2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

2017 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III
Tournament details
Host country	New Zealand
Dates	16–22 January 2017
Teams	8
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	148 (7.4 per match)
Attendance	3,105 (155 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Rudi Ying; (19 points)
	← 2016 2018 →

The 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III tournament was played in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 16 to 22 January 2017.[1] Division III represents the sixth tier of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The winners – Turkey – were promoted to Division II B for the 2018 tournament. Chinese Taipei returned after a five-year absence. With an increase of teams for 2018, the two bottom-place teams, South Africa and Chinese Taipei, were afterwards moved to a Division III Qualification tournament.

Participants

Team	Qualification
China	finished 6th in 2016 Division II B and were relegated
Bulgaria	finished 2nd in 2016
New Zealand	finished 3rd in 2016
Israel	finished 4th in 2016
Iceland	finished 5th in 2016
Turkey	finished 6th in 2016
South Africa	finished 7th in 2016
Chinese Taipei	last participated in 2011

Results

Format

The two best ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advance to the semi-finals, while two last placed teams from both groups play for final placement.

All times are local. (New Zealand Daylight Time – UTC+13)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	19	8	+11	9	Advance to Semifinals
2	Iceland	3	2	1	11	6	+5	6	Advance to Semifinals
3	Israel	3	1	2	7	9	−2	3
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	3	5	19	−14	0

Source: IIHF

16 January 2017
10:00

China

9–3
(5–2, 3–0, 1–1)

Chinese Taipei

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Ren Mingwei

Goalies

He Wei-chih
Huang Sheng-chun

Referee:

Sergey Morozov
Linesmen:

Jinya Chiba

Frederic Peuriere

Ying – 02:11	1–0
	1–1	02:11 – Yu
Ma (Huang) – 08:19	2–1
Ying (Li) – 13:21	3–1
Li – 15:03	4–1
Huang (Zuo) (SH) – 17:55	5–1
	5–2	18:24 – Chiang (Chang C.)
Deng (Li, Ying) (PP) – 21:07	6–2
Deng (SH) – 27:13	7–2
Ying (Li) – 37:51	8–2
	8–3	50:17 – Chiang (Chang C.) (PP)
Li (Ying) (SH) – 52:30	9–3

16 min

Penalties

4 min

53

Shots

17

16 January 2017
17:00

Israel

0–3
(0–1, 0–2, 0–0)

Iceland

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Raz Werner

Goalies

Maksymilian Mojzyszek

Referee:

Michael Weber
Linesmen:

Aaron Clough

Naoki Sawayama

	0–1	05:48 – Johannsson (Oskarsson, Maack)
	0–2	31:38 – Sigrunarson (Olafsson, Induss) (PP)
	0–3	31:44 – Orongan (Kristinsson, Kristveigarson)

8 min

Penalties

8 min

18

Shots

33

17 January 2017
10:00

Israel

3–0
(0–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Chinese Taipei

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Raz Werner

Goalies

Huang Sheng-chun

Referee:

Sergey Morozov
Linesmen:

Oliver Finch

Park Jae-hyung

Merkulov (Aharonovich, Mostovoy) – 27:58	1–0
Levin (Halpert, Ignatovich) – 36:00	2–0
Kapulkin (PP) – 46:47	3–0

6 min

Penalties

6 min

37

Shots

26

17 January 2017
17:00

Iceland

1–4
(1–1, 0–0, 0–3)

China

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Maksymillian Mojzyszek
Arnar Hjaltested

Goalies

Ren Mingwei

Referee:

Peter Tarnaris
Linesmen:

Danny Beresford

Fraser Ohlson

Induss (J. Arnason) (PP) – 04:48	1–0
	1–1	16:34 – Gao (Ying)
	1–2	42:55 – Li (Ying, Huang)
	1–3	58:52 – Ying (Huang) (PP)
	1–4	59:12 – Li (Deng, Ying)

