The 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 17th IIHF World U18 Championship, and was hosted by Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament began on 16 April 2015, with the gold medal game played on 26 April 2015.2015 Top Division statistics
Top Division
Officials The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship. They were the following:
Referees Jimmy Bergamelli Andreas Harnebring Brett Iverson Andreas Koch Petri Lindqvist Robert Mullner Yuri Oskirko Vladimír Pešina Christopher Pitoscia Marian Rohatsch Ladislav Smetana Per Gustav Solem
Linesmen Markku Buese Franco Espinoza Jiří Gebauer Martin Korba Ludvig Lundgren Brian Oliver Alexander Otmakhov Nicolas Piche Hannu Sormunen Michael Tscherrig
Preliminary round Group A
All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)
Group B
All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)
Relegation round The last-placed teams played a best-of-three series.
Germany is relegated to next year's Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Scoring leaders List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Auston Matthews 7 8 7 15 +11 0 Jeremy Bracco 7 3 10 13 +10 2 Mathew Barzal 7 3 9 12 +2 0 Matthew Tkachuk 7 2 10 12 +10 2 Patrik Laine 7 8 3 11 +6 0 Jack Roslovic 7 6 5 11 +11 4 Mitchell Stephens 7 5 5 10 +1 10 Colin White 7 6 3 9 +8 0 Clayton Keller 7 4 5 9 +7 0 Mārtiņš Dzierkals 6 3 6 9 +2 10GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource: 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 TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO Anton Krasotkin 120:00 85 4 2.00 95.29 1 Veini Vehviläinen 437:12 233 12 1.65 94.85 1 Ilya Samsonov 180:00 121 8 2.67 93.39 0 Evan Sarthou 312:44 82 6 1.15 92.68 1 Adam Húska 278:39 160 14 3.01 91.25 0TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource: IIHF.com
Tournament awards
Most Valuable Player Forward: Auston Matthews
All-star team Goaltender: Veini Vehviläinen Defencemen: Vili Saarijärvi, Jonas Siegenthaler Forwards: Patrik Laine, Denis Malgin, Auston Matthews
IIHF best player awards Goaltender: Ilya Samsonov Defenceman: Vili Saarijärvi Forward: Auston Matthews References: ,
Final standings
Team 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Relegated to the 2016 Division I A
Division I
Group A The Division I A tournament was played in Debrecen, Hungary, from 12 to 18 April 2015.2015 Division I A statistics
Group B The Division I B tournament was played in Maribor, Slovenia, from 12 to 18 April 2015.2015 Division I B statistics
Division II
Group A The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 22 to 28 March 2015.2015 Division II A statistics
Group B The Division II B tournament was played in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 16 to 22 March 2015.2015 Division II B statistics
Division III
Group A The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 22 to 28 March 2015.2015 Division III A statistics
Group B The Division III B tournament was played in Auckland, New Zealand, from 17 to 19 March 2015.2015 Division III B statistics
References
External links 2015 U18 World Championship official website