2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

Tournament details
Host country	USA
Dates	March 29 – April 5, 2008
Teams	10
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (2nd title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	147 (5.65 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Billy Bridges ( 15 points)
MVP	Bradley Bowden (Forward) Adam Dixon (Defence) Roger Johansen (Goal)
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The 4th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships were held between March 29, 2008 and April 5, 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, at the New England Sports Center. Organized by Massachusetts Hockey in co-operation with US Paralympics, around 200 athletes from ten countries participated in the 10-team round robin tournament which featured two divisions: six teams in group A and four teams in group B.

A Tournament[]

The A Tournament was held between Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and the United States, all teams which had competed at the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games and which were then-ranked as the world's best sledge hockey teams.

Final rankings[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5th	6th
Canada Bradley Bowden Billy Bridges A Adam Dixon Marc Dorion Raymond Grassi Jean Labonté C Hervé Lord A Shawn Matheson Graeme Murray Todd Nicholson Mark Noot Paul Rosen Benoît St-Amand Dany Verner Greg Westlake	Norway  [no] Helge Bjørnstad Eskil Hagen Lloyd Remi Johansen Roger Johansen  [no] Rolf Einar Pedersen Tommy Rovelstad  [no] Stig Tore Svee Johan Siqveland Morten Værnes C	United States Mike Blabac Steve Cash Taylor Chace Jim Connelly Brad Emmerson  [no] Tim Jones Taylor Lipsett Chris Manns C Adam Page Alex Salamone Greg Shaw Bubba Torres	Japan Mikio Annaka Takayuki Endo Shinobu Fukushima Naohiko Ishida Noritaka Ito Makoto Majima Eiji Misawa Mitsuru Nagase Toshiyuki Nakamura Satoru Sudo Kazuhiro Takahashi Daisuke Uehara Mamoru Yoshikawa	Germany Udo Segreff	Italy Florian Planker

Preliminary round[]

Standings[]

Rk.	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PIM	SHOTS	SV	PTS
1	Canada	5	5	0	0	0	28	5	+23	75	123	61	10
2	Norway	5	4	0	0	1	16	9	+7	56	92	69	8
3	United States	5	3	0	0	2	16	8	+8	66	68	66	6
4	Japan	5	2	0	0	3	10	15	-5	48	81	65	4
5	Italy	5	0	1	0	4	5	28	-23	64	38	96	2
6	Germany	5	0	0	1	4	9	19	-10	141	108	64	0

• PIM, SHOTS and SV counted in 6 games

Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)

Sat March 29, 2008 14:00 (UTC-5)

Canada

11 – 0 ( 2 - 0, 3 - 0, 6 - 0 )

Italy

New England Sports Center, Marlborough Attendance: 1,500

	Herve Lord 6:05 , 37:50 Greg Westlake 11:27 , 17:22 Billy Bridges 24:47 (PP) , 34:21 , 43:37 Marc Dorion 25:34 Todd Nicholson 37:13 Raymond Grassi 41:44 (PP) Graeme Murray 42:21 Goals

Sat March 29, 2008 16:30 (UTC-5)

Germany

0 – 1 ( 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 1 )

Norway

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Goals 41:54 Tommy Rovelstad

Sat March 29, 2008 19:00 (UTC-5)

United States

5 – 1 ( 2 - 0, 3 - 1, 0 - 0 )

Japan

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Taylor Lipsett 12:22, 14:56, 18:15 Taylor Chace 22:06 Jimmy Connelly 28:44 Goals 25:20 (PP) Mamoru Yoshikawa

Sun March 30, 2008 14:00 (UTC-5)

United States

4 – 0 ( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 2 - 0 )

Italy

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Jimmy Connelly 12:54 Taylor Chace 20:41 Chris Manns 39:40 (PP) Taylor Lipsett 43:28 Goals

Sun March 30, 2008 16:30 (UTC-5)

Norway

5 – 1 ( 0 - 1, 4 - 0, 1 - 0 )

Japan

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Rolf Einar Pedersen 24:19 , 24:25 , 28:35 Helge Bjørnstad 29:03 , 34:12 Goals 12:54

