2016 IIHF World Championship

2016 edition of the IIHF World Championship March 2022 2016 2016 IIHF World Championship logo.png 200px Russia 6–22 May Dmitry Medvedev 16 2 2 ih CAN 26 FIN RUS USA 64 363 RUS Vadim Shipachyov 18 FIN Patrik Laine 2015 2017 thumb|2016 postage stamp of Russia, dedicated to 2016 IIHF World Championship. Laika, the mascot of the championship, is in the centre. 2016 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships The 2016 IIHF World Championship was the 80th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), being held from 6 to 22 May 2016 in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia.IIHF: 2016 Worlds go to Russia Canada entered the tournament as the defending 2015 champions. Hungary returned to the Championship after a 6-year absence, and Kazakhstan after a 1-year absence.http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/to-russia-with-love/ To Russia with love Merk Martin 2015-06-02 IIHFWorlds2016.com 2016-05-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20160723183504/http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/to-russia-with-love/ 2016-07-23 dead Canada won their 26th gold medal, defeating Finland 2–0 in the gold medal game.http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/gold-game/ Connor-da Gold! 22 May 2016 iihfworlds2016.com 22 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160725152430/http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/gold-game/ 25 July 2016 dead With the win Corey Perry became the second consecutive Canadian team captain to earn membership in the Triple Gold Club.Nelson Dustin L. Corey Perry Enters Triple Gold Club https://thehockeywriters.com/corey-perry-enters-triple-gold-club/ The Hockey Writers The Hockey Writers May 22, 2016 May 22, 2016 Russia won the bronze medal, defeating the United States 7–2 in the bronze medal game.http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/rus-usa/ Happy ending for hosts 22 May 2016 iihfworlds2016.com 22 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160523093353/http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/rus-usa/ 23 May 2016 dead Bids There were three official bids to host these championships. The decision on who hosts the tournament was decided during the final weekend of the 2011 IIHF World Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia.Three bids for 2016 Denmark Denmark Copenhagen/Herning Denmark has never hosted these championships. The tournament was proposed to run from May 6–22, 2016 in Parken Stadium (Copenhagen, 15,000 seats) and Jyske Bank Boxen (Herning, 12,000 seats). Russia Russia Moscow/Saint Petersburg Russia was the only bidder to ever have hosted these championships, with the most recent being in 2007. The tournament was proposed to run from April 29 – May 15, 2016 in Megasport Arena (Moscow, 13,577 seats) and Ice Palace (Saint Petersburg, 12,300 seats). Ukraine Ukraine Kyiv Ukraine, like Denmark, has never hosted these championships. The tournament was proposed to run from May 6–22, 2016 in Palace of Sports (Kyiv, 7,000 seats) and a new 12,000 seat arena to be built by 2015 in Kyiv. Venues 20px Moscow European Russia 250 center European Russia Moscow Red pog.svg 55 42 37 38 European Russia Saint Petersburg left Red pog.svg 59 57 30 17 20px Saint Petersburg VTB Ice Palace Yubileyny Sports PalaceCapacity: 12,100Capacity: 7,300 280px 280px Participants 18em BLRQA Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2015 IIHF World Championship CANQA CZEQA DENQA FINQA FRAQA GERQA HUNQ1 Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2015 IIHF World Championship Division I KAZQ1 LATQA NORQA RUSQH Qualified as host SVKQA SWEQA SWIQA USAQA Format The 16 teams were split into two groups of eight teams. