The 2007 IIHF World Championship was held between 27 April and 13 May 2007 in Moscow, Russia. It was the 71st annual world championship event run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The tournament was won by Canada with Rick Nash being named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.
Participating teams
Group A (roster) (roster) (roster) (roster)
Group B (roster) (roster) (roster) (roster)
Group C (roster) (roster) (roster) (roster)
Group D (roster) (roster) (roster) (roster)
Venues MoscowMytishchi Khodynka ArenaCapacity: 12000 Mytishchi ArenaCapacity: 9000
Rules At the 2007 IIHF World Championships, a three-point system for each game was used. Teams winning in regulation were now awarded three points, and the loser in regulation got none. Where there was a tie score in the Preliminary, Playoff, and Relegation Rounds, teams were given one point each. A five-minute overtime followed and, if the score was still tied after overtime, Game Winning Shots was used. The team winning in overtime or shoot-out was awarded the extra point for a total of two points.
Preliminary round Team advanced to the qualifying round Team sent to compete in the Relegation Round
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Qualifying round Team advanced to the Final Round
Group E
Results from Preliminary Round games among the qualified teams carry over.
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Group F
Results from Preliminary Round games among the qualified teams carry over.
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Relegation round The top two teams in the standings after the round-robin were invited back to the 2008 IIHF World Championship, while the bottom two teams were relegated to the 2008 IIHF Division I Tournament.
Team relegated to Division I
Group G
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Play off
Draw
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Gold-medal game All times local (GMT+4)
Ranking and statistics
Champions
Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: Kari Lehtonen Best Defenceman: Andrei Markov Best Forward: Alexei Morozov Most Valuable Player: Rick Nash Media All-Star Team: Goaltender: Kari Lehtonen Defence: Andrei Markov, Petteri Nummelin Forward: Evgeni Malkin, Alexei Morozov, Rick Nash
Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
Rk.Team 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts ± PIM POS Johan Davidsson 9 7 7 14 +3 2 FW Aleksey Morozov 7 8 5 13 +9 6 FW Sergei Zinovjev 9 3 10 13 +10 12 FW Matthew Lombardi 9 6 6 12 +4 4 FW Danis Zaripov 9 3 9 12 +10 6 FW Rick Nash 9 6 5 11 +8 4 FW Marián Gáborík 6 5 6 11 +6 14 FW Alexander Frolov 9 5 6 11 +4 0 FW Tony Mårtensson 9 4 7 11 +8 8 FW Lee Stempniak 7 6 4 10 +2 27 FWGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; ± = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Leading goaltenders
Player MINS SA GA GAA Sv% SO Alexander Eremenko 366 139 6 0.98 95.7 2 Cam Ward 300 129 11 2.20 91.5 0 Kari Lehtonen 374 138 12 1.93 91.3 1 Dwayne Roloson 240 111 10 2.50 91.0 0 Jonas Hiller 359 167 15 2.51 91.0 0MINS = Minutes (on ice); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
IIHF Broadcasting rights
Austria Austrian Matches: ORF Other Matches: ORF Sport Plus Canada English: TSN French: RDS Czech Republic: Czech Television (ČT2, ČT4 Sport) Denmark: TV2 Sport Finland: YLE France: Sport+ Germany German Matches: ARD, ZDF Other Matches: DSF Latvia: TV3, TV6 Latvia, 3+ Latvia Norway Norwegian Matches: NRK Other Matches: Viasat SportN, Viasat Sport 3 Russia: RTR Sport Slovakia: STV Slovenia: RTV Slovenija Sweden: Viasat Switzerland German: SF zwei French: TSR 2 Italian: TSI 2 Ukraine: Megasport
IIHF honors and awards The 2007 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Moscow during the World Championships. Bob Nadin of Canada was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey.
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Veniamin Alexandrov, Russia Vladimír Bouzek, Czech Republic Luděk Bukač, Czech Republic Josef Černý, Czech Republic Igor Dmitriev, Russia Hans Dobida, Austria Jakob Kölliker, Switzerland Viktor Konovalenko, Russia Konstantin Loktev, Russia Esa Peltonen, Finland Thomas Rundqvist, Sweden Vyacheslav Starshinov, Russia
See also 2007 in ice hockey
References
External links 2007 IIHF World Championship official site