2015 IIHF World U18 Championships explained

Tourney Name:	IIHF U18 World Championship
Year:	2015
Size:	185px
Country:	Switzerland
Dates:	16–26 April 2015
Num Teams:	10
Venues:	2
Cities:	2
Type:	ih18
Winners:	USA
Count:	9
Second:	FIN
Third:	CAN
Games:	30
Goals:	211
Attendance:	48622
Scoring Leader:	Auston Matthews
Points:	14
Mvp:	Auston Matthews
Website:	http://u18worlds2015.iihf.com/
Prevseason:	2014
Nextseason:	2016

The 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 17th IIHF World U18 Championship, and was hosted by Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament began on 16 April 2015, with the gold medal game played on 26 April 2015.^{[1] [2]}

Top Division

Officials

The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship.
They were the following:^[3]

Referees

• Jimmy Bergamelli
• Andreas Harnebring
• Brett Iverson
• Andreas Koch
• Petri Lindqvist
• Robert Mullner
• Yuri Oskirko
• Vladimír Pešina
• Christopher Pitoscia
• Marian Rohatsch
• Ladislav Smetana
• Per Gustav Solem

Linesmen

• Markku Buese
• Franco Espinoza
• Jiří Gebauer
• Martin Korba
• Ludvig Lundgren
• Brian Oliver
• Alexander Otmakhov
• Nicolas Piche
• Hannu Sormunen
• Michael Tscherrig

Preliminary round

Group A

All times are local. (Central European Summer Time –)

Group B

All times are local. (Central European Summer Time –)

Relegation round

The last-placed teams played a best-of-three series.

• Germany is relegated to next year's Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.

Knockout stage

Gold medal game

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
	7	8	7	15	+11	0
	7	3	10	13	+10	2
	7	3	9	12	+2	0
	7	2	10	12	+10	2
	7	8	3	11	+6	0
	7	6	5	11	+11	4
	7	5	5	10	+1	10
	7	6	3	9	+8	0
	7	4	5	9	+7	0
	6	3	6	9	+2	10

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
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	TOI	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
	120:00	85	4	2.00	95.29	1
	437:12	233	12	1.65	94.85	1
	180:00	121	8	2.67	93.39	0
	312:44	82	6	1.15	92.68	1
	278:39	160	14	3.01	91.25	0

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Tournament awards

Most Valuable Player

• Forward: Auston Matthews

All-star team

• Goaltender: Veini Vehviläinen
• Defencemen: Vili Saarijärvi, Jonas Siegenthaler
• Forwards: Patrik Laine, Denis Malgin, Auston Matthews

IIHF best player awards

• Goaltender: Ilya Samsonov
• Defenceman: Vili Saarijärvi
• Forward: Auston Matthews

References: https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/477/IHM477000_98_1_0.pdf, https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/477/IHM477000_85I_1_0.pdf

Final standings

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4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th

Relegated to the 2016 Division I A

Division I

Division I A

The Division I A tournament was played in Debrecen, Hungary, from 12 to 18 April 2015.^[4]

Division I B

The Division I B tournament was played in Maribor, Slovenia, from 12 to 18 April 2015.^[5]

Division II

Division II A

The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 22 to 28 March 2015.^[6]

Division II B

The Division II B tournament was played in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 16 to 22 March 2015.^[7]

Division III

Division III A

The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 22 to 28 March 2015.^[8]

Division III B

The Division III B tournament was played in Auckland, New Zealand, from 17 to 19 March 2015.^[9]

External links

• 2015 U18 World Championship official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: 28 tournaments confirmed – 2014 WM – International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. iihfworlds2014.com. 2014-06-11.
2. https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/477/ 2015 Top Division statistics
3. Web site: 22 Officials Named. IIHF.com . 2015-04-12.
4. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/478/statistics.html 2015 Division I A statistics
5. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/479/statistics.html 2015 Division I B statistics
6. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/482/statistics.html 2015 Division II A statistics
7. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/483/statistics.html 2015 Division II B statistics
8. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/484/statistics.html 2015 Division III A statistics
9. http://webarchive.iihf.com/competition/485/statistics.html 2015 Division III B statistics