2017 IIHF World Championship Division I

2017 IIHF World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	Ukraine  United Kingdom
Dates	22–28 April (Group A) 23–29 April (Group B)
Teams	12
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
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The 2017 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Group A was contested in Kyiv, Ukraine from 22 to 28 April 2017 and Group B in Belfast, United Kingdom from 23 to 29 April 2017.^[1] South Korea and Austria were promoted to the 2018 World Championship. It marked the first time South Korea had earned promotion to the top tier of the World Championship.^[2]

Bids[]

There were two official bids to host Group A Championships.

• Austria
• Ukraine
  • Kyiv

Ukraine had never hosted these championships, however, they did host an Olympic Pre-Qualification round in 2012. The proposed arena was the Palace of Sports.

The decision on who hosts the tournament was decided on May 20, 2016. The bid from Ukraine gained a majority vote against the Austrian entry.^[1]

There were also two official bids to host Group B Championships.

• Estonia
  • Tallinn

Estonia last hosted these championships in 2006. The proposed arena was Tallinn Arena.

• United Kingdom
  • Belfast

The United Kingdom had never hosted these championships, however, they did play host to the IIHF Group B Championships in 1952, and again in 1993. The proposed arena was the Odyssey Arena.

The decision on who hosts the tournament was decided on May 20, 2016.^[1] The bid from the United Kingdom received 18 votes, whilst the Estonia bid received 7.^[3]

Venues[]

Group A		Group B
Kyiv	Kyiv Belfast	Belfast
Palace of Sports Capacity: 7,000		SSE Arena Capacity: 11,000

Group A tournament[]

2017 IIHF World Championship Division I A

Tournament details
Host country	Ukraine
Dates	22–28 April
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	70 (4.67 per match)
Attendance	51,851 (3,457 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Nigel Dawes (9 points)
MVP	Thomas Raffl
Website	IIHF.com

Participants[]

Team	Qualification
Hungary	Placed 15th in the Elite Division and was relegated.
Kazakhstan	Placed 16th in the Elite Division and was relegated.
Poland	Placed 3rd in Division I A the previous year.
Austria	Placed 4th in Division I A the previous year.
South Korea	Placed 5th in Division I A the previous year.
Ukraine	Placed 1st in Division I B the previous year and was promoted.

Match officials[]

7 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[4]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Austria (P)	5	4	0	0	1	22	4	+18	12	2018 IIHF World Championship
2	South Korea (P)	5	3	1	0	1	14	11	+3	11[a]
3	Kazakhstan	5	3	1	0	1	13	10	+3	11[a]
4	Poland	5	2	0	1	2	6	17	−11	7
5	Hungary	5	1	0	0	4	8	14	−6	3
6	Ukraine (H, R)	5	0	0	1	4	7	14	−7	1	Relegation to 2018 Division I B

Results[]

All times are local (UTC+3).

22 April 2017 13:30

Ukraine

3–5 (1–1, 2–1, 0–3)

Hungary

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 4,612

Game reference
		Goalies	Miklós Rajna	Referees: Jacob Grumsen Roy Stian Hansen Linesmen: Riley Bowles Daniel Persson
	– 13:48 1–0 1–1 14:35 – Bartalis (Erdély, Szirányi) 1–2 20:20 – Vas (Szirányi) () (PP) – 27:33 2–2 Butsenko () – 38:51 3–2 3–3 50:41 – Sarauer (, Kóger) 3–4 52:53 – (Sarauer, Wehrs) 3–5 59:49 – Hári (Galló, ) (PP, ENG)
	12 min	Penalties	12 min
	24	Shots	51

22 April 2017 17:00

South Korea

4–2 (1–0, 1–1, 2–1)

Poland

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,257

Game reference
	Matt Dalton	Goalies		Referees: Andris Ansons Daniel Gamper Linesmen: Artem Korepanov Ulrich Pardatscher
	Kim K. (Ahn) – 07:51 1–0 Sin (Park W., Kim Won-jun) – 27:07 2–0 2–1 34:40 – (, Wronka) (PP2) Lee Y. (Swift) – 42:07 3–1 Kim S. – 46:02 4–1 4–2 49:48 – ()
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	22	Shots	38

