2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Dates	December 26 - January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (1st title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Czech Republic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	190 (6.13 per match)
Attendance	100,551 (3,244 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Nigel Dawes (11 points)
MVP	Zach Parise
← 2003 2005 →

The 2004 World Junior (Under 20) Ice Hockey Championships (2004 WJHC) was held between December 26, 2003, and January 5, 2004, in Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, Finland. The United States won its first ever gold medal, defeating Canada 4–3 in the Final.^[1]

Venues

Helsinki Ice Arena Capacity: 8,200	Hameenlinna Ice Arena Capacity: 5,360
Finland – Helsinki	Finland – Hämeenlinna

Top Division

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
United States	4	4	0	0	21	4	8
Slovakia	4	2	1	1	9	7	5
Russia	4	2	1	1	11	10	5
Sweden	4	1	0	3	13	10	2
Austria	4	0	0	4	1	24	0

All times local (EET/UTC+2).

December 26, 2003 15:00

Slovakia

2 – 2 (0–1, 1–0, 0–1)

Russia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,884

Game reference
	Jaroslav Halák	Goalies	Konstantin Barulin	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Seppo Lindroos
	0 – 1 02:43 – PP1 – Ovechkin (Shkotov, Pestunov) Ružička (Bulík, Špirko) – 21:02 1 – 1 1 – 2 40:30 – Shkotov (Ovechkin, Korneev) Šagát (Baláž) – 50:37 2 – 2
	12 min	Penalties	6 min
	28	Shots	33

December 26, 2003 18:30

Austria

0 – 8 (0–2, 0–3, 0–3)

United States

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,947

Game reference
	Mathias Lange	Goalies	Al Montoya	Referee: Sergej Karabanov Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Derek Doucette
	0 – 1 02:09 – PP1 – Wisniewski (Parise) 0 – 2 08:12 – Sterling (Stuart, Montoya) 0 – 3 30:49 – PP2 – Parise (Richmond, Eaves) 0 – 4 31:05 – PP1 – Kesler (Eaves) 0 – 5 34:46 – SH1 – Eaves (Likens) 0 – 6 48:55 – Parise (Fritsche) 0 – 7 52:17 – PP1 – Parise (Wisniewski) 0 – 8 54:14 – Sterling (Stuart)
	14 min	Penalties	18 min
	15	Shots	61

December 27, 2003 16:00

Sweden

7 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 5–0)

Austria

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 741

Game reference
	Joakim Lundstrom	Goalies	Mathias Lange	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Thomas Geinke Christian Neubert
	Blomdahl (Björk, Eckerblom) – 10:47 1 – 0 Kalgoum (Salmonsson) – 32:19 2 – 0 Johnsson (Eckerblom, Andersson) – 46:53 3 – 0 Steen (Eriksson) – 47:42 4 – 0 Danielsson (Tang) – PP1 - 54:02 5 – 0 Fransson (Nilsson, Andersson) – 54:32 6 – 0 Fransson (Blomqvist, Danielsson) – PP2 – 58:55 7 – 0
	10 min	Penalties	24 min
	43	Shots	16

December 28, 2003 15:00

United States

5 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 3–0)

Slovakia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,938

Game reference
	Al Montoya	Goalies	Jaroslav Halák	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Derek Doucette Stefan Fonselius
	Booth (Dowell) - 08:05 1 – 0 Murray (Richmond) – PP1 – 27:00 2 – 0 Murray – 44:32 3 – 0 Kesler – PP1 – 48:15 4 – 0 Werner (Parise) – 50:23 5 – 0
	16 min	Penalties	28 min
	43	Shots	18

December 28, 2003 18:30

Russia

5 – 3 (2–0, 0–2, 3–1)