18 min

Penalties

18 min

28

Shots

35

19 January 2017
10:00

Chinese Taipei

2–7
(0–2, 1–5, 1–0)

Iceland

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Huang Sheng-chun – Out 27:17
Wei-Chih-he – In 27:17

Goalies

Arnar Hjaltested

Referee:

Michael Weber
Linesmen:

Jinya Chiba

Frederic Peuriere

	0–1	03:37 – Induss (J. Arnason, V. Arason) (SH)
	0–2	12:36 – J. Arnason (Olafsson, Sigrunarson)
	0–3	20:43 – Induss (Sigrunarson, Olafsson)
	0–4	24:51 – Olafsson (Sigrunarson, Thorsteinsson)
	0–5	27:17 – Maack (Gunnlaugsson, Oskarsson
	0–6	28:25 – Sigrunarson (Induss, Olafsson)
Huang P. (Tang, Pan) – 34:04	1–6
	1–7	38:21 – Kristveigarson (A. Orongan) (PP)
Hsu (Pan, Huang P.) – 58:03	2–7

14 min

Penalties

14 min

18

Shots

60

19 January 2017
17:00

China

6–4
(3–1, 1–1, 2–2)

Israel

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Ren Mingwei
Wang Yupeng

Goalies

Raz Werner

Referee:

Peter Haxell
Linesmen:

Lauri Nikulainen

Naoki Sawayama

	0–1	07:40 – Revniaga
Guo J. (Zuo, Gao) – 07:50	1–1
Huang (Wang C., Guo J.) (PP) – 09:43	2–1
Zhang (Wu, Deng) (PP) – 15:36	3–1
Wu (Xie, Ma) – 24:34	4–1
	4–2	29:11 – Sever (Hoffman) (PP)
Huang (Zuo, Guo J.) (PP) – 48:23	5–2
Ying (Zhang, Deng) – 54:48	6–2
	6–3	56:48 – Ignatovich (Kapulkin)
	6–4	59:45 – Ignatovich (Kapulkin, Hoffman)

10 min

Penalties

10 min

47

Shots

20

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	3	3	0	20	5	+15	9	Advance to Semifinals
2	New Zealand	3	2	1	12	12	0	6	Advance to Semifinals
3	Bulgaria	3	1	2	10	15	−5	3
4	South Africa	3	0	3	4	14	−10	0

Source: IIHF

16 January 2017
13:30

Bulgaria

5–2
(2–1, 1–1, 2–0)

South Africa

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Dimitar Dimitrov

Goalies

Aslam Khan

Referee:

Shingo Ikegami
Linesmen:

Oliver Finch

Park Jae-hyung

Vachkov (M. Vasilev) – 01:02	1–0
M. Vasilev (Vachkov) – 03:47	2–0
	2–1	15:16 – Beukes (Venter) (PP2)
	2–2	29:46 – Ruthven (Bremner, Compton)
Dilkov (T. Georgiev, M. Vasilev) (PP) – 31:15	3–2
M. Vasilev (T. Georgiev) – 53:44	4–2
Blagoev (Genkov) (SH,ENG) – 58:47	5–2

14 min

Penalties

18 min

37

Shots

23

16 January 2017
20:30

New Zealand

4–6
(1–3, 1–2, 2–1)

Turkey

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 200

Game reference

James Moore (out 07:50)
Taylor Goodall (in 07:50)

Goalies

Tolga Bozaci

Referee:

Peter Tarnaris
Linesmen:

Lauri Nikulainen

Fraser Ohlson

	0–1	02:18 – H. Salt (Bakal) (SH)
	0–2	05:42 – H. Salt (Bakal) (PP)
	0–3	07:50 – Bingol (Savas)
Rooney (S. Brown, Vortanov) – 19:25	1–3
Vortanov (Harford) – 20:34	2–3
	2–4	34:26 Taygar (Y. Kars)
	2–5	37:04 – H. Salt (Savas)
	2–6	46:59 – H. Salt (Bakal, Y. Kars)(PP)
Harford – 48:37	3–6
Vortanov (Rooney, S. Brown) – 54:25	4–6