22 April 2017 20:30

Austria

2–3 (0–2, 2–0, 0–1)

Kazakhstan

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,819

Game reference
	Bernhard Starkbaum	Goalies	Vitali Kolesnik	Referees: Vladimír Pešina Jeremy Tufts Linesmen: Franco Castelli Daniel Hynek
	0–1 08:26 – Dawes (Dallman, St. Pierre) (PP) 0–2 14:56 – Dawes (Boyd, Bochenski) Komarek (Raffl, Schlacher) – 24:32 1–2 Raffl (Hofer, Komarek) – 37:31 2–2 2–3 43:38 – Markelov (Savchenko, Starchenko) (PP)
	16 min	Penalties	8 min
	24	Shots	32

23 April 2017 17:00

Kazakhstan

2–5 (1–1, 1–0, 0–4)

South Korea

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,463

Game reference
	Vitali Kolesnik	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Jacob Grumsen Roy Stian Hansen Linesmen: Artem Korepanov Daniel Persson
	Bochenski (Dawes) – 08:01 1–0 1–1 15:56 – Ahn (Kim K.) Dawes (Bochenski, St. Pierre) – 33:25 2–1 2–2 45:49 – Plante (Cho, Swift) 2–3 47:03 – Shin S. (Cho, Lee D.) 2–4 49:58 – Plante (Kim S., Ahn) 2–5 51:41 – Kim K (Plante, Kim S.) (PP2)
	31 min	Penalties	6 min
	32	Shots	21

23 April 2017 20:30

Poland

2–1 (1–0, 0–1, 1–0)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 5,291

Game reference
		Goalies		Referees: Andreas Harnebring Vladimír Pešina Linesmen: Franco Castelli Maxime Chaput
	(, Wronka) (PP) – 19:56 1–0 1–1 38:30 – Blagoy () (, ) – 46:34 2–1
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	30	Shots	38

24 April 2017 20:30

Hungary

1–3 (1–1, 0–0, 0–2)

Austria

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,861

Game reference
	Miklós Rajna	Goalies	Bernhard Starkbaum	Referees: Andris Ansons Jeremy Tufts Linesmen: Riley Bowles Ulrich Pardatscher
	0–1 03:51 – Raffl (Komarek) (SH) (Erdély, Bartalis) (PP) – 06:23 1–1 1–2 44:33 – Hofer (Schumnig, Komarek) (PP) 1–3 47:21 – Heinrich (Komarek, Schumnig) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	29	Shots	28

25 April 2017 13:30

Kazakhstan

1–0 OT (0–0, 0–0, 0–0) OT: (1–0)

Poland

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,536

Game reference
	Vitali Kolesnik	Goalies		Referees: Roy Stian Hansen Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Franco Castelli Artem Korepanov
	Dallman (Dawes) – 61:39 1–0
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	29	Shots	30

25 April 2017 17:00

Hungary

1–3 (0–0, 1–1, 0–2)

South Korea

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,713

Game reference
	Bence Bálizs	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Vladimír Pešina Jeremy Tufts Linesmen: Maxime Chaput Daniel Hynek
	Kóger (Szirányi, Hári) (PP2) – 23:45 1–0 1–1 35:43 – Kim K. (Kim S., Ahn) 1–2 46:31 – Shin S. (Seo, Swift) 1–3 55:13 – Sin
	12 min	Penalties	10 min
	23	Shots	33

25 April 2017 20:30

Ukraine

0–1 (0–0, 0–1, 0–0)

Austria

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 5,005

Game reference
		Goalies	Bernhard Starkbaum	Referees: Daniel Gamper Jacob Grumsen Linesmen: Riley Bowles Daniel Persson
	0–1 35:57 – Woger (Schumnig, Hundertpfund) (PP)
	18 min	Penalties	12 min
	26	Shots	43

26 April 2017 20:30

Kazakhstan

4–2 (2–0, 0–2, 2–0)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 4,806

Game reference
	Vitali Kolesnik	Goalies		Referees: Andris Ansons Daniel Gamper Linesmen: Daniel Hynek Ulrich Pardatscher
	Dawes (Semyonov, Bochenski) – 03:21 1–0 St. Pierre (Bochenski, Boyd) (PP) – 19:59 2–0 2–1 34:25 – (, ) 2–2 35:16 – (, ) (Starchenko) – 41:59 3–2 Bochenski (Dawes, ) (PP) – 57:04 4–2
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	47	Shots	22

