2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

IIHF World U18 Championship Division II 2007 Hungary Romania 12 – 18 March 200715 – 21 April 2007 12 other 2006 2008 The 2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II were a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II tournaments made up the third level of competition at the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 15 and 21 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary and the Group B tournament took place between 12 and 18 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. The Netherlands and Lithuania won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Mexico finished last in Group A and Serbia last in Group B and were both relegated to Division III for 2008. Group A tournament The Group A tournament began on 15 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=101 2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group A International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20070103150906/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=101 2007-01-03 Belgium, Estonia, Mexico and the Netherlands returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=66 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group A International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20060410140437/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=66 2006-04-10 http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=67 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group B International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20060319050710/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=67 2006-03-19 Hungary entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Israel entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18ia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=64 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Div I Group A International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20051228055441/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18ia/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=64 2005-12-28 http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iii/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=69 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Div III International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20060319050730/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18iii/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=69 2006-03-19 The Netherlands won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. Hungary finished in second place, losing only to the Netherlands and Estonia finished in third. Mexico finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. Eden Nemenoff of Israel was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101000_85I_1_0.pdf Best Players Selected by the Directorate International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20110526235637/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101000_85I_1_0.pdf 2011-05-26 Hungarian Daniel Koger was named the top forward and Mike Dalhuisen of the Netherlands was selected as the top defenceman. Hungary's Bálint Magosi was the tournament's leading scorer with 14 points and Miklos Rajna was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.938.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101Z08_85B_1_0.pdf Scoring Leaders International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20121002124317/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101Z08_85B_1_0.pdf 2012-10-02 http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101Z08_85A_1_0.pdf Goalkeepers International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20121002215440/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101Z08_85A_1_0.pdf 2012-10-02 Standings main WL OT PR NED NED HUN HUN EST EST BEL BEL ISR ISR MEX MEX 5 0 0 0 39 9 4 0 0 1 48 7 2 1 0 2 21 23 2 0 0 3 17 37 1 0 0 4 11 36 0 0 1 4 9 33 green1 Promoted to Division I for 2008 P red1 Relegated to Division III for 2008 R complete Fixtures All times local. 15 April 2007 13:00 ISR BEL 2 – 5 (0–0, 2–1, 0–4) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101901_74_2_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 400 15 April 2007 16:30 NED MEX 10 – 0 (5–0, 2–0, 3–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101902_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 500 #eeffff 15 April 2007 20:00 EST HUN 0 – 7 (0–2, 0–2, 0–3) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101903_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 1200 17 April 2007 13:00 NED EST 11 – 1 (3–0, 4–1, 4–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101904_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 350 #eeffff 17 April 2007 16:30 MEX ISR 3 – 5 (1–2, 1–2, 1–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101905_74_2_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 320 17 April 2007 20:00 HUN BEL 16 – 0 (6–0, 6–0, 4–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101906_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 1300 #eeffff 18 April 2007 13:00 NED ISR 7 – 1 (4–1, 1–0, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101907_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 150 18 April 2007 16:30 EST BEL 8 – 3 (5–0, 2–1, 1–2) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101908_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 160 #eeffff 18 April 2007 20:00 HUN MEX 10 – 0 (5–0, 3–0, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101909_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 1300 20 April 2007 13:00 MEX EST 2 – 3 GWS (2–1, 0–1, 0–0)(OT 0–0)(SO: 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101910_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 100 #eeffff 20 April 2007 16:30 BEL NED 4 – 7 (0–0, 2–5, 2–2) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101911_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 270 20 April 2007 20:00 ISR HUN 3 – 12 (2–5, 0–4, 1–3) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101912_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 1400 #eeffff 21 April 2007 13:00 BEL MEX 5 – 4 (0–1, 0–2, 5–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101913_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 120 21 April 2007 16:30 EST ISR 9 – 0 (5–0, 2–0, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101914_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 250 #eeffff 21 April 2007 20:00 HUN NED 3 – 4 (0–2, 1–2, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iia/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/101/IHM101915_74_1_0.pdf Miskolc Arena 1800 Scoring leaders thumb|300px|Daniel Koger scored four goals and eight assists to finish fourth in scoring. List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP Games played G Goals A Assists Pts Points +/- Plus/Minus PIM Penalties in minutes POS PositionHUN Bálint Magosi 5 9 5 14 +17 8 FHUN Gergo Nagy Gergő Nagy (ice hockey) 5 8 5 13 +10 34 FHUN Laszlo Jonkl 5 5 7 12 +13 4 FHUN Daniel Koger 5 4 8 12 +9 2 FBEL Ben van den Bogeart 5 10 1 11 –4 8 FNED Mike Dalhuisen 5 5 6 11 +12 14 DNED Mitch Bruijsten 5 8 2 10 +9 18 FNED Ritchie van Hulten 5 5 5 10 +8 10 