2005 IIHF World Championship Division I

Main article: 2005 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

The 2005 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 17 to April 23, 2005. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Debrecen, Hungary. Group B's games were played in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Norway and Italy finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to the Championship Division for 2006. While China finished last in Group A and Romania last in Group B and were relegated to Division II for 2006.^[1][2]

2005 IIHF World Championship
Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	Hungary Netherlands
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	April 17 - April 23
Teams	12 (two groups of 6)
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Participants

Group A

Team	2004 Result
Japan	Placed third in the relegation round of the Championship division and was relegated in 2004[3]
Norway	Placed second in Division I Group A in 2004[4]
Poland	Placed third in Division I Group B in 2004[5]
Hungary	Placed fourth in Division I Group A in 2004[4]
Great Britain	Placed fifth in Division I Group A in 2004[4]
China	Placed first in Division II Group A and was promoted in 2004[6]

Group B

Team	2004 Result
France	Placed fourth in the relegation round of the Championship division and was relegated in 2004[3]
Italy	Placed second in Division I Group B in 2004[5]
Netherlands	Placed third in Division I Group A in 2004[4]
Estonia	Placed fourth in Division I Group B in 2004[5]
Romania	Placed fifth in Division I Group B in 2004[5]
Lithuania	Placed first in Division II Group B and was promoted in 2004[7]

Group A tournament

Standings

	Promoted to the Championship division for 2006
	Relegated to Division II for 2006

Rk	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
1	Norway	5	4	1	0	43	8	35	9
2	Poland	5	3	1	1	16	8	8	7
3	Hungary	5	2	2	1	15	6	9	6
4	Japan	5	2	0	3	14	14	0	4
5	Great Britain	5	2	0	3	19	15	4	4
6	China	5	0	0	5	5	61	–56	0

Fixtures

All times local.

April 17, 2005 13:00

Great Britain

0 – 2 (0–0, 0–1, 0–1)

Poland

Főnix Hall Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Stephen Murphy	Goalies	Rafał Radziszewski	Referees: Frédéric Bachelet Peter Ország
	0 – 1 30:43 - Płachta (Laszkiewicz) (PP) 0 – 2 59:44 - Garbocz
	20 min	Penalties	12 min
	26	Shots	41

April 17, 2005 16:30

China

1 – 8 (0–2, 1–4, 0–2)

Japan

Fonix Hall Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Zeng Guang	Goalies	Naoya Kikuchi	Referees: Frédéric Bachelet Guy Pellerin
	0 – 1 1:30 - Nishiwaki (Kobori, Suzuki) (PP) 0 – 2 12:52 - Kawashima (Fujita, Iwata) (PP) 0 – 3 20:55 - Kon (Kobori, Suzuki) (PP) 0 – 4 23:31 - Nishiwaki (Kon, Kobori) (PP) 0 – 5 34:17 - Kon (Nishiwaki, Suzuki) 0 – 6 38:10 - Nishiwaki (Kobori, Kon) (PP) 39:05 - Du (Li) 1 – 6 1 – 7 49:02 - Fujita (Sato) (SH) 1 – 8 49:51 - Iwata (Okuyama)
	18 min	Penalties	14 min
	18	Shots	57

April 17, 2005 20:00

Hungary

2 – 2 (2–1, 0–1, 0–0)

Norway

Fonix Hall Attendance: 4500

Game reference
	Levente Szuper	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referees: Peter Ország Anatoli Zakharov
	3:43 - Erdősi (Csibi) 1 – 0 1 – 1 4:41 - Knold (Bastiansen, Ask) 17:35 - Ocskay (Svasznek) (PP) 2 – 1 2 – 2 22:59 - Ask (Bastiansen, Grotnes)
	20 min	Penalties	32 min
	27	Shots	47

April 18, 2005 13:00

Poland

9 – 3 (2–1, 5–2, 2–0)

