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2004 IIHF World Championship

2004 edition of the IIHF World Championship

Field	Value
year	2004
image	2004 IIHF World Championship logo.svg
size	185px
country	Czech Republic
dates	24 April – 9 May
opened	Václav Klaus
num_teams	16
venues	2
cities	2
type	ih
winners	Canada
count	23
second	Sweden
third	United States
fourth	Slovakia
games	56
goals	286
attendance	552097
scoring_leader	CAN Dany Heatley
points	11
prevseason	[2003](2003-iihf-world-championship)
nextseason	[2005](2005-iihf-world-championship)

Main article: 2004 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships

The 2004 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship was held between 24 April and 9 May 2004 in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic.

It was the 68th ice Hockey World Championships, and was run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

Qualification

Far Eastern Qualification for the tournament was held on 6 September 2003 in Tokyo, Japan.

All times are local.

Final tournament

Venues

[[File:Sazka Arena Ozzy.jpg	180px]]	[[File:CEZ arena.JPG	180px]]

Preliminary round

Sixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the qualifying round while the last team competed in the relegation round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Peter Hirsch

Group D

Qualifying round

The top three teams in the standings of each group of the preliminary round advance to the qualifying round, and are placed in two groups: teams from Groups A and D compete in Group E, while teams from Groups B and C compete in Group F.

Each team is to play three games in this round, one against each of the three teams from the other group with which they have been paired. These three games, along with the two games already played against the other two advancing teams from the same group in the preliminary round, will count in the qualifying round standings.

The top four teams in both groups E and F advanced to the Playoff round.

Group E

Group F

Relegation round

Playoff round

Bracket

|5 May||2| (GWS)|3 |5 May||4||1 |6 May||3||1 |6 May| (OT)|5||4 |8 May||2||3 |8 May||1||2 |9 May||3||5 |9 May||0| (GWS)|1

Quarterfinals

(OT: 0–0) (SO: 0–1) (OT: 1–0)

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

(OT: 0–0) (SO: 0–1)

Gold medal game

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards

Best players selected by the directorate:
- Best Goaltender: USA Ty Conklin
- Best Defenceman: SWE Dick Tärnström
- Best Forward: CAN Dany Heatley
- Most Valuable Player: CAN Dany Heatley
Media All-Star Team:
- Goaltender: SWE Henrik Lundqvist
- Defence: SVK Zdeno Chára, SWE Dick Tärnström
- Forwards: CAN Dany Heatley, CZE Jaromír Jágr, FIN Ville Peltonen

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

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
CAN Dany Heatley	9	8	3	11	+3	4	F
FIN Ville Peltonen	7	4	6	10	+6	2	F
CZE Jaromír Jágr	7	5	4	9	+2	6	F
CZE Martin Ručinský	7	5	4	9	+5	6	F
FIN Olli Jokinen	7	5	3	8	+6	6	F
USA Richard Park	9	5	3	8	+5	0	F
SVK Pavol Demitra	9	4	4	8	+5	4	F
SVK Miroslav Šatan	9	4	4	8	+4	4	F
CAN Daniel Brière	9	2	6	8	+2	6	F
CAN Shawn Horcoff	9	3	4	7	+4	8	F
CZE Václav Prospal	7	3	4	7	+5	2	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.

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
SVK Ján Lašák	538:37	195	9	1.00	95.38	4
CZE Tomáš Vokoun	380:00	126	7	1.11	94.44	2
USA Ty Conklin	300:00	152	10	2.00	93.42	1
SUI Martin Gerber	358:20	162	11	1.84	93.21	2
LAT Artūrs Irbe	300:00	120	9	1.80	92.50	0

IIHF honors and awards

The 2004 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Prague during the World Championships. Aggie Kukulowicz of Canada was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey.

IIHF Hall of Fame inductees

Rudi Ball, Germany
Mike Buckna, Canada
Ove Dahlberg, Sweden
Vitali Davydov, Russia
Ladislav Horský, Slovakia
Yury Karandin, Russia
Tsutomu Kawabuchi, Japan
Lou Nanne, United States
Ronald Pettersson, Sweden
Nikolai Sologubov, Russia
Miroslav Šubrt, Czech Republic
František Tikal, Czech Republic

References

http://webarchive.iihf.com/Hydra/Tournaments/output/WS/hydra.iihf.com/IIHF_Core/jsp/content/web_output/index.jsp@compId=35

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