Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2018

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MEN ' S UNDER 20

IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

UNOFFICIAL FINAL STANDING

Rank	Nation	WCh 2019
1	Canada	A
2	Sweden	A
3	United States	A
4	Czech Republic	A
5	Russia	A
6	Finland	A
7	Slovakia	A
8	Switzerland	A
9	Denmark	A
10	Belarus	I A
11	Kazakhstan	A
12	Latvia	I A
13	Germany	I A
14	France	I A
15	Austria	I A
16	Hungary	I B
17	Norway	I A
18	Poland	I B
19	Slovenia	I B
20	Ukraine	I B
21	Italy	I B
22	Lithuania	II A
23	Japan	I B
24	South Korea	II A
25	Great Britain	II A
26	Estonia	II A
27	Romania	II A
28	Netherlands	II B
29	Spain	II A
30	Serbia	II B
31	Croatia	II B
32	Belgium	II B
33	Mexico	II B
34	Turkey	III
35	Israel	II B
36	China	III
37	Bulgaria	III
38	Iceland	III
39	Australia	III
40	New Zealand	III Q
41	South Africa	III
42	Chinese Taipei	III Q
DNS	Turkmenistan	III Q

 

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MEN´S UNDER 20

DIVISION III

QUALIFICATION

2018

 

 

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South Africa moves up

U20 team wins Division III Qualification

 

 

South Africa won the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III Qualification on home ice in Cape Town after beating Chinese Taipei in two tight games.

After the withdrawal of Turkmenistan the tournament was played as a best-of-three series. Chinese Taipei was the top-seeded team after having beaten South Africa 7-1 last year but the South Africans made perfect use of their home-ice advantage as the tournament host.

In the first game South Africa outshot Chinese Taipei 29-22 and Sky Johnson scored the only goal on a power play at 8:47 of the second period while Ryan Boyd earned a shutout as both goalies were named the best players of the game.

Johnson was the only player to score two goals and collect three points in the tournament.

The second game offered more scoring chances and more goals. And for most of the time South Africa was ahead. James Taljaard opened the scoring at 1:50 but Kuan-Yu Lin converted the first power play of the game to tie it up.

The South Africans took the lead again with a Reinhard Venter goal at 13:07 but 72 seconds later it was again Lin, who scored for Chinese Taipei on a man advantage. And with the next power play Wei Chiang gave Chinese Taipei a 3-2 first-period lead.

South Africa found back in the game with two unanswered goals in the middle frame. At 2:31 Johnson scored the first power-play goal for the South Africans. Two minutes later Yu-Hong Kuo was again sent to the penalty box and Delano Schuurman regained the lead – 4-3 for South Africa.

The goal was followed by ill-disciplined action from both teams with 12 penalties assessed within just over 12 minutes.

Chinese Taipei made use of late penalties against South Africa when Wei Chiang scored on a 5-on-3 53 seconds in the third period to tie the game at four.

With the score tied the teams focused more on their skills, improved discipline and defence. Eventually it was South Africa that got the next lead and Gareth Bremner’s 5-4 marker stayed as the last goal to win the series 2-0.

The third game was not played as part of the competition anymore after South Africa’s two wins but the teams decided to play it as an exhibition game and Chinese Taipei got its first win, 6-4.

 

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