2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2020 IIHF World U20 Championships

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Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Venue(s)	Ostravar Aréna and Werk Arena (in 2 host cities)
Dates	26 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
Teams	10
Tournament statistics
Games played	14
Goals scored	97 (6.93 per game)
Attendance	79,774 (5,698 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Patrik Puistola (7 points)

The 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (2020 WJHC) is the 44th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. It began on December 26, 2019, and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2020. This marks the fourth time that the Czech Republic is hosting the WJHC.

On April 16, 2018, it was announced that Ostrava and Třinec, in the Moravian-Silesian Region in the northeast corner of the Czech Republic, would be the host cities. It is the second time that Ostrava has been the primary host of the tournament and the first time that Třinec is hosting in any capacity. Ostrava has also twice co-hosted the senior Ice Hockey World Championships.

Top Division

Venues

Ostrava	Ostrava Třinec		Třinec
Ostravar Aréna Capacity: 10,004			Werk Arena Capacity: 5,200

Officials

The following officials were assigned by the International Ice Hockey Federation to officiate the 2019 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

Main article: 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters

Format

The preliminary round is a two group of five teams each internal round-robin format, followed by a three-round playoff. In the round-robin, three points are allotted for a regulation win, and two points for an overtime or shootout win. One point is allotted for an overtime or shootout loss.

The four highest-ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advance to the quarterfinals while the last-place team from each group will play a best-of-three series, the loser relegated to Division IA for 2021, being replaced by the winner of Division IA. All other teams will retain their Top Division status for the 2021 edition.

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden (A)	3	2	1	0	0	14	6	+8	8	Advance to Quarterfinals
2	Finland (A)	3	2	0	1	0	17	5	+12	7
3	Switzerland (A)	3	2	0	0	1	14	10	+4	6
4	Slovakia (A)	3	1	0	0	2	6	16	−10	3
5	Kazakhstan (Q)	4	0	0	0	4	7	21	−14	0	Advance to Relegation

Updated to match(es) played on 30 December 2019. Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(A) Advances to a further round; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated

26 December 2019 15:00

Switzerland

5–3 (2–1, 1–2, 2–0)

Kazakhstan

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 1,397

Game reference
	Luca Hollenstein	Goalies	Vladislav Nurek	Referees: Oldřich Hejduk Kristian Vikman Linesmen: Riley Bowles Chad Huseby
	Verboon (Nussbaumer, Moser) – 02:49 1–0 1–1 15:10 – Musorov (Boiko) Gerber (Aebischer, Berni) (PP) – 18:51 2–1 2–2 24:54 – Dyomin (Bondarenko) Salzgeber (Aebischer) – 30:37 3–2 3–3 35:39 – Musorov Wetter (Aebischer, Sopa) – 48:55 4–3 Verboon – 53:54 5–3
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	34	Shots	19

26 December 2019 19:00

Sweden

3–2 OT (0–1, 1–1, 1–0) (OT: 1–0)

Finland

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 4,471

Game reference
	Hugo Alnefelt	Goalies	Justus Annunen	Referees: Michael Campbell Sergey Morozov Linesmen: Jonas Merten Nikita Shalagin
	0–1 16:21 – Puistola (Honka, Tanus) Höglander (Fagemo, D. Gustafsson) – 21:05 1–1 1–2 33:35 – Tanus (Puistola) Fagemo (Höglander, Söderström) – 54:51 2–2 Holtz (Berggren, Söderström) (PP) – 64:55 3–2
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	48	Shots	25

27 December 2019 15:00

Slovakia

3–1 (0–0, 1–1, 2–0)

Kazakhstan

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 4,915

Game reference
	Samuel Hlavaj	Goalies	Vladislav Nurek	Referees: André Schrader Michael Tscherrig Linesmen: Vít Lederer Tobias Nordlander
	Okuliar (Kňažko, Čajkovič) (PP) – 24:49 1–0 1–1 29:43 – Musorov (Butenko) (PP) Tkáč (Mrázik, Vitaloš) – 57:04 2–1 Džugan (Mudrák) (ENG) – 59:53 3–1
	24 min	Penalties	20 min
	24	Shots	23

28 December 2019 15:00

Finland

8–1 (2–0, 5–1, 1–0)

