2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division II

2023 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division II B
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Tournament details
Host country	<img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/21px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1250" data-file-height="900"> Iceland
City	Reykjavík
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	16–22 January 2023
Teams	6
Tournament statistics
Games played	15
Goals scored	123 (8.2 per game)
Attendance	1,793 (120 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	<img alt="Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600"> Lowie Vreys (12 points)
Official website
	www.iihf.com

2023 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division II A
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Tournament details
Host country	<img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600"> Lithuania
City	Kaunas
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	11–17 December 2022
Teams	6
Tournament statistics
Games played	15
Goals scored	107 (7.13 per game)
Attendance	5,905 (394 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	<img alt="United Kingdom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600"> Jack Hopkins (11 points)
Official website
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2023 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division II
Tournament details
Host countries	Lithuania; Iceland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	11–17 December 2022; 16–22 January 2023
Teams	12
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The 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division II was a pair of international ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It consisted of two tiered groups of six teams each: the fourth-tier Division II A and the fifth-tier Division II B. For each tier's tournament, the first-placed team was promoted to a higher division, while the last-placed team was relegated to a lower division.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player cannot be born earlier than 2003.

Division II A

The Division II A tournament was played in Kaunas, Lithuania, from 11 to 17 December 2022.^[1]^[2]

Participating teams

Team	Qualification
Great Britain	placed 3rd in Division II A last year
Spain	placed 4th in Division II A last year
Lithuania	hosts; placed 5th in Division II A last year
Romania	placed 6th in Division II A last year
Croatia	placed 1st in Division II B last year and were promoted
Netherlands	placed 2nd in Division II B last year and were promoted

Match officials

Four referees and seven linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[3]

Referees

Gergely Korbuly
Krzysztof Kozłowski
Māris Locāns
Anton Peretyatko

Linesmen

Go Hashimoto
Alexander Kaptain
Sergii Kharaberyush
Vladislav Mashenkin
Aleksej Sascenkov
Jason Thorrignac
Juri Timofejev

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Croatia	5	3	1	1	0	25	17	+8	12^[a]	Promoted to the 2024 Division I B
2	Great Britain	5	4	0	0	1	27	11	+16	12^[a]
3	Lithuania (H)	5	3	0	1	1	15	9	+6	10
4	Spain	5	2	0	0	3	18	20	−2	6
5	Netherlands	5	1	1	0	3	11	21	−10	5
6	Romania	5	0	0	0	5	11	29	−18	0	Relegated to the 2024 Division II B

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Great Britain 4–7 Croatia

Match results

All times are local (Eastern European Time – UTC+2).

11 December 2022
12:30

Netherlands

3–2 OT
(1–1, 0–1, 1–0)
(OT: 1–0)

Croatia

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 112


Jowin Ansems	Goalies	Teo Janjatović-Lončar	Referee: Anton Peretyatko Linesmen: Go Hashimoto Juri Timofejev


28	Shots	47

11 December 2022
16:00

Lithuania

3–4
(2–1, 1–2, 0–1)

Great Britain

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 689


Julius Andrekus	Goalies	Benjamin Norton	Referee: Māris Locāns Linesmen: Sergii Kharaberyush Jason Thorrignac


20	Shots	32

11 December 2022
19:30

Spain

6–2
(1–1, 2–0, 3–1)

Romania

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 238


Julio Rapun	Goalies	Nandor Biro	Referee: Gergely Korbuly Linesmen: Vladislav Mashenkin Aleksej Sascenkov


34	Shots	18

13 December 2022
12:30

Romania

4–5
(1–2, 1–0, 2–3)

Netherlands

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 82


Nandor Biro	Goalies	Jowin Ansems	Referee: Krzysztof Kozłowski Linesmen: Alexander Kaptain Sergii Kharaberyush


47	Shots	28

13 December 2022
16:00

Great Britain

4–7
(1–4, 0–2, 3–1)

Croatia

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 392


Daniel Crowe Benjamin Norton	Goalies	Teo Janjatović-Lončar	Referee: Gergely Korbuly Linesmen: Go Hashimoto Aleksej Sascenkov


