2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I

2018 IIHF U18 World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	Latvia  Ukraine
Dates	2–8 April (Group A) 14–20 April (Group B)
Teams	12
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The 2018 IIHF U18 World Championship Division I were a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I A and Division I B tournaments represented the second and the third tier of the IIHF World U18 Championship.

Division I A[]

2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I A

Tournament details
Host country	Latvia
Dates	2–8 April
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	86 (5.73 per match)
Attendance	9,057 (604 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	(7 points)
Website	IIHF.com

The Division I A tournament was played in Riga, Latvia, from 2 to 8 April 2018.

Participants[]

Team	Qualification
Latvia	placed 10th in 2017 Top Division and were relegated
Kazakhstan	placed 2nd in 2017 Division I A
Denmark	placed 3rd in 2017 Division I A
Norway	placed 4th in 2017 Division I A
Germany	placed 5th in 2017 Division I A
Slovenia	placed 1st in 2017 Division I B and were promoted

Match officials[]

4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[1]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Latvia (H)	5	5	0	0	0	14	4	+10	15	Promoted to the Top Division
2	Germany	5	4	0	0	1	22	11	+11	12
3	Denmark	5	2	0	0	3	14	19	−5	6[a]
4	Kazakhstan	5	2	0	0	3	15	10	+5	6[a]
5	Norway	5	1	0	0	4	14	18	−4	3[b]
6	Slovenia	5	1	0	0	4	7	24	−17	3[b]	Relegation to Division I B

Results[]

All times are local (UTC+3).

2 April 2018 12:15

Germany

7–2 (2–0, 4–2, 1–0)

Denmark

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 348

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Aaro Brännare Linesmen: Uldis Bušs Henri Neva
	(, Seider) – 11:53 1–0 (, ) (PP) – 19:42 2–0 – 23:31 3–0 3–1 32:06 – () Fleischer (Stützle) (PP) – 33:38 4–1 Wirt (, ) – 34:09 5–1 Betzold (, ) – 38:09 6–1 6–2 39:02 – () (PP) Schinko (Fleischer, Seider) (PP) – 44:52 7–2
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	26	Shots	14

2 April 2018 16:15

Norway

2–5 (1–3, 1–2, 0–0)

Kazakhstan

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 349

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrew Bruggeman Linesmen: Māris Locāns Sotaro Yamaguchi
	0–1 07:16 – (, ) () – 10:28 1–1 1–2 17:50 – Buyalsky () 1–3 18:19 – () Rødne () – 33:02 2–3 2–4 35:28 – () 2–5 36:06 – Pryakhin (Demin, Buyalsky)
	2 min	Penalties	6 min
	22	Shots	25

2 April 2018 20:15

Slovenia

1–2 (0–2, 1–0, 0–0)

Latvia

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 1,126

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Patric Bjälkander Linesmen: Daniel Duarte David Nothegger
	0–1 05:05 – (, ) 0–2 17:25 – (, ) () – 33:00 1–2
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	18	Shots	32

3 April 2018 12:15

Kazakhstan

0–1 (0–1, 0–0, 0–0)

Germany

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 147

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrew Bruggeman Linesmen: David Nothegger Michal Orolin
	0–1 16:34 – (, )
	4 min	Penalties	10 min
	15	Shots	33

3 April 2018 16:15

Denmark

2–3 (1–0, 0–1, 1–2)

Slovenia

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 210

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrei Shrubok Linesmen: Uldis Bušs Māris Locāns
	(, ) (PP) – 14:47 1–0 1–1 31:35 – (, ) (PP) 1–2 41:41 – Bohinc (, Jenko) (PP) () – 50:42 2–2 2–3 58:34 – Bohinc
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	36	Shots	16

3 April 2018 20:15

Latvia

3–0 (0–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Norway

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 983

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Aaro Brännare Linesmen: Henri Neva Sotaro Yamaguchi
	() – 24:36 1–0 (, ) (PP) – 53:10 2–0 () (ENG) – 59:39 3–0
	14 min	Penalties	12 min
	31	Shots	15

5 April 2018 12:15

Slovenia

0–5 (0–0, 0–4, 0–1)

Norway

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 210

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Aaro Brännare Linesmen: Daniel Duarte Henri Neva
	0–1 20:39 – (Lilleberg, ) 0–2 21:01 – () 0–3 31:45 – (Van Doorn) 0–4 35:37 – Hafsmoe 0–5 49:07 –
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	13	Shots	38

5 April 2018 16:15

Kazakhstan

2–4 (2–1, 0–1, 0–2)