Slovakia

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 4,915

Game reference
	Justus Annunen	Goalies	Samuel Vyletelka Samuel Hlavaj	Referees: Ivan Fateev Oldřich Hejduk Linesmen: Riley Bowles David Obwegeser
	Puistola (Oden, Tanus) (PP) – 04:52 1–0 Ak. Räty (Aa. Räty, Ranta) – 13:21 2–0 Oden (Puistola, Tanus) (PP) – 27:15 3–0 Aa. Räty (Maccelli, Killinen) – 28:26 4–0 Kokkonen (Ranta) – 33:14 5–0 Erholtz (Thomson, Nousiainen) – 34:51 6–0 6–1 36:34 – Džugan (Tkáč, Mudrák) (PP) Ak. Räty (Maccelli, Heinola) – 39:30 7–1 V. Petman (Hatakka) – 52:03 8–1
	10 min	Penalties	18 min
	40	Shots	26

28 December 2019 19:00

Switzerland

2–5 (0–2, 1–3, 1–0)

Sweden

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 4,109

Game reference
	Luca Hollenstein Stephane Charlin (29:02)	Goalies	Hugo Alnefelt	Referees: Sean MacFarlane André Schrader Linesmen: Markus Hägerström Vít Lederer
	0–1 03:25 – Fagemo (Söderström) 0–2 09:58 – Fagemo (Höglander) 0–3 21:28 – Höglander (Lundkvist, Sandin) (PP) 0–4 29:02 – Henriksson (Raymond, Ginning) 0–5 34:12 – Raymond (Berggren, Holtz) (PP) Kohler (Nussbaumer, Moser) (PP) – 39:47 1–5 Gross (Kohler, Verboon) – 54:09 2–5
	10 min	Penalties	16 min
	27	Shots	27

29 December 2019 15:00

Kazakhstan

1–7 (1–2, 0–2, 0–3)

Finland

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 3,012

Game reference
	Roman Kalmykov	Goalies	Kari Piiroinen	Referees: Fraser Lawrence Vladimír Pešina Linesmen: Ludvig Lundgren Nikita Shalagin
	0–1 06:01 – Puistola (Tanus, Heinola) (PP) Buyalski (Asukhanov, Dyomin) (PP) – 10:13 1–1 1–2 14:31 – Tanus (Oden, Puistola) 1–3 20:54 – Maccelli (Thomson) (PP) 1–4 32:37 – Aa. Räty (Ak. Räty, Heinola) 1–5 47:06 – Puistola (Oden) 1–6 53:49 – Kokkonen (Utunen) 1–7 57:58 – Nousiainen (Maccelli, Killinen)
	10 min	Penalties	18 min
	22	Shots	34

30 December 2019 15:00

Kazakhstan

2–6 (0–1, 1–4, 1–1)

Sweden

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 2,375

Game reference
	Vladislav Nurek	Goalies	Jesper Eliasson	Referees: Lassi Heikkinen Oldrich Hejduk Linesmen: Riley Bowles Simon Synek
	0–1 15:12 – Fagemo (Höglander, Sandin) 0–2 22:37 – Fagemo (Sandin, Lundkvist) (PP) 0–3 24:08 – Öberg (Nässén) 0–4 27:40 – Höglander (D. Gustafsson) (PP) 0–5 30:57 – Berggren (Holtz, Pasic) (PP) Boiko – 31:38 1–5 1–6 51:13 – Raymond (Henriksson, Lundkvist) Musorov (Gaitamirov) – 53:57 2–6
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	19	Shots	35

30 December 2019 19:00

Slovakia

2–7 (0–3, 1–2, 1–2)

Switzerland

Werk Arena, Třinec Attendance: 4,915

	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	15	Shots	21

31 December 2019 15:00

Sweden

v

Slovakia

Werk Arena, Třinec

31 December 2019 19:00

Finland

v

Switzerland

Werk Arena, Třinec

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada (A)	3	2	0	0	1	10	11	−1	6	Advance to Quarterfinals
2	United States (A)	3	2	0	0	1	13	10	+3	6
3	Czech Republic (H)	2	1	0	0	1	7	7	0	3
4	Russia	3	1	0	0	2	10	7	+3	3
5	Germany	3	1	0	0	2	8	13	−5	3	Advance to Relegation

Updated to match(es) played on 30 December 2019. Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(A) Advances to a further round; (H) Host

26 December 2019 15:00

Czech Republic

4–3 (2–2, 2–1, 0–0)

Russia

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

Game reference
	Lukáš Dostál	Goalies	Yaroslav Askarov Amir Miftakhov	Referees: Fraser Lawrence Sean MacFarlane Linesmen: David Obwegeser Šimon Synek
	Kubíček (Jeník, Teplý) (PP) – 02:46 1–0 Myšák (Teplý) – 07:41 2–0 2–1 10:19 – Zamula (Khovanov, Denisenko) 2–2 14:32 – Podkolzin (Marchenko, Romanov) Blümel – 25:31 3–2 3–3 26:16 – Zamula (Voronkov, Alexandrov) Jeník (Teplý, Šír) (PP2) – 37:25 4–3
	12 min	Penalties	26 min
	22	Shots	36