31	Shots	27

13 December 2022
19:30

Spain

1–4
(0–1, 0–2, 1–1)

Lithuania

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 532


Julio Rapun	Goalies	Kazimieras Jukna	Referee: Anton Peretyatko Linesmen: Vladislav Mashenkin Juri Timofejev


26	Shots	35

14 December 2022
12:30

Great Britain

9–0
(4–0, 3–0, 2–0)

Romania

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas
Attendance: 361


Benjamin Norton	Goalies	Márton Buda Nandor Biro	Referee: Krzysztof Kozłowski Linesmen: Sergii Kharaberyush Vladislav Mashenkin


39	Shots	21

14 December 2022
16:00

Spain

5–2
(2–1, 2–1, 1–0)

Netherlands

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas


Julio Rapun	Goalies	Jowin Ansems


31	Shots	32

14 December 2022
19:30

Lithuania

1–2 GWS
(1–0, 0–0, 0–1)
(OT: 0–0)
(SO: 1–3)

Croatia

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas


Kazimieras Jukna	Goalies	Teo Janjatović-Lončar


24	Shots	31

16 December 2022
12:30

Croatia

9–5
(3–2, 2–1, 4–2)

Spain

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





29	Shots	37

16 December 2022
16:00

Netherlands

0–7
(0–1, 0–4, 0–2)

Great Britain

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





11	Shots	47

16 December 2022
19:30

Romania

1–4
(0–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Lithuania

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





21	Shots	34

17 December 2022
12:30

Great Britain

3–1
(1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Spain

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





16	Shots	28

17 December 2022
16:00

Lithuania

3–1
(1–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Netherlands

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





35	Shots	18

17 December 2022
19:30

Croatia

5–4
(2–0, 2–3, 1–1)

Romania

Kaunas Ice Palace, Kaunas





29	Shots	33

Statistics

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
1	Jack Hopkis	Great Britain	5	5	6	11	+8	6
2	Marijus Dumčius	Lithuania	5	4	7	11	+8	27
3	Bruno Idžan	Croatia	5	6	4	10	+7	14
4	Mackenzie Stewart	Great Britain	5	4	5	9	+7	14
5	Jaime de Bonilla	Spain	5	4	4	8	+2	2
5	Vito Idžan	Croatia	5	4	4	8	+8	4
5	Jonathan McBean	Great Britain	5	4	4	8	+7	4
8	Bayley Harewood	Great Britain	5	3	5	8	+5	10
9	Artur Seniut	Lithuania	5	3	4	7	+7	6
10	Liam Steele	Great Britain	5	3	3	6	+7	4

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Kazimieras Jukna	Lithuania	245:00	4	95.79	0.98	0
2	Benjamin Norton	Great Britain	237:44	4	95.45	0.90	2
3	Jowin Ansems	Netherlands	242:22	18	89.53	4.46	0
4	Teo Janjatović-Lončar	Croatia	307:22	17	88.89	3.32	0
5	Julio Rapun	Spain	226:13	14	86.54	3.71	0

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

Goaltender: Kazimieras Jukna
Defenceman: Jaime de Bonilla
Forward: Bruno Idžan

Source: IIHF

Division II B

The Division II B tournament was played in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 16 to 22 January 2023.^[4]^[5]

Participating teams

Team	Qualification
Serbia	placed 3rd in Division II B last year
Belgium	placed 4th in Division II B last year
Iceland	hosts; placed 5th in Division II B last year
Chinese Taipei	placed 1st in Division III last year and were promoted
Mexico	placed 2nd in Division III last year and were promoted
China	placed 3rd in 2020 Division II B; didn't play last year

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	China	5	4	1	0	0	29	9	+20	14	Promoted to the 2024 Division II A
2	Belgium	5	4	0	1	0	25	14	+11	13
3	Serbia	5	3	0	0	2	27	18	+9	9
4	Iceland (H)	5	2	0	0	3	18	21	−3	6
5	Chinese Taipei	5	1	0	0	4	17	29	−12	3
6	Mexico	5	0	0	0	5	7	32	−25	0	Relegated to the 2024 Division III

Source: IIHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) result against closest best-ranked team outside tied teams; 6) result against second-best-ranked team outside tied teams; 7) seeding before tournament.
(H) Host

Match results

All times are local (Time in Iceland – UTC±0).