Sweden

Helsinki Attendance: 2,801

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin	Goalies	Joakim Lundström	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Seppo Lindroos
	Semin (Malkin, Anshakov) – PP1 – 07:07 1 – 0 Ovechkin (Korneev, Malkin) – PP1 – 18:30 2 – 0 2 – 1 35:08 – Andersson (Valdix) 2 – 2 36:15 – Kalgoum (Hult) Anshakov (Malkin) – 46:38 3 – 2 3 – 3 50:55 – PP1 – Nilsson (Björk, Tang) Anshakov (Spiridonov, Semin) – 56:35 4 – 3 Shkotov (Ovechkin, Pestunov) – ENG – 59:59 5 – 3
	10 min	Penalties	20 min
	29	Shots	26

December 29, 2003 18:30

Austria

1 – 3 (0–1, 1–1, 0–1)

Russia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 831

Game reference
	Mathias Lange Thomas Innerwinkler	Goalies	Denis Khudyakov	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Christian Neubert
	0 – 1 17:38 – Anshakov (Gimaev, Semin) Vanek (Latusa, Harand) – 26:55 1 – 1 1 – 2 31:32 – Malkin (Spiridonov, Khudyakov) 1 – 3 53:14 – Ovechkin (Korneev, Shkotov)
	12 min	Penalties	8 min
	17	Shots	50

December 30, 2003 16:00

United States

4 – 3 (2–0, 1–2, 1–1)

Sweden

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,948

Game reference
	Al Montoya	Goalies	Magnus Åkerlund Joakim Lundström	Referee: Derek Herman Linesmen: Stanislav Barvir Seppo Lindroos
	Werner (Wisniewski, Parise) – PP1 – 05:26 1 – 0 Carle (Dowell, Stafford) – 11:29 2 – 0 2 – 1 25:34 – Steen Sterling (Moore, Suter) – 33:21 3 – 1 3 – 2 35:22 – Fransson (Valdix, Andersson) 3 – 3 47:25 – PP1 – Meijer (Enström) Werner (Parise, Wisniewski) – SH1 – 48:42 4 – 3
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	40	Shots	25

December 30, 2003 19:30

Slovakia

6 – 0 (1–0, 4–0, 1–0)

Austria

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,935

Game reference
	Jaroslav Halák	Goalies	Mathias Lange Thomas Innerwinkler	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Thomas Gienke Seppo Lindroos
	Meszároš (Pokrivčák, Špirko) – PP1 – 08:21 1 – 0 Ružička (Stehlík) – 29:21 2 – 0 Stehlík (Biermann, Lukáč) – 29:29 3 – 0 Ružička – 31:41 4 – 0 Troliga (Špirko, Baranka) – 33:49 5 – 0 Špirko (Hruška, Pokrivčák) – 50:12 6 – 0
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	42	Shots	21

December 31, 2003 16:00

Russia

1 – 4 (0–3, 0–1, 1–0)

United States

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,874

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin Denis Khudyakov	Goalies	Al Montoya	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Derek Doucette Stanislav Barvir
	0 – 1 09:45 – PP1 – O'Sullivan (Eaves, Suter) 0 – 2 18:48 – PP2 – Parise (Eaves) 0 – 3 19:21 – PP1 – Werner (Parise) 0 – 4 35:57 – SH1 – Parise Anshakov (Gimaev, Spiridonov) – PP2 – 50:45 1 – 4
	34 min	Penalties	24 min
	30	Shots	35

December 31, 2003 19:30

Sweden

0 – 1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Slovakia

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 3,860

Game reference
	Joakim Lundström	Goalies	Jaroslav Halák	Referee: Jyri Petteri Ronn Linesmen: Seppo Lindroos Stefan Fonselius
	0 – 1 59:24 – ENG – Fábry (Ružička, Bulík)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	28	Shots	24

Group B

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4	4	0	0	25	4	8
Finland	4	3	0	1	19	6	6
Czech Republic	4	2	0	2	14	9	4
Switzerland	4	1	0	3	14	11	2
Ukraine	4	0	0	4	1	43	0

All times local (EET/UTC+2).