26 December 2019 19:00

Canada

6–4 (0–2, 3–0, 3–2)

United States

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

Game reference
	Nico Daws	Goalies	Spencer Knight	Referees: Andreas Harneberg Lassi Heikkinen Linesmen: Markus Hägerström Ludvig Lundgren
	0–1 03:10 – Pinto (Jones, Brink) (PP) 0–2 18:32 – Kaliyev (Zegras, Turcotte) (PP) McMichael (Thomas, Lavoie) – 23:31 1–2 Hayton (Lafrenière) (PP) – 26:34 2–2 Foote (Smith, Cozens) (PP) – 33:03 3–2 Hayton (Lafrenière, Veleno) (PP) – 50:47 4–2 4–3 52:45 – Robertson (Wahlstrom, Pinto) 4–4 56:42 – Pinto (Robertson) (PP) Lafrenière – 56:49 5–4 Dellandrea (Lafrenière) (ENG) – 58:50 6–4
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	32	Shots	32

27 December 2019 19:00

Germany

3–6 (1–2, 2–2, 0–2)

United States

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 5,013

Game reference
	Tobias Ancicka	Goalies	Dustin Wolf	Referees: Ivan Fateev Vladimír Pešina Linesmen: Nikita Shalagin Šimon Synek
	Peterka (Stutzle, Bokk) (PP) – 02:32 1–0 1–1 07:04 – Harris (Zegras, Kaliyev) 1–2 18:37 – Jones (Zegras, Pinto) Peterka (Seider, Bokk) (PP) – 22:53 2–2 Bokk (Schütz, Reichel) – 28:36 3–2 3–3 34:16 – Pinto (Zegras, Miller) 3–4 38:31 – Hall (Zegras, Pivonka) 3–5 47:18 – Brink (Robertson, Wahlstrom) (PP) 3–6 50:51 – Wahlstrom (Pinto)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	20	Shots	29

28 December 2019 15:00

Czech Republic

3–4 (1–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Germany

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

Game reference
	Lukáš Dostál	Goalies	Hendrik Hane	Referees: Michael Campbell Lassi Heikkinen Linesmen: Chad Huseby Ludvig Lundgren
	0–1 01:41 – Reichel (Lobach) (PP) 0–2 07:31 – Peterka (Stutzle, Seider) Haš (Pekař, Pytlík) (PP) – 16:41 1–2 1–3 33:22 – Bokk (Seider, Jentzsch) (PP2) 1–4 47:33 – Bokk (Jentzsch, Seider) (PP) Jeník (Haš) – 49:17 2–4 Zábranský (Haš) (PP2) – 52:30 3–4
	38 min	Penalties	32 min
	30	Shots	25

28 December 2019 19:00

Russia

6–0 (3–0, 3–0, 0–0)

Canada

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

Game reference
	Amir Miftakhov	Goalies	Nico Daws Joel Hofer (22:18)	Referees: Michael Tscherrig Kristian Vikman Linesmen: Jonas Merten Tobias Nordlander
	Khovanov – 01:44 1–0 Dorofeyev (Alexandrov, Zhuravlyov) – 10:14 2–0 Rtishchev (Pylenkov, Kruglov) – 13:43 3–0 Alexandrov (Voronkov) – 22:18 4–0 Sokolov (Zamula, Denisenko) – 33:09 5–0 Denisenko (Khovanov) – 36:24 6–0
	16 min	Penalties	8 min
	40	Shots	28

29 December 2019 19:00

United States

3–1 (0–0, 2–0, 1–1)

Russia

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

Game reference
	Spencer Knight	Goalies	Yaroslav Askarov Amir Miftakhov	Referees: Michael Campbell Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Chad Huseby Vit Lederer
	Kaliyev (Zegras, Caufield) (PP) – 36:41 1–0 Robertson (Wahlstrom) – 36:47 2–0 Kaliyev (Zegras, Drury) – 41:20 3–0 3–1 43:04 – Romanov (Zhuravlyov, Alexandrov)
	16 min	Penalties	26 min
	24	Shots	26

30 December 2019 15:00

Germany

1–4 (0–1, 0–2, 1–1)

