2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Slovakia
Venue(s)Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava
Dates25 June – 1 July
Teams8
Final positions
Champions  United States (7th title)
Runner-up  Finland
Third place  Czech Republic
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Games played23
Goals scored220 (9.57 per game)
Attendance6,331 (275 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Finland Teemu Lepaus (22 pts)
← 2015

The 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship was the 20th and final IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The World Championship runs alongside the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament and took place between 25 June and 1 July 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia at the Ondrej Nepela Arena. The tournament was won by the United States, earning their seventh World Championship title. Finland finished in second place and the Czech Republic in third after defeating Sweden in the bronze medal match.

Qualification

Seven of the eight teams automatically qualified for the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship while the eighth spot was awarded to the winner of the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The 2015 Division I tournament was won by Croatia who defeated Australia in the final to earn promotion to the World Championship.[1]

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2015 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I.[3] The World Championship groups are named Group A and Group B while the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament use Group C and Group D, as both tournaments were held in Bratislava, Slovakia.[3] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):[3]

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 A

Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts
 United States 3 3 0 0 0 24 5 +19 9
 Slovakia 3 2 0 0 1 17 18 −1 6
 Canada 3 1 0 0 2 16 18 −2 3
 Croatia 3 0 0 0 3 5 21 −16 0
Source:[citation needed]
25 June 2017
14:00		Canada 6 – 1
(3–0, 1–0, 0–1, 2–0)		 CroatiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 248
Game reference
1.5 minPenalties18.5 min
27Shots11
25 June 2017
18:00		Slovakia 1 – 8
(0–1, 0–4, 1–2, 0–1)		 United StatesOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 945
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties4.5 min
10Shots26
26 June 2017
14:00		United States 8 – 2
(3–1, 1–0, 1–0, 3–1)		 CanadaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 217
Game reference
20.5 minPenalties12.0 min
20Shots22
26 June 2017
18:00		Slovakia 7 – 2
(3–1, 2–0, 2–0, 0–1)		 CroatiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 463
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties10.5 min
26Shots19
27 June 2017
14:00		Croatia 2 – 8
(2–1, 0–2, 0–4, 0–1)		 United StatesOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 113
Game reference
6.0 minPenalties1.5 min
9Shots39
27 June 2017
18:00		Canada 8 – 9
(1–2, 1–3, 4–3, 2–1)		 SlovakiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 792
Game reference
1.5 minPenalties6.0 min
43Shots24

Group B

Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts
 Finland 3 2 1 0 0 18 13 +5 8
 Czech Republic 3 2 0 1 0 15 13 +2 7
 Sweden 3 1 0 0 2 11 11 0 3
 Germany 3 0 0 0 3 8 15 −7 0
Source:[citation needed]
25 June 2017
16:00		Finland 5 – 2
(0–0, 1–1, 3–0, 1–1)		 GermanyOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 213
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties3.0 min
22Shots13
25 June 2017
20:00		Sweden 2 – 3
(0–0, 2–1, 0–1, 0–1)		 Czech RepublicOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 291
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties4.5 min
10Shots21
26 June 2017
16:00		Sweden 4 – 2
(1–0, 1–0, 2–1, 0–1)		 GermanyOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 97
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties4.5 min
15Shots16
26 June 2017
20:00		Czech Republic 6 – 7 (SO)
(2–2, 0–1, 2–1, 2–2, 0–0, 0–1)		 FinlandOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 173
Game reference
26.0 minPenalties6.0 min
27Shots21
27 June 2017
16:00		Germany 4 – 6
(1–2, 1–0, 1–1, 1–3)		 Czech RepublicOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 116
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties3.0 min
22Shots38
27 June 2017
20:00		Finland 6 – 5
(1–2, 2–0, 2–0, 1–3)		 SwedenOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 203
Game reference
6.0 minPenalties0.0 min
21Shots14

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 classification round. Slovakia defeated Croatia and Canada defeated Germany in the classification round to finish fifth and sixth respectively.[4] Croatia and Germany moved on to the relegation game where Croatia was defeated 5–8 and was relegated back to Division I for 2019.[4][5] In the semifinals the United States defeated the Czech Republic and Finland beat Sweden, both advancing to the gold medal game.[4] After losing the semifinals the Czech Republic and Sweden played off for the bronze medal with the Czech Republic winning 5–2.[5] The United States defeated Finland 4–2 in the gold medal game, earning their seventh World Championship title.[5]

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
A1  United States 4
B4  Germany 1
A1  United States 5
B2  Czech Republic 4
B2  Czech Republic 8
A3  Canada 2
A1  United States 4
B1  Finland 2
B1  Finland 11
A4  Croatia 2
B1  Finland 6 Bronze medal game
B3  Sweden 5
A2  Slovakia 4 B2  Czech Republic 5
B3  Sweden 6 B3  Sweden 2