27 April 2017 17:00

Poland

2–0 (0–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Hungary

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,874

Game reference
		Goalies	Bence Bálizs	Referees: Daniel Gamper Jeremy Tufts Linesmen: Franco Castelli Daniel Hynek
	(, ) – 25:01 1–0 Malasiński (SH) – 25:50 2–0
	14 min	Penalties	16 min
	27	Shots	25

27 April 2017 20:30

Austria

5–0 (3–0, 1–0, 1–0)

South Korea

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 3,511

Game reference
	Bernhard Starkbaum	Goalies	Matt Dalton Park Sung-je	Referees: Andreas Harnebring Vladimír Pešina Linesmen: Maxime Chaput Ulrich Pardatscher
	Haudum – 12:09 1–0 Lebler (Ganahl, Hundertpfund) – 12:57 2–0 Heinrich (Lebler, Ganahl) – 16:26 3–0 Komarek (Heinrich, Raffl) – 24:36 4–0 Strong (Schlacher) – 49:09 5–0
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	36	Shots	25

28 April 2017 13:30

Hungary

1–3 (1–2, 0–0, 0–1)

Kazakhstan

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,323

Game reference
	Miklós Rajna	Goalies	Vitali Kolesnik	Referees: Andreas Harnebring Vladimír Pešina Linesmen: Maxime Chaput Daniel Hynek
	0–1 02:48 – Dallman (Dawes, Boyd) 0–2 10:25 – (Sagadeyev) (Galló) (PP) – 17:34 1–2 1–3 59:47 – Dawes (Bochenski) (ENG)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	32	Shots	27

28 April 2017 17:00

Poland

0–11 (0–3, 0–4, 0–4)

Austria

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 3,453

Game reference
		Goalies	Bernhard Starkbaum	Referees: Roy Stian Hansen Jeremy Tufts Linesmen: Riley Bowles Artem Korepanov
	0–1 01:44 – 0–2 07:01 – Lebler (Komarek, Hofer) 0–3 10:02 – Hofer (Raffl, Schumnig) 0–4 28:36 – Raffl (Heinrich, Schumnig) (PP) 0–5 29:07 – Haudum (S. Ulmer, ) 0–6 35:39 – Komarek (Hofer, Schumnig) 0–7 39:51 – Komarek (Haudum) 0–8 46:52 – Strong 0–9 48:27 – Haudum (Heinrich) 0–10 50:31 – Lebler (Hundertpfund, Kirchschlager) 0–11 55:20 – Lebler
	4 min	Penalties	8 min
	26	Shots	30

28 April 2017 20:30

South Korea

2–1 GWS (0–0, 1–1, 0–0) (OT 0–0) (SO: 1–0)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 5,327

Game reference
	Matt Dalton	Goalies		Referees: Andris Ansons Jacob Grumsen Linesmen: Franco Castelli Daniel Persson
	Ahn (Sin, Park W.) – 24:59 1–0 1–1 33:24 –
	Swift Cho Shin S.	Shootout
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	37	Shots	23

Awards and statistics[]

Awards[]

The match between Poland and Ukraine. Poland won the game 2–1.

• Best players selected by the directorate:
  • Best Goalkeeper: Bernhard Starkbaum
  • Best Defenseman: Dominique Heinrich
  • Best Forward: Nigel Dawes

Source: IIHF.com

• Media All-Stars:
  • MVP: Thomas Raffl
  • Goalkeeper: Bernhard Starkbaum
  • Defenceman: Dominique Heinrich / Alex Plante
  • Forwards: Nigel Dawes / Thomas Raffl / Konstantin Komarek

Source: IIHF.com

Scoring leaders[]