Denmark

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 214

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Patric Bjälkander Linesmen: Uldis Bušs Māris Locāns
	(, ) (PP) – 09:17 1–0 1–1 14:13 – (, ) (PP) O. Boiko () (PP) – 16:50 2–1 2–2 26:36 – () 2–3 41:25 – (, Schultz) (PP) 2–4 56:49 – ()
	18 min	Penalties	20 min
	22	Shots	23

5 April 2018 20:15

Latvia

3–1 (1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Germany

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 1,894

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrei Shrubok Linesmen: David Nothegger Sotaro Yamaguchi
	0–1 11:51 – () (PP) (, ) – 16:24 1–1 (Marcinkēvičs) – 31:58 2–1 () – 48:32 3–1
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	15	Shots	27

6 April 2018 12:15

Kazakhstan

7–1 (3–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Slovenia

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 86

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrei Shrubok Linesmen: Uldis Bušs Henri Neva
	() – 00:54 1–0 (, ) (PP) – 15:11 2–0 – 16:35 3–0 Saiko – 28:35 4–0 (Musabayev, Saiko ) – 44:34 5–0 (Guseinov, Musorov) – 47:24 6–0 6–1 48:35 – () Musorov (Guseinov) – 54:28 7–1
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	38	Shots	20

6 April 2018 16:15

Norway

4–5 (1–2, 2–2, 1–1)

Germany

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 157

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Patric Bjälkander Linesmen: Māris Locāns David Nothegger
	(, ) (PP) – 10:18 1–0 1–1 11:53 – (, Stützle) (EA) 1–2 13:37 – (Seider) – 23:54 2–2 2–3 29:09 – () (PP) – 31:28 3–3 3–4 32:07 – (Schütz, Möller) 3–5 47:18 – Schütz () Spaberg Olsen (PP) – 52:40 4–5
	10 min	Penalties	14 min
	20	Shots	46

6 April 2018 20:15

Denmark

1–4 (1–1, 0–0, 0–3)

Latvia

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 2,200

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrew Bruggeman Linesmen: Daniel Duarte Sotaro Yamaguchi
	() – 01:45 1–0 1–1 08:33 – (, ) 1–2 46:06 – Koppass () (PP) 1–3 53:07 – 1–4 59:35 – (ENG)
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	23	Shots	21

8 April 2018 12:15

Denmark

5–3 (2–0, 2–2, 1–1)

Norway

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 163

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrei Shrubok Linesmen: Daniel Duarte Māris Locāns
	() – 14:08 1–0 () – 17:24 2–0 () – 22:51 3–0 3–1 26:24 – (, ) 3–2 30:40 – (Vaaler, (PP) (True, ) (PP) – 39:58 4–2 Schultz () – 44:52 5–2 5–3 47:12 – Holm (Vaaler) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	36	Shots	22

8 April 2018 16:15

Germany

8–2 (5–2, 1–0, 2–0)

Slovenia

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 110

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andrew Bruggeman Linesmen: Uldis Bušs Sotaro Yamaguchi
	(, ) – 00:52 1–0 Alberg () – 01:08 2–0 (, Stützle) – 05:52 3–0 3–1 11:39 – (, ) Schitz (Alberg) – 12:09 4–1 4–2 12:51 – Vilfan (Tavčar, Konc) Valenti (, ) – 13:55 5–2 Schitz (Alberg, ) – 22:25 6–2 Schitz (Jentzsch, ) – 47:20 7–2 Stützle (Wirt) – 56:55 8–2
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	51	Shots	10

8 April 2018 20:15

Latvia

2–1 (1–1, 0–0, 1–0)

Kazakhstan

Arēna Rīga, Riga Attendance: 860

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Aaro Brännare Linesmen: Henri Neva David Nothegger
	0–1 04:36 – (, ) (PP) (, ) (PP2) – 06:58 1–1 – 55:19 2–1
	10 min	Penalties	63 min
	22	Shots	32

Statistics[]

Scoring leaders[]

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

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
	5	1	6	7	+7	6	F
	5	5	1	6	+6	2	F
	5	4	2	6	0	6	F
	5	3	2	5	+4	2	F
	5	3	2	5	+2	8	F
	5	3	2	5	+7	0	F
	5	2	3	5	+1	2	F
	5	1	4	5	+5	0	F
	5	0	5	5	+2	6	F
	5	3	1	4	+2	0	F
	5	3	1	4	+1	2	F
	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

Leading goaltenders[]

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player	TOI	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
	180:00	65	2	0.67	96.92	1
	120:00	50	2	1.00	96.00	1
	120:00	42	3	1.50	92.86	0
	140:15	58	5	2.14	91.38	1
	179:19	78	7	2.34	91.03	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

Awards[]

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

• Goaltender:
• Defenceman: Moritz Seider
• Forward:

Source: IIHF.com

Division I B[]

2018 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I B

Tournament details
Host country	Ukraine
Dates	14–20 April
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	80 (5.33 per match)
Attendance	33,163 (2,211 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Benjamin Baumgartner (8 points)
Website	IIHF.com

The Division I B tournament was played in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 14 to 20 April 2018.

