2012 World Ice Hockey Championships

2012 IIHF World Championship

Helsinki, Finland & Stockholm, Sweden
May 4 - May 20, 2012

Scoring Leaders
History of International Hockey

Russia Wins World Championship

Russia beat Slovakia 6-2 in the final to win the 2012 IIHF World Championship.
Chech Republic beat Finland 3-2 in the bronze-medal game.

Playoff round:

Quarterfinal
Canada - Slovakia 3-4 F	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Czech Republic - Slovakia 1-3 F
Sweden - Czech Republic 3-4 F		Final
Quarterfinal		Russia - Slovakia 6-2 F
Russia - Norway 5-2 F	Semifinal
Quarterfinal	Russia - Finland 6-2 F	Bronze Medal Game Finland - Czech Republic 2-3 F
USA - Finland 2-3 F

The 16 teams were divided into two groups for the Preliminary Round.
The top-four ranked teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals that were played within the groups and without change of venues for the participants.

Preliminary Round Standings:

Group H (Helsinki)

TEAM	GP	W	OW	OL	L	GF - GA	P
Canada	7	6	0	1	0	35 - 15	19
USA	7	4	2	0	1	32 - 17	16
Finland	7	5	0	0	2	21 - 14	15
Slovakia	7	5	0	0	2	21 - 13	15
France	7	3	0	0	4	21 - 32	9
Switzerland	7	2	0	0	5	16 - 21	6
Belarus	7	1	0	0	6	11 - 23	3
Kazakhstan	7	0	0	1	6	11 - 33	1

Group S (Stockholm)

TEAM GP W OW OL L GF - GA P

Russia 7 7 0 0 0 27 - 8 21

Sweden 7 6 0 0 1 29 - 15 18

Czech Republic 7 4 1 0 2 24 - 11 14

Norway 7 4 0 1 2 33 - 19 13

Latvia 7 2 0 0 5 11 - 19 6

Germany 7 2 0 0 5 14 - 31 6

Denmark 7 1 0 1 5 13 - 23 4

Italy 7 0 1 0 6 6 - 31 2