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Nigel Dawes	5	5	4	9	+5	0	F
Konstantin Komarek	5	4	5	9	+10	0	F
Brandon Bochenski	5	2	5	7	+3	4	F
Thomas Raffl	5	3	3	6	+6	2	F
Martin Schumnig	5	0	6	6	+8	0	D
Brian Lebler	5	4	1	5	+7	4	F
Ahn Jin-hui	5	2	3	5	+5	0	F
Dominique Heinrich	5	2	3	5	+12	0	D
Fabio Hofer	5	2	3	5	+7	2	F
Lukas Haudum	5	3	1	4	+5	2	F
Kim Ki-sung	5	3	1	4	+3	2	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%	SO
Bernhard Starkbaum	299:05	4	0.80	137	97.08	3
	242:32	9	2.23	158	94.30	0
	260:42	9	2.07	124	92.74	1
Matt Dalton	269:36	10	2.23	133	92.48	0
Vitali Kolesnik	301:39	10	1.99	128	92.19	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

Group B tournament[]

2017 IIHF World Championship Division I B

Tournament details
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	23–29 April
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	103 (6.87 per match)
Attendance	21,208 (1,414 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Daisuke Obara (10 points)
Website	IIHF.com

Participants[]

Team	Qualification
Japan	Placed 6th in Division I A and was relegated.
Great Britain	Host, Placed 2nd in Division I B the previous year.
Lithuania	Placed 3rd in Division I B the previous year.
Croatia	Placed 4th in Division I B the previous year.
Estonia	Placed 5th in Division I B the previous year.
Netherlands	Placed 1st in Division II A the previous year and was promoted.

Match officials[]

4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[5]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Great Britain (H, P)	5	5	0	0	0	32	5	+27	15	Promoted to 2018 Division I A
2	Japan	5	4	0	0	1	22	11	+11	12
3	Lithuania	5	3	0	0	2	18	12	+6	9
4	Estonia	5	2	0	0	3	11	20	−9	6
5	Croatia	5	1	0	0	4	14	17	−3	3
6	Netherlands (R)	5	0	0	0	5	6	38	−32	0	Relegation to 2018 Division II A

Results[]

All times are local (UTC+1).

23 April 2017 12:30

Netherlands

1–6 (0–2, 1–2, 0–2)

Japan

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 943

Game reference
		Goalies	Yutaka Fukufuji	Referee: Milan Zrnic Linesmen: Ally Flockhart Márton Németh
	0–1 05:21 – (, ) 0–2 13:59 – Takagi (Furuhashi, ) 0–3 24:15 – Furuhashi (Takagi, Ushu) 0–4 32:31 – Obara (Ueno, Haga) (, ) (PP) – 37:02 1–4 1–5 41:39 – Obara (Ueno, Hirano) 1–6 57:20 – Ueno (Obara, )
	4 min	Penalties	12 min
	21	Shots	39

23 April 2017 16:00

Croatia

2–4 (0–1, 1–0, 1–3)

Great Britain

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 1,830

Game reference
		Goalies	Ben Bowns	Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: David Nothegger Alexander Sysuev
	0–1 15:30 – Dowd (Richardson, Farmer) (PP) (Brine, Perkovich) (PP) – 28:17 1–1 1–2 43:46 – Clarke (Peacock, Dowd) 1–3 46:45 – Mosey (Dowd) Brine (Rendulić, Sertich) (PP2) – 54:25 2–3 2–4 58:56 – Cowley (Lachowicz, J. Phillips)
	10 min	Penalties	16 min
	32	Shots	35

23 April 2017 19:30

Estonia

0–3 (0–1, 0–2, 0–0)

Lithuania

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 914

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Milan Zrnic Linesmen: James Kavanagh Mariusz Smura
	0–1 14:28 – () 0–2 30:18 – Bendžius () 0–3 37:56 – (, )
	16 min	Penalties	12 min
	13	Shots	33

24 April 2017 12:30

Japan

4–2 (2–0, 1–0, 1–2)

Croatia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 351

Game reference
	Yutaka Fukufuji	Goalies		Referee: Geoffrey Barcelo Linesmen: James Kavanagh Vladimir Suslov
	(, ) – 08:40 1–0 S. Sato (Tanaka, ) (PP) – 16:40 2–0 Tanaka (S. Sato, ) (PP) – 26:41 3–0 3–1 45:36 – Sertich (Brine, ) (PP) Hirano (, Haga) – 46:57 4–1 4–2 58:39 – Sertich (Rendulić, Perkovich) (PP2)
	16 min	Penalties	24 min
	31	Shots	31