8 min

Penalties

4 min

13

Shots

21

17 January 2017
13:30

Turkey

8–1
(2–0, 2–0, 4–1)

Bulgaria

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Tolga Bozaci

Goalies

Dimitar Dimitrov

Referee:

Peter Haxell
Linesmen:

Aaron Clough

Naoki Sawayama

Kavaz (Savas, Bingol) – 15:26	1–0
Bingol (Kavaz, Faner) (PP) – 18:23	2–0
Bakal (SH) – 24:52	3–0
H. Salt (Taygar, Bakal) – 36:18	4–0
Kavaz (K. Salt) (PP) – 50:18	5–0
Y. Kars (Savas) (PP) – 50:34	6–0
Bingol (H. Secer, H. Salt) – 52:10	7–0
	7–1	55:30 – Ivanov (I. Gerogiev)
Kavaz (PP) – 58:39	8–1

12 min

Penalties

20 min

54

Shots

18

17 January 2017
20:30

New Zealand

3–2
(2–2, 0–0, 1–0)

South Africa

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 200

Game reference

Tyler Goodall

Goalies

Ryan Boyd

Referee:

Michael Weber
Linesmen:

Jinya Chiba

Frederic Peuriere

Vortanov – 00:52	1–0
Rooney (S. Brown) – 05:44	2–0
	2–1	13:55 – L. Vivier (Compton, Bremner)
	2–2	15:05 – De Jager (Britz, Patrick)
Vortanov (Fraser) – 56:12	3–2

8 min

Penalties

31 min

41

Shots

19

19 January 2017
13:30

South Africa

0–6
(0–1, 0–2, 0–3)

Turkey

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Aslam Khan

Goalies

Muhammed Karagul

Referee:

Shingo Ikegami
Linesmen:

Oliver Finch

Park Jae-hyung

	0–1	07:05 – E. Secer
	0–2	27:55 – O. Kars (Y. Kars)
	0–3	31:19 – Kavaz (Y. Kars)
	0–4	44:32 – Faner (H. Secer) (PP)
	0–5	53:08 – O. Kars (K. Salt) (PP)
	0–6	59L02 – Bingol (O. Kars)

16 min

Penalties

6 min

10

Shots

55

19 January 2017
20:30

Bulgaria

4–5
(0–3, 3–0, 1–2)

New Zealand

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 230

Game reference

Dimitar Dimitrov

Goalies

Taylor Goodall

Referee:

Sergey Morozov
Linesmen:

Danny Beresford

Fraser Ohlson

	0–1	03:29 – Rooney (S. Brown)
	0–2	13:01 – Egan
	0–3	18:06 – Rooney (S. Brown) (PP2)
Dilkov (T. Georgiev) (PP) – 20:55	1–3
Gatchev (Genkov) (PP) – 24:52	2–3
Gatchev (T. Georgiev) (PP) – 27:34	3–3
Blagoev (T. Georgiev) – 48:02	4–3
	4–4	56:50 – Rooney
	4–5	59:35 – Vortanov (S. Brown) (PP2)

67 min

Penalties

34 min

26

Shots

46

Playoff round

Semifinals			5th place

A3	Israel	9
B4	South Africa	0
			A3	Israel	3
			B3	Bulgaria	2
B3	Bulgaria	6
A4	Chinese Taipei	1	7th place

			B4	South Africa	1
			A4	Chinese Taipei	7

Semifinals			Final

A1	China	11
B2	New Zealand	2
			B1	Turkey	2
			A1	China	1
B1	Turkey	3
A2	Iceland	2	Third place

			A2	Iceland	10
			B2	New Zealand	0

Semifinals

21 January 2017
10:00

Israel

9–0
(0–0, 5–0, 4–0)

South Africa

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Raz Werner
Yoav Regev

Goalies

Ryan Boyd
Aslam Khan

Referee:

