2006 IIHF World Championship
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Group B

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
3 2 1 0 12 6 6 5
3 2 1 0 9 6 3 5
3 1 0 2 7 8
2
3 0 0 3 3 11
0


All times local (UTC +3)

Group C

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
3 3 0 0 17 6 11 6
3 2 0 1 11 5 6 4
3 1 0 2 10 6 4 2
3 0 0 3 2 23
0


All times local (UTC +3)

Group D

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
3 3 0 0 14 5 9 6
3 2 0 1 7 3 4 4
3 1 0 2 8 13
2
3 0 0 3 6 14
0


All times local (UTC +3)

Qualifying round

The top three teams from each group in the Preliminary round advance to the Qualifying Round. The top three teams from Groups A and D advance to Group E, and the top three teams from Groups B and C advance to Group F.

Teams in the Qualifying Round carry forward the results and points gained in the Preliminary Round with the teams that they have played and advance with. Teams, which have played in the Preliminary Round, do not meet again in the Qualifying Round.
     Team advanced to the Playoff round
     Team eliminated from advancing

Group E

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
5 4 0 1 28 10 18 8
5 3 1 1 17 7 10 7
5 3 0 2 11 10 1 6
5 2 2 1 14 12 2 6
5 1 1 3 7 23
3
5 0 0 5 5 20
0


All times local (UTC+3)

Group F

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
5 4 1 0 22 11 11 9
5 2 2 1 17 15 2 6
5 3 0 2 16 10 6 6
5 2 1 2 19 10 9 5
5 1 2 2 12 15
4
5 0 0 5 4 29
0


All times local (UTC +3)

Relegation round

The relegation round is composed of the four teams that placed last in Groups A through D. They play in a round-robin fashion, and the bottom two teams get relegated to the Division I
2007 IIHF World Championship Division I
The following teams took part in the Division I tournament, held from April 15, 2007 through April 21, 2007. Group A was played in Qiqihar, China. Group B was played in Ljubljana, Slovenia.- Standings :*France is promoted to Main Championship....

 group in next year's World Championships.
     Team qualified for the 2007 IIHF World Championship
2007 IIHF World Championship
The 2007 IIHF World Championship were held between April 27 and May 13, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. It was the 71st annual world championship event run by the International Ice Hockey Federation...

     Team relegated to Division I

Group G

Team GP W T L GF GA GDF PTS
3 2 1 0 11 5 6 5
3 1 1 1 6 10
3
3 1 0 2 9 6 3 2
3 0 2 1 6 11
2


All times local (UTC +3)

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Ranking and statistics

 



Tournament Awards

  • Best players selected by the directorate:
    • Best Goalkeeper:   Johan Holmqvist
      Johan Holmqvist
      Johan Erik Daniel Holmqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for Brynäs IF in Elitserien.-Career:...

    • Best Defenseman:   Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, an alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

    • Best Forward:   Sidney Crosby
      Sidney Crosby
      Sidney Patrick Crosby ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...

    • Most Valuable Player:   Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, an alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...


  • Media All-Star Team:
    • Goalkeeper:   Andrei Mezin
      Andrei Mezin
      Andrei Anatolyevich Mezin is a Belarusian goaltender currently playing for Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.- Interntaional :Mezin gained international attention in 2002 as a member of the Belarus national men's ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics...

    • Defense:   Petteri Nummelin
      Petteri Nummelin
      Petteri Nummelin is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman, and a former NHL defenceman for the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets. He currently plays for HC Lugano of the Swiss Nationalliga A. He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets as their fifth-round pick, #133 overall, in the...

      ,   Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall
      Niklas Kronwall is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, an alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

    • Forward:   Sidney Crosby
      Sidney Crosby
      Sidney Patrick Crosby ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...

      ,   David Výborný
      David Vyborny
      David Výborný is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing for BK Mladá Boleslav of the Czech Extraliga. He has played for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League .-Early career:...

      ,   Alexander Ovechkin
      Alexander Ovechkin
      Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League...


Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are left out.
Player
  Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Patrick Crosby ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...

 
9 8 8 16 +7 10 F
  Patrice Bergeron
Patrice Bergeron
Patrice Bergeron is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain currently playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League...

 
9 6 8 14 +5 2 F
  Petteri Nummelin
Petteri Nummelin
Petteri Nummelin is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman, and a former NHL defenceman for the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets. He currently plays for HC Lugano of the Swiss Nationalliga A. He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets as their fifth-round pick, #133 overall, in the...

 
9 3 11 14 -1 2 D
  Niklas Kronwall
Niklas Kronwall
Niklas Kronwall is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, an alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

 
8 2 8 10 +3 10 D
Source: 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
  Fredrik Norrena
Fredrik Norrena
Fredrik Jan Elis Norrena is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Linköping of the Swedish Elitserien.- Playing career :...

 
325:43 122 6 1.11 95.08 3
  Andrei Mezin
Andrei Mezin
Andrei Anatolyevich Mezin is a Belarusian goaltender currently playing for Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.- Interntaional :Mezin gained international attention in 2002 as a member of the Belarus national men's ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics...

 
417:01 239 14 2.01 94.14 0
  Karol Križan  379:41 142 12 1.90 91.55 3
  Sergey Zvyagin
Sergey Zvyagin
Sergey Zvyagin is a Russian ice hockey player.- Career :He started with Krylia Sovetov in the Russian Hockey League in 1990. He played for the national Soviet Union team in 1991. Moved to the United States in 1994 where he played for the Detroit Falcons ice hockey team...

