2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Group A

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
United States	4	4	0	0	21	4	8
Slovakia	4	2	1	1	9	7	5
Russia	4	2	1	1	11	10	5
Sweden	4	1	0	3	13	10	2
Austria	4	0	0	4	1	24	0

All times local (EET/UTC+2).

December 26, 2003 15:00

Slovakia

2 – 2 (0–1, 1–0, 0–1)

Russia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,884

Game reference
	Jaroslav Halák	Goalies	Konstantin Barulin	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Seppo Lindroos
	0 – 1 02:43 – PP1 – Ovechkin (Shkotov, Pestunov) Ružička (Bulík, Špirko) – 21:02 1 – 1 1 – 2 40:30 – Shkotov (Ovechkin, Korneev) Šagát (Baláž) – 50:37 2 – 2
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	28	Shots	33

December 26, 2003 18:30

Austria

0 – 8 (0–2, 0–3, 0–3)

United States

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,947

Game reference
	Mathias Lange	Goalies	Al Montoya	Referee: Sergej Karabanov Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Derek Doucette
	0 – 1 02:09 – PP1 – Wisniewski (Parise) 0 – 2 08:12 – Sterling (Stuart, Montoya) 0 – 3 30:49 – PP2 – Parise (Richmond, Eaves) 0 – 4 31:05 – PP1 – Kesler (Eaves) 0 – 5 34:46 – SH1 – Eaves (Likens) 0 – 6 48:55 – Parise (Fritsche) 0 – 7 52:17 – PP1 – Parise (Wisniewski) 0 – 8 54:14 – Sterling (Stuart)
	14 min	Penalties	18 min
	15	Shots	61

December 27, 2003 16:00

Sweden

7 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 5–0)

Austria

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 741

Game reference
	Joakim Lundstrom	Goalies	Mathias Lange	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Thomas Geinke Christian Neubert
	Blomdahl (Björk, Eckerblom) – 10:47 1 – 0 Kalgoum (Salmonsson) – 32:19 2 – 0 Johnsson (Eckerblom, Andersson) – 46:53 3 – 0 Steen (Eriksson) – 47:42 4 – 0 Danielsson (Tang) – PP1 - 54:02 5 – 0 Fransson (Nilsson, Andersson) – 54:32 6 – 0 Fransson (Blomqvist, Danielsson) – PP2 – 58:55 7 – 0
	10 min	Penalties	24 min
	43	Shots	16

December 28, 2003 15:00

United States

5 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 3–0)

Slovakia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,938

Game reference
	Al Montoya	Goalies	Jaroslav Halák	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Derek Doucette Stefan Fonselius
	Booth (Dowell) - 08:05 1 – 0 Murray (Richmond) – PP1 – 27:00 2 – 0 Murray – 44:32 3 – 0 Kesler – PP1 – 48:15 4 – 0 Werner (Parise) – 50:23 5 – 0
	16 min	Penalties	28 min
	43	Shots	18

December 28, 2003 18:30

Russia

5 – 3 (2–0, 0–2, 3–1)

Sweden

Helsinki Attendance: 2,801

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin	Goalies	Joakim Lundström	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Seppo Lindroos
	Semin (Malkin, Anshakov) – PP1 – 07:07 1 – 0 Ovechkin (Korneev, Malkin) – PP1 – 18:30 2 – 0 2 – 1 35:08 – Andersson (Valdix) 2 – 2 36:15 – Kalgoum (Hult) Anshakov (Malkin) – 46:38 3 – 2 3 – 3 50:55 – PP1 – Nilsson (Björk, Tang) Anshakov (Spiridonov, Semin) – 56:35 4 – 3 Shkotov (Ovechkin, Pestunov) – ENG – 59:59 5 – 3
	10 min	Penalties	20 min
	29	Shots	26

December 29, 2003 18:30

Austria

1 – 3 (0–1, 1–1, 0–1)

Russia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 831

Game reference
	Mathias Lange Thomas Innerwinkler	Goalies	Denis Khudyakov	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Christian Neubert
	0 – 1 17:38 – Anshakov (Gimaev, Semin) Vanek (Latusa, Harand) – 26:55 1 – 1 1 – 2 31:32 – Malkin (Spiridonov, Khudyakov) 1 – 3 53:14 – Ovechkin (Korneev, Shkotov)
	12 min	Penalties	8 min
	17	Shots	50