December 26, 2003 15:00

Czech Republic

8 – 0 (4–0, 4–0, 0–0)

Ukraine

Helsinki

Game reference

December 26, 2003 18:30

Canada

3 – 0 (1–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Finland

Helsinki Attendance: 3,947

Game reference
				Referee: Thomas Andersson Linesmen: Miroslav Halecký Mikael Ljungqvist
	Phaneuf (Stewart, Dawes) – 15:52 1 – 0 Paille (Talbot) – 32:41 2 – 0 Stewart (Richards) – 44:27 3 – 0
	8 min	Penalties	4 min

December 27, 2003 16:00

Switzerland

11 – 0 (3–0, 5–0, 3–0)

Ukraine

Helsinki

Game reference

December 28, 2003 15:00

Canada

7 – 2 (3–1, 1–0, 3–1)

Switzerland

Helsinki Attendance: 1,320

Game reference
	Marc-André Fleury	Goalies	Daniel Manzato	Referee: Peter Ország Linesmen: Christian Neubert Thomas Gienke
	0 – 1 04:43 – Grauwiler (Bärtschi) Richards – PS – 08:13 1 – 1 Coburn (Burns) – 10:46 2 – 1 Getzlaf (Seabrook) – PP1 – 16:24 3 – 1 Getzlaf (Carter, Burns) – 23:35 4 – 1 Stewart (Dawes) – 41:41 5 – 1 5 – 2 43:09 – Ehrensperger Stewart (Dawes) – 52:57 6 – 2 Crosby (Phaneuf, Stewart) – 59:46 7 – 2
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	42	Shots	23

December 28, 2003 18:30

Finland

3 – 2 (0–2, 1–0, 2–0)

Czech Republic

Hämeenlinna Attendance: 4,418

Game reference
	Konstantin Barulin	Goalies	Joakim Lundström	Referee: Sergej Karabanov Linesmen: Konstantin Gordenko Allen Stensland
	0 – 1 Olesz (Hudler, Chvátal) – 12:36 0 – 2 Olesz (Kašpar) – 17:42 39:32 – Töykkälä 1 – 2 40:17 – PP1 – Lepisto (Salmela, Filppula) 2 – 2 55:40 – Filppula (Bergenheim) 3 – 2
	39 min	Penalties	20 min
	35	Shots	24

December 29, 2003 18:30

Ukraine

0 – 10 (0–3, 0–6, 0–1)

Canada

Helsinki Attendance: 992

Game reference
	Yevgeniy Galyuk Illia Tarankov	Goalies	Josh Harding	Referee: Vladimír Šindler Linesmen: Allen Stensland Thomas Gienke
	0 – 1 00:33 – Carter (Burns) 0 – 2 01:17 – Stewart (Richards, Seabrook) 0 – 3 14:17 – PP1 – Seabrook (Getzlaf, Gorges) 0 – 4 23:10 – Tambellini (Dixon) 0 – 5 28:25 – Crosby (Tambellini) 0 – 6 29:54 – Dawes (Carter, Stewart) 0 – 7 32:05 – Brent (Talbot) 0 – 8 32:56 – Dawes (Gorges) 0 – 9 37:12 – PP1 – Paille (Talbot, Brent) 0 – 10 54:50 – PP1 – Paille (Tambellini, Belle)
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	11	Shots	55

December 30, 2003 16:00

Switzerland

1 – 2 (1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Czech Republic

Helsinki

Game reference

December 30, 2003 19:30

Ukraine

1 – 14 (0–4, 1–4, 0–6)

