2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup

2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	August 6–11, 2018
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (22nd title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	138 (7.67 per match)
Attendance	35,000 (1,944 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Alexis Lafrenière (5 goals, 6 assists) Vasili Podkolzin (8 goals, 3 assists)
Website	hlinkagretzky.com
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The 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup (branded as the 2018 Hlinka Gretzky Cup presented by Ram for sponsorship reasons) was an under-18 international ice hockey tournament held in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada from August 6–11, 2018 at Rogers Place in Edmonton and Servus Arena in Red Deer.^[1]

Preliminary round[]

All times are Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6).

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada (H)	3	3	0	0	0	18	5	+13	9	Semifinals
2	Sweden	3	2	0	0	1	12	6	+6	6
3	Slovakia	3	1	0	0	2	9	11	−2	3	Fifth place game
4	Switzerland	3	0	0	0	3	3	20	−17	0	Seventh place game

August 6 15:00

Slovakia

2–4 (1–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Sweden

Rogers Place, Edmonton Attendance: 713

Game reference
		Goalies	Jesper Wallstedt
	(Čajkovič) – 00:43 1–0 1–1 09:53 – Grewe (, ) (PP) 1–2 20:53 – Broberg (Raymond, Holtz) () (PP) – 34:32 2–2 2–3 41:56 – Henriksson (Holtz, Söderström) (PP) 2–4 45:27 – Broberg
	8 min	Penalties	16 min
	21	Shots	44

August 6 19:00

Switzerland

0–10 (0–3, 0–5, 0–2)

Canada

Rogers Place, Edmonton Attendance: 5,922

Game reference
		Goalies
	0–1 04:49 – (, ) 0–2 06:29 – Suzuki (Barron, Cozens) (PP) 0–3 15:24 – Pelletier (, Holloway) 0–4 24:07 – Cozens (Suzuki, Barron) (PP) 0–5 29:51 – (Lafrenière, Clarke) (PP) 0–6 30:34 – Robertson (Poulin, Krebs) 0–7 31:52 – Guenette (Mutala, Pelletier) 0–8 33:15 – Krebs (Dach, Lafrenière) 0–9 41:38 – Dach (Suzuki) (SH) 0–10 58:35 – Krebs (Robertson, Korczak)
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	15	Shots	48

August 7 15:00

Switzerland

0–5 (0–1, 0–0, 0–4)

Sweden

Rogers Place, Edmonton Attendance: 428

Game reference
		Goalies	Hugo Alnefelt
	0–1 16:39 – Broberg 0–2 42:13 – Hedström 0–3 47:16 – Raymond (SH) 0–4 55:46 – Söderström (Grewe, ) 0–5 56:12 – Raymond
	1 min	Penalties	6 min
	15	Shots	36

August 7 19:00

Slovakia

2–4 (0–0, 0–2, 2–2)

Canada

Rogers Place, Edmonton Attendance: 2,142

Game reference
		Goalies
	0–1 21:23 – Lafrenière (Barron, Krebs) 0–2 36:51 – Holloway (, Barron) 0–3 41:18 – (Dach, Lafrenière) (PP) (, ) – 45:33 1–3 (Čajkovič, ) (PP) – 49:32 2–3 2–4 52:12 – Williams (, )
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	19	Shots	58

August 8 15:00

Switzerland

3–5 (0–1, 1–1, 2–3)

Slovakia

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
		Goalies
	0–1 12:47 – () () – 21:20 1–1 1–2 35:22 – Čajkovič (, ) Knak (, ) (PP) – 44:46 2–2 Knak (, Rochette) – 52:16 3–2 3–3 52:50 – () 3–4 56:55 – Chromiak (, Mrázik) 3–5 59:15 – Mrázik (Chromiak) (EN)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	29	Shots	33

August 8 19:00

Sweden

3–4 (1–1, 0–1, 2–2)

Canada

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
	Jesper Wallstedt	Goalies
	Raymond (Holtz, Söderblom) (PP) – 13:37 1–0 1–1 15:34 – (, Korczak) 1–2 32:51 – Lafrenière (Barron, Dach) Holtz (Raymond) – 47:58 2–2 2–3 53:09 – (Suzuki, ) Söderblom (Björnfot, Holtz) (PP) – 55:44 3–3 3–4 57:34 – Byram (Lafrenière, Dach) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	21	Shots	35

Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	0	18	5	+13	9	Semifinals
2	United States	3	2	0	0	1	15	10	+5	6
3	Czech Republic	3	0	1	0	2	4	12	−8	2	Fifth place game
4	Finland	3	0	0	1	2	7	17	−10	1	Seventh place game

August 6 15:00

Russia

7–2 (1–1, 4–0, 2–1)

Finland

Servus Arena, Red Deer Attendance: 732

Game reference
		Goalies
	0–1 00:53 – Puistola (Simontaival) (Podkolzin, ) – 13:51 1–1 Gritsyuk (Chinakhov) – 20:07 2–1 (, ) – 22:52 3–1 Podkolzin (Nikolayev) – 28:20 4–1 (Podkolzin, ) (PP) – 30:21 5–1 Gritsyuk (Chinakhov) (PP) – 40:53 6–1 6–2 51:17 – (Heinola, ) (, Amirov) (PP) – 54:10 7–2
	2 min	Penalties	22 min
	60	Shots	26

August 6 19:00

Czech Republic

0–6 (0–1, 0–3, 0–2)

United States

Servus Arena, Red Deer Attendance: 819

Game reference
		Goalies	Dustin Wolf
	0–1 9:04 – (, ) (PP) 0–2 31:19 – Mastrosimone (Silianoff, Miller) 0–3 33:24 – (Silianoff, ) (SH) 0–4 35:41 – (, Wolf) 0–5 42:37 – Silianoff () 0–6 58:22 – (Nodler) (SH)
	22 min	Penalties	24 min
	23	Shots	40

August 7 15:00

Czech Republic

0–3 (0–2, 0–0, 0–1)

Russia

Servus Arena, Red Deer Attendance: 734

Game reference
		Goalies	Yaroslav Askarov
	0–1 10:47 – Chinakhov (Gritsyuk, ) (PP) 0–2 18:39 – (, ) 0–3 51:53 – Podkolzin (, )
	22 min	Penalties	18 min
	35	Shots	26

August 7 19:00

Finland

2–6 (1–2, 1–1, 0–3)

United States

Servus Arena, Red Deer Attendance: 853

Game reference
		Goalies	Dustin Wolf
	0–1 09:53 – (, ) 0–2 18:17 – Colangelo (, ) (, Lundell) – 18:36 1–2 1–3 21:30 – Kaliyev (Robertson, ) Lundell (Aaltonen, ) (PP) – 24:59 2–3 2–4 45:13 – () 2–5 45:30 – Jutting (Toporowski, ) 2–6 56:29 – Toporowski (Miller) (SH)
	26 min	Penalties	16 min
	31	Shots	39

August 8 15:00

Czech Republic

4–3 OT (1–1, 1–0, 1–2) OT: (1–0)

Finland

Servus Arena, Red Deer

Game reference
		Goalies
	(Raška, ) – 6:09 1–0 1–1 19:02 – (Aaltonen, Kokkonen) (PP) (, ) – 33:00 2–1 2–2 47:43 – Kokkonen (, Simontaival) (Pytlik, ) (PP) – 49:48 3–2 3–3 50:54 – (Heinola, ) Teplý (Barinka, Haš) (PP) – 61:09 4–3
	4 min	Penalties	10 min
	42	Shots	29

August 8 19:00

United States

3–8 (0–3, 3–1, 0–4)

Russia

Servus Arena, Red Deer

Game reference
		Goalies	Yaroslav Askarov
	0–1 12:18 – (, ) 0–2 16:45 – Likhachyov (Abramov, Gushchin) 0–3 18:26 – (, Amirov) (Miller) – 22:08 1–3 Kaliyev (, ) (PP) – 23:16 2–3 Colangelo (, ) (PP) – 28:33 3–3 3–4 37:33 – Podkolzin (, Nikolayev) 3–5 41:38 – Gushchin (Likhachyov, ) 3–6 48:54 – Abramov (Likhachyov) 3–7 51:32 – Podkolzin (Mironov) 3–8 59:15 – (Abramov, Gushchin) (PP)
	12 min	Penalties	16 min
	19	Shots	55

