2006 IIHF World Championship Division I

Main article: 2006 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

The 2006 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 23 to April 30, 2009. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Amiens, France. Group B's games were played in Tallinn, Estonia. Germany and Austria finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to the 2007 World Championship. While Israel finished last in Group A and Croatia last in Group B and were relegated to Division II for 2007.

2006 IIHF World Championship
Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	France Estonia
Venue(s)	Amiens Coliséum, Tallinn
Dates	April 23 – April 30
Teams	12 (two groups of 6)
Tournament statistics
Games played	30
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Participants

Division 1 Group A in Amiens, France

Group A

Team	Qualification
Germany	Placed 15th in the World Championship and were relegated in 2005.[1]
France	Placed 2nd in Division I-Group B in 2005.[2]
Hungary	Placed 3rd in Division I-Group A in 2005.[3]
Japan	Placed 4th in Division I-Group A in 2005.[3]
Great Britain	Placed 5th in Division I-Group A in 2005.[3]
Israel	Placed 1st in Division II-Group B and were promoted in 2005.[4]

Group B

Team	Qualification
Austria	Placed 16th in the World Championship and were relegated in 2005.[1]
Poland	Placed 2nd in Division I-Group A in 2005.[3]
Netherlands	Placed 3rd in Division I-Group B in 2005.[2]
Estonia	Placed 4th in Division I-Group B in 2005.[2]
Lithuania	Placed 5th in Division I-Group B in 2005.[2]
Croatia	Placed 1st in Division II-Group A and were promoted in 2005.[5]

Group A tournament

Fixtures

All times local.

April 24, 2006 13:00

Israel

2–11 (0–6, 0–3, 2–2)

Germany

Coliseum Attendance: 1748

Game reference
	Jevgeny Gusin Boris Amromin	Goalies	Thomas Greiss	Referee: Sven Bergman
	0 – 1 1:04 – Goc (Sulzer) (PP1) 0 – 2 4:20 – Boos (Kreutzer, Goc) (PP1) 0 – 3 5:13 – Bader (Sturm, Hordler) 0 – 4 7:48 – Gawlik (Gogulla, Schütz) 0 – 5 11:02 – Gawlik (Bakos, Schütz) 0 – 6 14:21 – Kreutzer (Ullman, Boos) 0 – 7 23:03 – Bader (Seidenberg) 0 – 8 24:16 – Barta (Busch) 0 – 9 36:30 – Sturm (Seidenberg, Busch) (PP1) 42:44 – O Eizenman (A Eizenman, Bochner) 1 – 9 43:04 – A Eizenman (O Eizenman) 2 – 9 2 – 10 50:24 – Sturm (Ustorf, Busch) 2 – 11 51:23 – Fical (Ancicka, Ullman)
	18 min	Penalties	4 min
	17	Shots	80

April 24, 2006 16:30

Great Britain

3–4 (0–1, 1–1, 2–2)

Hungary

Coliseum Attendance: 1373

Game reference
	Stephen Murphy	Goalies	Levente Szuper	Referee: Rudolf Lauff
	0 – 1 9:47 – Groschl (Ocskay, Palkovics) (PP1) 22:45 – Myers (Cowley) (PP1) 1 – 1 1 – 2 28:38 – Kovacs (Vas) 1 – 3 44:44 – Ocskay (Palkovics, Sille 1 – 4 46:33 – Vas (Ladanyi, Tokaji) (PP1) 56:50 – Phillips (Ellis) (PP2) 2 – 4 57:26 – Shields (Owen) 3 – 4
	20 min	Penalties	12 min
	26	Shots	27

April 24, 2006 20:00

Japan

1–4 (0–2, 1–2, 0–0)

France

Coliseum Attendance: 2600

Game reference
	Masahito Haruna	Goalies	Fabrice Lhenry	Referee: Marc Muylaert
	0 – 1 14:52 – Meunier (Coqueux) (PP1) 0 – 2 18:08 – F. Rozenthal (Bonnard, Bachelet) 24:16 – Saito (Yule) (PP1) 1 – 2 1 – 3 25:20 – Amar (Coqueux, Meunier) (PP1) 1 – 4 36:24 – Desrosiers (M. Rozenthal, F. Rozenthal)
	16 min	Penalties	22 min
	26	Shots	38

