2008 World Ice Hockey Championships

2008 World Hockey Championship

Halifax & Quebec City, Canada
May 2 - May 18, 2008

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Russia Wins World Championship

Russia defeated Canada 5-4 in the final to win the IIHF World Championship for the first time in 15 years.

Finland beat Sweden 4-0 in the bronze-medal game.

Final round:

Quarterfinal
Norway - Canada 2-8 (1-2, 1-3, 0-3)	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Canada - Sweden 5-4 (1-1, 4-2, 0-1)
Czech Republic - Sweden 2-3 (0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 0-1)		Final
Quarterfinal		Canada - Russia 4-5 (3-1, 1-1, 0-2, 0-1)
Russia - Switzerland 6-0 (3-0, 3-0, 0-0)	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Russia - Finland 4-0 (1-0, 1-0, 2-0)
USA - Finland 2-3 (0-1, 0-1, 2-0, 0-1)

Teams are 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 8
Sweden - Denmark	8-1 (2-0, 2-0, 4-1)
Canada - Norway	2-1 (1-0, 0-1, 1-0)
Switzerland - Czech Republic	0-5 (0-1, 0-3, 0-1)
USA - Germany	6-4 (3-2, 1-1, 2-1)
May 9
Finland - Latvia	2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
Russia - Belarus	4-3 (0-2, 1-0, 2-1, 0-0, 1-0)
May 10
Czech Republic - Belarus	3-2 (0-1, 1-0, 1-1, 0-0, 1-0)
Germany - Canada	1-10 (0-4, 0-5, 1-1)
Russia - Sweden	3-2 (0-1, 1-1, 2-0)
May 11
Norway - Latvia	1-4 (1-2, 0-1, 0-1)
Denmark - Switzerland	2-7 (0-2, 0-3, 2-2)
Finland - USA	3-2 (0-0, 0-2, 3-0)
Sweden - Czech Republic	5-3 (0-0, 2-2, 3-1)
May 12
USA - Norway	9-1 (3-0, 3-1, 3-0)
Switzerland - Russia	3-5 (0-3, 0-1, 3-1)
Canada - Finland	6-3 (2-1, 2-0, 2-2)
Belarus - Denmark	2-3 (0-0, 0-1, 2-1, 0-1)
Latvia - Germany	3-5 (1-1, 2-1, 0-3)

Qualifying Round Standings:

Group E

TEAM	GP	W	OW	OL	L	P	GF - GA
Russia	5	3	2	0	0	13	21 - 13
Czech Republic	5	2	1	1	1	9	20 - 14
Sweden	5	3	0	0	2	9	23 - 16
Switzerland	5	3	0	0	2	9	16 - 15
Belarus	5	0	0	3	2	3	13 - 18
Denmark	5	0	1	0	4	2	9 - 26

Group F

TEAM GP W OW OL L P GF - GA

Canada 5 5 0 0 0 15 30 - 9

Finland 5 3 1 0 1 11 16 - 12

United States 5 3 0 0 2 9 25 - 13

Norway 5 1 0 1 3 4 8 - 20

Germany 5 1 0 0 4 3 13 - 27

Latvia 5 1 0 0 4 3 8 - 19

Preliminary Round:

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

Relegation round

Preliminary Round Standings:

Group A

TEAM	GP	W	OW	OL	L	P	GF - GA
Switzerland	3	3	0	0	0	9	10 - 4
Sweden	3	2	0	0	1	6	17 - 9
Belarus	3	1	0	0	2	3	9 - 9
France	3	0	0	0	3	0	2 - 16

Group B

TEAM GP W OW OL L P GF - GA

Canada 3 3 0 0 0 9 17 - 5

United States 3 2 0 0 1 6 13 - 6

Latvia 3 1 0 0 2 3 3 - 11

Slovenia 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 - 13

Group C

TEAM GP W OW OL L P GF - GA

Finland 3 2 1 0 0 8 11 - 5

Norway 3 1 0 1 1 4 6 - 10

Germany 3 1 0 0 2 3 7 - 10

Slovakia 3 1 0 0 2 3 9 - 8

Group D

TEAM GP W OW OL L P GF - GA

Russia 3 2 1 0 0 8 16 - 6

Czech Republic 3 2 0 1 0 7 16 - 9

Denmark 3 1 0 0 2 3 9 - 11

Italy 3 0 0 0 3 0 5 - 20

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