December 30, 2003 16:00

United States

4 – 3 (2–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Sweden

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,948

Game reference
	Al Montoya	Goalies	Magnus Åkerlund Joakim Lundström	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Seppo Lindroos
	Werner (Wisniewski, Parise) – PP1 – 05:26 1 – 0 Carle (Dowell, Stafford) – 11:29 2 – 0 2 – 1 25:34 – Steen Sterling (Moore, Suter) – 33:21 3 – 1 3 – 2 35:22 – Fransson (Valdix, Andersson) 3 – 3 47:25 – PP1 – Meijer (Enström) Werner (Parise, Wisniewski) – SH1 – 48:42 4 – 3
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	40	Shots	25

December 30, 2003 19:30

Slovakia

6 – 0 (1–0, 4–0, 1–0)

Austria

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,935

Game reference
	Jaroslav Halák	Goalies	Mathias Lange Thomas Innerwinkler	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Thomas Gienke Seppo Lindroos
	Meszároš (Pokrivčák, Špirko) – PP1 – 08:21 1 – 0 Ružička (Stehlík) – 29:21 2 – 0 Stehlík (Biermann, Lukáč) – 29:29 3 – 0 Ružička – 31:41 4 – 0 Troliga (Špirko, Baranka) – 33:49 5 – 0 Špirko (Hruška, Pokrivčák) – 50:12 6 – 0
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	42	Shots	21

December 31, 2003 16:00

Russia

1 – 4 (0–3, 0–1, 1–0)

United States

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,874

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin Denis Khudyakov	Goalies	Al Montoya	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Derek Doucette Stanislav Barvir
	0 – 1 09:45 – PP1 – O'Sullivan (Eaves, Suter) 0 – 2 18:48 – PP2 – Parise (Eaves) 0 – 3 19:21 – PP1 – Werner (Parise) 0 – 4 35:57 – SH1 – Parise Anshakov (Gimaev, Spiridonov) – PP2 – 50:45 1 – 4
	34 min	Penalties	24 min
	30	Shots	35

December 31, 2003 19:30

Sweden

0 – 1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Slovakia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,860

Game reference
	Joakim Lundström	Goalies	Jaroslav Halák	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Seppo Lindroos Stefan Fonselius
	0 – 1 59:24 – ENG – Fábry (Ružička, Bulík)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	28	Shots	24

Group B

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4	4	0	0	25	4	8
Finland	4	3	0	1	19	6	6
Czech Republic	4	2	0	2	14	9	4
Switzerland	4	1	0	3	14	11	2
Ukraine	4	0	0	4	1	43	0

All times local (EET/UTC+2).

December 26, 2003 15:00

Czech Republic

8 – 0 (4–0, 4–0, 0–0)

Ukraine

Helsinki

December 26, 2003 18:30

Canada

3 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Finland

Helsinki Attendance: 3,947

Game reference
				Referee: Thomas Andersson Linesmen: Miroslav Halecký Mikael Ljungqvist
	Phaneuf (Stewart, Dawes) – 15:52 1 – 0 Paille (Talbot) – 32:41 2 – 0 Stewart (Richards) – 44:27 3 – 0
	8 min	Penalties	4 min

December 27, 2003 16:00

Switzerland

11 – 0 (3–0, 5–0, 3–0)

Ukraine

Helsinki

December 28, 2003 15:00

Canada

7 – 2 (3–1, 1–0, 3–1)

Switzerland

Helsinki Attendance: 1,320

Game reference
	Marc-André Fleury	Goalies	Daniel Manzato	Referee: Peter Ország Linesmen: Christian Neubert Thomas Gienke
	0 – 1 04:43 – Grauwiler (Bärtschi) Richards – PS – 08:13 1 – 1 Coburn (Burns) – 10:46 2 – 1 Getzlaf (Seabrook) – PP1 – 16:24 3 – 1 Getzlaf (Carter, Burns) – 23:35 4 – 1 Stewart (Dawes) – 41:41 5 – 1 5 – 2 43:09 – Ehrensperger Stewart (Dawes) – 52:57 6 – 2 Crosby (Phaneuf, Stewart) – 59:46 7 – 2
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	42	Shots	23

December 28, 2003 18:30

Finland

3 – 2 (0–2, 1–0, 2–0)

Czech Republic

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 4,418

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin	Goalies	Joakim Lundström	Referee: Sergej Karabanov Linesmen: Konstantin Gordenko Allen Stensland
	0 – 1 Olesz (Hudler, Chvátal) – 12:36 0 – 2 Olesz (Kašpar) – 17:42 39:32 – Töykkälä 1 – 2 40:17 – PP1 – Lepisto (Salmela, Filppula) 2 – 2 55:40 – Filppula (Bergenheim) 3 – 2
	39 min	Penalties	20 min
	35	Shots	24

December 29, 2003 18:30

Ukraine

0 – 10 (0–3, 0–6, 0–1)