16 January 2023
13:00

Mexico

3–8
(1–3, 1–2, 1–3)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 50

Game reference

Santiago Cucuraqui
Fernando Garcia

Goalies

Hao-Hsuan Kao
Tzu-Sen Chao

Referee:

David Good
Linesmen:

Sindri Gunnarsson

Jeroen Klijberg

Argandonna (Cuellar,Rullan) – 09:01	1–0
	1–1	11:29 – Chou (Wen) (PP)
	1–2	17:19 – Hsu Y. (Wen) (PP)
	1–3	19:41 – Peng (Hsu Y.)
	1–4	22:39 – Chou (Hsu Y.)
L. Valencia – 33:43	2–4
	2–5	35:50 – Peng (Wen)
	2–6	43:41 – Chou (Hsu Y., Wen)
	2–7	11:29 – Wang Y.H. (Wen, Cheng)
Quinzanos – 50:05	3–7
	3–8	59:43 – Wen (Li)

14 min

Penalties

10 min

35

Shots

35

16 January 2023
16:30

Belgium

3–4 OT
(1–1, 1–1, 1–1)
(OT: 0-1)

China

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 45


Stijn Raeymaekers	Goalies	Boyan Tian

16 January 2023
20:00

Iceland

1–7
(0–3, 0–3, 1–1)

Serbia

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 213


Johann Ragnarsson Helgi Ivarsson	Goalies	Neil Nebojsa Beaton

17 January 2023
13:00

China

4–0
(1–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Mexico

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 35


Chen Shifen	Goalies	Fernando Garcia

17 January 2023
16:30

Serbia

7–1
(2–0, 2–1, 3–0)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 25

Game reference

Neil Nebojsa Beaton

Goalies

Referee:

Cristian Filip
Linesmen:

Jeroen Klijberg

Saemundur Leifsson

Kravljanac (Djordjevic) (SH) – 02:12	1–0
Dinić (Ivanović) (PP) – 12:30	2–0
	2–1	29:59 – Lin J. (Chou, Wang Y.H.)
Viković – 31:08	3–1
Viković (M. Nikolić, Dinić) – 33:59	4–1
Dinić (Savić, Viković) – 41:38	5–1
Kravljanac (Dinić) – 52:02	6–1
Dinić (Perceric) – 58:56	7–1

10 min

Penalties

12 min

56

Shots

27

17 January 2023
20:00

Belgium

5–3
(0–1, 2–1, 3–1)

Iceland

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 153


Stijn Raeymaeker	Goalies	Johann Ragnarsson

19 January 2023
13:00

Serbia

2–8
(1–2, 0–4, 1–2)

China

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 32

Game reference

19 January 2023
16:30

Belgium

5–2
(3–0, 0–2, 2–0)

Mexico

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 40

Game reference

19 January 2023
20:00

Iceland

5–4
(1–1, 1–1, 3–2)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 205

Game reference

Johann Ragnarsson

Goalies

Chen Tai-Yu
Kao Hao-Hsuan

Referee:

Filip Metzinger
Linesmen:

Luis Estirado Revuelta

Andries Gheorghies

Hlynsson (Magnusson) (PP) – 10:47	1–0
	1–1	16:27 – Fan (Wang Y.A.)
	1–2	37:24 – Wen (Peng, Lin Y.K.) (PP)
Arngrimsson (Blondal, Jonsson) – 38:55	2–2
	2–3	43:59 – Lo (Wang Y.H.
Arngrimsson (Thorsteinsson, Jonsson) (PP) – 46:08	3–3
Thorsteinsson (Arngrimsson) (PP) – 47:17	4–3
	4–4	51:31 – Lin (Lo, Fan)
Magnusson (Hlynsson) (PP) – 54:21	5–4

6 min

Penalties

41 min

41

Shots

35

20 January 2023
13:00

Mexico

2–8
(0–3, 1–2, 1–3)