Final round[]

Seventh place game[]

August 10 12:00

Switzerland

2–8 (1–5, 1–3, 0–0)

Finland

Game reference
		Goalies
	() – 5:19 1–0 1–1 07:06 – Kokkonen (Nikkanen, Puistola) 1–2 12:58 – Nikkanen (Simontaival) 1–3 13:19 – Puistola (Simontaival, Nikkanen) 1–4 15:50 – Nikkanen (Simontaival, Puistola) 1–5 18:47 – Puistola (Nikkanen, Simontaival) 1–6 29:06 – () 1–7 30:49 – Puistola (Nikkanen, Simontaival) (PP) – 35:54 2–7 2–8 38:04 – ()
	18 min	Penalties	10 min
	22	Shots	45

Fifth place game[]

August 10 16:00

Slovakia

3–8 (1–1, 1–3, 1–4)

Czech Republic

Game reference
		Goalies
	0–1 00:56 – () (PP) (, ) – 1:37 1–1 1–2 21:19 – Čajkovič (Kňažko) (PP) – 26:26 2–2 2–3 34:06 – (, ) 2–4 37:20 – (Teplý, Barinka) (PP) 2–5 43:11 – Barinka (Raška) (Kňažko, Mrázik) – 46:42 3–5 3–6 47:27 – Najman () 3–7 48:46 – Barinka (Teplý, Raška) 3–8 51:51 – (Prikryl, Teplý)
	12 min	Penalties	10 min
	28	Shots	58

Semifinals[]

August 10 15:00

Russia

1–2 (0–0, 0–0, 1–2)

Sweden

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
	Yaroslav Askarov	Goalies	Hugo Alnefelt
	0–1 45:16 – Broberg (, Costmar) (PP) Podkolzin – 58:06 1–1 1–2 59:16 – Henriksson (Raymond)
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	35	Shots	19

August 10 19:00

United States

5–6 OT (3–2, 0–1, 2–2) OT: (0–1)

Canada

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
	Dustin Wolf	Goalies
	Robertson (, ) (PP) – 03:20 1–0 1–1 04:39 – Lafrenière (, Byram) (Kaliyev, ) – 05:48 2–1 2–2 08:10 – Robertson (Nodler) – 14:33 3–2 3–3 28:34 – Parent (Lafrenière, Dach) (PP) 3–4 43:31 – (Suzuki) (PP) Robertson (Kaliyev) – 51:58 4–4 () – 53:33 5–4 5–5 59:59 – Cozens (Byram, Korczak) 5–6 61:44 – Williams (Krebs)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	39	Shots	34

Canada's game-tying goal was considered controversial, as video footage suggested that the goal had been scored after time officially expired. However, as the tournament did not officially use video review, referees allowed the goal to stand.^[2][3]

Bronze medal game[]

August 11 15:00

Russia

5–4 (0–0, 2–0, 3–4)

United States

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
	Yaroslav Askarov	Goalies
	(, ) (PP) – 25:39 1–0 Podkolzin () (PP) – 26:21 2–0 2–1 43:27 – () (PP) Podkolzin () (PP) – 45:44 3–1 3–2 53:53 Kaliyev (, Miller) (PP) Podkolzin () – 54:15 4–2 4–3 57:28 Robertson (Farinacci, Kaliyev) (PP) Nikolayev (Podkolzin) – 58:22 5–3 5–4 59:42 – (Miller, )
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	35	Shots	30

Final[]

August 11 19:00

Sweden

2–6 (2–3, 0–1, 0–2)

Canada

Rogers Place, Edmonton

Game reference
	Hugo Alnefelt	Goalies
	Raymond (Holtz) (PP) – 00:42 1–0 Holtz (Söderblom) – 11:33 2–0 2–1 12:14 – (Byram, Cozens) 2–2 14:35 – Dach (Lafrenière) 2–3 17:54 – Lafrenière 2–4 32:12 – Mutala (Holloway, Cozens) 2–5 45:00 – (, ) 2–6 53:54 – Lafrenière (PP)
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	19	Shots	40

Final standings[]

Rank	Team
	Canada
	Sweden
	Russia
4	United States
5	Czech Republic
6	Slovakia
7	Finland
8	Switzerland

References[]