24 April 2017 16:00

Lithuania

8–0 (2–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Netherlands

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 519

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: Ally Flockhart David Nothegger
	(, Bendžius) – 03:27 1–0 (, ) – 14:27 2–0 (, ) – 30:45 3–0 (, ) – 34:48 4–0 Rybakov (Čypas, ) – 35:26 5–0 Pliskauskas (Čižas, Protcenko) – 36:08 6–0 Bendžius (Verenis, Protcenko) – 42:35 7–0 (Protcenko, Rulevičius) – 53:52 8–0
	2 min	Penalties	10 min
	48	Shots	25

24 April 2017 19:30

Great Britain

5–1 (2–0, 0–1, 3–0)

Estonia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 1,437

Game reference
	Stephen Murphy	Goalies		Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Márton Németh Mariusz Smura
	Garside (Clarke) – 04:38 1–0 D. Phillips (Myers, Shields) – 19:19 2–0 2–1 29:20 – (Lahesalu, Makrov) (PP) (Lee, Brooks) – 41:16 3–1 Clarke (Lee, Dowd) – 44:02 4–1 Mosey (Myers, Garside) – 44:28 5–1
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	43	Shots	22

26 April 2017 12:30

Japan

6–2 (1–0, 3–1, 2–1)

Estonia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 575

Game reference
	Yutaka Fukufuji	Goalies		Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: James Kavanagh David Nothegger
	Obara (Haga, Ueno) (PP) – 19:06 1–0 (Hirano, Obara) – 20:43 2–0 Obara (Ueno, Hirano) (PP) – 31:48 3–0 () – 33:29 4–0 4–1 34:26 – (Rooba, Makrov) 4–2 41:55 – (, ) Ueno (Hirano, Obara) – 42:49 5–2 Tanaka (, ) – 44:13 6–2
	31 min	Penalties	35 min
	31	Shots	30

26 April 2017 16:00

Netherlands

2–6 (0–4, 1–1, 1–1)

Croatia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 703

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Milan Zrnic Linesmen: Ally Flockhart Mariusz Smura
	0–1 01:59 – (, ) 0–2 13:29 – Rendulić (, ) (PP) 0–3 13:41 – 0–4 13:50 – (Brine, Perkovich) 0–5 21:35 – Blagus (Rendulić) (, ) – 37:25 1–5 Van der Schuit (, ) (PP2) – 55:25 2–5 2–6 58:33 – Rendulić (Šakić) (SH)
	16 min	Penalties	8 min
	25	Shots	47

26 April 2017 19:30

Great Britain

5–2 (4–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Lithuania

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 1,787

Game reference
	Ben Bowns	Goalies		Referee: Geoffrey Barcelo Linesmen: Alexander Sysuev Vladimir Suslov
	Shields (O'Connor, Richardson) (PP) – 01:41 1–0 1–1 02:12 – (, ) (PP) J. Phillips (Swindlehurst, Mosey) – 07:26 2–1 Mosey – 12:55 3–1 Farmer (O'Connor) (PP) – 16:15 4–1 4–2 40:33 – (Bosas, Kieras) O'Connor – 47:47 5–2
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	38	Shots	30

28 April 2017 12:30

Lithuania

2–6 (0–1, 2–2, 0–3)

Japan

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 811

Game reference
		Goalies	Yutaka Fukufuji	Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: Ally Flockhart Alexander Sysuev
	0–1 02:23 – (Hirano, Obara) () – 21:52 1–1 1–2 23:47 – Obara (Hirano) Kaleinikovas (Katulis, Krakauskas) – 25:16 2–2 2–3 32:50 – (Haga, Obara) (PP) 2–4 47:13 – (, ) 2–5 47:52 – Takagi () 2–6 54:51 – Tanaka (S. Sato)
	16 min	Penalties	8 min
	27	Shots	42

28 April 2017 16:00

Croatia

3–4 (0–1, 3–2, 0–1)

