The 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division I consisted of two tiered groups of six teams each: the second-tier Division I A and the third-tier Division I B. For each tier's tournament, the first-placed team was promoted to a higher division, while the last-placed team was relegated to a lower division.

The tournaments were played in a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player couldn't be born earlier than 1998.

Division I A

The Division I A tournament was played in Courchevel and Méribel, France, from 10 to 16 December 2017.2018 World Championship Division I A official website2018 World Championship Division I A statistics

As a result of the tournament, Kazakhstan were promoted to Top Division and Hungary were relegated to Division I B for 2019.

Participating teams Team Qualificationplaced 10th in Top Division last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I A last yearhosts; placed 3rd in Division I A last yearplaced 4th in Division I A last yearplaced 5th in Division I A last yearplaced 1st in Division I B last year and were promoted

Final standings

Match results All times are local (Central European Time – UTC+1).

Statistics

Top scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts +/–PIM 1 Artur Gatiyatov 5 4 3 7 +5 0 2 Valeri Orekhov 5 1 6 7 –3 2 3 Nikita Nazarenko 5 4 2 6 +2 4 4 Tobias Eder 5 2 4 6 +4 4 5 Emīls Ģēģeris 5 3 2 5 +3 12 5 Charlie Jahnke 5 3 2 5 +3 2 5 Marco Rossi 5 3 2 5 +3 8 8 Adil Beketayev 5 2 3 5 +3 2 8 Leon Gawanke 5 2 3 5 +5 2 8 Deniss Smirnovs 5 2 3 5 +3 6 GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source:IIHF

Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Gustavs Grigals 304:30 5 96.00 0.99 2 2 Mirko Pantkowski 302:07 7 95.33 1.39 1 3 Julian Junca 173:01 8 92.59 2.77 0 4 Denis Karatayev 193:46 8 92.58 2.48 0 5 Jakob Holzer 240:00 17 89.17 4.25 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

Awards

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Mirko Pantkowski Defenceman: Pauls Svars Forward: Artur Gatiyatov

Division I B

The Division I B tournament was played in Bled, Slovenia, from 9 to 15 December 2017.2018 World Championship Division I B official website2018 World Championship Division I B statistics

As a result of the tournament, Norway were promoted to Division I A and Lithuania were relegated to Division II A for 2019.

Participating teams Team Qualificationplaced 6th in Division I A last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I B last yearhosts; placed 3rd in Division I B last yearplaced 4th in Division I B last yearplaced 5th in Division I B last yearplaced 1st in Division II A last year and were promoted

Final standings

Match results All times are local (UTC+1).

Statistics

Top 10 scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts +/–PIM 1 Alan Łyszczarczyk 5 8 7 15 +8 6 2 Bartłomiej Jeziorski 5 5 7 12 +7 2 3 Jacob Noer 5 4 6 10 +8 0 4 Jan Drozg 5 5 4 9 +3 10 5 Erik Svetina 5 3 4 7 +4 0 6 Dominik Paś 5 2 5 7 +6 4 6 Jaka Sturm 5 2 5 7 0 0 8 Christoffer Karlsen 5 3 3 6 +8 2 9 Rok Kapel 5 2 4 6 +2 0 10 Martin Ellingsen 5 4 1 5 +7 6 GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Laurynas Lubys 185:27 4 95.29 1.29 0 2 Jørgen Hanneborg 190:00 4 94.44 1.26 0 3 Bogdan Dyachenko 309:35 11 93.71 2.13 0 4 Kamil Lewartowski 308:27 14 89.55 2.72 0 5 Žiga Kogovšek 303:30 15 89.05 2.97 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Bogdan Dyachenko Defenceman: Nejc Stojan Forward: Alan Łyszczarczyk

References

External links Official website of IIHF