Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics was determined through the IIHF World Ranking following the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The top eight teams in the World Ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, Italy received a berth as the host, while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics through qualifying tournaments.

Qualified teams[]

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
2004 IIHF World Ranking^[a]	26 March 2001 – 9 May 2004	Prague and Ostrava^[b]	8	Canada Sweden Slovakia Czech Republic Finland United States Russia Germany
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Kloten	1	Switzerland
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Riga	1	Latvia
Final qualification tournament	10–13 February 2005	Klagenfurt	1	Kazakhstan
Host			1	Italy
TOTAL			12

Notes

^a 2004 IIHF World Ranking were comprising the following events: 2001 World Championship, 2002 Winter Olympic Games, 2002 World Championship, 2003 World Championship and 2004 World Championship
^b Prague and Ostrava were the sites for 2004 IIHF World Championship; at the conclusion of the tournament the ranking were finalized with regards to the qualification slots.

Qualification seeding[]

	Qualified directly to Olympic Tournament
	Final qualification tournament
	Pre-qualification tournament

Qualifying seed	Team	WC 2004 (100%)	WC 2003 (75%)	WC 2002 (50%)	OLY 2002 (50%)	WC 2001 (25%)	Total
1	Canada	1200	1200	1040	1200	1060	3485
2	Sweden	1160	1160	1120	1060	1120	3400
3	Slovakia	1100	1120	1200	880	1020	3235
4	Czech Republic	1060	1100	1060	1020	1200	3225
5	Finland	1040	1060	1100	1040	1160	3195
6	United States	1120	880	1020	1160	1100	3145
7	Russia	940	1020	1160	1120	1040	3105
8	Germany	960	1040	1000	1000	1000	2990
9	Switzerland	1000	1000	940	920	960	2920
10	Latvia	1020	960	920	960	880	2900
11	Austria	920	940	900	900	920	2755
12	Ukraine	860	900	960	940	940	2720
13	Belarus	780	860	800	1100	860	2590
14	Denmark	900	920	780	840	700	2575
15	Japan	840	820	820	740	820	2440
16	Slovenia	800	840	880	700	800	2420
17	Kazakhstan	880	800	720	780	720	2410
18	France	820	780	760	860	740	2400
Host	Italy	760	680	840	800	900	2315
19	Poland	720	760	860	760	780	2295
20	Norway	740	740	700	820	840	2265
21	Hungary	660	720	740	640	680	2060
22	Netherlands	700	660	660	660	640	2015
23	Estonia	680	700	560	720	600	1995
	Great Britain	640	640	680	680	760	1990
24	Romania	620	620	640	600	560	1845
25	Lithuania	560	580	540	620	580	1720
26	China	540	500	580	540	620	1630
27	Serbia and Montenegro	520	520	500	580	460	1565
	South Korea	600	560	600	0	540	1455
28	Croatia	500	600	620		660	1425
29	Bulgaria	420	460	440	560	440	1375
	Belgium	580	540	520		400	1345
	Spain	440	480	480		520	1170
	Australia	480	420	420		480	1125
	Israel	380	400	460		500	1035
	North Korea	460	440	320			950
	South Africa	340	380	400		420	930
	Iceland	320	360	380		380	875
	New Zealand	400	320	280		360	870
	Mexico	280	340	300		340	770
	Luxembourg	360	300	340			755
	Turkey	300	280	360			690
	Ireland	260					260
	Armenia	240					240

Great Britain and South Korea chose not to participate in Olympic qualifying.

Olympic pre-qualification tournaments[]

Three round-robins were played from 11 to 14 November 2004. The teams seeded 18th, 19th, and 20th reserved the right to host these tournaments. The winners of each advanced to the final qualification tournaments.

Group D[]

Games were played in Briançon, France.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	3	0	30	0	+30	6	Final qualification tournament
2	Romania	3	2	1	10	12	−2	4
3	Estonia	3	1	2	14	12	+2	2
4	Bulgaria	3	0	3	2	32	−30	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

11 November 2004
16:30

Estonia

11–1
(3–0, 2–0, 6–1)

