The 2004 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship was held between 24 April and 9 May 2004 in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic.
It was the 68th ice Hockey World Championships, and was run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
Qualification
Far Eastern Qualification for the tournament was held on 6 September 2003 in Tokyo, Japan.
All times are local.
Final tournament
Venues PragueOstrava Sazka ArenaCapacity: 17,360 ČEZ ArenaCapacity: 9,568
Preliminary round Sixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the qualifying round while the last team competed in the relegation round.
All times are local (UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Qualifying round The top three teams in the standings of each group of the preliminary round advance to the qualifying round, and are placed in two groups: teams from Groups A and D compete in Group E, while teams from Groups B and C compete in Group F.
Each team is to play three games in this round, one against each of the three teams from the other group with which they have been paired. These three games, along with the two games already played against the other two advancing teams from the same group in the preliminary round, will count in the qualifying round standings.
The top four teams in both groups E and F advanced to the Playoff round.
Group E
Group F
Relegation round
Playoff round Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Ranking and statistics
Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Ty Conklin Best Defenceman: Dick Tärnström Best Forward: Dany Heatley Most Valuable Player: Dany Heatley Media All-Star Team: Goaltender: Henrik Lundqvist Defence: Zdeno Chára, Dick Tärnström Forwards: Dany Heatley, Jaromír Jágr, Ville Peltonen
Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Scoring leaders 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 left out. Player Dany Heatley 9 8 3 11 +3 4 F Ville Peltonen 7 4 6 10 +6 2 F Jaromír Jágr 7 5 4 9 +2 6 F Martin Ručinský 7 5 4 9 +5 6 F Olli Jokinen 7 5 3 8 +6 6 F Richard Park 9 5 3 8 +5 0 F Pavol Demitra 9 4 4 8 +5 4 F Miroslav Šatan 9 4 4 8 +4 4 F Daniel Brière 9 2 6 8 +2 6 F Shawn Horcoff 9 3 4 7 +4 8 F Václav Prospal 7 3 4 7 +5 2 FSource: 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 Ján Lašák 538:37 195 9 1.00 95.38 4 Tomáš Vokoun 380:00 126 7 1.11 94.44 2 Ty Conklin 300:00 152 10 2.00 93.42 1 Martin Gerber 358:20 162 11 1.84 93.21 2 Artūrs Irbe 300:00 120 9 1.80 92.50 0Source: IIHF.com
IIHF honors and awards The 2004 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Prague during the World Championships. Aggie Kukulowicz of Canada was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey.
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Rudi Ball, Germany Mike Buckna, Canada Ove Dahlberg, Sweden Vitali Davydov, Russia Ladislav Horský, Slovakia Yury Karandin, Russia Tsutomu Kawabuchi, Japan Lou Nanne, United States Ronald Pettersson, Sweden Nikolai Sologubov, Russia Miroslav Šubrt, Czech Republic František Tikal, Czech Republic
See also IIHF World Championship
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