Estonia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 922

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Geoffrey Barcelo Linesmen: Márton Németh Vladimir Suslov
	0–1 05:04 – Makrov (Lahesalu, Rooba) (PP) (, Rendulić) (PP) – 22:18 1–1 1–2 26:45 – Rooba (, A. Petrov) 1–3 28:06 – (, ) (Rendulić, Jačmenjak) – 30:25 2–3 Rendulić (Blagus) (PP) – 38:01 3–3 3–4 40:23 – Makrov (Rooba)
	4 min	Penalties	35 min
	35	Shots	25

28 April 2017 19:30

Great Britain

14–0 (3–0, 5–0, 6–0)

Netherlands

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 3,005

Game reference
	Stephen Murphy	Goalies		Referee: Milan Zrnic Linesmen: David Nothegger Mariusz Smura
	Shields (O'Connor, Richardson) (PP) – 04:14 1–0 J. Phillips – 04:50 2–0 (Lachowicz) – 18:39 3–0 Brooks (Farmer) – 21:34 4–0 Peacock (Brooks, Weaver) (PP) – 31:02 5–0 Lachowicz (J. Phillips, Duggan) – 31:23 6–0 Shields (Myers) – 32:17 7–0 Duggan (Lachowicz) – 34:51 8–0 (Mosey, Shields) – 43:25 9–0 Dowd (Clarke, Weaver) (PP) – 47:23 10–0 Shields (Mosey) – 49:32 11–0 Myers (Mosey, Garside) – 53:00 12–0 Brooks (Stewart, Farmer) – 54:16 13–0 Dowd (Clarke) – 56:16 14–0
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	56	Shots	11

29 April 2017 12:30

Lithuania

3–1 (1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Croatia

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 1,343

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Gergely Kincses Linesmen: Alexander Sysuev Vladimir Suslov
	0–1 10:18 – (, ) (, ) (PP) – 16:41 1–1 (, ) – 24:23 2–1 (Bosas) – 45:13 3–1
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	26	Shots	26

29 April 2017 16:00

Estonia

4–3 (1–2, 1–1, 2–0)

Netherlands

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 1,608

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Geoffrey Barcelo Linesmen: James Kavanagh Mariusz Smura
	0–1 15:12 – () 0–2 16:43 – () Rooba (, Makrov) (PP) – 17:54 1–2 1–3 28:40 – (, Nagtzaam) Rooba (Lahesalu, A. Petrov) – 37:08 2–3 A. Petrov (Makrov, Lahesalu) – 47:58 3–3 Rooba (, ) – 53:38 4–3
	56 min	Penalties	62 min
	35	Shots	24

29 April 2017 19:30

Japan

0–4 (0–1, 0–3, 0–0)

Great Britain

Odyssey, Belfast Attendance: 4,460

Game reference
	Yutaka Fukufuji	Goalies	Ben Bowns	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Márton Németh David Nothegger
	0–1 17:42 – Dowd (Farmer, O'Connor) (PP2) 0–2 24:37 – Brooks (Dowd, Clarke) (PP) 0–3 29:19 – Myers (Shields, D. Phillips) 0–4 37:55 – Myers (Mosey, Shields)
	14 min	Penalties	6 min
	20	Shots	38

Awards and statistics[]

Awards[]

• Best players selected by the directorate:
  • Best Goalkeeper: Yutaka Fukufuji
  • Best Defenseman: Ben O'Connor
  • Best Forward: Colin Shields

Source: IIHF.com

Scoring leaders[]

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Daisuke Obara	5	5	5	10	+7	4	F
Robert Dowd	5	4	4	8	+6	4	F
Colin Shields	5	4	4	8	+9	2	F
Evan Mosey	5	3	5	8	+10	2	F
Borna Rendulić	5	3	5	8	+1	16	F
Robert Rooba	5	4	3	7	−4	25	F
Yushiroh Hirano	5	1	6	7	+7	2	F
Matthew Myers	5	3	3	6	+6	4	F
David Clarke	5	2	4	6	+5	2	F
Andrei Makrov	5	2	4	6	−2	10	F
Hiroki Ueno	5	2	4	6	+6	4	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%	SO
Stephen Murphy	120:00	1	0.50	33	96.97	1
Ben Bowns	180:00	4	1.33	82	95.12	1
Yutaka Fukufuji	280:04	11	2.36	140	92.14	0
	287:42	12	2.50	136	91.18	1
	234:24	14	3.58	135	89.63	0

TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

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