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams advance to the knockout stage, to play out the winner. The last team of each group will be relegated to Division I the following year.https://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/information/#tournament-format Format 2016-05-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20160504231535/http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/information#tournament-format 2016-05-04 dead Seeding The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2015 IIHF World Ranking, which ended at the conclusion of the 2015 IIHF World Championship.https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2015/wm/news/53564/canada-tops-world-ranking Canada tops World Ranking 17 May 2015 18 May 2015 Group A (Moscow) RUS (2) SWE (3) CZE (6) SUI (7) LAT (10) NOR (11) DEN (15) KAZ (17) Group B (St. Petersburg) CAN (1) FIN (4) USA (5) SVK (8) BLR (9) FRA (12) GER (13) HUN (19) Rosters 2016 IIHF World Championship rosters Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards and defencemen) and two goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and three goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate meeting. Officials The IIHF selected 16 referees and 16 linesmen to work the tournament.Match officials 200px|thumb|right|Henrik Pihlblad, Tobias Wehrli, Stefan Fonselius and Peter Šefčík during Norway vs. Denmark match Referees Linesmen 18em SWE Tobias Björk FIN Stefan Fonselius CZE Martin Fraňo HUN Péter Gebei RUS Roman Gofman CAN Brett Iverson CZE Antonín Jeřábek SVK Jozef Kubuš USA Timothy Mayer SWE Linus Ohlund RUS Konstantin Olenin GER Daniel Piechaczek FIN Aleksi Rantala BLR Maxim Sidorenko SUI Tobias Wehrli SUI Marc Wiegand18em CAN Nicolas Chartrand-Piché SUI Nicolas Fluri SUI Roman Kaderli NOR Jon Killian RUS Gleb Lazarev CZE Vit Lederer CZE Miroslav Lhotský SWE Andreas Malmqvist USA Fraser McIntyre FIN Pasi Nieminen RUS Alexander Otmakhov SWE Henrik Pihlblad GER Nikolaj Ponomarjow USA Judson Ritter SVK Peter Šefčík FIN Sakari Suominen Preliminary round The schedule was released on 15 July 2015.http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/russia-to-open-vs-czechs/ Russia to open vs. Czechs 15 July 2015 iihfworlds2016.com 20 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160628033747/http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/russia-to-open-vs-czechs/ 28 June 2016 dead Group A thumb|300px|Russia vs Czech Republic at the VTB Ice Palace 2016 IIHF World Championship Group A 6 May 2016 SWE 2–1 (OT) LAT CZE 3–0 RUS7 May 2016 SUI 2–3 (GWS) KAZ NOR 0–3 DEN LAT 3–4 (GWS) CZE8 May 2016 KAZ 4–6 RUS NOR 4–3 (OT) SUI SWE 5–2 DEN9 May 2016 LAT 0–4 RUS SWE 2–4 CZE10 May 2016 SUI 3–2 (OT) DEN KAZ 2–4 NOR11 May 2016 SUI 5–4 LAT SWE 7–3 KAZ12 May 2016 CZE 7–0 NOR RUS 10–1 DEN13 May 2016 CZE 3–1 KAZ DEN 3–2 (GWS) LAT14 May 2016 NOR 2–3 SWE RUS 5–1 SUI KAZ 1–2 LAT15 May 2016 DEN 2–1 (GWS) CZE SUI 2–3 (GWS) SWE16 May 2016 RUS 3–0 NOR DEN 4–1 KAZ17 May 2016 CZE 5–4 SUI LAT 1–3 NOR RUS 4–1 SWE Group B 2016 IIHF World Championship Group B 6 May 2016 USA 1–5 CAN FIN 6–2 BLR7 May 2016 SVK 4–1 HUN FRA 3–2 (GWS) GER BLR 3–6 USA8 May 2016 HUN 1–7 CAN FIN 5–1 GER FRA 1–5 SVK9 May 2016 BLR 0–8 CAN FIN 3–2 USA10 May 2016 SVK 1–5 GER HUN 2–6 FRA11 May 2016 SVK 2–4 BLR FIN 3–0 HUN12 May 2016 USA 4–0 FRA CAN 5–2 GER13 May 2016 USA 5–1 HUN GER 5–2 BLR14 May 2016 FRA 1–3 FIN HUN 5–2 BLR CAN 5–0 SVK15 May 2016 GER 3–2 USA SVK 0–5 FIN16 May 2016 CAN 4–0 FRA GER 4–2 HUN17 May 2016 USA 2–3 (OT) SVK BLR 3–0 FRA CAN 0–4 FIN Playoff round 2016 IIHF World Championship playoff round Quarterfinals #eeeeee 19 May 2016 16:15 CZE USA 1–2 GWS 1–01–1 (1–0, 0–1, 0–0)OT (0–0)GWS (0–1) Dominik Furch Keith Kinkaid Zohorna (PS) – 15:23 Kašpar Koukal Zohorna 21:27 – Matthews (Vatrano, Wideman) Hendricks Matthews VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 7,853 SWE Linus Ohlund SUI Tobias Wehrli RUS Alexander Otmakhov SWE Henrik Pihlblad http://statspdf.