April 25, 2006 16:30

Germany

4–0 (1–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Japan

Coliseum Attendance: 1221

Game reference
	Robert Müller	Goalies	Naoya Kikuchi	Referee: Rudolf Lauff
	8:55 – Renz (Ustorf) 1 – 0 35:29 – Sturm (Busch) (PP1) 2 – 0 43:18 – Ustorf (Busch, Ancicka) 3 – 0 50:35 – Goc (Ustorf, Sturm) (PP1) 4 – 0
	16 min	Penalties	14 min
	39	Shots	16

April 25, 2006 20:00

France

1–0 (0–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Great Britain

Coliseum Attendance: 2696

Game reference
	Fabrice Lhenry	Goalies	Steven Lyle	Referee: Sven Bergman
	45:07 – F. Rozenthal (Desrosiers, Amar) (PP1) 1–0
	22 min	Penalties	34 min
	37	Shots	26

April 26, 2006 16:30

Hungary

8–0 (3–0, 3–0, 2–0)

Israel

Coliseum Attendance: 883

Game reference
	Krisztian Budai	Goalies	Jevgeny Gusin Boris Amromin	Referee: Marc Muylaert
	5:12 – Vas (Peterdi) (PP1) 1 – 0 6:40 – Kovacs (Majoross) 2 – 0 13:43 – Vas (Tokaji, Ladanyi) 3 – 0 25:11 – Vas (Peterdi) (SH1) 4 – 0 27:35 – Peterdi (Horvath) (PP1) 5 – 0 34:54 – Szelig (Ocskay) (PP1) 6 – 0 52:33 – Palkovics (Szelig) 7 – 0 55:39 – Groschl (Ocskay, Palkovics) (PP1) 8 – 0
	16 min	Penalties	22 min
	37	Shots	12

April 27, 2006 13:00

Israel

1–7 (0–1, 1–3, 0–3)

Japan

Coliseum Attendance: 1262

Game reference
	Jevgeny Gusin	Goalies	Masahito Haruna	Referee: Marc Muylaert
	0 – 1 17:48 – Saito (Kon, Yanadori) (PP1) 0 – 2 21:15 – Suzuki (Osawa, Ogawa) 0 – 3 22:13 – Yule (Ogawa, Suzuki) 0 – 4 22:26 – Nishiwaki (Ueno, Suzuki) 23:04 – A. Eizenman (O. Eizenman, Soreanu) 1 – 4 1 – 5 53:23 – Keller (Yule, Suzuki) (PP1) 1 – 6 54:56 – Suzuki (Nishiwaki, Yule) (PP1) 1 – 7 56:48 – Osawa (Nishiwaki, Obaru)
	20 min	Penalties	12 min
	7	Shots	59

April 27, 2006 16:30

Germany

8–0 (4–0, 1–0, 3–0)

Great Britain

Coliseum Attendance: 2012

Game reference
	Robert Müller	Goalies	Stephen Murphy Steven Lyle	Referee: Andriy Sevruk
	2:04 – Goc (Sulzer) 1 – 0 9:07 – Gogulla (Schütz) 2 – 0 11:46 – Goc (Ustorf) (PP1) 3 – 0 18:55 – Kreutzer (Bader, Goc) (PP1) 4 – 0 38:54 – Gawlik (Schütz, Sulzer) (PP1) 5 – 0 40:51 – Ullmann (Boos) 6 – 0 46:36 – Schütz (Hordler) 7 – 0 52:52 – Schütz (Gogulla) 8 – 0
	18 min	Penalties	38 min
	39	Shots	14

April 27, 2006 20:00

France

3–3 (1–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Hungary

Coliseum Attendance: 3020

Game reference
	Fabrice Lhenry	Goalies	Levente Szuper	Referee: Rudolf Lauff
	12:10 – F. Rozenthal (PP1) 1 – 0 1 – 1 18:53 – Ocskay (Palkovics, Sille) 1 – 2 20:55 – Ladanyi 22:41 – Hecquefeuille (Coqueux) 2 – 2 29:40 – Barin (M. Rozenthal, F. Rozenthal) 3 – 2 3 – 3 52:18 – Palkovics (Ocskay, Groschl)
	0 min	Penalties	4 min
	28	Shots	18

