IIHF U18 women's ice hockey tournament 2007
The IIHF U18 women's ice hockey tournaments 2007 ( English Women U18 Invitational Tournaments ) were three women's ice hockey tournaments of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF for juniors under the age of 18 that were held during the international break in February 2007 .
The tournaments should be a test, especially in Europe, of how great the interest of the IIHF associations would be in an ice hockey world championship for women. The experiences from the tournaments and their organization should therefore help the IIHF Council to decide whether a women's ice hockey world championship for juniors should take place for the first time in 2008. At the IIHF's annual meeting in Moscow in May 2007 , a positive decision was made in this regard, so that the 2007 tournaments qualify for the U18 Women's World Cup in 2008 .
| competition | place | date | sub- contractor |
viewers total |
Games | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Group A
|
Vierumäki | Feb 9, 2007 - Feb 11, 2007 | 4th | 325 | 6th | 54 |
 Group B
|
Nymburk | Feb 9, 2007 - Feb 11, 2007 | 4th | 537 | 6th | 89 |
 Group C
|
Bad Tölz | Feb 16, 2007 - Feb 18, 2007 | 4th | 928 | 6th | 154 |
Attendees
Since the North American associations are automatically seeded at the World Cup, the tournaments took place exclusively with the participation of European teams as well as the Asian representatives from Japan and Kazakhstan.
| Group A | Group B | Group C |
|---|---|---|
|
Finland
|
 Sweden
|
Germany
|
 Switzerland
|
Czech Republic
|
 Russia
|
 Japan
|
 Austria
|
 Slovakia
|
 Netherlands
|
 Kazakhstan
|
 France
|
mode
A total of twelve nations took part in the three invitation tournaments, with all three tournaments being equal. At the U18 World Junior Championship in 2008, the six first and second place winners from these tournaments, together with Canada and the USA, form the World Cup group. Since the IIHF 2008 did not yet hold an official Division I tournament, the third and fourth place finishers were not qualified for an IIHF tournament in 2008.
Venues
|
Vierumäki , Finland
|
Nymburk , Czech Republic
|
Bad Toelz , Germany
|
|
Versowood Areena Capacity: 2,975 |
Zimní stadión Nymburk Capacity: 4,500 |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena Capacity: 4,115 |
|
|
Qualifying tournaments
Group A
The group A tournament took place between February 9 and 11, 2007 in Vierumäki , Finland . It was played in the Versowood Areena . The Finnish team prevailed as group winners with three wins. Behind them, Switzerland took second place, as the team had won the direct duel despite having a tie with Japan. In addition to Japan, the Netherlands missed the qualification.
| February 9, 2007 |
Netherlands |
2: 3 n.V. (1: 2, 0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 1) |
Switzerland |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki spectators: 11 |
| February 9, 2007 |
Finland |
4: 0 (1: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0) |
Japan |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki Spectators: 87 |
| February 10, 2007 |
Switzerland |
2: 1 n.V. (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0) |
Japan |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki Spectators: 57 |
| February 10, 2007 |
Finland |
18: 0 (5: 0, 7: 0, 6: 0) |
Netherlands |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki Spectators: 78 |
| February 11, 2007 |
Finland |
2: 1 (1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0) |
Switzerland |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki spectators: 63 |
| February 11, 2007 |
Japan |
4: 3 (0: 0, 4: 0, 0: 3) |
Netherlands |
Versowood Areena, Vierumäki Spectators: 29 |
| Pl. | Sp | S. | OTS | OTN | N | Gates | Points | |
| 1. |
Finland
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24: 1 | 9 |
| 2. |
Switzerland
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6: 5 | 4th |
| 3. |
Japan
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5: 9 | 4th |
| 4th |
Netherlands
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5:25 | 1 |
Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
Explanations: Qualifier for the world championship
Group B
The group B tournament took place between February 9 and 11, 2007 in Nymburk , Czech Republic . It was played in the Zimní stadión . The Swedish team prevailed as group winners with three wins. Behind them, the hosts, the Czech Republic, came second. Austria and Kazakhstan missed the qualification.
| February 9, 2007 |
Kazakhstan |
1: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 1: 1) |
Sweden |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 44 |
| February 9, 2007 |
Czech Republic |
3: 1 (0: 1, 3: 0, 0: 0) |
Austria |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 115 |
| February 10, 2007 |
Sweden |
5: 1 (2: 0, 1: 0, 2: 1) |
Austria |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 37 |
| February 10, 2007 |
Czech Republic |
11: 1 (4: 1, 6: 0, 1: 0) |
Kazakhstan |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 131 |
| February 11, 2007 |
Austria |
3: 2 (0: 1, 3: 1, 0: 0) |
Kazakhstan |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 39 |
| February 11, 2007 |
Czech Republic |
1: 2 (0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1) |
Sweden |
Zimní stadión, Nymburk Spectators: 171 |
| Pl. | Sp | S. | OTS | OTN | N | Gates | Points | |
| 1. |
Sweden
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11: 3 | 9 |
| 2. |
Czech Republic
|
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15: 4 | 6th |
| 3. |
Austria
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5:10 | 3 |
| 4th |
Kazakhstan
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4:18 | 0 |
Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
Explanations: Qualifier for the world championship
Group C
The tournament Group C took place between the 16th and 18th February 2007 at the German Bad Toelz instead. It was played in the Hacker-Pschorr Arena . The German team prevailed as group winners with three sovereign victories. Behind them, Russia took second place. Slovakia and France missed the qualification.
| February 16, 2007 |
France |
3: 8 (0: 4, 1: 2, 2: 2) |
Russia |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz Spectators: 43 |
| February 16, 2007 |
Germany |
2: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0) |
Slovakia |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz Spectators: 140 |
| February 17, 2007 |
Russia |
5: 1 (3: 1, 1: 0, 1: 0) |
Slovakia |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz spectators: |
| February 17, 2007 |
Germany |
10: 1 (1: 0, 6: 0, 3: 1) |
France |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz Spectators: 200 |
| February 18, 2007 |
Slovakia |
3: 2 (1: 0, 1: 0, 1: 2) |
France |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz Spectators: 125 |
| February 18, 2007 |
Germany |
9: 2 (1: 1, 4: 0, 4: 1) |
Russia |
Hacker-Pschorr Arena, Bad Tölz Spectators: 420 |
| Pl. | Sp | S. | OTS | OTN | N | Gates | Points | |
| 1. |
Germany
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21: 3 | 9 |
| 2. |
Russia
|
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:13 | 6th |
| 3. |
Slovakia
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4: 9 | 3 |
| 4th |
France
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6:21 | 0 |
Abbreviations: Pl. = Place, Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime or penalty shoot-out , OTN = defeats after extra time or penalty shoot-out, N = defeats
Explanations: Qualifier for the world championship
Qualifiers
The three group winners and runners-up ultimately qualified for the first -ever U18 women's world championship . In addition, the two North American teams from Canada and the United States were seeded by the IIHF. With that the number of participants of eight teams was reached.
| Qualifiers for the World Cup group: |
Germany Finland Russia Sweden Switzerland Czech Republic
|
Footnotes
- ↑ In the official statistics there is no number of spectators for this game, even in the total of spectators for the tournament, 0 spectators were calculated for this game.
Web links
- Website of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF (English)
- Results of the qualification tournaments at hockeyarchives.info (French)