China

Fonix Hall

Game reference
	Arkadiusz Sobecki	Goalies	Yu Yang	Referees: Anatoli Zakharov Frédéric Bachelet
	0 – 1 8:29 - Li (Zhang) 11:08 - Dołęga (Różański, Płachta) 1 – 1 17:03 - Sarnik (Ślusarczyk, Słaboń) 2 – 1 22:54 - Różański (Płachta, Gonera) 3 – 1 24:45 - Sokół (Gabryś, Piotrowski) (PP) 4 – 1 4 – 2 26:45 - Yang (Wang, Du) (PP) 29:59 - Jaros (Bagiński, Dulęba) 5 – 2 5 – 3 31:31 - Wang (Du) 35:01 - Różański (PP) 6 – 3 37:07 - Laskiewicz (Gonera, Płachta) 7 – 3 41:09 - Sarnik (Śmiełowski, Ślusarczyk) 8 – 3 45:26 - Garbocz (Laszkiewicz, Gonera) (PP) 9 – 3
	10 min	Penalties	24 min
	59	Shots	9

April 18, 2005 16:30

Norway

8 – 3 (4–1, 2–1, 2–1)

Great Britain

Fonix Hall Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Pål Grotnes	Goalies	Stephen Murphy Joe Watkins	Referees: Anatoli Zakharov Guy Pellerin
	9:25 - Ask (Spets) 1 – 0 9:59 - Hansen (Trygg, Spets) 2 – 0 2 – 1 16:36 - Myers (Tait, Clarke) (PP) 17:10 - Marthinsen (Ask, Bastiansen) 3 – 1 18:04 - Vikingstad (Trygg, Olsen) 4 – 1 22:38 - Skasdammen (Bastiansen, Knold) 5 – 1 24:54 - Knold (Trygg) (PP) 6 – 1 6 – 2 35:17 - Weaver (Tait, Clarke) (PP) 46:53 - Vikingstad (Olsen, Thoresen) (PP) 7 – 2 7 – 3 51:59 - Ellis (Clarke) (PP) 57:33 - Hallem (Trygg, Hansen) 8 – 3
	24 min	Penalties	28 min
	44	Shots	16

April 18, 2005 20:00

Japan

0 – 3 (0–1, 0–1, 0–1)

Hungary

Fonix Hall Attendance: 3000

Game reference
	Naoya Kikuchi	Goalies	Levente Szuper	Referees: Guy Pellerin Peter Ország
	0 – 1 18:59 - Szélig (Ladányi) (PP) 0 – 2 37:25 - Ladányi (Peterdi) 0 – 3 57:07 - Ocskay (Palkovics)
	18 min	Penalties	18 min
	33	Shots	24

April 20, 2005 13:00

Japan

5 – 3 (0–0, 2–1, 3–2)

Great Britain

Fonix Hall Attendance: 500

Game reference
	Naoya Kikuchi	Goalies	Stephen Murphy	Referees: Peter Ország Frédéric Bachelet
	22:59 - Keller (Suzuki, Kobori) (PP) 1 – 0 1 – 1 28:22 - Shields (Clarke, Ellis) (PP) 30:02 - Osawa (Kon) 2 – 1 2 – 2 43:24 - Tait 2 – 3 51:50 - Shields (Ellis) (PP) 57:34 - Sato (Miyauchi) 3 – 3 59:00 - Kon (Nishiwaki, Suzuki) 4 – 3 59:50 - Saito (Iwata) 5 – 3
	47 min	Penalties	28 min
	40	Shots	21

April 20, 2005 16:30

Norway

3 – 2 (1–0, 0–1, 2–1)

Poland

Fonix Hall

April 20, 2005 20:00

China

0 – 9 (0–2, 0–4, 0–3)

Hungary

Fonix Hall

April 22, 2005 13:00

Norway

25 – 1 (6–0, 9–1, 10–0)

China

Fonix Hall

April 22, 2005 16:30

Poland

2 – 1 (1–0, 1–0, 0–1)

Japan

Fonix Hall

April 22, 2005 20:00

Hungary

0 – 3 (0–0, 0–1, 0–2)

Great Britain

Fonix Hall

April 23, 2005 13:00

Japan

0 – 5 (0–1, 0–2, 0–2)

Norway

Fonix Hall

April 23, 2005 16:30

Great Britain

10 – 0 (0–0, 6–0, 4–0)

China

Fonix Hall

April 23, 2005 20:00

Poland

1 – 1 (0–1, 1–0, 0–0)