Finland

Helsinki Attendance: 4,271

Game reference
	Illia Tarankov	Goalies	Mikael Vuorio	Referee: Peter Ország Linesmen: Christian Neubert Miroslav Halecký
	0 – 1 05:50 – Tukonen (Oksa) 0 – 2 11:13 – Kontiola (Tukonen) 0 – 3 12:34 – Lepistö (Filppula, Bergenheim) 0 – 4 18:16 – Lepistö (Immonen, Marjamäki) 0 – 5 20:59 – PP1 – Immonen (Kantee) 0 – 6 29:31 – Jalasvaara (Töykkälä) Lubnin (Katrych, Kyrychenko) – PP1 – 32:31 1 – 6 1 – 7 38:26 – PP2 – Filppula (Varakas, Bergenheim) 1 – 8 39:13 – PP2 – Lepistö (Salmela) 1 – 9 43:43 – Salmela (Töykkälä, Immonen) 1 – 10 48:59 – SH1 – Filppula 1 – 11 51:18 – PP1 – Bergenheim (Lepistö) 1 – 12 53:28 – Piispanen (Nurmi) 1 – 13 54:11 – Immonen (Varakas) 1 – 14 59:41 – Nurmi (Kalteva)
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	15	Shots	60

December 31, 2003 16:00

Czech Republic

2 – 5 (0–3, 1–2, 1–0)

Canada

Helsinki Attendance: 2,816

Game reference
	Marek Schwarz Tomáš Pöpperle	Goalies	Marc-André Fleury	Referee: Thomas Andersson Linesmen: Mikael Ljungqvist Allen Stensland
	0 – 1 06:53 – Tambellini (Crosby) 0 – 2 16:01 – Carter (Getzlaf, Burns) 0 – 3 19:30 – PP2 – Dawes (Stewart, Meech) 0 – 4 29:59 – PP1 – Phaneuf (Getzlaf) Ovčáčík (Kanko, Koreis) – 34:47 1 – 4 1 – 5 39:41 – Carter (Phaneuf) Šmíd (Hudler) – PP1 – 50:18 2 – 5
	12 min	Penalties	24 min
	29	Shots	30

December 31, 2003 19:30

Finland

2 – 0 (1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Switzerland

Helsinki Attendance: 3,680

Game reference
	Hannu Toivonen	Goalies	Michael Tobler	Referee: Wilhelm Schimm Linesmen: Konstantin Gordenko Miroslav Halecký
	Nokelainen (Filppula) – 19:11 1 – 0 Junnila (Varakas) – 55:37 2 – 0
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	40	Shots	8

Relegation Round

Results from any games played during the preliminary round were carried forward to the relegation round.

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	3	3	0	0	15	3	6
Switzerland	3	2	0	1	20	6	4
Austria	3	0	1	2	4	15	1
Ukraine	3	0	1	2	2	17	1

(all games at Hämeenlinna)

January 2

• Sweden 4-0 Ukraine
• Switzerland 6-2 Austria

January 3

• Austria 2-2 Ukraine
• Sweden 4-3 Switzerland

Austria and Ukraine are relegated to Division I for the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Playoff round

(all games at Helsinki)

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

A1

United States

2

B2

Finland

4

B2

Finland

1

A3

Russia

3

A1

United States

4

B1

Canada

3

B1

Canada

7

A2

Slovakia

2

B3

Czech Republic

1

Third place

B3

Czech Republic

4

B2

Finland

2

B3

Czech Republic

1

Quarter-finals

January 2

• Czech Republic 4-2 Slovakia
• Finland 4-3 Russia

Semi-finals

January 3

• United States 2-1 Finland
• Canada 7-1 Czech Republic

5th place game

January 4

• Russia 3-2 Slovakia

Bronze medal game

January 5

• Finland 2-1 Czech Republic

Gold medal game

January 5

• United States 4-3 Canada
• Team USA beat Team Canada 4-3 to win the gold medal at the World Junior Championship. The loss, however, still nets Canada silver, making this the sixth consecutive year Team Canada as won a medal at the tournament-the only country to record such an achievement.

The victory gave the US its first WJC gold medal ever, and its first hardware since a silver medal in 1997 when it lost 2-0 to Canada in the final. The US has also earned two bronze medals in tournament history, in 1992 and 1986.

Canada had a 3-1 lead going into the third period, with two goals from Nigel Dawes and Anthony Stewart. Stewart also had two assists. Canadian forward Ryan Getzlaf almost made it 4-1 early in the third before Patrick O'Sullivan scored for the US to narrow Canada's lead to 3-2 at 4:39.