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415357_74_5_0.pdf 12 12 32 28 #eeffff 19 May 2016 16:15 FIN DEN 5–1 1–02–02–13–14–15–1 (1–0, 2–1, 2–0) Mikko Koskinen Sebastian Dahm Granlund (Koivu, Komarov) – 14:29Koskiranta (Pyörälä, Ohtamaa) – 21:45Laine (Hietanen, Jaakola) – 38:57Jokinen (Koivu) (EN) – 57:46Granlund – 58:07 31:42 – Eller (Christensen, Ehlers) (PP) Yubileyny Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg 5,038 CZE Martin Fraňo SVK Jozef Kubuš SUI Nicolas Fluri RUS Gleb Lazarev http://statspdf.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415358_74_3_0.pdf 6 6 28 17 #eeeeee 19 May 2016 20:15 RUS GER 4–1 0–11–12–13–14–1 (0–1, 3–0, 1–0) Sergei Bobrovsky Thomas Greiss Shipachyov (Dadonov, Belov) – 20:40Dadonov (Shipachyov) – 27:17Shipachyov (Telegin) – 34:14Ovechkin (Kuznetsov, Lyubimov) – 42:45 04:45 – Reimer VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 12,199 SWE Tobias Björk FIN Aleksi Rantala CZE Miroslav Lhotský USA Fraser McIntyre https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415359_74_3_0.pdf 2 4 37 20 #eeffff 19 May 2016 20:15 CAN SWE 6–0 1–02–03–04–05–06–0 (1–0, 3–0, 2–0) Cam Talbot Jacob Markström Scheifele (O'Reilly, Stone) – 18:39Dumba (Stone, Scheifele) (PP) – 26:05Marchand (Dumba, Scheifele) – 32:02Domi (Reinhart, Matheson) – 32:13Stone – 51:05Brassard (Gallagher, Hall) – 53:22 Yubileyny Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg 6,090 RUS Roman Gofman BLR Maxim Sidorenko USA Judson Ritter FIN Sakari Suominen https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415360_74_3_0.pdf 10 18 34 24 Semifinals #eeeeee 21 May 2016 16:15 FIN RUS 3–1 0–11–12–13–1 (0–1, 3–0, 0–0) Mikko Koskinen Sergei Bobrovsky Aho (Granlund, Lindell) (PP) – 25:34Jokinen (Laine) – 35:50Aho (Koskiranta, Koivu) (PP) – 38:15 02:52 – Shirokov (Telegin, Marchenko) VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 12,215 CZE Martin Fraňo SVK Jozef Kubuš USA Fraser McIntyre USA Judson Ritter https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415261_74_3_0.pdf 10 8 16 29 #eeffff 21 May 2016 20:15 CAN USA 4–3 1–02–02–12–22–33–34–3 (2–0, 1–3, 1–0) Cam Talbot Keith Kinkaid Gallagher (Jenner, Reinhart) – 08:59Marchand (Ceci) – 18:02Brassard (O'Reilly, Perry) (PP) – 35:30Ellis (Murray, McDavid) – 41:34 21:14 – Matthews (Wideman, Larkin) (PP)23:57 – Warsofsky (Nelson, Fasching)28:25 – Motte (Larkin, Compher) VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 10,455 RUS Roman Gofman SUI Tobias Wehrli CZE Miroslav Lhotský RUS Alexander Otmakhov https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415262_74_3_0.pdf 6 14 27 33 Bronze medal game #ffdab9 22 May 2016 16:15 RUS USA 7–2 1–02–03–04–04–15–15–26–27–2 (2–0, 3–1, 2–1) Sergei Bobrovsky Keith KinkaidMike Condon Voynov (Kalinin, Shirokov) – 06:23Mozyakin (Datsyuk, Orlov) (PP) – 13:41Telegin (Datsyuk, Mozyakin) – 29:36Dadonov (Panarin, Shipachyov) – 32:49Panarin (Belov, Chudinov) – 35:22Mozyakin (Datsyuk) – 53:13Shipachyov (Dadonov, Panarin) (PP) – 59:53 34:29 – Vatrano (Warsofsky, Nelson) (PP)43:42 – Vatrano (Warsofsky) VTB Ice Palace, Moscow 12,043 SWE Tobias Björk CZE Martin Fraňo CZE Miroslav Lhotský SWE Henrik Pihlblad https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/415/IHM415163_74_3_0.pdf 10 8 29 30 Gold medal game 2016 IIHF World Championship Final Final ranking thumb|Team Canada celebrates with the cup main WL OT complete IIHF.com yes CAN FIN RUS USA CZE SWE GER DEN SVK NOR SUI BLR LAT FRA HUN KAZ FIN B 9 0 0 1 37 10 SWE A 3 2 0 3 23 24 CZE A 5 1 2 0 28 14 CAN B 9 0 0 1 46 11 USA B 3 1 1 5 29 30 HUN B 1 0 0 6 12 31 FRA