The 2016 IIHF World Championship was the 80th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), being held from 6 to 22 May 2016 in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia.IIHF: 2016 Worlds go to Russia Canada entered the tournament as the defending 2015 champions. Hungary returned to the Championship after a 6-year absence, and Kazakhstan after a 1-year absence.
Canada won their 26th gold medal, defeating Finland 2–0 in the gold medal game. With the win Corey Perry became the second consecutive Canadian team captain to earn membership in the Triple Gold Club. Russia won the bronze medal, defeating the United States 7–2 in the bronze medal game.
Bids There were three official bids to host these championships. The decision on who hosts the tournament was decided during the final weekend of the 2011 IIHF World Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia.Three bids for 2016
Denmark Copenhagen/Herning Denmark has never hosted these championships. The tournament was proposed to run from May 6–22, 2016 in Parken Stadium (Copenhagen, 15,000 seats) and Jyske Bank Boxen (Herning, 12,000 seats).
Russia Moscow/Saint Petersburg Russia was the only bidder to ever have hosted these championships, with the most recent being in 2007. The tournament was proposed to run from April 29 – May 15, 2016 in Megasport Arena (Moscow, 13,577 seats) and Ice Palace (Saint Petersburg, 12,300 seats).
Ukraine Kyiv Ukraine, like Denmark, has never hosted these championships. The tournament was proposed to run from May 6–22, 2016 in Palace of Sports (Kyiv, 7,000 seats) and a new 12,000 seat arena to be built by 2015 in Kyiv.
Venues Moscow Saint Petersburg VTB Ice Palace Yubileyny Sports PalaceCapacity: 12,100Capacity: 7,300
Participants
Format The 16 teams were split into two groups of eight teams. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams advance to the knockout stage, to play out the winner. The last team of each group will be relegated to Division I the following year.
Seeding The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2015 IIHF World Ranking, which ended at the conclusion of the 2015 IIHF World Championship.
Group A (Moscow) (2) (3) (6) (7) (10) (11) (15) (17)
Group B (St. Petersburg) (1) (4) (5) (8) (9) (12) (13) (19)
Rosters
Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards and defencemen) and two goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and three goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate meeting.
Officials The IIHF selected 16 referees and 16 linesmen to work the tournament.Match officials
Referees Linesmen Tobias Björk Stefan Fonselius Martin Fraňo Péter Gebei Roman Gofman Brett Iverson Antonín Jeřábek Jozef Kubuš Timothy Mayer Linus Ohlund Konstantin Olenin Daniel Piechaczek Aleksi Rantala Maxim Sidorenko Tobias Wehrli Marc Wiegand Nicolas Chartrand-Piché Nicolas Fluri Roman Kaderli Jon Killian Gleb Lazarev Vit Lederer Miroslav Lhotský Andreas Malmqvist Fraser McIntyre Pasi Nieminen Alexander Otmakhov Henrik Pihlblad Nikolaj Ponomarjow Judson Ritter Peter Šefčík Sakari Suominen
Preliminary round The schedule was released on 15 July 2015.
Group A
6 May 2016 2–1 (OT) 3–0 7 May 2016 2–3 (GWS) 0–3 3–4 (GWS) 8 May 2016 4–6 4–3 (OT) 5–2 9 May 2016 0–4 2–4 10 May 2016 3–2 (OT) 2–4 11 May 2016 5–4 7–3 12 May 2016 7–0 10–1 13 May 2016 3–1 3–2 (GWS) 14 May 2016 2–3 5–1 1–2 15 May 2016 2–1 (GWS) 2–3 (GWS) 16 May 2016 3–0 4–1 17 May 2016 5–4 1–3 4–1
Group B
6 May 2016 1–5 6–2 7 May 2016 4–1 3–2 (GWS) 3–6 8 May 2016 1–7 5–1 1–5 9 May 2016 0–8 3–2 10 May 2016 1–5 2–6 11 May 2016 2–4 3–0 12 May 2016 4–0 5–2 13 May 2016 5–1 5–2 14 May 2016 1–3 5–2 5–0 15 May 2016 3–2 0–5 16 May 2016 4–0 4–2 17 May 2016 2–3 (OT) 3–0 0–4
Playoff round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Awards and statistics Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Mikko Koskinen Best Defenceman: Mike Matheson Best Forward: Patrik Laine Source: IIHF.com
Media All-Stars: MVP: Patrik Laine Goaltender: Mikko Koskinen Defencemen: Nikita Zaitsev / Mike Matheson Forwards: Patrik Laine / Vadim Shipachyov / Mikael Granlund Source: IIHF.com
Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS Vadim Shipachyov 10 6 12 18 +10 8 F Artemi Panarin 10 6 9 15 +9 4 F Evgenii Dadonov 10 6 7 13 +10 6 F Patrik Laine 10 7 5 12 +4 4 F Mikael Granlund 10 4 8 12 +6 2 F Derick Brassard 10 5 6 11 +9 4 F Pavel Datsyuk 10 1 10 11 +6 0 F Matt Duchene 10 5 5 10 +10 2 F Mikko Koivu 10 4 6 10 +8 12 F Mark Stone 10 4 6 10 +8 6 F GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com
Goaltending leaders 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.
Player TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SO Dominik Furch 255:00 4 0.94 100 96.00 2 Mikko Koskinen 479:01 9 1.13 169 94.67 1 Cam Talbot 480:00 10 1.25 167 94.01 4 Sebastian Dahm 434:04 16 2.21 248 93.55 1 Sergei Bobrovsky 520:51 15 1.73 218 93.12 1 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com
IIHF honors and awards The 2016 IIHF Hall of Fame inductees and award recipients were honored during the World Championship medal ceremonies in Moscow.
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Peter Bondra, Slovakia Sergei Fedorov, Russia Valeri Kamensky, Russia Ville Peltonen, Finland Pat Quinn, Canada Ben Smith, United States
Award recipients Nikolai Ozerov of Russia posthumously received the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey. Gábor Ocskay of Hungary posthumously received the Torriani Award for a player with an outstanding career from non-top hockey nation.
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