Bulgaria

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 1,052

Game reference

Goalies

Konstantin Mihailov

Referee:
Luca Cassol
Linesmen:
Matjaz Hribar
Enis Beganovic

Petrov – 03:56	1–0
(, ) (PP) – 07:29	2–0
Titarenko – 14:21	3–0
() – 23:10	4–0
Konosev (Valk, ) – 27:45	5–0
Makrov (, ) – 40:48	6–0
Palu (Konosev, Valk) – 41:31	7–0
(, ) – 41:57	8–0
	8–1	42:36 – ()
Kaljuste (Valk, Ossipenkov) – 52:59	9–1
Potsinok (Ivanov, ) (PP) – 55:08	10–1
(Zorin, Potsinok) – 59:29	11–1

6 min

Penalties

6 min

66

Shots

8

11 November 2004
20:30

Romania

0–8
(0–2, 0–2, 0–4)

France

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 2,007

Game reference

Goalies

Cristobal Huet

Referee:
Christian Wohlgenannt
Linesmen:
Michele Gastaldelli
Erich Maier

	0–1	06:40 – Meunier (Bess)
	0–2	18:28 – Gras (Bonnard)
	0–3	21:40 – F. Rozenthal (M. Rozenthal)
	0–4	33:38 – Coqueux (Dostal, )
	0–5	55:39 – Besse (Huet)
	0–6	57:44 – (Bellemare, Bonnard) (PP)
	0–7	59:13 – F. Rozenthal (M. Rozenthal, Zwikel) (PP)
	0–8	59:41 – Dostal (Daramy, Coqueux)

14 min

Penalties

10 min

19

Shots

47

13 November 2004
16:30

Estonia

3–4
(2–0, 0–4, 1–0)

Romania

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 884




59 min	Penalties	51 min
39	Shots	29

13 November 2004
20:30

France

15–0
(5–0, 4–0, 6–0)

Bulgaria

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 1,916




4 min	Penalties	4 min
82	Shots	2

14 November 2004
15:30

Bulgaria

1–6
(0–3, 0–2, 1–1)

Romania

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 532




14 min	Penalties	18 min
21	Shots	35

14 November 2004
19:30

France

7–0
(3–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Estonia

Patinoire René Froger, Briançon
Attendance: 2,122




34 min	Penalties	59 min
56	Shots	21

Group E[]

Games were played in Nowy Targ, Poland.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland (H)	3	3	0	18	1	+17	6	Final qualification tournament
2	Netherlands	3	2	1	13	9	+4	4
3	Lithuania	3	1	2	8	13	−5	2
4	Croatia	3	0	3	7	23	−16	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

11 November 2004
16:00

Netherlands

10–3
(3–0, 3–1, 4–2)

Croatia

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ
Attendance: 400




8 min	Penalties	6 min
47	Shots	36

11 November 2004
19:30

Lithuania

1–6
(0–2, 1–2, 0–2)

Poland

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ
Attendance: 4,000




14 min	Penalties	10 min
24	Shots	52

13 November 2004
16:00

Netherlands

3–1
(1–1, 2–0, 0–0)

Lithuania

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ

13 November 2004
19:30

Poland

7–0
(3–0, 3–0, 1–0)

Croatia

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ
Attendance: 1,800




10 min	Penalties	12 min
66	Shots	16

14 November 2004
15:00

Poland

5–0
(2–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Netherlands

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ
Attendance: 4,500




10 min	Penalties	12 min
45	Shots	28

14 November 2004
18:30

Croatia

4–6
(1–1, 2–2, 1–3)

Lithuania

Miejska Hala Lodowa, Nowy Targ

Game reference

Group F[]

Games were played in Stavanger, Norway.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway (H)	3	2	1	0	40	5	+35	5	Final qualification tournament
2	Hungary	3	2	1	0	20	6	+14	5
3	China	3	1	0	2	8	22	−14	2
4	Serbia and Montenegro	3	0	0	3	2	37	−35	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

11 November 2004
15:00

Hungary

13–0
(2–0, 7–0, 4–0)

Serbia and Montenegro

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger
Attendance: 547




6 min	Penalties	8 min
68	Shots	8

11 November 2004
18:30

China

2–16
(2–1, 0–5, 0–10)

Norway

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger
Attendance: 960




40 min	Penalties	14 min
12	Shots	101

12 November 2004
15:00

Hungary

4–3
(2–1, 1–2, 1–0)

China

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger
Attendance: 555




18 min	Penalties	16 min
46	Shots	17

12 November 2004
18:30

Norway

21–0
(4–0, 7–0, 10–0)

Serbia and Montenegro

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger
Attendance: 901




6 min	Penalties	12 min
90	Shots	4

14 November 2004
13:00

Serbia and Montenegro

2–3
(1–1, 1–1, 0–1)

China

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger
Attendance: 577




10 min	Penalties	14 min
25	Shots	42

14 November 2004
17:00

Norway

3–3
(1–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Hungary

Stavanger Ishall, Stavanger




8 min	Penalties	30 min
39	Shots	14

Final Qualification Tournaments[]

Three round-robins were played from 10 to 13 February 2005. The teams seeded 9th, 10th and 11th reserved the right to host these tournaments. The three group winners qualified for the Olympic tournament.

