The 2019 IIHF World Championship was hosted from 10 to 26 May 2019 by Slovakia. It was the second time that Slovakia has hosted the event as an independent country, as was the case in 2011. The host cities were Bratislava and Košice, as announced by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on 15 May 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Finland won their third title by defeating Canada in the final. The Finns had 18 first-timers for the 2019 IIHF World Championship and were widely regarded as an outsider to win any medal at all. Despite this, the Finns won their third World Championship and lost only two games in the tournament (against the USA, and Germany). Russia secured the bronze medal after a penalty-shootout win over the Czech Republic. This tournament was also the first time since the 2006 IIHF World Championship that both promoted teams (Great Britain and Italy) stayed in the top division.
Venues Bratislava Košice Ondrej Nepela Arena Steel Arena Capacity: 10,0552011 IIHF World Championship Slovakia – Venues . Iihf.com. Retrieved 4 June 2011. Capacity: 8,347
Rule changes In December 2018, the IIHF announced changes to the overtime procedures beginning at this tournament: all overtime periods would be 3-on-3 regardless of round (rather than progressing from 3-on-3 to 4-on-4 and 5-on-5 over the course of the tournament), and the gold medal game would no longer go to a shootout; play would continue in 20-minute periods of 3-on-3 until a winning goal would be scored.
In the semifinals, there was no set bracket. After the quarterfinals, a re-seeding took place with the highest seed playing the lowest remaining seed. Seeds were determined by performance in the preliminary round.
Participants
Qualified as host
Automatic qualifier after a top 14 placement at the 2018 IIHF World Championship
Qualified through winning a promotion at the 2018 IIHF World Championship Division I
Seeding The seedings in the preliminary round are based on the 2018 IIHF World Ranking, as of the end of the 2018 IIHF World Championship, using the serpentine system. On 22 May 2018, the IIHF and the local organizing committee announced the groups, in which Slovakia and Norway switched places so that Slovakia would play in Košice and the Czech Republic and Austria would play in Bratislava.
Group A (Košice) (1) (4) (5) (8) (10) (12) (13) (22)
Group B (Bratislava) (2) (3) (6) (7) (9) (11) (17) (19)
Rosters
Each team's roster consists of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and 3 goaltenders. All 16 participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a "Long List" no later than two weeks before the tournament, and a final roster by the Passport Control meeting prior to the start of the tournament.
Officials 16 referees and linesman were announced on 1 March 2019.
Referees Linesmen Manuel Nikolic Maxim Sidorenko Oliver Gouin Brett Iverson Jan Hribik Martin Fraňo Mikko Kaukokari Aleksi Rantala Gordon Schukies Roman Gofman Yevgeni Romasko Peter Stano Linus Öhlund Tobias Bjork Stephen Reneau Jeremy Tufts Dmitri Golyak Dustin McCrank Nathan Vanoosten Jiří Ondráček Miroslav Lhotský Rene Jensen Hannu Sormunen Lauri Nikulainen Andrew Dalton Joep Leermakers Dmitri Shishlo Gleb Lazarev Roman Kaderli Andreas Malmqvist William Hancock Brian Oliver
Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 15 August 2018.
Group A
Group A matches were played at the Steel Arena in Košice.
10 May 2019 3–1 1–4 11 May 2019 5–4 3–1 2–4 12 May 2019 7–1 1–2 0–8 13 May 2019 3–2 5–6 14 May 2019 0–9 4–1 15 May 2019 6–3 3–2 16 May 2019 5–2 3–1 17 May 2019 3–6 5–0 18 May 2019 1–7 8–1 1–7 19 May 2019 1–3 0–3 20 May 2019 3–4 5–0 21 May 2019 2–4 2–1 3–0
Group B
Group B matches were played at the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava.
10 May 2019 5–2 5–2 11 May 2019 9–0 5–2 2–7 12 May 2019 5–0 0–8 1–3 13 May 2019 3–0 1–9 14 May 2019 0–3 4–0 15 May 2019 4–1 10–0 16 May 2019 9–1 6–3 17 May 2019 3–5 8–0 18 May 2019 1–3 1–7 4–3 19 May 2019 0–8 0–3 20 May 2019 5–4 3–4 21 May 2019 5–4 1–4 4–7
Playoff round
Seeding order The semi-final pairings were determined according to the seeding after the preliminary round. The seeding is determined by following criteria in the order presented: higher position in the group; higher number of points; better goal difference; higher number of goals scored for; better seeding number entering the tournament (i.e., place in the 2018 IIHF World Ranking). Rank Team B 1 7 21 +29 36 3 A 1 7 18 +25 36 1 B 2 7 18 +25 39 6 A 2 7 16 +11 22 5 B 3 7 15 +20 41 2 A 3 7 15 0 18 8 A 4 7 14 +12 27 4 B 4 7 12 +13 27 7
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking and statistics
Final ranking
Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS William Nylander 8 5 13 18 +16 0 F Nikita Kucherov 10 6 10 16 +11 4 F Nikita Gusev 10 4 12 16 +12 0 F Jakub Voráček 10 4 12 16 +10 2 F Mark Stone 10 8 6 14 +10 0 F Anthony Mantha 9 7 7 14 +9 16 F Michael Frolík 10 7 7 14 +8 2 F Dominik Kubalík 10 6 6 12 +10 0 F Dominik Simon 10 4 8 12 +10 2 F Patrick Kane 8 2 10 12 0 4 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 Andrei Vasilevskiy 488:02 13 1.60 240 94.58 2 Kevin Lankinen 480:41 12 1.50 207 94.20 2 Mathias Niederberger 237:14 7 1.77 120 94.17 0 Leonardo Genoni 241:30 8 1.99 129 93.80 0 Sebastian Dahm 307:18 10 1.95 138 92.75 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
Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Andrei Vasilevskiy Best Defenceman: Filip Hronek Best Forward: Nikita Kucherov Source: IIHF.com
Media All-Stars: MVP: Mark Stone Goaltender: Andrei Vasilevskiy Defencemen: Filip Hronek / Mikko Lehtonen Forwards: Mark Stone / William Nylander / Jakub Voráček Source: IIHF.com
IIHF honors and awards The 2019 IIHF Hall of Fame inductees and award recipients were honored during the World Championship medal ceremonies in Bratislava.
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Boris Aleksandrov, Kazakhstan Jörgen Jönsson, Sweden Mike Modano, United States Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakia Miroslav Šatan, Slovakia Hayley Wickenheiser, Canada
Award recipients Jim Johannson of the United States received the Paul Loicq Award posthumously for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey. Konstantin Mihailov of Bulgaria received the Torriani Award for a player with an outstanding career from non-top hockey nation.
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