April 29, 2006 13:00

Japan

4–2 (1–2, 1–0, 2–0)

Great Britain

Coliseum Attendance: 1482

Game reference
	Naoya Kikuchi	Goalies	Steven Lyle	Referee: Marc Muylaert
	0 – 1 1:43 – Owen (Ellis, Clarke) 2:48 – Kon (Uchiyama) 1 – 1 1 – 2 19:17 – Ellis (Owen) 23:03 – Sato (Ito, Domeki) (PP1) 2 – 2 53:59 – Uchiyama (Ito, Miyauchi) 3 – 2 59:58 – Kon (Saito) (PP1) 4 – 2
	12 min	Penalties	18 min
	43	Shots	19

April 29, 2006 16:30

France

9–0 (3–0, 2–0, 4–0)

Israel

Coliseum Attendance: 3048

Game reference
	Eddy Ferhi	Goalies	Jevgeny Gusin Boris Amromin	Referee: Rudolf Lauff
	3:45 – Coqueux (Barin) (PP1) 1 – 0 11:34 – Hecquefeuille (Coqueux, Lussier) 2 – 0 18:32 – Coqueux (Lussier, Hecquefeuille) 3 – 0 33:18 – Meunier (Coqueux) (PP1) 4 – 0 35:39 – Mortas (Karrer) 5 – 0 43:27 – Hecquefeuille (Coqueux) 6 – 0 44:03 – Tardif (Gras, Bachet) 7 – 0 50:24 – M. Rozenthal (Karrer, Desrosiers) (SH1) 8 – 0 57:10 – Meunier (Gras, Amar) (SH1) 9 – 0
	12 min	Penalties	16 min
	55	Shots	9

April 29, 2006 20:00

Hungary

2–6 (1–0, 1–2, 0–4)

Germany

Coliseum Attendance: 2648

Game reference
	Levente Szuper	Goalies	Robert Müller	Referee: Sven Bergman
	8:07 – Janosi (Feil) 1 – 0 1 – 1 30:54 – Barta (SH1) 35:46 – Groschl (Ocskay, Palkovics) 2 – 1 2 – 2 38:05 – Boos (Goc, Felski) (PP1) 2 – 3 45:11 – Felski (Fical, Bakos) 2 – 4 49:21 – Seidenberg (Goc, Kreutzer) (PP1) 2 – 5 54:13 – Seidenberg (Hordler, Kreutzer) 2 – 6 54:47 – Ancicka (Sturm, Ustorf)
	12 min	Penalties	8 min
	15	Shots	50

April 30, 2006 13:00

Great Britain

12–0 (2–0, 4–0, 6–0)

Israel

Coliseum Attendance: 1370

Game reference
	Steven Lyle	Goalies	Jevgeny Gusin Boris Amromin	Referee: Sven Bergman
	6:52 – M. Myers (Clarke, Moody) 1 – 0 14:48 – M. Myers (D. Phillips, Clarke) 2 – 0 25:04 – Ellis (Owen, D. Phillips) 3 – 0 27:16 – Shields (Levers) 4 – 0 30:27 – Shields (Cowley, Weaver) 5 – 0 32:28 – Owen (D. Phillips, Ellis) 6 – 0 41:32 – M. Myers (Clarke, Jamieson) 7 – 0 42:04 – Shields (Cowley, Levers) 8 – 0 48:17 – Cowley (Levers, D. Myers) (PP1) 9 – 0 51:19 – Moran (Sample, D. Myers) (PP1) 10 – 0 52:58 – Clarke (J. Phillips, Thomas) 11 – 0 59:24 – M. Myers (J. Phillips, Clarke) 12 – 0
	22 min	Penalties	36 min
	46	Shots	13

April 30, 2006 16:30

Hungary

3–6 (1–1, 1–3, 1–2)

Japan

Coliseum Attendance: 1340

Game reference
	Krisztian Budai Levente Szuper	Goalies	Naoya Kikuchi	Referee: Andriy Sevruk
	5:10 – Kovacs (Ladanyi) 1 – 0 1 – 1 9:30 – Ueno (Ito) (PP1) 27:12 – Palkovics (Ocskay) (PP1) 2 – 1 2 – 2 30:39 – Ogawa (Yule, Suzuki) 2 – 3 34:22 – Obara (Ito, Ueno) 2 – 4 39:17 – Saito (Uchiyama) 2 – 5 44:28 – Yule (Suzuki) (PP1) 2 – 6 48:41 – Sato (Iimura) (SH1) 54:21 – Vas (Peterdi, Tokaji) 3 – 6
	12 min	Penalties	12 min
	23	Shots	28