Group A[]

Games were played in Kloten, Switzerland.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland (H)	3	3	0	12	4	+8	6	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Norway	3	2	1	9	6	+3	4
3	Denmark	3	1	2	7	10	−3	2
4	Japan	3	0	3	6	14	��8	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

10 February 2005
16:15

Denmark

0–4
(0–3, 0–1, 0–0)

Norway

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 503

Game reference

Peter Hirsch

Goalies

Pål Grotnes

Referee:
Nicolas Dutil
Linesmen:
Stanislav Barvir
Paul Rebillard

	0–1	05:21 – Vikingstad (Trygg) (SH)
	0–2	07:47 – Skrøder (Myrvold) (PP)
	0–3	17:05 – Bastiansen (Trygg, Knold) (PP)
	0–4	34:32 – Myrvold (Ask, Jakobsen) (PP)

20 min

Penalties

24 min

28

Shots

24

10 February 2005
20:15

Japan

1–5
(0–2, 0–2, 1–1)

Switzerland

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 2,269

Game reference

Masahito Haruna

Goalies

Martin Gerber

Referee:
Wilhelm Schimm
Linesmen:
Pavel Makarov
Stefan Zantop

	0–1	00:33 – Jenni (Conne, Streit)
	0–2	09:00 – Ambühl ()
	0–3	38:13 – Forster (Conne, Jenni) (SH)
	0–4	39:09 – Ziegler (Rüthemann)
Suzuki (, Haruna) (PP) – 50:38	1–4
	1–5	51:53 – Vauclair (Jenni, Conne)

16 min

Penalties

16 min

10

Shots

54

12 February 2005
12:00

Denmark

5–2
(2–1, 1–0, 2–1)

Japan

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 551

Game reference

Michael Madsen

Goalies

Masahito Haruna

F. Nielsen (Hansen) – 00:25	1–0
(F. Nielsen, D. Nielsen) (PP) – 12:41	2–0
	2–1	14:27 – Fujita (SH)
Damgaard (F. Nielsen) (PP) – 37:40	3–1
	3–2	43:54 – Yule (Fujita)
Regin (F. Nielsen) – 55:15	4–2
(ENG) – 59:46	5–2

16 min

Penalties

14 min

37

Shots

33

12 February 2005
15:45

Switzerland

3–1
(1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Norway

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 4,051

Game reference

Martin Gerber

Goalies

Pål Grotnes

Referee:
Alexander Poliakov
Linesmen:
Stanislav Barvir
Milan Masik

Forster (Jeannin) – 01:41	1–0
	1–1	08:10 – Trygg (Vikingstad)
Zieglar (, Blindenbacher) – 38:53	2–1
Lemm – 43:05	3–1

28 min

Penalties

20 min

32

Shots

20

13 February 2005
12:00

Norway

4–3
(0–2, 2–0, 2–1)

Japan

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 431

Game reference

Pål Grotnes

Goalies

Referee:
Alexander Poliakov
Linesmen:
Milan Masik
Paul Rebillard

	0–1	03:18 – Yule (Fujita, Keller)
	0–2	07:29 – Kon (Suzuki, ) (PP)
Olsen (Vikingstad, Thoresen) (PP) – 21:12	1–2
(, ) – 22:13	2–2
Skrøder (Ask) – 42:44	3–2
	3–3	49:38 – (Keller, )
Skrøder (Myrvold, Jakobsen) (PP) – 51:57	4–3

16 min

Penalties

18 min

42

Shots

26

13 February 2005
15:45

Switzerland

4–2
(1–0, 2–2, 1–0)

Denmark

Schlüfweg, Kloten
Attendance: 3,371

Game reference

Martin Gerber

Goalies

Peter Hirsch

Referee:
Nicolas Dutil
Linesmen:
Pavel Makarov
Stefan Zantop

Fischer (Blindenbacher, Wichser) (PP) – 07:34	1–0
	1–1	20:30 – F. Nielsen (Regin)
Rüthemann (Streit, Gerber) (PP) – 33:06	2–1
	2–2	33:20 – Damgaard
Streit (Ruthemann) (PP2) – 38:07	3–2
Della Rossa (Seger) – 49:01	4–2

