2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Dates	1 June – 7 June
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Slovenia
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Games played	22
Goals scored	198 (9 per game)
Attendance	1,908 (87 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Domen Vedlin
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The 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 1 and 7 June 2014 in Pardubice, Germany. The tournament was won by Slovenia who upon winning gained promotion to the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Brazil and Japan were relegated after finishing last and second last respectively.

Qualification

Three teams attempted to qualify for the one European spot remaining in the 2013 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I tournament, while Brazil automatically qualified for the Rest of the World spot as they were the only team who applied. ^[1] The other six nations automatically qualified after their results from the 2013 World Championship and the 2013 Division I tournaments. The European qualification tournament was held in Passau, Germany with a place and was contested between Ireland, Latvia and Macedonia, with Lavia winning both of their games and earning a qualification spot. ^[2]

•   Australia − Finished fourth in 2013 World Championship Division I ^[3]
•   Austria − Finished second in 2013 World Championship Division I ^[3]
•   Brazil − Rest of the World Qualification ^[1]
•   Croatia − Finished fifth in 2013 World Championship Division I ^[3]
•   Hungary − Finished third in 2013 World Championship Division I ^[3]
•   Japan − Finished sixth in 2013 World Championship Division I ^[3]
•   Latvia − Winner of the European Qualification ^[2]
•   Slovenia − Relegated from the 2013 World Championship ^[4]

European Qualification

The European Qualification tournament was held at the Eisarena in Passau, Germany from 9 August 2013 to 11 August 2013. ^[2] Latvia gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games and finishing first in the standings. ^[2] Ireland finished in second place after winning their game against Macedonia. ^[2]

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Latvia	2	2	0	0	0	48	1	+47	6	Qualified for Division I
Ireland	2	1	0	0	1	14	13	+1	3
North Macedonia	2	0	0	0	2	1	49	−48	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

All times are local.

9 August 2013 18:00

North Macedonia

1 – 35 (0–7, 0–10, 1–6, 0–12)

Latvia

Eisarena

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10 August 2013 18:00

Ireland

14 – 0 (5–0, 3–0, 6–0, 0–0)

North Macedonia

Eisarena

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11 August 2013 11:00

Latvia

13 – 0 (2–0, 2–0, 2–0, 7–0)

Ireland

Eisarena

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Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship and 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I. ^[1] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2013 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Pardubice, Czech Republic. ^[1] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

Group C   Slovenia (9)   Australia (12)   Croatia (13)   Latvia (16)

Group D   Austria (10)   Hungary (11)   Japan (14)   Brazil (15)

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovenia	3	3	0	0	0	22	9	+13	9
Croatia	3	2	0	0	1	10	10	0	6
Australia	3	1	0	0	2	12	13	−1	3
Latvia	3	0	0	0	3	8	20	−12	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

1 June 2014 15:00

Latvia

4 – 9 (1–1, 0–2, 2–3, 1–3)

Slovenia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 50

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1 June 2014 17:00

Australia

2 – 4 (0–0, 0–4, 1–0, 1–0)

Croatia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 200

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2 June 2014 14:00

Australia

5 – 1 (0–0, 0–1, 3–0, 2–0)

Latvia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 21

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2 June 2014 18:00

Slovenia

5 – 0 (0–0, 1–0, 1–0, 3–0)

Croatia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 115

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3 June 2014 13:00

Croatia

6 – 3 (1–1, 1–1, 3–0, 1–1)

Latvia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 30

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3 June 2014 15:00

Slovenia

8 – 5 (2–0, 2–1, 0–2, 4–2)

Australia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 100

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Austria	3	2	0	0	1	21	8	+13	6
Hungary	3	1	1	0	1	13	14	−1	5
Japan	3	1	0	1	1	9	15	−6	4
Brazil	3	1	0	0	2	9	15	−6	3

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

1 June 2014 13:00

Brazil

0 – 8 (0–2, 0–1, 0–1, 0–4)

Austria

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 120

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1 June 2014 19:00

Hungary

4 – 3 (SO) (0–2, 0–0, 1–0, 2–1, 0–0, 1–0)

Japan

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 200

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2 June 2014 16:00

Hungary

3 – 6 (1–1, 1–1, 1–1, 0–3)

Brazil

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 22

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2 June 2014 20:00

Austria

8 – 2 (1–0, 2–0, 1–2, 4–0)

Japan

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 50

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3 June 2014 17:00

Austria

5 – 6 (2–2, 0–0, 3–3, 0–1)