April 30, 2006 20:00

Germany

5–0 (2–0, 3–0, 0–0)

France

Coliseum Attendance: 3200

Game reference
	Robert Müller	Goalies	Frabrice Lhenry	Referee: Marc Muylaert
	9:37 – Goc (Kruetzer) (PP1) 1 – 0 11:42 – Goc (Gogulla) 2 – 0 27:13 – Ancicka (Schütz) 3 – 0 33:21 – Barta (Fical) 4 – 0 36:42 – Sturm (Bader, Goc) 5 – 0
	12 min	Penalties	10 min
	29	Shots	29

Ranking and statistics

	Promoted to Championship division for 2007[6]
	Relegated to Division II for 2007[6]

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
Germany	5	5	0	0	34	4	30	10
France	5	3	1	1	17	9	8	7
Japan	5	3	0	2	18	14	4	6
Hungary	5	2	1	2	20	18	2	5
Great Britain	5	1	0	4	17	17	0	2
Israel	5	0	0	5	3	47	−44	0

GP = Games played; G = Goals; T = Ties; L = Losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GDF = Goal difference; PTS = Points
Source: IIHF.com

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 left out.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Sascha Goc	5	6	5	11	+3	2	D
Krisztián Palkovics	5	3	8	8	0	2	F
Olivier Coqueux	5	2	6	8	+3	0	F
Gábor Ocskay	5	2	6	8	+1	4	F
Marco Sturm	5	4	3	7	+4	6	F
Felix Schutz	5	2	5	7	+5	0	F
Takahito Suzuki	5	2	5	7	+3	6	F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
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
Robert Müller	239:08	74	2	0.50	97.30	3
Steven Lyle	217:41	122	9	2.48	92.62	1
Fabrice Lhenry	240:00	99	9	2.25	90.91	1
Naoya Kikuchi	180:00	81	9	3.00	88.89	0
Masahito Haruna	120:00	45	5	2.50	88.89	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

Group B tournament

Fixtures

All times local.

April 23, 2006 13:00

Lithuania

3–3 (2–0, 0–1, 1–2)

Netherlands

Tallinn Attendance: 250

Game reference
	Arunas Aleinikovas	Goalies	Philip Groeneveld	Referee: Moray Hanson
	3:24 – Lelenas (D. Bauba, Katulis) (PP1) 1 – 0 10:29 – Vaiciukevicius (Andrius Kaminskas) 2 – 0 2 – 1 34:09 – de Wit (SH1) 55:39 – E. Bauba (Bernatavicius) 3 – 1 3 – 2 58:44 – Polet (Livingston, de Wit) 3 – 3 59:32 – Hartogs (Kars, van Schagen)
	16 min	Penalties	16 min
	33	Shots	40

April 23, 2006 16:30

Estonia

1–3 (0–2, 1–1, 0–0)

Poland

Tallinn Attendance: 1049

Game reference
	Aleksei Terentjev	Goalies	Rafal Radziszewski	Referee: Thomas Schurr
	0 – 1 1:57 – Czerkawski (Laszkiewicz, Slabon) (PP1) 0 – 2 17:55 – Kolusz (Sokol, Piotrowski) 22:25 – Kozlov (Ivanov, Petrov) (PP1) 1 – 2 1 – 3 39:59 – Garbocz (Rozanski, Podlipni)
	16 min	Penalties	14 min
	26	Shots	41

April 23, 2006 20:00

Croatia

0–6 (0–1, 0–4, 0–1)

Austria

Tallinn Attendance: 312

Game reference
	Vanja Belic	Goalies	Reinhard Divis	Referee: Viki Trilar
	0 – 1 0:56 – Welser (Setzinger, Lukas) 0 – 2 21:33 – Trattnig (A. Lakos, Kalt) (PP1) 0 – 3 33:11 – Koch 0 – 4 33:15 – Koch (Setzinger) 0 – 5 35:15 – Szücs (Kaspitz, Peintner) 0 – 6 56:57 – Peintner (SH1)
	28 min	Penalties	6 min
	13	Shots	52