Serbia

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 28




8 min	Penalties	14 min
29	Shots	52

20 January 2023
16:30

Chinese Taipei

2–6
(0–4, 0–0, 2–2)

Belgium

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 30

Game reference

Kao Hao-Hsuan

Goalies

Stijm Raeymaekers

Referee:

Filip Metzinger
Linesmen:

Andries Gheorghies

Sindri Gunnarsson

	0–1	01:01 – Cuylen (T. Vreys)
	0–2	01:51 – Vaerewyck (Vanmontfort, Raeymaekers)
	0–3	09:25 – Cuylen (Gentry)
	0–4	19:45 – L. Vreys (T. Vreys, van Gorp)
	0–5	55:07 – Vanmontfort (Palmaerts)
Peng (Lin Y.K., Lin Y.C.) (PP) – 58:08	1–5
Peng (Lin Y.K.) (PP) – 58:42	2–5
	2–6	59:33 – Vaerewyck

8 min

Penalties

16 min

33

Shots

40

20 January 2023
20:00

China

5–2
(2–0, 2–1, 1–1)

Iceland

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 264




12 min	Penalties	8 min
44	Shots	35

22 January 2023
11:00

China

8–2
(2–0, 4–0, 2–2)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 32

Game reference

Chen Shifen

Goalies

Chen Tai-Yu

Referee:

David Good
Linesmen:

Sindri Gunnarsson

Saemundur Leifsson

Wei (Hu) – 07:07	1–0
Liu Z. (Hu) – 09:55	2–0
Hu – 23:01	3–0
Li M. (Lyu, Chen K.L., ) – 23:47	4–0
Lyu (Li M.) – 35:47	5–0
Li Z.C. (Hu) – 37:44	6–0
	6–1	40:45 – Lin Y.C.
Ma (Liu C.Y., Zhang T.Y. – 43:32	7–1
Wei –48:04	8–1
	8–2	54:16 – Fan (Peng) (PP)

8 min

Penalties

4 min

42

Shots

38

22 January 2023
14:30

Serbia

3–6
(2–1, 1–2, 0–3)

Belgium

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 62




12 min	Penalties	8 min
56	Shots	32

22 January 2023
18:00

Iceland

7–0
(3–0, 3–0, 1–0)

Mexico

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík
Attendance: 579




35 min	Penalties	16 min
37	Shots	36

Statistics

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
1	Lowie Vreys	Belgium	5	5	7	12	+4	6
2	Tijs Vreys	Belgium	5	4	8	12	+3	2
3	Matija Dinić	Serbia	5	4	7	11	+6	2
3	Hakon Magnusson	Iceland	5	4	7	11	+2	0
5	Vuk Kravljanac	Serbia	5	4	6	10	+2	2
6	Li Ming-shenhao	China	5	5	4	9	+12	2
7	Chen Kailin	China	5	4	5	9	+11	2
8	Lyu Zhiyi	China	5	3	5	8	+12	0
9	Rik Cuylen	Belgium	5	5	2	7	+3	4
9	Slavko Vidovic	Serbia	5	5	2	7	+5	2

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Chen Shifeng	China	180:00	4	95.92	1.33	1
2	Helgi Ivarsson	Iceland	140:00	6	93.26	2.57	1
3	Tian Boyan	China	124:27	5	92.65	2.41	0
4	Stijn Raeymaekers	Belgium	304:27	14	92.13	2.76	0
5	Neal Beaton	Serbia	201:10	8	91.58	2.39	0

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

Goaltender: Chen Shifeng
Defenceman: Lowie Vreys
Forward: Matija Dinić

Source: IIHF

References

External links

Official website of IIHF

[table_hth_GBR0.41173835211049-4] Great Britain 4–7 Croatia

[1] 2023 World Championship Division II A official website

[2] 2023 World Championship Division II A statistics

[3] IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group A – Competition officials

[5] 2023 World Championship Division II B official website

[6] 2023 World Championship Division II B statistics

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Tournament details
Host countries	Lithuania Iceland
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	11–17 December 2022 16–22 January 2023
Teams	12
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