Hungary

Fonix Hall

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.^[8]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Morten Ask	5	6	6	12	+11	18	F
Anders Bastiansen	5	5	5	10	+12	0	F
Lars Erik Spets	5	4	5	9	+5	12	F
Marius Trygg	5	5	3	8	+5	2	F
Patrick Thoresen	5	4	4	8	+4	2	F
Tore Vikingstad	5	4	4	8	+7	2	F
David Clarke	5	2	6	8	–2	4	F
Martin Knold	5	4	3	7	+8	4	D
Jacek Płachta	5	4	3	7	+4	6	F
Leszek Laszkiewicz	5	3	4	7	+4	4	F

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.^[9]

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Rafał Radziszewski	238:49	114	5	1.26	95.61	1
Stephen Murphy	247:54	158	7	1.69	95.57	2
Levente Szuper	179:25	102	5	1.67	95.10	1
Pål Grotnes	299:55	91	8	1.60	91.21	1
Naoya Kikuchi	237:46	86	9	2.27	89.53	0

Group B tournament

Standings

	Promoted to the Championship division for 2006
	Relegated to Division II for 2006

Rk	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
1	Italy	5	4	1	0	17	3	14	9
2	France	5	3	1	1	16	9	7	7
3	Netherlands	5	1	3	1	13	11	2	5
4	Estonia	5	1	3	1	16	15	1	5
5	Lithuania	5	1	2	2	16	17	–1	4
6	Romania	5	0	0	5	7	30	–23	0

Fixtures

All times local.

April 17, 2005 13:00

Estonia

0 – 2 (0–1, 0–1, 0–0)

Italy

Ice Sport Centre

April 17, 2005 16:30

Romania

3 – 6 (2–0, 1–3, 0–3)

Netherlands

Ice Sport Centre

April 17, 2005 20:00

Lithuania

3 – 5 (2–4, 0–1, 1–0)

France

Ice Sport Centre

April 18, 2005 13:00

Italy

7 – 0 (2–0, 2–0, 3–0)

Romania

Ice Sport Centre

April 18, 2005 16:30

France

3 – 3 (0–2, 2–1, 1–0)

Estonia

Ice Sport Centre

April 18, 2005 20:00

Netherlands

3 – 3 (1–0, 1–3, 1–0)

Lithuania

Ice Sport Centre

April 20, 2005 13:00

Lithuania

4 – 4 (1–2, 2–2, 1–0)

Estonia

Ice Sport Centre

April 20, 2005 16:30

France

6 – 1 (1–0, 3–1, 2–0)

Romania

Ice Sport Centre

April 20, 2005 20:00

Italy

1 – 1 (0–0, 1–1, 0–0)

Netherlands

Ice Sport Centre

April 22, 2005 13:00

Italy

5 – 1 (0–0, 5–1, 0–0)

Lithuania

Ice Sport Centre

April 22, 2005 16:30

Estonia

6 – 3 (3–0, 1–3, 2–0)

Romania

Ice Sport Centre

April 22, 2005 20:00

Netherlands

0 – 1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

France

Ice Sport Centre

April 23, 2005 13:00

Romania

0 – 5 (0–1, 0–3, 0–1)

Lithuania

Ice Sport Centre

April 23, 2005 16:30

France

1 – 2 (0–2, 1–0, 0–0)

Italy

Ice Sport Centre

April 23, 2005 20:00

Netherlands

3 – 3 (2–2, 0–0, 1–1)

Estonia

Ice Sport Centre

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.^[10]

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Eduard Valiulin	5	2	4	6	+4	2	F
Dino Felicetti	5	1	5	6	+2	6	F
Darius Lelenas	5	5	0	5	+1	6	F
Roland Ramoser	5	3	2	5	+1	2	F
David Livingston	5	3	2	5	+1	4	F
Darius Pliskauskas	5	2	3	5	+1	0	F
François Rozenthal	5	2	3	5	–1	2	F
Mario Chitarroni	5	1	4	5	+3	12	F
Lauri Lehesalu	5	0	5	5	0	2	D
Maksim Ivanov	5	4	0	4	+2	4	F

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.^[11]

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Jason Muzzatti	240:00	82	3	0.75	96.34	1
Phil Groeneveld	298:18	187	11	2.21	94.12	0
Fabrice Lhenry	298:49	111	9	1.81	91.89	1
Andrei Šestakov	152:28	74	6	2.36	91.89	1
Aleksei Terentjev	146:50	85	9	3.68	89.41	0