 0-1, 0-1)
Russia - Switzerland	6-3 (1-0, 1-2, 4-1)
Canada - Czech Republic	4-6 (1-3, 2-1, 1-2)
Slovakia - Sweden	5-2 (2-0, 2-2, 1-0)
May 15
Finland - Canada	2-4 (1-2, 0-1, 1-1)
Sweden - Russia	3-3 (1-2, 2-1, 0-1)
May 16
Czech Republic - USA	1-3 (0-2, 1-0, 0-1)
Switzerland - Belarus	1-2 (0-1, 0-1, 1-0)
Latvia - Norway	4-2 (2-0, 1-1, 1-1)
Ukraine - Slovakia	0-8 (0-1, 0-4, 0-3)

Qualifying Round Standings:

Group E

TEAM	GP	W	L	T	GF - GA	P
Canada	5	4	1	0	28 - 10	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	17 - 7	7
United States	5	3	2	0	11 - 10	6
Czech Republic	5	2	1	2	14 - 12	6
Latvia	5	1	3	1	7 - 23	3
Norway	5	0	5	0	5 - 20	0

Group F

TEAM GP W L T GF - GA P

Russia 5 4 0 1 22 - 11 9

Sweden 5 2 1 2 17 - 15 6

Belarus 5 3 2 0 16 - 10 6

Slovakia 5 2 2 1 19 - 10 5

Switzerland 5 1 2 2 12 - 15 4

Ukraine 5 0 5 1 4 - 29 0

Preliminary Round:

May 5
USA - Norway	3-1 (0-1, 1-0, 2-0)
Finland - Slovenia	5-3 (1-2, 2-1, 2-0)
Denmark - Canada	3-5 (0-3, 3-0, 0-2)
Latvia - Czech Republic	1-1 (1-1, 0-0, 0-0)
May 6
Belarus - Slovakia	2-1 (0-0, 2-1, 0-0)
Switzerland - Italy	3-1 (0-0, 0-1, 3-0)
Russia - Kazakhstan	10-1 (4-1, 4-0, 2-0)
Ukraine - Sweden	2-4 (1-1, 1-2, 0-1)
May 7
Czech Republic - Slovenia	5-4 (4-1, 1-2, 0-1)
USA - Denmark	3-0 (0-0, 2-0, 1-0)
Finland - Latvia	5-0 (0-0, 2-0, 3-0)
Canada - Norway	7-1 (3-0, 4-0, 0-1)
May 8
Russia - Belarus	3-2 (1-0, 0-2, 2-0)
Switzerland - Ukraine	2-1 (2-0, 0-1, 0-0)
Slovakia - Kazakhstan	6-0 (0-0, 3-0, 3-0)
Sweden - Italy	4-0 (2-0, 1-0, 1-0)
May 9
Slovenia - Latvia	1-5 (1-0, 0-4, 0-1)
Norway - Denmark	6-3 (1-2, 3-0, 2-1)
Czech Republic - Finland	3-3 (2-1, 1-0, 0-2)
Canada - USA	2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
May 10
Slovakia - Russia	3-4 (2-2, 1-1, 0-1)
Italy - Ukraine	2-4 (0-1, 1-1, 1-2)
Kazakhstan - Belarus	1-7 (1-1, 0-3, 0-3)
Sweden - Switzerland	4-4 (1-0, 0-1, 3-3)

Relegation round

Preliminary Round Standings:

Group A

TEAM	GP	W	L	T	GF - GA	P
Finland	3	2	0	1	13 - 6	5
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	9 - 8	4
Latvia	3	1	1	1	6 - 7	3
Slovenia	3	0	3	0	8 - 15	0

Group B

TEAM GP W L T GF - GA P

Canada 3 3 0 0 14 - 5 6

United States 3 2 1 0 7 - 3 4

Norway 3 1 2 0 8 - 13 2

Denmark 3 0 3 0 6 - 14 0

Group C

TEAM GP W L T GF - GA P

Sweden 3 2 0 1 12 - 6 5

Switzerland 3 2 0 1 9 - 6 5

Ukraine 3 1 2 0 7 - 8 2

Italy 3 0 3 0 3 - 11 0

Group D

TEAM GP W L T GF - GA P

Russia 3 3 0 0 17 - 6 6

Belarus 3 2 1 0 11 - 5 4

Slovakia 3 1 2 0 10 - 6 2

Kazakhstan 3 0 3 0 2 - 23 0

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