Sun March 30, 2008 19:00 (UTC-5)

Canada

6 – 3 ( 3 - 0, 0 - 1, 3 - 2 )

Germany

New England Sports Center, Marlborough Attendance: 105

	Billy Bridges 4:26 , 10:37 (SHG) , 40:24 Greg Westlake 12:34 Jean Labonté 30:33 Adam Dixon 34:34 (PP) Goals 20:24 (PP) 33:59 (PP) 40:50

Tue April 1, 2008 14:00 (UTC-5)

Italy

4 – 3 (SO) ( 1 - 2, 0 - 0, 2 - 1, 1 - 0 (OT) )

Germany

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Florian Planker 8:39 , 37:34 34:05 50:00 (PS) Goals 7:55 Udo Segreff 14:43 31:44

Tue April 1, 2008 16:30 (UTC-5)

Japan

1 – 3 ( 0 - 1, 0 - 2, 1 - 0 )

Canada

New England Sports Center, Marlborough Attendance: 130

	Satoru Sudo 34:04 Goals 5:01 Graeme Murray 15:20 Bradley Bowden 21:58 Todd Nicholson

Tue April 1, 2008 19:00 (UTC-5)

Norway

3 – 2 ( 1 - 0, 2 - 1, 0 - 1 )

United States

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Morten Værnes 1:51 Helge Bjørnstad 17:31 Tommy Rovelstad 20:28 (PP) Goals 27:33 (PP) , 36:46 (PP) Chris Manns

Wed April 2, 2008 12:30 (UTC-5)

Japan

3 – 2 ( 0 - 0, 1 - 1, 2 - 1 )

Germany

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Daisuke Uehara 23:49 (PP) Satoru Sudo 32:15 (PP) Naohiko Ishida 37:55 Goals 21:11 (SH) 39:25

Wed April 2, 2008 15:00 (UTC-5)

Norway

6 – 1 ( 2 - 1, 2 - 0, 2 - 0 )

Italy

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Stig Tore Svee 2:49 Eskil Hagen 3:21 Rolf Einar Pedersen16:15 22:48 Helge Bjørnstad 33:31 Tommy Rovelstad 37:16 Goals 5:31

Wed April 2, 2008 20:00 (UTC-5)

Canada

3 – 0 ( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 0 )

United States

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Bradley Bowden 0:33 Adam Dixon 29:41 , 38:13 (PP) Goals

Fri April 4, 2008 12:00 (UTC-5)

Italy

0 – 4 ( 0 - 1, 0 - 0, 0 - 3 )

Japan

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Goals 3:45 Kazuhiro Takahashi 34:52 Takayuki Endo 35:51 Satoru Sudo 43:01 Naohiko Ishida

Fri April 4, 2008 14:40 (UTC-5)

United States

5 – 1 ( 3 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 0 )

Germany

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Brad Emmerson 0:27, 35:49 Adam Page 5:58 Bubba Torres 13:30 (PP) Greg Shaw 44:23 (PP) Goals 18:13 Adam Page

Fri April 4, 2008 17:20 (UTC-5)

Norway

1 – 5 ( 0 - 2, 1 - 1, 0 - 2 )

Canada

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Rolf Einar Pedersen 22:36 (SH) Goals 4:17 (SH) Marc Dorion 7:45 (PP) Adam Dixon 26:03 Bradley Bowden 36:50, 40:15 Greg Westlake

Final round[]

5th place playoff

Sat April 5, 2008 11:50 (UTC-5)

Germany A5

6 – 1 ( 4 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 0 )

A6  Italy

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	1:12 Udo Segreff 2:59, 34:24 (SH) 4:29 14:29 (PP) 30:26 Goals 16:41

Bronze medal game

Sat April 5, 2008 16:30 (UTC-5)

United States A3

3 – 1 ( 2 - 0, 1 - 0, 0 - 1 )

A4  Japan

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Jimmy Connelly 5:29 (PP) Alex Salamone 14:59, 26:38 Goals 39:15 (PP) Daisuke Uehara

Gold medal game

Sat April 5, 2008 19:30 (UTC-5)

Canada A1

3 – 2 ( 1 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 1 )

A2  Norway

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Billy Bridges 7:51 Adam Dixon 36:41 (PP) Greg Westlake 44:50 Goals 15:23 (PP) 30:41 Eskil Hagen

B Tournament[]

The B Tournament was held between Czech Republic, Estonia, South Korea and Poland, the second tier elite teams all vying for a position in the 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A Tournament.