Canada

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 6,102

Game reference
	Hendrik Hane	Goalies	Joel Hofer	Referees: Sean MacFarlane Sergey Morozov Linesmen: Markus Hägerström Nikita Shalagin
	0–1 11:50 – Foote (Bahl) 0–2 32:24 – Foudy (Dellandrea, McIssac) 0–3 34:01 – Addison (Foote, Cozens) (PP2) Valenti (Stützle, Schütz) (PP2) – 58:53 1–3 1–4 59:50 – Dellandrea (Foudy, McIssac) (SH,ENG)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	19	Shots	26

30 December 2019 19:00

United States

v (1–2, 2–0, 0–1)

Czech Republic

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava Attendance: 8,693

31 December 2019 15:00

Russia

v

Germany

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

31 December 2019 19:00

Canada

v

Czech Republic

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Relegation

2 January 2020 10:00

Kazakhstan

v

5B

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

4 January 2020 11:00

5B

v

Kazakhstan

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

5 January 2020 11:00 (If Needed)

Kazakhstan

v

5B

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Playoff round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

1A

4B

2B

3A

1B

4A

Slovakia

Bronze medal game

2A

3B

Quarterfinals

2 January 2020 12:30

v

Werk Arena, Třinec

2 January 2020 15:00

v

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

2 January 2020 17:30

v

Werk Arena, Třinec

2 January 2020 20:00

v

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Semifinals

4 January 2020 15:00

v

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

4 January 2020 19:00

v

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Bronze medal game

5 January 2020 15:00

LSF1

v

LSF2

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Final

5 January 2020 19:00

WSF1

v

WSF2

Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava

Statistics

Scoring leaders

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
1	Patrik Puistola	Finland	3	4	3	7	+4	2
2	Trevor Zegras	United States	3	0	7	7	+4	2
3	Shane Pinto	United States	3	3	3	6	+3	2
4	Kristian Tanus	Finland	3	2	4	6	+4	0
5	Dominik Bokk	Germany	2	3	2	5	-1	0
6	Samuel Fagemo	Sweden	2	3	1	4	+4	2
7	Arthur Kaliyev	United States	3	3	1	4	+2	4
8	Nils Höglander	Sweden	2	2	2	4	+4	0
9	Nick Robertson	United States	3	2	2	4	+2	2
10	Alexis Lafrenière	Canada	2	1	3	4	+1	0

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)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
1	Justus Annunen	Finland	124:55	4	1.92	74	94.59	0
2	Amir Miftakhov	Russia	120:27	3	1.49	51	94.12	1
3	Hugo Alnefelt	Sweden	124:55	4	1.92	48	92.31	0
4	Samuel Hlavaj	Slovakia	85:09	3	2.11	38	92.11	0
5	Hendrik Hane	Germany	60:00	3	3.00	30	90.00	0

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SA = Shots Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Division I

Main article: 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division I

Group A

The tournament was held in Minsk, Belarus from 9 to 15 December 2019.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Austria	5	4	0	0	1	18	10	+8	12	Promoted to the 2021 Top Division
2	Latvia	5	3	1	0	1	18	5	+13	11
3	Belarus (H)	5	3	0	2	0	19	12	+7	11
4	Norway	5	1	2	0	2	12	11	+1	7
5	Denmark	5	0	1	1	3	6	16	−10	3
6	Slovenia	5	0	0	1	4	6	25	−19	1	Relegated to the 2022 Division I B

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host
Notes:

Group B

The tournament was held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 12 to 18 December 2019.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	0	29	16	+13	15	Promoted to the 2022 Division I A
2	France	5	4	0	0	1	22	7	+15	12
3	Ukraine (H)	5	2	1	0	2	14	12	+2	8
4	Poland	5	2	0	0	3	29	26	+3	6
5	Estonia	5	1	0	0	4	14	27	−13	3
6	Italy	5	0	0	1	4	13	33	−20	1	Relegated to the 2022 Division II A

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

Division II

Main article: 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division II

Group A

The tournament will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 6 to 12 January 2020.

• Japan – Relegated from Division I B
• Lithuania
• Great Britain
• Romania
• Spain
• Serbia – Promoted from Division II B

Group B

The tournament will be held in Gangneung, South Korea from 28 January to 3 February 2020.

• South Korea – Relegated from Division II A
• Croatia
• Netherlands
• Belgium
• Israel
• China – Promoted from Division III

Division III

Main article: 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The tournament will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 13 to 19 January 2020.

• Mexico – Relegated from Division II B
• Australia
• Turkey
• Bulgaria
• Iceland
• Chinese Taipei
• South Africa
• New Zealand

source = IIHF

Links

• IIHF World Juniors Official Site
• World Juniors IIHF