April 24, 2006 13:00

Poland

1–2 (1–0, 0–0, 0–2)

Lithuania

Tallinn Attendance: 242

Game reference
	Rafal Radziszewski	Goalies	Arunas Aleinikovas	Referee: Turcan Tomas
	12:36 – Rozanski (Podlipni) (PP1) 1 – 0 1 – 1 45:19 – Pliskauskas (Kumeliauskas, Aliukonas) (PP1) 1 – 2 51:24 – Katulis (Aliukonis, Pliskauskas) (PP1)
	12 min	Penalties	18 min
	43	Shots	20

April 24, 2006 16:30

Netherlands

5–1 (1–0, 2–0, 2–1)

Croatia

Tallinn Attendance: 277

Game reference
	Philip Groeneveld	Goalies	Vanja Belic	Referee: Thomas Schurr
	19:42 – Teunissen (Euverman, Schagen) 1 – 0 25:40 – Teunissen (Euverman, Schagen) 2 – 0 34:28 – Hoogsteen (Kars, Livingston) (PP1) 3 – 0 3 – 1 47:08 – Svigir 48:01 – Kars (de Wit, Polet) 4 – 1 59:49 – Polet 5 – 1
	6 min	Penalties	22 min
	56	Shots	33

April 24, 2006 20:00

Austria

3–1 (0–1, 2–0, 1–0)

Estonia

Tallinn Attendance: 2500

Game reference
	Reinhard Divis	Goalies	Aleksei Terentjev	Referee: Moray Hanson
	0 – 1 15:26 – Potsinok (Valiullin, Raskidajev) (PP1) 23:59 – Selmser (Rebek, Setzinger) (PP1) 1 – 1 39:54 – Stewart (P. Lakos) 2 – 1 59:44 – Selmser (Stewart) 3 – 1
	10 min	Penalties	20 min
	50	Shots	17

April 26, 2006 13:00

Austria

5–3 (1–1, 2–2, 2–0)

Lithuania

Tallinn Attendance: 224

Game reference
	Reinhard Divis	Goalies	Nerijus Dauksevicius	Referee: Thomas Schurr
	0 – 1 16:04 – Katulis (SH2) 19:32 – Kaspitz (Szücs) 1 – 1 1 – 2 22:03 – Lelenas (Pliskauskas, Katulis) 28:35 – Rebek (Trattnig, Koch) (PP1) 2 – 2 2 – 3 31:57 – Pliskauskas (Bernatavicius, Katulis) 35:28 – Trattnig (Pewal, Ulrich) (PP1) 3 – 3 45:14 – Welser (Ulrich, Koch) (PP1) 4 – 3 59:18 – Koch (Setzinger) (PP1) 5 – 3
	8 min	Penalties	45 min
	64	Shots	23

April 26, 2006 16:30

Poland

5–1 (2–0, 1–0, 2–1)

Netherlands

Tallinn Attendance: 202

Game reference
	Rafal Radziszewski	Goalies	Phillip Groeneveld	Referee: Viki Trilar
	8:04 – Garbocz (Borzecki, Czerkawski) (PP2) 1 – 0 17:23 – Sarnik (Laszkiewicz, Gonera) (PP1) 2 – 0 20:42 – Czerkawski (Kolusz, Borezecki) 3 – 0 3 – 1 50:16 – Hartogs (Livingston, de Wit) 50:58 – Piekarski (Kolusz, Czerkawski) 4 – 1 51:59 – Czerkawski (Kolusz, Duleba) 5 – 1
	14 min	Penalties	18 min
	46	Shots	25

April 26, 2006 20:00

Croatia

6–8 (2–3, 2–4, 2–1)

