Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

2012 Winter Youth Olympics –
Boys' tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Austria
Dates	13–22 January
Teams	5
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	(1st title)
Runner-up
Third place
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	100 (7.14 per match)
Attendance	20,880 (1,491 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	(12 points)
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Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
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Skills challenge
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Rosters
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The boys' ice hockey tournament at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held from 13 to 22 January at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria.

Teams from five national hockey associations competed, in one single preliminary round group. The tournament consisted of 14 games: 10 in the preliminary round (teams played all other teams); 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.^[1]

All games were played in three 15-minute periods, as opposed to the traditional 20-minute periods.^[2]

Qualification[]

The top eight teams in the 2011 IIHF World Ranking will choose which tournament (either boys' or girls') they want to compete in. First priority is given to higher ranked nations.^[3]

Rosters[]

Each country is allowed to enter 17 athletes each.^[3]

Preliminary round[]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	4	3	0	0	1	25	9	+16	9	Semifinals
2	Canada	4	2	1	0	1	20	7	+13	8
3	Finland	4	2	0	1	1	13	11	+2	7
4	United States	4	2	0	0	2	14	18	−4	6
5	Austria (H)	4	0	0	0	4	3	30	−27	0

13 January 2012 10:15

0–3 (0–0, 0–0, 0–3)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 520

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Simon Acher Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Benjamin Hoppe
	0–1 30:22 − Kapanen (Hopponen) 0–2 32:05 − Hopponen (Honkanen, Kapanen) 0–3 44:40 − Kiviranta (Sopanen, Kannel) (SH, ENG)
	10 min	Penalties	2 min
	8	Shots	43

13 January 2012 14:45

4–3 (2–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 932

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Daniel Persson Martin Smeibidlo
	() – 05:08 1–0 1–1 05:33 – (Hicketts, ) Tsvetkov – 11:56 2–1 () (SH) – 18:58 3–1 3–2 21:37 – Brooks () (Nikolishin) – 26:38 4–2 4–3 42:05 – Gardiner (Hicketts)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	23	Shots	29

14 January 2012 12:30

United States

7–2 (4–0, 1–1, 2–1)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,180

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andris Ansons Linesmen: Tilen Pahor Daniel Persson
	Gersich (, Schmaltz) – 00:47 1–0 (Eichel, ) – 01:13 2–0 MacInnis (, ) (PP) – 09:02 3–0 Gersich (Eichel) (PP) – 12:03 4–0 4–1 20:40 – Gersich () – 23:37 5–1 5–2 30:44 – (, Huber) MacInnis (Godbout, Jacobs) (SH) – 41:06 6–2 Godbout (Schmaltz) (SH) – 41:24 7–2
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	42	Shots	16

15 January 2012 13:30

4–3 (0–2, 3–0, 1–1)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 783

Game reference
	Kaapo Kähkönen	Goalies		Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Martin Smeibidlo
	0–1 03:32 – (PP) 0–2 14:56 – (, ) (PP2) Honkanen (PS) – 25:04 1–2 Kapanen (Tuulola, Sopanen) (PP) – 27:08 2–2 Hopponen (Kapanen, Honkanen) (PP) – 29:33 3–2 Kapanen – 30:41 4–2 4–3 35:31 – Nikolishin (Lazarev, Svechnikov)
	22 min	Penalties	10 min
	21	Shots	32

15 January 2012 18:00

5–1 (1–0, 2–1, 2–0)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,575

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Tilen Pahor
	Cornel – 03:58 1–0 Gropp (Cornel) – 16:30 2–0 2–1 17:39 – (Jacobs) Duke (Brooks, ) – 28:54 3–1 Brooks (, ) (PP) – 43:21 4–1 Gropp (Cornel, Gardiner) (PP) – 44:06 5–1
	2 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	16

16 January 2012 12:45

11–1 (0–1, 4–0, 7–0)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,274

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Tilen Pahor Daniel Persson
	0–1 12:30 – () (PP) (, ) – 16:13 1–1 Svetlakov (Vovchenko) – 19:33 2–1 (Nekolenko) – 25:51 3–1 () (PP) – 27:55 4–1 (PP) – 31:23 5–1 Svechnikov (Protapovich) – 33:22 6–1 Nikolishin (Zinovev) – 33:32 7–1 Protapovich (Lazarev, ) (PP) – 35:34 8–1 (Nikolishin, ) – 40:04 9–1 Svechnikov (Lazarev, ) (PP) – 42:41 10–1 Nikolishin (Zinovev, Nekolenko) – 43:52 11–1
	8 min	Penalties	16 min
	53	Shots	12