 
278:32 105 9 1.94 91.43 1
  Marc Denis
Marc Denis
Marc Denis is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, who last played with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . For the 2009–10 season, he has been hired as the goaltenders' coach of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team...

 
262:41 123 11 2.51 91.06 1
Source: IIHF.com

IIHF broadcasting rights

  • Austria:
    • Austrian Matches: ORF
      ORF (broadcaster)
      Österreichischer Rundfunk, ORF, is the Austrian national public service broadcaster.Funded from a combination of a television licence fees and revenue from limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media...

    • Other Matches: ORF Sport Plus
      ORF Sport Plus
      ORF Sport + in an Austrian sports channel owned by the public service broadcaster, ORF.The channel is available via Astra 1A, cable and DVB-T, in Austria and parts of Europe.-History:...

  • Canada:
    • English: TSN
      The Sports Network
      The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

    • French: RDS
      Réseau des sports
      Réseau des sports , is a Canadian French language Category C specialty channel showing sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc....

  • Czech Republic: Česká televize
    Ceská televize
    Česká televize is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting four channels.- Czechoslovak Television :Television in Czechoslovakia started to take its first steps before World War II. However, before visible results could be achieved, all activities were interrupted by...

     (ČT2
    CT2
    CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe. It is considered the precursor to the popular DECT system...

    , ČT4 Sport
    CT4 Sport
    ČT4 is Czech national sports channel, operated by Česká televize.ČT4 Sport was launched on 10 February 2006 to promote digital television, its main programmes include football, ice hockey, the Olympics Games, athletics and European events.The channel is available through digital terrestrial...

    )
  • Denmark: TV2 Sport
    TV 2 Sport (Denmark)
    TV 2 Sport is a Danish sports channel operated as a joint-venture between Danish TV 2 and Swedish Modern Times Group.MTG launched a dedicated Danish version of its Viasat Sport channel in January 2002...

  • Finland: YLE
  • France: Sport+
    Sport+ (France)
    Sport+ is a French television channel on cable and satellite which is owned by Canal+ and which is devoted to live sport....

  • Germany:
    • German Matches: ARD
      ARD (broadcaster)
      ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...

       , ZDF
      ZDF
      Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

    • Other Matches: DSF
      Deutsches Sportfernsehen
      SPORT1 is a privately owned commercial German television channel. Until April 11, 2010, it was called DSF . It was founded on January 1, 1993 out of the television channel Tele 5 which had become the successor of the music video channel musicbox on January 11, 1988...


  • Latvia: TV3
    TV3 Latvia
    TV3 Latvia is a television channel targeted at a Latvian language audience owned by Modern Times Group . It was launched in 1998, but did not receive a terrestrial license until 2001...

    , 3+ Latvia
    3+ Latvia
    3+ Latvia is a television channel owned by the Modern Times Group broadcasting to the Russian language minority in Latvia from the United Kingdom...

  • Norway:
    • Norwegian Matches: NRK
    • Other Matches: Viasat SportN
      Viasat SportN
      SportN or Viasat SportN is the name of a former sports channel which broadcast to Norway. The channel launched on November 29, 2005, as a replacement for the then pan-Nordic Viasat Sport 1 channel in Norway....

      , Viasat Sport 3
      Viasat Sport 3
      Viasat Sport 3 was a Scandinavian sports channel mainly showing combat sports, auto racing and American football. The channel started on 1 February 2004 together with Viasat Sport 2 The main sports in the summer are NASCAR, Indy Racing League, Boxing, Football club TV.Viasat Sport 3 also have the...

  • Russia: RTR Sport
    RTR Sport
    Russia 2 is a Russian television channel operated by VGTRK. It primarily broadcasts sports translations.Before 2010 it was known as Sport TV, but since then it was re-branded due to broadened format.-External links:*...

  • Slovakia: STV
  • Slovenia: RTV Slovenija
  • Sweden: Viasat
    Viasat
    Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

  • Switzerland:
    • German: SF zwei
    • French: TSR 2
      TSR 2
      TSR 2 is a Swiss public television channel owned by Télévision Suisse Romande, launched on 1 September 1997, showing documentary, culture and sport programmes...

    • Italian: TSI 2
      Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana
      Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana is a Swiss public broadcasting organisation, part of SRG SSR. RSI handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programs in Italian for Switzerland...

  • Ukraine: Megasport
    Megasport
    Mega , previously known as Megasport, is a television channel in Ukraine, a member of the "Inter" TV-Family. Until 2010, it was known as "Megasport" and positioned itself as a sport channel.-External links:*...



See also

  • 2006 in ice hockey
    2006 in ice hockey
    The following is a chronicle of events during the year 2006 in ice hockey.-National Hockey League:*2006 Stanley Cup: The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Edmonton Oilers in seven games to capture their first Stanley Cup....

  • 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships
    2006 IIHF World U18 Championships
    The 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Ängelholm and Halmstad, Sweden. The championships began on April 12, 2006 and finished on April 22, 2006. Games were played at Ängelholms Ishall in Ängelholm and Sannarps Isstadion in Halmstad...

  • 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
    2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
    The 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Vancouver, Kelowna, and Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The championships began on December 26, 2005, and finished on January 5, 2006. Games were played at GM Place and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, the Interior Savings Centre in...


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