Estonia

Tallinn Attendance: 3000

Game reference
	Vanja Belic Nenad Skrapec	Goalies	Aleksei Terentjev Andrei Sestakov	Referee: Tomas Turcan
	0 – 1 1:14 – Titarenko (Sildre) 4:53 – Mladjenovic (Ciganovic) 1 – 1 1 – 2 5:22 – Petrov (Potsinok) (PP1) 1 – 3 8:08 – Titarenko (Sildre) 9:17 – Belic (PP1) 2 – 3 2 – 4 21:14 – Palu (Sildre, Titarenko) 2 – 5 21:53 – Kozlov (Potsinok, Kolpakov) (PP1) 2 – 6 22:51 – Valiullin (Agnevtstsikov) (PP1) 25:28 – Plahutar (Svigir) 3 – 6 29:05 – Glavota (Ciganovic) 4 – 6 4 – 7 31:31 – Titarenko (Sildre) 4 – 8 49:09 – Valiullin (Smirnov, Agnevtstsikov) (PP1) 50:08 – Chovanec (Brumercik, Mladjenovic) (PP2) 5 – 8 59:29 – Jacmenjak (Chovanec, Lovrencic) (PP1) 6 – 8
	39 min	Penalties	43 min
	27	Shots	40

April 28, 2006 13:00

Poland

7–1 (1–0, 2–1, 4–0)

Croatia

Tallinn Attendance: 350

Game reference
	Tomasz Wawrzkiewicz	Goalies	Nenad Skrapec	Referee: Thomas Schurr
	19:58 – Borzecki (Piekarski, Czerkawski) (PP1) 1 – 0 23:13 – Kolusz (Piekarski, Garbocz) 2 – 0 31:19 – Laszkiewicz (Sarnik) 3 – 0 3 – 1 33:21 – Grozaj (Zibret, Chovanec) 46:16 – Sarnik (Laszkiewicz, Klys) 4 – 1 47:53 – Garbocz (Kolusz, Borzecki) (PP1) 5 – 1 54:41 – Lopuski (Piotrokski) (PP1) 6 – 1 59:42 – Sarnik (Slabon, Gonera) 7 – 1
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	64	Shots	12

April 28, 2006 16:30

Netherlands

2–8 (1–2, 1–3, 0–3)

Austria

Tallinn Attendance: 493

Game reference
	Phillip Groeneveld Casper Swart	Goalies	Gert Prohaska	Referee: Tomas Turcan
	0 – 1 2:27 – Pewal (Kalt, A. Lakos) (PP1) 0 – 2 3:20 – Reichel (Peinter, Kaspitz) 5:33 – de Wit (Livingston, Kars) 1 – 2 1 – 3 22:27 – Szucs (Kaspitz) 1 – 4 34:38 – Selmser (Rebek, Koch) (PP1) 1 – 5 35:44 – Trattnig (Kalt, Pewal) (PP1) 39:14 – Livingston (Hartogs) 2 – 5 2 – 6 48:17 – Setzinger (Rebek, Koch) 2 – 7 56:05 – P. Lakos (Trattnig, Kalt) (SH1) 2 – 8 56:17 – Trattnig (Kalt) (SH1)
	18 min	Penalties	18 min
	26	Shots	38

April 28, 2006 20:00

Estonia

2–7 (0–4, 1–2, 1–1)

Lithuania

Tallinn Attendance: 2500

Game reference
	Andrei Sestakov Aleksei Terentjev	Goalies	Arunas Aleinikovas Nerijus Dauksevicius	Referee: Moray Hanson
	0 – 1 5:43 – D. Bauba (Aliukonis, Kuliesius) 0 – 2 8:22 – Lelenas (Pliskauskas, E. Bauba) (PP1) 0 – 3 13:27 – Pliskauskas (Bernatavicius, D. Bauba) 0 – 4 18:20 – Pliskauskas (E. Bauba, Lelenas) 25:44 – Valiullin (Ivanov, Kozlov) (PP1) 1 – 4 1 – 5 35:28 – Kulevicius (Slikas, Vyniauskas) 1 – 6 36:00 – Lelanas (E. Bauba, Pliskauskas) 45:24 – Palu (Sildre) 2 – 6 2 – 7 52:27 – Slikas (Kieras, D. Bauba)
	37 min	Penalties	16 min
	38	Shots	25

April 29, 2006 13:00

Austria

5–3 (3–1, 0–1, 2–1)