14 min

Penalties

20 min

49

Shots

22

Group B[]

Games were played in Riga, Latvia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia (H)	3	3	0	10	6	+4	6	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Belarus	3	2	1	14	9	+5	4
3	Slovenia	3	1	2	7	12	−5	2
4	Poland	3	0	3	6	10	−4	0

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

10 February 2005
15:30

Belarus

3–2
(2–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Poland

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 1,000

Game reference

Sergei Shabanov

Goalies

Referee:
Christer Larking
Linesmen:
Ansis Eglitis
Oleksangr Govorun

(Chuprys) – 05:21	1–0
Salei (Antonenko, Kalyuzhny) (PP2) – 14:30	2–0
	2–1	20:49 – Czerkawski ()
	2–2	52:21 – Garbocz (Czerkawski) (PP)
Antonenko (Kalyuzhny) – 54:10	3–2

12 min

Penalties

12 min

44

Shots

19

10 February 2005
19:00

Slovenia

1–2
(1–0, 0–2, 0–0)

Latvia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 4,900

Game reference

Robert Kristan

Goalies

Sergejs Naumovs

Referee:
Frank Awizus
Linesmen:
Konstantin Gordenko
Ronni Jakobsen

Goličič – 15:33	1–0
	1–1	20:14 – Skrastiņš (Tambijevs) (PP)
	1–2	26:18 – Sprukts (Sējējs, Cipulis)

10 min

Penalties

10 min

34

Shots

33

11 February 2005
15:30

Belarus

7–2
(0–1, 4–1, 3–0)

Slovenia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 1,952

Game reference

Sergei Shabanov

Goalies

Robert Kristan

Referee:
Christer Larking
Linesmen:
Ansis Elitis
Ronni Jakobsen

	0–1	01:38 – (, Kopitar)
Grabovski (PP) – 21:56	1–1
Antonenko (Grabovski, Galchenyuk) – 24:25	2–1
	2–2	26:50 – Jan (Dervarič) (PP)
Bashko – 29:05	3–2
Grabovski (Kostyuchenok) – 39:45	4–2
Grabovski (Kostyuchenok) – 48:28	5–2
(Khyml, Stas) – 48:58	6–2
Krutsikau (Chuprys) – 54:23	7–2

12 min

Penalties

14 min

31

Shots

23

11 February 2005
19:00

Latvia

3–1
(0–0, 1–1, 2–0)

Poland

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 4,700

Game reference

Edgars Masaļskis

Goalies

Referee:
Timo Favorin
Linesmen:
Oleksangr
Seppo Lindroos

	0–1	38:36 – Czerkawski ()
Panteļejevs (Ņiživijs) – 38:52	1–1
Semjonovs (Nizivijs, Ankipāns) – 51:50	2–1
Cipulis – 58:22	3–1

6 min

Penalties

20 min

37

Shots

37

13 February 2005
13:00

Poland

3–4
(0–1, 1–1, 2–2)

Slovenia

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 970

Game reference

Goalies

Referee:
Timo Favorin
Linesmen:
Ansis Eglitis
Seppo Lindroos

	0–1	01:17 – ()
	0–2	22:02 – Goličič ()
() (PP)	1–2
	1–3	42:10 – Goličič ()
	1–4	50:54 – Kopitar (M. Rodman) (PP)
55:56 – (, ) (PP)	2–4
56:41 – Płachta (Szczepaniec)	3–4

22 min

Penalties

12 min

41

Shots

38

13 February 2005
17:00

Latvia

5–4
(1–2, 1–1, 3–1)

Belarus

Rigas Sporta Pils, Riga
Attendance: 4,700

Game reference

Edgars Masaļskis
Sergejs Naumovs

Goalies

Sergei Shabanov

Referee:
Frank Awizus
Linesmen:
Ronni Jakobsen
Konstantin Gordenko

	0–1	05:16 – Bashko (Antonenko) (PP)
	0–2	12:06 – Mikulchik (Grabovski) (PP)
Sprukts (Sējējs) (PP) – 18:33	1–2
	1–3	21:49 – Grabovski (Savin, Koltsov)
Panteļejevs (Ozoliņš) – 22:07	2–3
	2–4	49:11 – Koltsov (Grabovski) (PP)
Bērziņš (Sprukts) (PP, EA) – 55:11	3–4
Sprukts – 56:58	4–4
Semjonovs (Ņiživijs) – 57:31	5–4