17 January 2012 11:15

0–9 (0–4, 0–2, 0–3)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 749

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Benjamin Hoppe
	0–1 00:40 – Brooks (, ) 0–2 02:16 – (, ) 0–3 06:15 – Gropp (Cornel) (PP) 0–4 12:07 – Cornel (Gropp) 0–5 16:42 – (Gropp) 0–6 24:35 – 0–7 38:31 – Duke (Martin, Brooks) (PP) 0–8 40:14 – 0–9 41:24 – Duke (Martin, )
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	44

17 January 2012 15:45

4–5 (1–0, 2–3, 1–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,824

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andris Ansons Linesmen: Tilen Pahor Martin Smeibidlo
	Kiviranta (Hopponen, Tuulola) – 12:16 1–0 1–1 16:31 – (Schmaltz) Tuulola (Kiviranta, Pitkänen) – 19:45 2–1 2–2 23:10 – () (PP) (Hopponen, ) – 24:36 3–2 3–3 27:47 – () 3–4 31:01 – Schmaltz (Bliss, ) 3–5 32:15 – MacInnis (Gersich, ) Kapanen (Haapanen) – 41:45 4–5
	10 min	Penalties	26 min
	29	Shots	32

18 January 2012 11:45

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

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,261

Game reference
		Goalies	Kaapo Kähkönen	Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Martin Smeibidlo
	Brooks (Duke) – 15:11 1–0 1–1 21:05 – Kiviranta (Pitkänen) Cornel (Gropp, Hicketts) – 22:01 2–1 2–2 36:42 – Kiviranta (Pitkänen, Nieminen)
	Cornel Gropp	Shootout	Kiviranta Kapanen Honkanen
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	27	Shots	25

18 January 2012 16:15

United States

1–7 (0–2, 0–3, 1–2)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,124

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Daniel Persson
	0–1 01:43 – (Svechnikov, (PP) 0–2 06:47 – (, ) (PP) 0–3 16:24 – (Svetlakov) 0–4 19:32 – Svechnikov (, Protapovich) (PP) 0–5 21:58 – Lazarev (Svechnikov) (MacInnis, ) – 38:17 1–5 1–6 40:30 – Lazarev (Svechnikov) 1–7 43:32 – (Orlov, Protapovich) (PP)
	16 min	Penalties	4 min
	15	Shots	30

Playoffs[]

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1		5
	4	United States	2
						1		1
						3	(GWS)	2
	2		1
	3		2			Bronze medal game
						2		7
						4	United States	5

Semifinals[]

20 January 2012 14:15

5–2 (1–0, 1–0, 3–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,632

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Daniel Persson
	(, ) (PP) – 02:06 1–0 (Nekolenko) – 28:01 2–0 (, Nikolishin) – 31:03 3–0 Nekolenko (Nikolishin, ) – 32:49 4–0 4–1 40:06 – (Eichel) 4–2 41:22 – Eichel () (PP, EA) Svechnikov (ENG) – 44:37 5–2
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	16	Shots	32

20 January 2012 18:45

1–2 (1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,426

Game reference
		Goalies	Kaapo Kähkönen	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Tilen Pahor
	(, Cornel) (PP) – 04:17 1–0 1–1 11:29 – Nieminen (Kiviranta, Pitkänen) 1–2 40:26 – Sopanen (Nieminen, Pitkänen) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	17	Shots	19

Bronze medal game[]

21 January 2012 14:45

7–5 (3–1, 4–1, 0–3)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,592

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Martin Smeibidlo
	Cornel (, Hicketts) (PP) – 04:19 1–0 (Gardiner, Cornel) – 06:58 2–0 Gropp (Gardiner, Pilon) (PP) – 13:22 3–0 3–1 14:53 – () 3–2 19:40 – MacInnis (Eichel) Brooks (Duke, ) – 21:27 4–2 Gardiner (Hicketts) – 22:35 5–2 Gropp – 23:10 6–2 Gropp (Gardiner) – 25:40 7–2 7–3 31:44 – Eichel (Schmaltz) 7–4 38:54 – (Jacobs, ) 7–5 40:10 – Schmaltz (MacInnis, ) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	19	Shots	40

Gold medal game[]

22 January 2012 12:15

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

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 3,008

Game reference
		Goalies	Kaapo Kähkönen	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Daniel Persson
	– 08:35 1–0 1–1 43:58 – Hopponen (EA)
		Shootout	Honkanen Kapanen
	24 min	Penalties	26 min
	28	Shots	25

References[]