Ryan Kesler evened the score for Team USA at 6:58 on quick shot in close that hit Canadian goalie Marc-André Fleury and flew in the air, over his shoulder and into the net.

O'Sullivan scored his second of the night, the winner at 14:48, when he chased a loose puck heading toward Canada's goal. Fleury came out to clear the puck, but it hit defenceman Braydon Coburn and bounced into the net. Fleury faced 28 shots on the night, while US goalie Al Montoya faced 30.

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Scoring leaders

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts
1	Nigel Dawes	Canada	6	6	5	11
2	Zach Parise	United States	6	5	6	11
2	Anthony Stewart	Canada	6	5	6	11
4	Valtteri Filppula	Finland	7	4	5	9
5	Sami Lepistö	Finland	7	4	4	8
6	Patrik Bärtschi	Switzerland	6	3	5	8
7	Jeff Carter	Canada	6	5	2	7
7	Gianni Ehrensperger	Switzerland	6	5	2	7
7	Sergei Anshakov	Russia	6	5	2	7
7	Alexander Ovechkin	Russia	6	5	2	7

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes

Awards

All-Star Team

Goaltender: Al Montoya

Defense: Dion Phaneuf, Sami Lepistö

Forwards: Zach Parise, Valtteri Filppula, Jeff Carter

Most Valuable Player

Zach Parise

Final standings

	Team
01 !	United States
02 !	Canada
03 !	Finland
4	Czech Republic
5	Russia
6	Slovakia
7	Sweden
8	Switzerland
9	Austria
10	Ukraine

Division I Standings

The Division I Championships were played December 14-December 20, 2003 in Berlin, Germany (Group A) and December 13-December 19, 2003 in Briançon, France (Group B).

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Germany	5	3	0	2	29	10	8
Denmark	5	3	1	1	23	16	7
Slovenia	5	3	2	0	18	19	6
Latvia	5	2	1	2	35	19	6
Kazakhstan	5	1	3	1	16	19	3
Hungary	5	0	5	0	8	46	0

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Belarus	5	5	0	0	34	11	10
Norway	5	3	2	0	21	10	6
France	5	3	2	0	22	16	6
Italy	5	3	2	0	15	18	6
Estonia	5	1	4	0	9	33	2
Japan	5	0	5	0	9	22	0

Germany and Belarus advance to the 2005 World Junior Championships, Hungary and Japan are relegated to Division II

Division II Standings

The Division II Championships were played December 28, 2003 – January 3, 2004 in Sosnowiec, Poland (Group A) and January 5-January 11, 2004 in Kaunas and Elektrenai, Lithuania (Group B)

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Poland	5	5	0	0	59	4	10
Romania	5	3	1	1	44	16	7
Netherlands	5	3	2	0	32	19	6
Spain	5	2	2	1	21	32	5
Belgium	5	1	4	0	16	31	2
Iceland	5	0	5	0	10	80	0

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Great Britain	5	5	0	0	38	5	10
South Korea	5	4	1	0	45	7	8
Croatia	5	2	3	0	18	18	4
Serbia and Montenegro	5	2	3	0	15	21	4
Lithuania	5	2	3	0	12	25	4
South Africa	5	0	5	0	4	56	0

Poland and the Great Britain advance to the 2005 Division I Championships, Iceland and South Africa are relegated to the 2005 Division III Championships'

Division III Standings

The Division III Championships were held January 5-January 11, 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Australia	5	5	0	0	42	13	10
China	5	4	1	0	41	20	8
Mexico	5	3	2	0	25	16	6
Turkey	5	1	4	0	10	38	2
Bulgaria	5	1	4	0	13	34	2
New Zealand	5	1	4	0	10	30	2

Australia and the People's Republic of China advance to 2005 Division II Championships

See also

Preceded by 2003 World Juniors	World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 2004 World Championships	Succeeded by 2005 World Juniors

References