Poland

Tallinn Attendance: 1100

Game reference
	Reinhard Divis	Goalies	Rafal Radziszewski Tomasz Wawrzkiewicz	Referee: Tomas Turcan
	1:54 – Koch (Welser) 1 – 0 7:20 – Rebek (Koch) 2 – 0 2 – 1 8:10 – Baginski (Kolusz, Borzecki) (SH1) 8:54 – A. Lakos (Pewal, Trattnig) (PP1) 3 – 1 3 – 2 22:07 – Gonera 54:56 – Welser (Lukas) 4 – 2 4 – 3 58:09 – Piekarski (Borzecki, Czerkawski) (PP1) 58:51 – Koch (Welser) 5 – 3
	14 min	Penalties	14 min
	33	Shots	33

April 29, 2006 16:30

Lithuania

9–3 (5–2, 1–0, 3–1)

Croatia

Tallinn Attendance: 300

Game reference
	Nerijus Dauksevicius	Goalies	Nenad Skrapec Vanja Belic	Referee: Moray Hanson
	0 – 1 1:12 – Grozaj (Chovanec) 5:38 – Kuliesius (D. Bauba) 1 – 1 7:00 – Bernatavicius (Kuliesius, Bauba) 2 – 1 9:27 – Pliskauskas (Katulis, E.Bauba) (PP2) 3 – 1 3 – 2 13:13 – Zibret (Belic) 14:57 – Lelenas (E. Bauba, Katulis) (PP1) 4 – 2 16:18 – Katulis (Pliskauskas, Aliukonis) (PP1) 5 – 2 28:33 – Kuliesius (Bernatavicius, Kaminskas) 6 – 2 42:20 – Lelenas (Aliukonis) 7 – 2 7 – 3 47:39 – Kucera (Iveziq) 56:08 – Lelenas (Pliskauskas, E. Bauba) 8 – 3 59:44 – Bernatavicius (D. Bauba, Kieras) (SH1) 9 – 3
	22 min	Penalties	16 min
	48	Shots	27

April 29, 2006 20:00

Netherlands

2–7 (0–2, 0–1, 2–4)

Estonia

Tallinn Attendance: 3807

Game reference
	Phillip Groeneveld	Goalies	Andrei Sestakov	Referee: Viki Trilar
	0 – 1 11:02 – Valiullin (Kolpakov) (PP2) 0 – 2 13:47 – Ivanov (Lahesalu) (SH1) 0 – 3 35:51 – Kozlov 0 – 4 40:28 – Petrov (Makrov) 0 – 5 52:37 – Raskidajev (Makrov, Agnevtstsikov) (PP1) 53:22 – Livingston (de Wit) 1 – 5 54:57 – Schagen (Hoogsteen, Euverman) (PP1) 2 – 5 2 – 6 56:51 – Makrov (Potsinok, Raskidajev) 2 – 7 58:48 – Ivanov (Potsinok)
	66 min	Penalties	35 min
	21	Shots	36

Ranking and statistics

	Promoted to Championship division for 2007[7]
	Relegated to Division II for 2007[7]

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	GDF	PTS
Austria	5	5	0	0	27	9	18	10
Lithuania	5	3	1	1	24	14	10	7
Poland	5	3	0	2	19	10	9	6
Estonia	5	2	0	3	19	21	−2	4
Netherlands	5	1	1	3	13	24	−11	3
Croatia	5	0	0	5	11	35	−24	0

GP = Games played; G = Goals; T = Ties; L = Losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GDF = Goal difference; PTS = Points
Source: IIHF.com

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 left out.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Darius Pliskauskas	5	5	7	12	+4	4	F
Thomas Koch	5	5	5	10	+6	2	F
Darius Lelanas	5	7	1	8	+3	2	F
Arturas Katulis	5	3	5	8	+7	0	D
Matthias Trattnig	5	4	3	7	+1	8	F
Mariusz Czerkawski	5	3	4	7	+3	2	F
Marcin Kolusz	5	2	5	7	+6	4	F
Dainius Bauba	5	1	6	7	+2	10	F
Egidijus Bauba	5	1	6	7	+4	31	F

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
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
Arunas Aleinikovas	228:47	177	11	2.88	93.79	0
Reinhard Divis	240:00	86	7	1.75	91.86	1
Rafal Radziszewski	188:39	76	7	2.23	90.79	0
Aleksei Terentjev	235:42	138	13	3.31	90.58	0
Phillip Groeneveld	274:49	173	21	4.58	87.86	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