B 1 1 0 5 11 23 SVK B 2 1 0 4 15 23 LAT A 1 0 3 3 13 22 NOR A 2 1 0 4 13 22 BLR B 2 0 0 5 16 32 DEN A 2 2 1 3 18 27 RUS A 8 0 0 2 44 16 H GER B 4 0 1 3 23 24 SUI A 1 1 3 2 20 26 KAZ A 0 1 0 6 15 28 1st 2nd 3rd 4th QF QF QF QF GS GS GS GS GS GS REL REL yes yes yes Final result #FFD700 Champions #C0C0C0 Runners-up #CD7F32 Third place Fourth place Eliminated inQuarter-finals Eliminated inGroup stage red1 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I Awards and statistics Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: FIN Mikko Koskinen Best Defenceman: CAN Mike Matheson Best Forward: FIN Patrik Laine Source: IIHF.com Media All-Stars: MVP: FIN Patrik Laine Goaltender: FIN Mikko Koskinen Defencemen: RUS Nikita Zaitsev / CAN Mike Matheson Forwards: FIN Patrik Laine / RUS Vadim Shipachyov / FIN Mikael Granlund Source: IIHF.com Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POSRUS Vadim Shipachyov 10 6 12 18 +10 8 FRUS Artemi Panarin 10 6 9 15 +9 4 FRUS Evgenii Dadonov 10 6 7 13 +10 6 FFIN Patrik Laine 10 7 5 12 +4 4 FFIN Mikael Granlund 10 4 8 12 +6 2 FCAN Derick Brassard 10 5 6 11 +9 4 FRUS Pavel Datsyuk 10 1 10 11 +6 0 FCAN Matt Duchene 10 5 5 10 +10 2 FFIN Mikko Koivu 10 4 6 10 +8 12 FCAN Mark Stone 10 4 6 10 +8 6 F GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com Goaltending leaders 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 TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SOCZE Dominik Furch 255:00 4 0.94 100 96.00 2FIN Mikko Koskinen 479:01 9 1.13 169 94.67 1CAN Cam Talbot 480:00 10 1.25 167 94.01 4DEN Sebastian Dahm 434:04 16 2.21 248 93.55 1RUS Sergei Bobrovsky 520:51 15 1.73 218 93.12 1 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com IIHF honors and awards The 2016 IIHF Hall of Fame inductees and award recipients were honored during the World Championship medal ceremonies in Moscow.Two former Caps named to IIHF Hall of Fame class Regan J. J. 17 December 2015 NBC Sports Stamford, Connecticut https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/washington-capitals/two-former-caps-named-iihf-hall-fame-class 17 June 2023Спортивный комментатор Николай Озеров посмертно введен в Зал славы IIHF 22 May 2016 TASS ru Moscow, Russia http://tass.ru/sport/3303777 26 April 2025 IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Peter Bondra, SlovakiaBondra introduced into the Hall of Fame 24 May 2016 The Slovak Spectator Bratislava, Slovakia https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20171973/bondra-introduced-in-the-hall-of-fame.html 17 June 2023 Sergei Fedorov, RussiaФедоров, Озеров и Каменский включены в Зал славы ИИХФ Зислис Михаил 22 May 2016 Sport Express ru Moscow, Russia https://www.sport-express.ru/hockey/news/1002787/ 17 June 2023 Valeri Kamensky, Russia Ville Peltonen, Finlandhttps://pallomeri.net/ville-peltonen-iihf-hall-of-fame/ Ville Peltonen Valittiin IIHF:N Hall of Fameen 22 May 2016 Pallomeri fi 17 June 2023 Pat Quinn, Canada Ben Smith, United States Award recipients Nikolai Ozerov of Russia posthumously received the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey. Gábor Ocskay of Hungary posthumously received the Torriani Award for a player with an outstanding career from non-top hockey nation.https://thehockeynews.com/news/news/fedorov-bondra-quinn-headline-2016-iihf-hall-of-fame-class Fedorov, Bondra, Quinn headline 2016 IIHF Hall of Fame class Clinton Jared 18 December 2015 The Hockey News 25 May 2025 References External links www.iihfworlds2016.com Category:IIHF World Championship Iihf World Championship, 2016 World Ice Hockey Championships - Men's IIHF World Championship IIHF World Championship 2016 IIHF World Championship Category:May 2016 sports events in Russia 2016 IIHF World Championship Category:Sports competitions in Saint Petersburg