Peter Haxell
Linesmen:

Jinya Chiba

Oliver Finch

Kapulkin (Ignatovich, Hoffman) – 20:37	1–0
Sever (Avraham, Revniaga) – 24:00	2–0
Ignatovich (Kapulkin, Merkulov) – 24:49	3–0
Aharonovich (Avraham, Kozev) (PP) – 31:04	4–0
Kapulkin (Ignatovich, Kafri) – 39:41	5–0
Revniaga – 44:16	6–0
Mostovoy (Avraham, Sever) – 52:23	7–0
Levin (Haver, Halpert) – 56:36	8–0
Revniaga (Kapulkin, Hoffman) (PP) – 59:48	9–0

8 min

Penalties

6 min

47

Shots

13

21 January 2017
13:30

Bulgaria

6–1
(3–0, 2–0, 1–1)

Chinese Taipei

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Dimitar Dimitrov

Goalies

He Wei-chih
Huang Sheng-chun

Referee:

Shingo Ikegami
Linesmen:

Danny Beresford

Fraser Ohlson

M. Vasilev (Vachkov, Gatchev) – 03:20	1–0
M. Vasilev (Dilkov, I. Georgiev) – 05:09	2–0
Dilkov (M. Vasilev, Gatchev) – 05:23	3–0
Gatchev (Blagoev) – 35:31	4–0
I. Georgiev (Dikov) – 36:12	5–0
	5–1	48:14 – Pan (Chang C.)
Blagoev (Dikov) – 59:08	6–1

16 min

Penalties

4 min

40

Shots

36

21 January 2017
17:00

Turkey

3–2
(0–1, 0–1, 3–0)

Iceland

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 150

Game reference

Tolga Bozaci

Goalies

Maksymilian Mojzyszek

Referee:
Michael Weber

Linesmen:
Frederic Peuriere

Naoki Sawayama

	0–1	11:42 – Johannsson (SH)
	0–2	39:25 – V. Arason (G. Arason, Oskarsson)
Bakal – 45:24	1–2
K. Salt (Savas, Y. Kars) (PP) – 54:55	2–2
Faner (K. Salt, Bakal) – 56:40	3–2

18 min

Penalties

18 min

28

Shots

28

21 January 2017
20:30

China

11–2
(4–0, 1–2, 6–0)

New Zealand

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 400

Game reference

Mingwei Ren

Goalies

Taylor Goodall
James Moore

Referee:
Peter Tarnaris

Linesmen:
Lauri Nikulainen

Jae Hyung Park

Ying (Zuo) – 04:30	1–0
Huang (Zuo) – 04:55	2–0
Ying (Deng) – 06:06	3–0
Deng (Ying, Zhang) (PP) – 13:57	4–0
	4–1	34:16 – Leahy (Rooney)
Deng, (Wu) (PP) – 36:18	5–1
	5–2	39:02 – S. Brown
Li (Ying) – 40:20	6–2
Deng (Ying) – 42:50	7–2
Ma (Goa, Ying) – 49:38	8–2
Wu (Li) (PP2) – 53:21	9–2
Ying (Zhang) – 56:44	10–2
Ma (Si) – 58:26	11–2

8 min

Penalties

10 min

58

Shots

15

7th place game

22 January 2017
10:00

South Africa

1–7
(0–2, 1–2, 0–3)

Chinese Taipei

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Aslam Khan

Goalies

Huang Sheng-chun
He Wei-chih

Referee:
Peter Tarnaris

Linesmen:
Fraser Ohlson

Frederic Peuriere

	0–1	01:40 – Lo (Tang)
	0–2	08:51 – Chen K. (Chiang) (PP)
	0–3	28:42 – Hsu (Huang P.)
Bremner (Husselman) (PP) – 33:10	1–3
	1–4	33:18 – Chen K.
	1–5	40:17 – Chang H. (Huang P. )
	1–6	46:31 – Hsu (Lu)
	1–7	54:11 – Hsu (Pan, Huang P.) (PP)