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

29 June 2017
14:00		Czech Republic 8 – 2
(0–1, 3–1, 1–0, 4–0)		 CanadaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 123
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties9.0 min
32Shots17
29 June 2017
16:00		Finland 11 – 1
(4–0, 3–1, 1–1, 3–0)		 CroatiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 141
Game reference
1.5 minPenalties4.5 min
31Shots16
29 June 2017
18:00		Slovakia 4 – 6
(0–1, 1–3, 3–0, 0–2)		 SwedenOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 817
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties4.5 min
28Shots24
29 June 2017
20:00		United States 4 – 1
(0–0, 1–0, 1–0, 2–1)		 GermanyOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 94
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties6.0 min
32Shots18

Classification

30 June 2017
14:00		Canada 8 – 3
(1–0, 3–1, 2–2, 2–0)		 GermanyOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 61
Game reference
7.5 minPenalties4.5 min
34Shots17
30 June 2017
16:00		Slovakia 8 – 4
(2–1, 1–1, 2–0, 3–2)		 CroatiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 129
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties7.5 min
25Shots18

Semifinals

30 June 2017
18:00		United States 5 – 4
(1–2, 0–1, 2–1, 2–0)		 Czech RepublicOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 221
Game reference
4.5 minPenalties6.0 min
26Shots17
30 June 2017
20:00		Finland 6 – 5 (OT)
(2–0, 1–2, 1–1, 1–2, 1–0)		 SwedenOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 152
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties3.0 min
25Shots30

Relegation game

1 July 2017
11:00		Germany 8 – 5
(2–1, 4–2, 0–0, 2–2)		 CroatiaOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 68
Game reference
3.0 minPenalties3.0 min
26Shots27

Bronze medal game

1 July 2017
17:30		Czech Republic 5 – 2
(3–0, 0–1, 0–1, 2–0)		 SwedenOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 236
Game reference
4.5 minPenalties3.0 min
18Shots34

Gold medal game

1 July 2017
20:00		United States 4 – 2
(1–0, 3–1, 0–1, 0–0)		 FinlandOndrej Nepela Arena
Attendance: 418
Game reference
6.0 minPenalties3.0 min
26Shots25

Ranking and statistics


 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship winners 

United States
7th title

Tournament Awards[edit]

  • Best players selected by the directorate:[6]
    • Best Goalkeeper: United States Troy Redmann
    • Best Defenseman: Finland Petri Partanen
    • Best Forward: United States Matt White

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[7]

Rk. Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Czech Republic
4.  Sweden
5.  Slovakia
6.  Canada
7.  Germany
8.  Croatia

Scoring leaders

The Czech Republic's Jakub Petružálek scored five goals and eight assists in his six games

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
Finland Teemu Lepaus 6 11 11 22 +8 1.5 F
United States Matt White 6 7 9 16 +11 3.0 F
Finland Eemeli Suomi 6 4 12 16 +8 1.5 F
Sweden Markus Kinisjarvi 6 5 9 14 +2 1.5 F
Czech Republic Jakub Petružálek 6 5 8 13 +5 3.0 F
United States Jack Combs 6 9 3 12 +10 6.0 F
Sweden Linus Svedlund 6 5 7 12 –1 3.0 F
Czech Republic Petr Kafka 5 5 6 11 +3 0.0 F
Slovakia Filip Novák 5 5 6 11 0 3.0 F
Slovakia Juraj Jurik 5 3 7 10 0 7.5 F
Slovakia Peter Lichanec 5 3 7 10 +3 0.0 F
Slovakia Jakub Ruckay 5 3 7 10 +1 4.5 D
United States Derrick Burnett 6 0 10 10 +11 14.5 D

Leading goaltenders

Germany's Siniša Martinović finished third among the goaltenders with a save percentage of 81.58

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
United States Troy Redmann 192:00 82 9 2.25 89.02 0
Czech Republic Dominik Frodl 244:54 108 18 3.53 83.33 0
Germany Siniša Martinović 199:51 114 21 5.04 81.58 0
Sweden Robert Kinisjarvi 285:50 128 25 4.20 80.47 0
Slovakia Vladimir Neumann 214:15 124 26 5.83 79.03 0

References

  1. ^ a b "2015 IIHF Inline World Championship Div I Group C+D". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2015-07-11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  3. ^ a b c "Tournament Format". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  4. ^ a b c "2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  5. ^ a b c Merk, Martin (2017-07-01). "USA back on inline throne". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  6. ^ "Best Players Selected by the Directorate" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2017-07-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  7. ^ "Tournament Progress - Playoff Round" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2017-07-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  8. ^ "Scoring Leaders" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2017-07-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  9. ^ "Goalkeepers" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2017-07-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-02.

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