2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

The 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 22 and 28 June 2008 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The tournament was won by Canada who upon winning gained promotion to the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Bulgaria and New Zealand were relegated to the continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games.

2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
Tournament details
Host country Slovakia
Dates22–28 June 2008
Teams8
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Canada (1st title)
Runner-up  Great Britain
Third place  Brazil
Fourth place Australia
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored280 (11.67 per match)
Attendance5,465 (228 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Cory Conacher
← 2007
2009 →

Qualification

Six nations returned to Division I after automatically qualifying based on their results from the 2007 Division I tournament. Bulgaria and Canada qualified for the two remaining spots, replacing Namibia and South Africa who were relegated after losing their 2007 relegation round games.[1]

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2007 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament.[2] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Bratislava, Slovakia.[2] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):[2]

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[2] Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.

     Advance to Qualifying round
     Advance to Playoff round

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Great Britain330003014169
 Brazil320012716116
 Australia310022022−23
 Bulgaria30003631−250
22 June 2008
15:00		Australia 7–11
(1–4, 1–2, 3–1, 2–4)		 Great BritainSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 115
22 June 2008
19:00		Bulgaria 2–13
(0–2, 1–2, 0–5, 1–4)		 BrazilSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 99
23 June 2008
15:00		Australia 10–3
(2–1, 3–0, 2–1, 3–1)		 BulgariaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 58
23 June 2008
19:00		Brazil 6–11
(0–3, 2–4, 3–4, 1–0)		 Great BritainSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 45
24 June 2008
15:00		Great Britain 8–1
(1–0, 1–0, 4–0, 2–1)		 BulgariaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 86
24 June 2008
19:00		Brazil 8–3
(2–0, 0–0, 5–2, 1–1)		 AustraliaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 113

Group D
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Canada33000393369
 Japan311011422−85
 Hungary310111624−84
 New Zealand300031131−200
22 June 2008
13:00		Hungary 5 – 6 (OT)
(1–2, 2–1, 0–1, 2–1, 0–1)		 JapanSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 189
22 June 2008
17:00		Canada 13–2
(7–0, 2–0, 0–1, 4–1)		 New ZealandSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 134
23 June 2008
14:00		Hungary 0–14
(0–4, 0–4, 0–4, 0–2)		 CanadaMain Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 157
23 June 2008
17:00		New Zealand 5–7
(1–1, 0–1, 3–2, 1–3)		 JapanSmall Arena, Bratislava
24 June 2008
13:00		Japan 1–12
(0–3, 1–2, 0–3, 0–4)		 CanadaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 272
24 June 2008
17:00		New Zealand 4–11
(1–1, 2–3, 0–3, 1–4)		 HungarySmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 128

Qualifying round

Great Britain and Canada advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively.[3] Great Britain faced off against Austria, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Canada was drawn against Germany, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[4][5] Both Great Britain and Canada lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, while Austria and Germany advanced to the Top Division playoffs.[5]

All times are local (UTC+2).

25 June 2008
16:00		Germany 11–3
(3–0, 2–1, 3–1, 3–1)		 CanadaMain Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 660
25 June 2008
18:00		Austria 6–1
(0–1, 4–0, 2–0, 0–0)		 Great BritainMain Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 506

Playoff round

Great Britain and Canada advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round.[6] In the relegation round New Zealand and Bulgaria lost their games to Hungary and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications.[6] In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Canada beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game.[6] After losing the semifinals Australia and Brazil played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4–3. Canada defeated Great Britain 7–4 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.[6]

Draw
  Quarterfinals Semifinals
                           
  QR1  Canada 9  
C4  Bulgaria 1  
  QF1  Canada 8  
  QF2  Australia 0  
D2  Japan 4 Final
  C3  Australia 5  
    SF1  Canada 7
  SF2  Great Britain 4
  QR2  Great Britain 7  
D4  New Zealand 0  
  QF3  Great Britain 4 Bronze medal game
  QF4  Brazil 3  
C2  Brazil 5 SF1  Australia 3
  D3  Hungary 3   SF2  Brazil 4

Quarterfinals
26 June 2008
13:00		Japan 4–5
(0–1, 0–2, 3–1, 1–1)		 AustraliaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 120
26 June 2008
15:00		Brazil 5–3
(1–0, 1–2, 2–1, 1–0)		 HungarySmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 200
26 June 2008
17:00		Canada 9–1
(2–1, 3–0, 1–0, 3–0)		 BulgariaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 199
26 June 2008
19:00		Great Britain 7–0
(1–0, 1–0, 2–0, 3–0)		 New ZealandSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 100

Relegation round
27 June 2008
13:00		Hungary 7–6
(3–2, 2–1, 2–2, 0–1)		 New ZealandSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 123
27 June 2008
15:00		Japan 11–5
(2–1, 3–2, 2–1, 4–1)		 BulgariaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 88

Semifinals
27 June 2008
17:00		Great Britain 4–3
(0–2, 1–0, 1–0, 2–1)		 BrazilSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 66
27 June 2008
19:00		Canada 8–0
(3–0, 1–0, 4–0, 0–0)		 AustraliaSmall Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 79

Bronze medal game
28 June 2008
12:00		 Australia3–4
(0–0, 0–1, 1–3, 2–0)		 BrazilMain Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 849

Gold medal game
28 June 2008
14:00		 Canada7–4
(1–0, 1–1, 2–3, 3–0)		 Great BritainMain Arena, Bratislava
Attendance: 1079

Ranking and statistics

Scoring leaders
Canada's Cory Conacher scored eleven goals and ten assists in his six games

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[9]

Player GP G A Pts +/– PIM POS
Cory Conacher6111021+231.5F
John Dolan613720+61.5F
Bruno Gomes610717+43.0F
David Hammond610717+126.0F
Adam Ross67916+264.5D
Mark Thomas641115+127.5D
Johnathon Clewlow55914+213.0F
Christopher Colgate631114+54.5F
Kirk French631114+146.0D
Pedro Raposo66612+21.5F
Jonathan Spady64812+173.0F
Mitchell Vevang63912+126.0D
Diego Araujo621012+26.0F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[10]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Derek Shybunka216:009850.8394.902
James Tanner240:00155233.4585.161
Shingo Imagawa192:08154234.3185.060
Jeremy Muir191:21150244.5284.000
Danilo Gazinhato252:01142233.2983.800

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