1998 IIHF World Championship

Venues

Qualifying Round (Austria)

Played 6–9 November 1997 in Klagenfurt. The Kazakhs, Austrians, and Norwegians finished virtually even. In head-to-head match-ups they each had one win and one loss, they each had scored as many as they had allowed. The Kazakhs scored six goals, the other two both five, pushing them to first. The Norwegians had beaten Poland by three, on the final day the Austrians pushed their advantage over Poland to four, giving them the final spot in the World Championship.

Kazakhstan and Austria advanced to Group A, Norway and Poland competed in Group B.

First round

In each group, the top two nations advanced to the next round. Third place teams played a final round against each other to determine who escaped having to qualify for next year's tournament. Fourth place teams did not play further, they were automatically entered in qualifiers for next year's tournament. The highlight of the round was the French victory of the US, the first ever in an official match.

Group 1

Japan was relegated to the qualifiers for the 1999 IIHF World Championship.

Group 2

Austria was relegated to the qualifiers for the 1999 IIHF World Championship.

Group 3

France was relegated to the qualifiers for the 1999 IIHF World Championship.

Group 4

Kazakhstan was relegated to the qualifiers for the 1999 IIHF World Championship.

Consolation Round 9-12 Place

Germany and the United States were relegated to the qualifiers for the 1999 IIHF World Championship.

Second round

Group 2 and 3 first place teams played against group 1 and 4 second place teams in group 5, group 1 and 4 first place teams played against group 2 and 3 second place teams. The top two, from each group, advanced to the semi-finals.

Group 5

Group 6

Final round

Bracket

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Semifinals

Match for third place

Final

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards

• Best players selected by the directorate:
  • Best Goaltender: FIN Ari Sulander
  • Best Defenceman: CZE František Kučera
  • Best Forward: SWE Peter Forsberg
• Media All-Star Team:
  • Goaltender: SWE Tommy Salo
  • Defence: FIN Jere Karalahti, CZE František Kučera
  • Forwards: SWE Peter Forsberg, FIN Ville Peltonen, SWE Mats Sundin

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Places eleven through sixteen were not relegated but had to play in qualifying tournaments for inclusion in the 1999 championship.

Scoring leaders

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

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.

IIHF honors and awards

The 1998 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Zürich during the World Championships. Wolf-Dieter Montag of Germany was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey.

IIHF Hall of Fame inductees

• Canada: W. A. Hewitt, Marshall Johnston, Terry O'Malley, Harry Watson
• Czech Republic: Karel Gut, Jiří Holeček
• Finland: Pekka Marjamäki
• France: Jacques Lacarrière
• Germany: Gustav Jaenecke, Xaver Unsinn
• Great Britain: Carl Erhardt
• Latvia: Helmuts Balderis
• Romania: Eduard Pană
• Russia: Anatoli Firsov, Valeri Kharlamov, Viktor Tikhonov, Valeri Vasiliev
• Slovakia: Vladimír Dzurilla, Jozef Golonka
• Sweden: Lasse Björn, Håkan Loob, Börje Salming, Arne Strömberg
• Switzerland: Ferdinand Cattini, Hans Cattini, Cesar Lüthi
• United States: Bill Christian, Jack McCartan, Robert Ridder, John P. Riley Jr.

Citations

References

• Complete results
• Archive Switzerland 1998
• Qualifying tournament details

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