14 min

Penalties

45 min

40

Shots

24

Group C[]

Games were played in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	2	0	1	3	5	−2	4	2006 Winter Olympics
2	Austria (H)	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	3
3	France	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	3
4	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	8	9	−1	2

Source: IIHF.com
(H) Host

10 February 2005
15:30

Ukraine

3–4
(0–1, 2–0, 1–3)

France

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference

Oleksandr Fedorov

Goalies

Cristobal Huet

Referee:
Rudolf Lauff
Linesmen:
Jaromir Blaha
Milan Novak

	0–1	05:53 – Meunier (Bordeleau, Favarin) (PP)
(Shyriaiev) – 29:46	1–1
(, Kasianchuk) – 33:29	2–1
	2–2	41:45 – Bordeleau (Besse, Meunier) (PP)
	2–3	45:28 – Coqueux (Bordeleau)
Salnikov (Tsyrul, Zavalnyuk) (PP) – 49:07	3–3
	3–4	52:34 – F. Rozenthal (Favarin)

20 min

Penalties

26 min

26

Shots

34

10 February 2005
19:30

Kazakhstan

0–4
(0–0, 0–1, 0–3)

Austria

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt
Attendance: 2,500

Game reference

Vitali Kolesnik

Goalies

Claus Dalpiaz

Referee:
Brent Reiber
Linesmen:
Peter Kung
Daniel Wirth

	0–1	24:12 – Peintner (Ressmann)
	0–2	40:43 – Koch (Setzinger, ) (PP)
	0–3	42:34 – Koch (Ressman, Peintner)
	0–4	50:48 – Setzinger () (PP)

8 min

Penalties

4 min

22

Shots

34

11 February 2005
15:30

Ukraine

1–2
(1–1, 0–1, 0–0)

Kazakhstan

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference

Goalies

Vitali Kolesnik

Referee:
Vladimir Sindler
Linesmen:
Matthias Langle
Daniel Wirth

	0–1	01:44 – ()
Timchenko – 19:30	1–1
	1–2	39:01 – (Kovalenko)

20 min

Penalties

10 min

18

Shots

34

11 February 2005
19:30

Austria

1–1
(0–1, 0–0, 1–0)

France

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt
Attendance: 3,300

Game reference

Claus Dalpiaz

Goalies

Cristobal Huet

Referee:
Rudolf Lauff
Linesmen:
Milan Novak
Peter Kung

	0–1	08:59 – Bordeleau (M. Rozenthal)
Vanek (Pöck) (PP) – 45:35	1–1

6 min

Penalties

16 min

33

Shots

16

13 February 2005
15:00

Austria

3–4
(1–2, 1–1, 1–1)

Ukraine

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt
Attendance: 2,200

Game reference

Claus Dalpiaz

Goalies

Oleksandr Fedorov

Referee:
Brent Reiber
Linesmen:
Milan Novak
Daniel Wirth

	0–1	12:52 – (Zavalnyuk, ) (PP)
Ulrich (Peintner, ) (PP) – 15:27	1–1
	1–2	17:34 – Bobrovnikov (Zavalnyuk) (PP)
Koch (Ulrich) (PP) – 28:00	2–2
	2–3	36:59 – (, Salnikov) (PP)
Kalt (Peintner) – 44:12	3–3
	3–4	53:13 – (, Shafarenko)

37 min

Penalties

14 min

35

Shots

21

13 February 2005
19:00

France

0–1
(0–1, 0–0, 0–0)

Kazakhstan

Eissportzentrum, Klagenfurt

Game reference

Cristobal Huet

Goalies

Vitali Kolesnik

Referee:
Vladimir Sindler
Linesmen:
Peter Kung
Jaromir Blaha

0–1

17:57 – Samokhvalov (Polichshuk)

12 min

Penalties

14 min

26

Shots

18

References[]

External links[]

[cnote_a_grp_1] 2004 IIHF World Ranking were comprising the following events: 2001 World Championship, 2002 Winter Olympic Games, 2002 World Championship, 2003 World Championship and 2004 World Championship

[cnote_b_grp_1] Prague and Ostrava were the sites for 2004 IIHF World Championship; at the conclusion of the tournament the ranking were finalized with regards to the qualification slots.

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