Participants[]

Team	Qualification
Hungary	placed 6th in 2017 Division I A and were relegated
Austria	placed 2nd in 2017 Division I B
Japan	placed 3rd in 2017 Division I B
Italy	placed 4th in 2017 Division I B
Ukraine	placed 5th in 2017 Division I B
Romania	placed 1st in 2017 Division II A and were promoted

Match officials[]

4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[2]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ukraine (H)	5	4	0	0	1	18	8	+10	12[a]	Promoted to Division I A
2	Austria	5	4	0	0	1	20	7	+13	12[a]
3	Japan	5	2	2	0	1	12	11	+1	10
4	Hungary	5	2	0	1	2	14	11	+3	7
5	Italy	5	1	0	1	3	11	13	−2	4
6	Romania	5	0	0	0	5	5	30	−25	0	Relegation to Division II A

Results[]

All times are local (UTC+3).

14 April 2018 13:00

Ukraine

0–1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Japan

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 3,007

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Gints Zviedrītis Linesmen: Lodewyk Beelen James Kavanagh
	0–1 42:23 – (, ) (PP)
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	32	Shots	33

14 April 2018 16:30

Italy

1–2 (1–2, 0–0, 0–0)

Austria

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,489

Game reference
	Davide Fadani	Goalies		Referee: Christian Persson Linesmen: Håvar Dahl Wiktor Zień
	0–1 05:48 – (Baumgartner) (SH) () – 16:29 1–1 1–2 17:15 – Baumgartner (Lanzinger)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	19	Shots	37

14 April 2018 20:00

Romania

0–5 (0–3, 0–1, 0–1)

Hungary

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,198

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Joris Müller Linesmen: Riley Bowles Artem Korepanov
	0–1 03:05 – () (PP) 0–2 03:46 – () 0–3 11:34 – Révész 0–4 39:14 – Révész 0–5 52:35 – () (SH)
	29 min	Penalties	8 min
	14	Shots	45

15 April 2018 13:00

Austria

3–5 (1–1, 2–1, 0–3)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 3,104

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Joris Müller Linesmen: Lodewyk Beelen Riley Bowles
	0–1 09:20 – (, ) (PP) (Rossi, ) – 16:42 1–1 (Baumgartner) – 20:40 2–1 2–2 21:51 – () Rossi (Baumgartner) (PP) – 30:23 3–2 3–3 56:02 – Morozov (Khalin, ) 3–4 56:46 – Krivoshapkin () 3–5 59:30 – (ENG)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	41	Shots	25

15 April 2018 16:30

Japan

5–3 (1–1, 3–2, 1–0)

Romania

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,259

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Roman Mrkva Linesmen: Artem Korepanov Anton Peretyatko
	0–1 07:06 – (, ) (SH) (, ) – 07:33 1–1 (, ) – 23:06 2–1 2–2 25:55 – Cășăneanu (Karda) (PP) () (PP) – 33:33 3–2 3–3 37:20 – Cășăneanu () Karatsu (Araki, Momen) – 38:22 4–3 Araki (Karatsu, Momen) – 49:14 5–3
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	33	Shots	13

15 April 2018 20:00

Hungary

4–0 (1–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Italy

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,047

Game reference
		Goalies	Davide Fadani	Referee: Gints Zviedrītis Linesmen: James Kavanagh Wiktor Zień
	() – 07:51 1–0 (, ) – 35:32 2–0 (Keresztes, ) (PP) – 48:43 3–0 () – 56:35 4–0
	30 min	Penalties	12 min
	28	Shots	14

17 April 2018 13:00

Romania

1–7 (0–2, 0–2, 1–3)

Italy

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 549

Game reference
		Goalies	Davide Fadani	Referee: Joris Müller Linesmen: Riley Bowles Artem Korepanov
	0–1 01:15 – () 0–2 10:55 – (PS) 0–3 29:06 – (Salvai) (PP) 0–4 35:42 – Bitetto (, ) 0–5 41:29 – (Bitetto, Salvai) 0–6 46:32 – (, ) 0–7 48:06 – (Zecchetto, Öhler) () – 55:49 1–7
	16 min	Penalties	2 min
	11	Shots	41

17 April 2018 16:30

Austria

4–0 (2–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Japan

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,571

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christian Persson Linesmen: James Kavanagh Wiktor Zień
	() – 05:01 1–0 Rossi (, ) (PP) – 08:31 2–0 (, Baumgartner) (PP) – 28:20 3–0 (, ) – 41:46 4–0
	0 min	Penalties	12 min
	35	Shots	15

