The 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2020 WJHC) was the 44th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, held from 26 December 2019 to 5 January 2020.2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship official website2020 Top Division statistics Canada defeated Russia 4–3 to win the gold medal and their 18th world junior hockey championship. This marks the fourth time that the Czech Republic hosted the WJHC.
Background On 16 April 2018, it was announced that Ostrava and Třinec, in the Moravian-Silesian Region would host the tournament. This was the second time Ostrava had been selected to host the competition. The city had also twice co-hosted the senior Ice Hockey World Championships (in 2004 and 2015).
Top Division Venues Ostrava Třinec Ostravar ArénaCapacity: 10,004 Werk ArenaCapacity: 5,200
Match officials The following officials were assigned by the International Ice Hockey Federation to officiate the 2020 World Junior Championships.
Referees Michael Campbell Ivan Fateev Andreas Harnebring Lassi Heikkinen Oldřich Hejduk Fraser Lawrence Sean MacFarlane Sergey Morozov Vladimír Pešina André Schrader Michael Tscherrig Kristian Vikman
Linesmen Riley Bowles Markus Hägerström Chad Huseby Vít Lederer Ludvig Lundgren Jonas Merten Tobias Nordlander David Obwegeser Nikita Shalagin Šimon Synek
Rosters
Preliminary round Seeding Seeds the preliminary round were based on the 2019 tournament's final standings using the serpentine system. On 6 January 2019, the IIHF announced the groups, with Germany being promoted from Division I A, after having won the 2019 Division I A Tournament.
Group A Werk Arena (1) (4) (5) (8) (9)
Group B Ostravar Aréna (2) (3) (6) (7) (11-Promoted)
Group A
Group B
Relegation
Note: was relegated to the 2022 Division I A
Playoff round Winning teams were reseeded for the semi-finals in accordance with the following ranking, this was a change the IIHF implemented during their 2019 annual congress. To determine this ranking, the following criteria were used in the order presented: higher position in the group higher number of points better goal difference higher number of goals scored for better seeding coming into the tournament (final placement at the 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships).
Rank Team Group A 1 4 11 +12 20 5 B 1 4 9 +4 17 6 A 2 4 9 +7 19 4 B 2 4 8 +4 17 2 A 3 4 7 +9 19 1 B 3 4 6 +8 16 3 B 4 4 4 −6 12 7 A 4 4 3 −14 8 8
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Statistics Scoring leaders
PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts+/−PIM 1 Samuel Fagemo 7 8 5 13 +3 6 2 Barrett Hayton 7 6 6 12 +1 6 3 Nils Höglander 7 5 6 11 +6 27 4 Alexis Lafrenière 5 4 6 10 +3 4 5 Rasmus Sandin 7 3 7 10 +3 6 6 Grigori Denisenko 7 3 6 9 +4 8 7 Dylan Cozens 7 2 7 9 +6 4 7 Kristian Tanus 7 2 7 9 +4 0 9 Calen Addison 7 1 8 9 +4 0 10 Trevor Zegras 5 0 9 9 +6 4 GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource: IIHF
Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
PosPlayerCountryTOIGAGAASASv%SO 1 Joel Hofer 337:42 9 1.60 148 93.92 1 2 Hugo Alnefelt 368:19 13 2.12 171 92.40 1 3 Amir Miftakhov 197:50 7 2.12 86 91.86 1 4 Justus Annunen 362:01 16 2.65 190 91.58 1 5 Spencer Knight 241:26 10 2.49 115 91.30 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource: IIHF
Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Joel Hofer Best Defenceman: Rasmus Sandin Best Forward: Alexis Lafrenière Source: IIHF
Media All-Stars: MVP: Alexis Lafrenière Goaltender: Joel Hofer Defencemen: Rasmus Sandin / Alexander Romanov Forwards: Samuel Fagemo / Barrett Hayton / Alexis Lafrenière Source: IIHF
Final standings
Division I
Group A The Division I Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus, from 9 to 15 December 2019.2020 Division I A official website2020 Division I A statistics
Group B The Division I Group B tournament was played in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 12 to 18 December 2019.2020 Division I B official website2020 Division I B statistics
Division II
Group A The Division II Group A tournament was played in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 6 to 12 January 2020.2020 Division II A official website2020 Division II A statistics
Group B The Division II Group B tournament was played in Gangneung, South Korea, from 27 January to 3 February 2020.2020 Division II B official website2020 Division II B statistics
Division III
The Division III tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 to 19 January 2020.2020 Division III official website2020 Division III statistics
Playoffs
References
External links Official website of IIHF Groups for 2020 World Juniors