The 2018 IIHF U18 World Championship Division I were a pair of international under-18
ice hockey
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tournaments organised by the
International Ice Hockey Federation
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; french: Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; german: Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 83 m ...
. The Division I A and Division I B tournaments represented the second and the third tier of the
IIHF World U18 Championship
The IIHF U18 World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-18 ice hockey teams from around the world. The tournament is usually played in April and is organized according to a sy ...
.
Division I A
The Division I A tournament was played in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
,
Latvia
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, from 2 to 8 April 2018.
Participants
Match officials
4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.
;Referees
* Patric Bjälkander
* Aaro Brännare
* Andrew Bruggeman
* Andrei Shrubok
;Linesmen
* Uldis Bušs
* Daniel Duarte
* Māris Locāns
* Henri Neva
* David Nothegger
* Michal Orolin
* Sotaro Yamaguchi
Standings
Results
''All times are local (UTC+3
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Statistics
Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position''
Source
IIHF.com
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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.
''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutout
In team sports, a shutout ( US) or clean sheet ( UK) is a game in which one team prevents the other from scoring any points. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.
Shutouts are usuall ...
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Source
IIHF.com
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Awards
;Best Players Selected by the Directorate
* Goaltender:
Jānis Voris
* Defenceman:
Moritz Seider
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Playing career
A top pr ...
* Forward:
Yannik Valenti
Source
IIHF.com
Division I B
The Division I B tournament was played in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
,
Ukraine
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, from 14 to 20 April 2018.
Participants
Match officials
4 referees and 7 linesmen were selected for the tournament.
IB Assignsments
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;Referees
* Roman Mrkva
* Joris Müller
* Christian Persson
* Gints Zviedrītis
;Linesmen
* Lodewyk Beelen
* Riley Bowles
* Håvar Dahl
* James Kavanagh
* Artem Korepanov
* Anton Peretyatko
* Wiktor Zień
Standings
Results
''All times are local (UTC+3
UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours later than the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be wri ...
).''
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Statistics
Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position''
Source
IIHF.com
/small>
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.
''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutout
In team sports, a shutout ( US) or clean sheet ( UK) is a game in which one team prevents the other from scoring any points. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.
Shutouts are usuall ...
s''
Source
IIHF.com
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Awards
;Best Players Selected by the Directorate
* Goaltender: Eiki Sato
* Defenceman: David Maier
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* Forward: Oleksandr Peresunko
Source
IIHF.com
References
{{2017–18 in men's ice hockey
2018 IIHF World U18 Championships
IIHF World U18 Championship Division I
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Latvia
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Ukraine
Sports competitions in Riga
Sports competitions in Kyiv
2017–18 in Latvian ice hockey
2017–18 in Ukrainian ice hockey
IIHF
Ice hockey in Riga