17 April 2018 20:00

Hungary

3–4 (1–1, 0–2, 2–1)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 4,537

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Roman Mrkva Linesmen: Lodewyk Beelen Håvar Dahl
	0–1 09:53 – (, ) – 12:58 1–1 1–2 31:11 – Morozov (Danylenko, Serednitsky) 1–3 32:12 – (, Danylenko) (PP) 1–4 43:29 – Danylenko (Morozov) (, Révész) (PP) – 52:24 2–4 () – 56:08 3–4
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	28	Shots	30

18 April 2018 13:00

Austria

7–1 (4–0, 1–1, 2–0)

Romania

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 954

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Roman Mrkva Linesmen: James Kavanagh Artem Korepanov
	(, ) – 04:57 1–0 (, ) – 05:31 2–0 Baumgartner (, ) (PP2) – 11:37 3–0 Maier (Rossi, ) (PP) – 15:17 4–0 4–1 26:01 – Lanzinger (Baumgartner, Maier) – 28:24 5–1 Rebernig (, Huber) – 42:08 6–1 Wohlfahrt (Zündel, Rossi) – 53:52 7–1
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	60	Shots	13

18 April 2018 16:30

Japan

3–2 GWS (1–0, 1–0, 0–2) OT: (0–0) SO: (1–0)

Hungary

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,398

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Gints Zviedrītis Linesmen: Lodewyk Beelen Riley Bowles
	(, ) – 01:44 1–0 (, ) (PP) – 27:22 2–0 2–1 42:42 – (, ) (EA) 2–2 59:04 – (, ) (EA)
	Hanzawa Abe	Shootout	Keresztes
	14 min	Penalties	16 min
	24	Shots	38

18 April 2018 20:00

Italy

1–3 (0–0, 1–2, 0–1)

Ukraine

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 4,827

Game reference
	Davide Fadani	Goalies		Referee: Christian Persson Linesmen: Håvar Dahl Wiktor Zień
	() – 28:24 1–0 1–1 32:27 – (, ) (PP) 1–2 33:24 – (, ) (PP) 1–3 51:20 – Peresunko
	29 min	Penalties	4 min
	18	Shots	28

20 April 2018 13:00

Japan

3–2 OT (1–1, 0–0, 1–1) OT: (1–0)

Italy

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 1,073

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Roman Mrkva Linesmen: Lodewyk Beelen James Kavanagh
	0–1 09:20 – (, ) (PP) (, ) – 10:14 1–1 Abe (Araki) – 51:00 2–1 2–2 56:10 – (SH) Takebe (Abe) (PP) – 61:48 3–2
	26 min	Penalties	20 min
	43	Shots	18

20 April 2018 16:30

Hungary

0–4 (0–1, 0–1, 0–2)

Austria

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 2,150

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Joris Müller Linesmen: Artem Korepanov Wiktor Zień
	0–1 13:44 – Rossi (, ) 0–2 27:58 – Baumgartner (, ) 0–3 47:57 – (, ) 0–4 53:31 – Rossi (, )
	22 min	Penalties	8 min
	15	Shots	45

20 April 2018 20:00

Ukraine

6–0 (2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Romania

Palace of Sports, Kyiv Attendance: 5,000

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christian Persson Linesmen: Riley Bowles Håvar Dahl
	(, ) – 09:20 1–0 () – 11:20 2–0 Syrotenko (, ) – 29:19 3–0 (Peresunko, Syrotenko) – 35:09 4–0 () – 42:02 5–0 Morozov (Danylenko) (PP) – 55:41 6–0
	2 min	Penalties	8 min
	39	Shots	11

Statistics[]

Scoring leaders[]

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

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Benjamin Baumgartner	5	3	5	8	+3	0	F
	5	3	5	8	+4	2	F
	5	5	2	7	−2	4	F
	5	4	3	7	+4	2	F
Marco Rossi	5	4	3	7	+2	4	F
	5	3	3	6	+4	2	F
	5	3	3	6	+5	14	F
	5	3	2	5	+1	2	F
	5	3	2	5	+3	2	F
	5	2	3	5	+5	0	F
	5	2	3	5	+5	4	F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com

Leading goaltenders[]

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player	TOI	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
	180:00	43	1	0.33	97.67	2
	167:22	88	5	1.79	94.32	0
	266:48	126	8	1.80	93.65	1
	132:15	43	3	1.36	93.02	1
	241:49	82	7	1.74	91.46	2

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

Awards[]

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

• Goaltender:
• Defenceman:
• Forward:

Source: IIHF.com

References[]