22 min

Penalties

12 min

18

Shots

34

5th place game

22 January 2017
13:30

Israel

3–2
(2–0, 0–0, 1–2)

Bulgaria

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 100

Game reference

Raz Werner

Goalies

Dimitar Dimitrov

Referee:

Peter Haxell
Linesmen:

Danny Beresford

Oliver Finch

Kapulkin (Merkulov, Hoffman) – 03:02	1–0
Revniaga (Kapulkin, Kafri) (PP) – 12:10	2–0
Ignatovich – 54:38	3–0
	3–1	55:34 – Dikov (T. Georgiev)
	3–2	55:52 – Gatchev

10 min

Penalties

14 min

22

Shots

37

Bronze medal game

22 January 2017
17:00

Iceland

10–0
(0–0, 5–0, 5–0)

New Zealand

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 275

Game reference

Arnar Hjaltested

Goalies

James Moore
Taylor Goodall

Referee:

Shingo Ikegami
Linesmen:

Jinya Chiba

Park Jae-hyung

Johannsson (H. Arnason) – 21:46	1–0
J. Arnason (Maack, Kristinsson) – 23:14	2–0
Sigrunarson (Olafsson, J. Arnason) – 32:13	3–0
Induss (J. Arnason) – 33:52	4–0
Olafsson (V. Arason, Sigrunarson) – 34:54	5–0
Kristinsson – 44:47	6–0
Thorsteinsson (Orongan) (PP) – 46:48	7–0
Kristveigarson (J. Arnason) – 49:47	8–0
Gunlaugsson (Orongan, Kristveigarson) – 51:00	9–0
Gunnlaugsson (Kristveigarson) – 59:57	10–0

6 min

Penalties

16 min

63

Shots

20

Final

22 January 2017
20:30

Turkey

2–1
(1–0, 1–1, 0–0)

China

Dunedin Ice Stadium
Attendance: 350

Game reference

Tolga Bozaci

Goalies

Ren Mingwei

Referee:

Sergey Morozov
Linesmen:

Lauri Nikulainen

Naoki Sawayama

H. Salt (E. Secer) – 18:22	1–0
Y. Kars (Savas) – 30:53	2–0
	2–1	35:00 – li (Deng, Ying)

4 min

Penalties

4 min

25

Shots

31

Statistics

Rudi Ying of China led the tournament in scoring and was named the top forward

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1	Rudi Ying	China	5	9	10	19	+14	0
2	Li Ou	China	5	6	4	10	+10	2
3	Hakan Salt	Turkey	5	7	2	9	+9	0
4	Deng Zemin	China	5	4	5	9	+12	4
4	Ariel Kapulkin	Israel	5	4	5	9	+8	4
6	Taylor Rooney	New Zealand	5	5	2	7	−1	2
7	Huang Qianyi	China	5	4	3	7	+2	8
7	Tom Ignatovich	Israel	5	4	3	7	+8	4
7	Miroslav Vasilev	Bulgaria	5	4	3	7	0	14
10	Hafthor Sigrunarson	Iceland	5	3	4	7	+6	20

Goaltending leaders

Yusuf Kars of Turkey was named the best defenceman

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	MINS	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Arnar Hjaltested	Iceland	120:00	2	94.74	1.00	1
2	Raz Werner	Israel	279:51	11	92.76	2.36	1
3	Tolga Bozaci	Turkey	240:00	8	91.75	2.00	0
4	Maksymillian Mojzyszek	Iceland	179:00	7	91.25	2.35	1
5	Huang Sheng-chun	Chinese Taipei	206:14	13	90.08	3.78	0

Best players selected by the directorate

Goaltender: Raz Werner
Defenceman: Yusuf Kars
Forward: Rudi Ying

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Turkey
	China
	Iceland
4	New Zealand
5	Israel
6	Bulgaria
7	Chinese Taipei
8	South Africa

References

Tournament statistics

External links

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[1] Tournament statistics

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