Hungary

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 40

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3 June 2014 19:00

Japan

4 – 3 (1–1, 2–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Brazil

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 150

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Playoff round

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarter finalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the placement round. Japan and Brazil were relegated after losing their placement round games, while Austria finished fifth after defeating Brazil and Hungary finished sixth following their win over Japan. In the semifinals Australia defeated Croatia and Slovenia beat Latvia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Croatia and Latvia played off for the bronze medal with Croatia winning 4–3. Slovenia defeated Australia 10–5 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. ^[5]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

C2

Croatia

5

D3

Japan

2

QF1

Croatia

5

QF2

Australia

6

D2

Hungary

1

C3

Australia

3

SF1

Australia

5

SF2

Slovenia

10

C1

Slovenia

7

D4

Brazil

1

QF3

Slovenia

13

Bronze medal game

QF4

Latvia

2

D1

Austria

3

SF1

Croatia

4

C4

Latvia

4

SF2

Latvia

3

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

5 June 2014 13:00

Croatia

5 – 2 (2–0, 0–1, 2–0, 1–1)

Japan

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 50

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5 June 2014 15:00

Hungary

1 – 3 (0–1, 0–0, 0–1, 1–1)

Australia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 60

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5 June 2014 17:00

Slovenia

7 – 1 (0–0, 1–0, 3–1, 3–0)

Brazil

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 120

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5 June 2014 19:00

Austria

3 – 4 (SO) (1–0, 1–0, 0–1, 1–2, 0–0, 0–1)

Latvia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 70

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Placement round

6 June 2014 14:00

Hungary

12 – 2 (2–1, 3–0, 3–0, 4–1)

Japan

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 50

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6 June 2014 16:00

Austria

5 – 1 (0–0, 4–1, 1–0, 0–0)

Brazil

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 70

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Semifinals

6 June 2014 18:00

Croatia

5 – 6 (OT) (2–1, 2–1, 1–0, 0–3, 0–1)

Australia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 40

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6 June 2014 20:00

Slovenia

13 – 2 (2–1, 5–0, 3–0, 3–1)

Latvia

Pardubice Arena 2 Attendance: 50

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Bronze medal game

7 June 2014 12:00

Croatia

4 – 3 (1–2, 1–0, 1–1, 1–0)

Latvia

Pardubice Arena Attendance: 100

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Gold medal game

7 June 2014 14:00

Slovenia

10 – 5 (4–1, 3–0, 1–1, 2–3)

Australia

Pardubice Arena Attendance: 200

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Ranking and statistics

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: ^[6]

Rk.	Team
	Slovenia
	Australia
	Croatia
4.	Latvia
5.	Austria
6.	Hungary
7.	Japan
8.	Brazil

Tournament Awards

• Best players selected by the directorate: ^[7]
  • Best Goalkeeper: Michael James
  • Best Defenseman: Domen Vedlin
  • Best Forward: Artjoms Ogorodnikovs

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 shown. ^[8]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Domen Vedlin	6	7	8	15	+12	1.5	D
Harry Lange	5	3	12	15	+5	1.5	D
Nejc Sotlar	6	5	9	14	+9	1.5	F
Daniel Oberkofler	5	8	5	13	+10	0.0	F
Jure Sotlar	6	8	5	13	+12	3.0	F
Gal Koren	6	5	8	13	+8	3.0	F
Mateuz Erman	6	4	9	13	+6	3.0	D
Patrick Spannring	5	4	9	13	+12	0.0	F
Matic Kralj	6	7	5	12	+7	4.5	F
Gregor Krivic	6	3	9	12	+9	0.0	F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. ^[9]

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Lorenz Hirn	223:31	107	12	1.93	88.79	1
Tamas Kiss	207:21	111	14	2.43	87.39	0
Keita Osawa	147:32	83	11	2.68	86.75	0
Mate Tomljenovic	243:46	112	16	2.36	85.71	0
Renars Kazanovs	202:22	148	25	4.45	83.11	0

References

1. "IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
2. "2013/2014 IIHF European Inline Hockey Qualification". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
3. "Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2013-06-08. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
4. "2013 IIHF In-Line World Championship Group A+B". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
5. "2014 IIHF In-Line World Championship Div I Group C+D". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
6. "Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
7. "Best Players Selected by the Directorate" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
8. "Scoring Leaders" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
9. "Goalkeepers" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2014-06-07. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

External links

• Division I at IIHF.com