Final rankings[]

Rank	Nation	Roster
1	South Korea	Cho Byeong-seok, Cho Young-jae, , Han Min-su, , Jang Jong-ho, , Jung Seung-hwan, , Lee Hae-man, Lee Jong-kyung, Lee Yong-min, Park Sang-hyun, Park Woo-chul, Sa Seong-keun.
2	Czech Republic	C, A, , , , , , , , , , , .
3	Estonia	, , , , Kaido Kalm C, , , , , Imre Tiitsu, .
4	Poland	, , , , , , , , Jan Maliszak, , , , , , , , .

Preliminary round[]

Standings[]

Rk.	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PIM	SHOTS	SV	PTS
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	0	14	4	+10	22	18	4	6
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	0	1	11	3	+8	24	17	9	4
3	Estonia	3	1	0	0	2	9	6	+3	40	10	15	2
4	Poland	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	-21	16	5	10	0

Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)

Sat March 29, 2008 9:00 (UTC-5)

South Korea

2 – 1 ( 1 - 1, 1 - 0, 0 - 0 )

Czech Republic

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Byeongseok Cho 3:55 Minsu Han 21:24 Goals 1:12

Sat March 29, 2008 11:30 (UTC-5)

Poland

0 – 6 ( 0 - 1 , 0 - 3 , 0 - 2 )

Estonia

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Goals 1:19, 27:49 Imre Tiitsu 20:24, 39:08 21:37 41:08

Sun March 30, 2008 9:00 (UTC-5)

South Korea

4 – 2 ( 3 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 )

Estonia

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Lee Yong-min 3:37, 21:27 Park Woo-chul 10:28 Jung Seung-hwan 13:50 Goals 0:20 Kaido Kalm 10:53 Imre Tiitsu

Sun March 30, 2008 11:30 (UTC-5)

Poland

0 – 8 ( 0 - 3 , 0 - 4 , 0 - 1 )

Czech Republic

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Goals 0:12 3:53, 16:06 13:30, 28:38 16:34 21:43 30:44

Tue April 1, 2008 9:00 (UTC-5)

Czech Republic

2 – 1 ( 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 , 1 - 0 )

Estonia

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	13:32 36:37 Goals 1:29 Imre Tiitsu

Tue April 1, 2008 11:30 (UTC-5)

Poland

1 – 8 ( 1 - 2 , 0 - 4 , 0 - 2 )

South Korea

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	3:46 Goals 11:39 Han Min-su 12:38 Lee Yong-min 15:59 , 26:46 Jung Seung-hwan 21:17 Park Sang-hyun 28:28 Lee Jong-kyung 32:20 Cho Byeong-seok 41:43 Cho Young-jae

Final round[]

9th place playoff

Wed April 2, 2008 10:00 (UTC-5)

Estonia B3

8 – 2 ( 1 - 0 , 4 - 0 , 3 - 2 )

B4  Poland

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	Imre Tiitsu 6:53, 35:47 Kaido Kalm 19:11, 22:54, 34:12 20:06 28:32 39:27 Goals 31:30, 33:10

7th place playoff

Wed April 2, 2008 17:30 (UTC-5)

South Korea B1

2 – 0 ( 2 - 0 , 0 - 0 , 0 - 0 )

B2  Czech Republic

New England Sports Center, Marlborough

	2:24 Minsu Han 7:56 Goals

See also[]

• Ice sledge hockey
• Ice hockey#Sledge hockey
• Ice sledge hockey at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
• 2004 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

External links[]

• Official Page
• Game stats
• Best Scenes of Ice Sledge Hockey Championships Available on PSTV
• Highlights on the new Paralympicsport TV
• Paralympic.org Press Releases - Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in Marlborough
• Vancouver 2010 - World Championship Ice Sledge Hockey
• New England Sports Center