2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

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2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Logo.png
Tournament details
Host country Czech Republic
Dates1 June – 7 June
Teams8
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg 
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Australia
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg 
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Goals scored198 (9 per match)
Attendance1,908 (87 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Slovenia Domen Vedlin
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The 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 1 and 7 June 2014 in Pardubice, Germany. The tournament was won by Slovenia who upon winning gained promotion to the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Brazil and Japan were relegated after finishing last and second last respectively.

Qualification[]

Three teams attempted to qualify for the one European spot remaining in the 2013 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I tournament, while automatically qualified for the Rest of the World spot as they were the only team who applied.[1] The other six nations automatically qualified after their results from the 2013 World Championship and the 2013 Division I tournaments. The European qualification tournament was held in Passau, Germany with a place and was contested between , and Macedonia, with Lavia winning both of their games and earning a qualification spot.[2]

European Qualification[]

The European Qualification tournament was held at the in Passau, Germany from 9 August 2013 to 11 August 2013.[2] Latvia gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games and finishing first in the standings.[2] Ireland finished in second place after winning their game against Macedonia.[2]

Qualified for Division I
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
  2 2 0 0 0 48 1 +47 6
  2 1 0 0 1 14 13 +1 3
 North Macedonia 2 0 0 0 2 1 49 –48 0

All times are local.

9 August 2013
18:00		North Macedonia 1 – 35
(0–7, 0–10, 1–6, 0–12)		 
10 August 2013
18:00		 14 – 0
(5–0, 3–0, 6–0, 0–0)		 North MacedoniaEisarena
11 August 2013
11:00		 13 – 0
(2–0, 2–0, 2–0, 7–0)		 Eisarena

Seeding and groups[]

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship and 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I.[1] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2013 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Pardubice, Czech Republic.[1] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):

Preliminary round[]

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C[]

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
  3 3 0 0 0 22 9 +13 9
  3 2 0 0 1 10 10 0 6
 Australia 3 1 0 0 2 12 13 –1 3
  3 0 0 0 3 8 20 –12 0
1 June 2014
15:00		 4 – 9
(1–1, 0–2, 2–3, 1–3)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 50
1 June 2014
17:00		Australia 2 – 4
(0–0, 0–4, 1–0, 1–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 200
2 June 2014
14:00		Australia 5 – 1
(0–0, 0–1, 3–0, 2–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 21
2 June 2014
18:00		 5 – 0
(0–0, 1–0, 1–0, 3–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 115
3 June 2014
13:00		 6 – 3
(1–1, 1–1, 3–0, 1–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 30
3 June 2014
15:00		 8 – 5
(2–0, 2–1, 0–2, 4–2)		 AustraliaPardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 100

Group D[]

Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
  3 2 0 0 1 21 8 +13 6
  3 1 1 0 1 13 14 –1 5
  3 1 0 1 1 9 15 –6 4
  3 1 0 0 2 9 15 –6 3
1 June 2014
13:00		 0 – 8
(0–2, 0–1, 0–1, 0–4)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 120
1 June 2014
19:00		 4 – 3 (SO)
(0–2, 0–0, 1–0, 2–1, 0–0, 1–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 200
2 June 2014
16:00		 3 – 6
(1–1, 1–1, 1–1, 0–3)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 22
2 June 2014
20:00		 8 – 2
(1–0, 2–0, 1–2, 4–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 50
3 June 2014
17:00		 5 – 6
(2–2, 0–0, 3–3, 0–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 40
3 June 2014
19:00		 4 – 3
(1–1, 2–1, 0–0, 1–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 150

Playoff round[]

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the placement round. Japan and Brazil were relegated after losing their placement round games, while Austria finished fifth after defeating Brazil and Hungary finished sixth following their win over Japan. In the semifinals Australia defeated Croatia and Slovenia beat Latvia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Croatia and Latvia played off for the bronze medal with Croatia winning 4–3. Slovenia defeated Australia 10–5 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.[5]

  Quarterfinals Semifinals
                           
  C2   5  
D3   2  
  QF1   5  
  QF2  Australia 6  
D2   1 Final
  C3  Australia 3  
    SF1  Australia 5
  SF2   10
  C1   7  
D4   1  
  QF3   13 Bronze medal game
  QF4   2  
D1   3 SF1   4
  C4   4   SF2   3

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals[]

5 June 2014
13:00		 5 – 2
(2–0, 0–1, 2–0, 1–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 50
5 June 2014
15:00		 1 – 3
(0–1, 0–0, 0–1, 1–1)		 AustraliaPardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 60
5 June 2014
17:00		 7 – 1
(0–0, 1–0, 3–1, 3–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 120
5 June 2014
19:00		 3 – 4 (SO)
(1–0, 1–0, 0–1, 1–2, 0–0, 0–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 70

Placement round[]

6 June 2014
14:00		 12 – 2
(2–1, 3–0, 3–0, 4–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 50
6 June 2014
16:00		 5 – 1
(0–0, 4–1, 1–0, 0–0)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 70

Semifinals[]

6 June 2014
18:00		 5 – 6 (OT)
(2–1, 2–1, 1–0, 0–3, 0–1)		 AustraliaPardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 40
6 June 2014
20:00		 13 – 2
(2–1, 5–0, 3–0, 3–1)		 Pardubice Arena 2
Attendance: 50

Bronze medal game[]

7 June 2014
12:00		 4 – 3
(1–2, 1–0, 1–1, 1–0)		 Pardubice Arena
Attendance: 100

Gold medal game[]

7 June 2014
14:00		 10 – 5
(4–1, 3–0, 1–1, 2–3)		 AustraliaPardubice Arena
Attendance: 200

Ranking and statistics[]

 

Tournament Awards[]

  • Best players selected by the directorate:[6]
    • Best Goalkeeper: Australia
    • Best Defenseman: Slovenia
    • Best Forward: Latvia

Final standings[]

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[7]

Rk. Team
Gold medal icon.svg  
Silver medal icon.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg  
4.  
5.  
6.  
7.  
8.  

Scoring leaders[]

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.[8]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Slovenia 6 7 8 15 +12 1.5 D
Austria 5 3 12 15 +5 1.5 D
Slovenia 6 5 9 14 +9 1.5 F
Austria Daniel Oberkofler 5 8 5 13 +10 0.0 F
Slovenia 6 8 5 13 +12 3.0 F
Slovenia Gal Koren 6 5 8 13 +8 3.0 F
Slovenia 6 4 9 13 +6 3.0 D
Austria 5 4 9 13 +12 0.0 F
Slovenia Matic Kralj 6 7 5 12 +7 4.5 F
Slovenia 6 3 9 12 +9 0.0 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.[9]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Austria 223:31 107 12 1.93 88.79 1
Hungary 207:21 111 14 2.43 87.39 0
Japan 147:32 83 11 2.68 86.75 0
Croatia 243:46 112 16 2.36 85.71 0
Latvia 202:22 148 25 4.45 83.11 0

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e "2013/2014 IIHF European Inline Hockey Qualification". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2013-06-08. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  4. ^ "2013 IIHF In-Line World Championship Group A+B". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  5. ^ "2014 IIHF In-Line World Championship Div I Group C+D". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  6. ^ "Best Players Selected by the Directorate" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  7. ^ "Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  8. ^ "Scoring Leaders" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  9. ^ "Goalkeepers" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

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