Canada

Helsinki Attendance: 992

Game reference
	Yevgeniy Galyuk Illia Tarankov	Goalies	Josh Harding	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Allen Stensland Thomas Gienke
	0 – 1 00:33 – Carter (Burns) 0 – 2 01:17 – Stewart (Richards, Seabrook) 0 – 3 14:17 – PP1 – Seabrook (Getzlaf, Gorges) 0 – 4 23:10 – Tambellini (Dixon) 0 – 5 28:25 – Crosby (Tambellini) 0 – 6 29:54 – Dawes (Carter, Stewart) 0 – 7 32:05 – Brent (Talbot) 0 – 8 32:56 – Dawes (Gorges) 0 – 9 37:12 – PP1 – Paille (Talbot, Brent) 0 – 10 54:50 – PP1 – Paille (Tambellini, Belle)
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	11	Shots	55

December 30, 2003 16:00

Switzerland

1 – 2 (1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Czech Republic

Helsinki

December 30, 2003 19:30

Ukraine

1 – 14 (0–4, 1–4, 0–6)

Finland

Helsinki Attendance: 4,271

Game reference
	Illia Tarankov	Goalies	Mikael Vuorio	Referee: Peter Ország Linesmen: Christian Neubert Miroslav Halecký
	0 – 1 05:50 – Tukonen (Oksa) 0 – 2 11:13 – Kontiola (Tukonen) 0 – 3 12:34 – Lepistö (Filppula, Bergenheim) 0 – 4 18:16 – Lepistö (Immonen, Marjamäki) 0 – 5 20:59 – PP1 – Immonen (Kantee) 0 – 6 29:31 – Jalasvaara (Töykkälä) Lubnin (Katrych, Kyrychenko) – PP1 – 32:31 1 – 6 1 – 7 38:26 – PP2 – Filppula (Varakas, Bergenheim) 1 – 8 39:13 – PP2 – Lepistö (Salmela) 1 – 9 43:43 – Salmela (Töykkälä, Immonen) 1 – 10 48:59 – SH1 – Filppula 1 – 11 51:18 – PP1 – Bergenheim (Lepistö) 1 – 12 53:28 – Piispanen (Nurmi) 1 – 13 54:11 – Immonen (Varakas) 1 – 14 59:41 – Nurmi (Kalteva)
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	15	Shots	60

December 31, 2003 16:00

Czech Republic

2 – 5 (0–3, 1–2, 1–0)

Canada

Helsinki Attendance: 2,816

Game reference
	Marek Schwarz Tomáš Pöpperle	Goalies	Marc-André Fleury	Referee: Thomas Andersson Linesmen: Mikael Ljungqvist Allen Stensland
	0 – 1 06:53 – Tambellini (Crosby) 0 – 2 16:01 – Carter (Getzlaf, Burns) 0 – 3 19:30 – PP2 – Dawes (Stewart, Meech) 0 – 4 29:59 – PP1 – Phaneuf (Getzlaf) Ovčáčík (Kanko, Koreis) – 34:47 1 – 4 1 – 5 39:41 – Carter (Phaneuf) Šmíd (Hudler) – PP1 – 50:18 2 – 5
	12 min	Penalties	24 min
	29	Shots	30

December 31, 2003 19:30

Finland

2 – 0 (1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Switzerland

Helsinki Attendance: 3,680

Game reference
	Hannu Toivonen	Goalies	Michael Tobler	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm Linesmen: Konstantin Gordenko Miroslav Halecký
	Nokelainen (Filppula) – 19:11 1 – 0 Junnila (Varakas) – 55:37 2 – 0
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	40	Shots	8

January 2

• Sweden 4–0 Ukraine
• Switzerland 6–2 Austria

January 3

• Austria 2–2 Ukraine
• Sweden 4–3 Switzerland

Austria and Ukraine were relegated to Division I for the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Quarter-finals

January 2

• Czech Republic 4–2 Slovakia
• Finland 4–3 Russia

Semi-finals

January 3

• United States 2–1 Finland
• Canada 7–1 Czech Republic

5th place game

January 4

• Russia 3–2 Slovakia

Bronze medal game

January 5

• Finland 2–1 Czech Republic

Gold medal game

January 5

• United States 4–3 Canada
• United States beat Canada 4–3 to win the gold medal at the World Junior Championship. The loss, however, still nets Canada silver, making this the sixth consecutive year in which Canada has won a medal at the tournament, becoming the only country to record such an achievement.

The victory gave the United States its first WJC gold medal ever, and its first medal since a silver medal in 1997 when it lost 2–0 to Canada in the final.

Most Valuable Player

Zach Parise