FHUN Dezso Roczanov 5 7 2 9 +10 27 FISR Erlich Daniel Erlich 5 4 5 9 –12 32 F Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player MIP Minutes and seconds played SOG Shots on goal GA Goals against GAA Goals against average per 60 minutes SVS% Save percentage SO ShutoutsHUN Miklos Rajna 120:00 48 3 1.50 93.75 1HUN Meretei David Meretei 178:44 49 4 1.34 91.84 2EST Villem Koitmaa 239:50 125 12 3.00 90.40 0NED Hrelja Tomislav Hrelja 300:00 80 9 1.80 88.75 1ISR Nemenoff Eden Nemenoff 259:46 231 31 7.16 86.58 0 Group B tournament The Group B tournament began on 12 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=100 2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group B International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20070121054406/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=100 2007-01-21 Australia, Croatia and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships. Serbia made their debut appearance in the World U18 Championships after replacing the Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team, the change in team coinciding with Montenegro's declaration of independence and the eventual split of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. South Korea entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Romania entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18ib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=65 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Div I Group B International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20060407231438/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_06/output/w18ib/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=65 2006-04-07 Lithuania won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. South Korea finished second after losing only to Lithuania and Estonia finished in third place. Serbia finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated to Division III for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships. Tihomir Filipec of Croatia was named as the tournament's top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100000_85I_1_0.pdf Best Players Selected by the Directorate International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20110527000210/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100000_85I_1_0.pdf 2011-05-27 Lithuanian Povilas Verenis was named the top forward and Cho Hyung Gon of South Korea was selected as the top defenceman. Lithuania's Tadas Kumeliauskas was the tournament's leading scorer with 12 points and Arturas Kuzmicius was the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 0.948.http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100Z08_85B_1_0.pdf Scoring Leaders International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20070322172609/http://www.iihf.com:80/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100Z08_85B_1_0.pdf 2007-03-22 http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100Z23_85A_1_0.pdf Goalkeepers International Ice Hockey Federation 2013-01-02 live https://web.archive.org/web/20121002215752/http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100Z23_85A_1_0.pdf 2012-10-02 Standings main WL OT PR LTU LTU KOR KOR CRO CRO ROM ROM AUS AUS SER SER 2004 5 0 0 0 32 9 3 1 0 1 27 14 2 0 2 1 24 19 2 0 0 3 15 25 0 2 0 3 13 25 0 0 1 4 10 29 green1 Promoted to Division I for 2008 P red1 Relegated to Division III for 2008 R complete Fixtures All times local. 12 March 2007 13:30 AUS KOR 2 – 6 (0–1, 1–1, 1–4) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100901_74_2_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 30 12 March 2007 17:00 LTU SER 2004 6 – 2 (1–1, 0–1, 5–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100902_74_3_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 200 #eeffff 12 March 2007 20:30 ROM CRO 0 – 10 (0–3, 0–4, 0–3) Vakar Lajos Icerink 200 13 March 2007 13:30 LTU AUS 8 – 2 (3–1, 3–0, 2–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100904_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 50 #eeffff 13 March 2007 17:00 KOR CRO 5 – 4 GWS (1–2, 1–1, 2–1)(OT 0–0)(SO: 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100905_74_2_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 100 13 March 2007 20:30 SER 2004 ROM 4 – 6 (1–3, 2–0, 1–3) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100906_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 300 #eeffff 15 March 2007 13:30 KOR SER 2004 8 – 0 (2–0, 4–0, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100907_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 50 15 March 2007 17:00 AUS CRO 5 – 4 GWS (2–1, 1–2, 1–1)(OT 0–0)(SO: 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100908_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 130 #eeffff 15 March 2007 20:30 LTU ROM 5 – 2 (1–2, 1–0, 3–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100909_74_2_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 300 16 March 2007 13:30 SER 2004 AUS 3 – 4 GWS (1–0, 1–1, 1–2)(OT 0–0)(SO: 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100910_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink #eeffff 16 March 2007 17:00 CRO LTU 1 – 8 (0–0, 1–3, 0–5) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100911_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 200 16 March 2007 20:30 ROM KOR 3 – 6 (1–1, 1–4, 1–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100912_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 350 #eeffff 18 March 2007 12:30 CRO SER 2004 5 – 1 (2–0, 3–0, 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100913_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 50 18 March 2007 16:00 KOR LTU 2 – 5 (1–1, 1–0, 0–4) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100914_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 200 #eeffff 18 March 2007 19:30 AUS ROM 0 – 4 (0–4, 0–0, 0–0) http://www.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments_07/output/w18iib/hydra.iihf.com/data/iihf/output/xml/100/IHM100915_74_1_0.pdf Vakar Lajos Icerink 350 Scoring leaders List shows the top ten ranked skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP Games played G Goals A Assists Pts Points +/- Plus/Minus PIM Penalties in minutes POS PositionLTU Tadas Kumeliauskas 5 5 7 12 +12 4 FLTU Povilas Verenis 5 7 4 11 +12 8 FROM Bartha Lorand Bartha 5 5 4 9 -7 20 FCRO Gurka Vladimir Gurka 5 5 4 9 +2 4 FKOR Yoon Ji Man 5 4 5 9 +5 6 FKOR Park Sang Jin 5 7 1 8 +4 2 FROM Zsolt Balint 5 4 4 8 -5 16 FLTU Jonas Viknius 5 2 6 8 +2 8 FLTU Arnoldas Bosas 5 6 1 7 +5 6 FKOR Lee Sung Jun 5 6 1 7 +6 14 F Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player MIP Minutes and seconds played SOG Shots on goal GA Goals against GAA Goals against average per 60 minutes SVS% Save percentage SO ShutoutsLTU Arturas Kuzmicius 120:00 58 3 1.50 94.83 0LTU Ernestas Kielius 180:00 79 6 2.00 92.41 0AUS Anthony Kimlin 244:47 182 14 3.43 92.31 0CRO Tihomir Filipec 310:00 195 19 3.68 90.26 1KOR Yong Hyun Ho 242:40 112 13 3.21 88.39 0 References IIHF World U18 Championship Division II IIHF World U18 Championship Division II II Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Hungary Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Romania Category:IIHF World U18 Championship Division II