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TEAMS

CROATIA

ESTONIA

HUNGARY

JAPAN

LITHUANIA

UKRAINE

SCHEDULE

Apr 13/08 Croatia vs Ukraine
Apr 13/08 Estonia vs Hungary
Apr 13/08 Lithuania vs Japan
Apr 14/08 Ukraine vs Estonia
Apr 14/08 Hungary vs Lithuania
Apr 14/08 Japan vs Croatia
Apr 16/08 Croatia vs Estonia
Apr 16/08 Ukraine vs Lithuania
Apr 16/08 Hungary vs Japan
Apr 18/08 Estonia vs Lithuania
Apr 18/08 Hungary vs Croatia
Apr 18/08 Japan vs Ukraine
Apr 19/08 Lithuania vs Croatia
Apr 19/08 Japan vs Estonia
Apr 19/08 Ukraine vs Hungary

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CROATIA

Goal Keepers: BELIC Vanja, SKRAPEC Nenad

Defensemen: BEDNJANEC Jurica, BELIC Sasa, BRUMERCIK Miroslav, GLAVOTA Ivan, JACMENJAK Igor, KUZNAR Dalibor, LJUBIC Marko, NOVOSEL Luka, PLAHUTAR Danijel, TADIC Marko

Forwards: CHOVANEC Viliam, CIGANOVIC Oliver, CUNKO Tomislav, GROZAJ Tomislav, IVEZIQ David, AKOVAC Damir, KOPAJTIC MATIJA, KUCERA Vlado, LOVRENCIC Marko, MLADJENOVIC Mato, NOVAK Mario, NOVAK Michael, RENDULIC Borna, SMERDELJ Miro, SVIGIR Kresimir, ZIBRET Veljko

Head Coach: KAVCIC Pavel

ESTONIA

Goal Keepers: RAJEVSKI Mark, TERENTJEV Aleksei

Defensemen: KALJUSTE Kaupo, KOLPAKOV Kirill, LAHESALU Lauri, LEVKOVITSH Anton,OSSIPOV Aleksandr, SAMORUKOV Mark, SILDRE Pelle, SUUR Dmitri, URUSHEV Ilja

Forwards: BRANDIS Maksim, IVANOV Maksim, JASTREBOV Anton, KONOSHEV Deniss, KUZNETSOV Aleksandr, MAKROV Andrei, MININ Artur, NEKRASSOV Anton, PALU Rainer,
PETROV Aleksandr, PETROV Aleksandr, POLOZOV Aleksandr, RAJEVSKI Jan, RAJEVSKI Mark,SEMJONOV Maksim, SIBIRTSEV Aleksei, SOROKIN Janus, SUURSOO Toivo, TITARENKO Vassili,

Head Coach: DAVLETKILDEJEV Rais

HUNGARY

Goal Keepers: BUDAI Krisztian, HETENYI Zoltán, SZUPER Levente

Defensemen: ENNAFFATI Omar, ERDELYI Péter, HORVATH Andras, JOBB David, KANGYAL Balazs, ONDREJCIK Rastislav, SILLE Tamas, SVASZNEK Bence, SZELIG Viktor

Forwards: AZARI Zsolt, BENK Andras, FEKETE Daniel, GALANISZ Nikandrosz, GROSCHL Tamas, HOLECZY Roger, KISS Ákos, KOVACS Csaba, LADANYI Balazs, MAJOROSS Gergely, OCSKAY Gabor, PALKOVICS Krisztian, PETERDI Imre, SOFRON Istvan, VAS Janos, VAS Marton, VASZJUNYIN Artyom

Head Coach: CORTINA Pat

JAPAN

Goal Keepers: ***UFUJI Yutaka, HARUNA Masahito, ISHIKAWA Hisashi,

Defensemen: HAGA, Yosuke, KAWAI Ryuichi, KELLER Aaron, KITO, MIYAUCHI Fumitaka, OKUBO Tomohito, OSAWA Hideyuki, TONOSAKI Jun, YAMA****A Takafumi, YANADORI Shinya

Forwards: DOMEKI Masato, IIMURA Yoshinori, KAMINO Toru, KON Yosuke, KUJI Shuhei, MITANI Darcy, NISHIWAKI Masahito, OBARA, Daisuke, OGAWA Masafumi, OKUYAMA, Akifumi, SAITO, Takeshi, SAITO Tetsuya, SATO Sho, SUZUKI Takahito, TANAKA Go, TONOSAKI Kei, UCHIYAMA, Tomohiko

Head Coach: MAHON Mark

LITHUANIA

Goal Keepers: ALEINIKOVAS Arunas, DAUKSEVICIUS Nerijus, KIELIUS Ernestas

Defensemen: ALIUKONIS Rolandas, KATULIS Arturas, KIERAS Mindaugas, NAUSEDA Petras, NEKRASEVICIUS Karolis, TAMKEVICIUS Paulius, VEZELIS Justinas, VYSNIAUSKAS Tomas

Forwards: BAUBA Egidijus, BERNATAVICIUS Dmitrijus, IVANUSKIN Sergei, KULEVICIUS Dovydas, KULIESIUS Sarunas, KUMELIAUSKAS Donatas, KUMELIAUSKAS Tadas, LELENAS Darius,
LIMONTAS Saulius, PLISKAUSKAS Darius, SLIKAS Karolis, SLIKAS Martynas, VAICIUKEVICIUS Dalius, VISOCKAS Algimantas, VERENIS Povilas, VISOCKAS Algimantas

Head Coach: MEDVEDEV Dmitrij

UKRAINE

Goal Keepers: FEDOROV Kostiantyn, KARPENKO Igor, SELIVERSTOV Vadim

Defensemen: ALEKSYUK Vladimir, BLAGOI Oleg, GUNKO Iurii, ISAYENKO Denis,KHARCHENKO Sergiy, KLYMENTIEV Sergei, LYUTKEVICH Vitaly, NAVARENKO Yuriy, POBIEDONOSTSEV Aleksandr, SRYUBKO Andrei, YAKUSHIN Dmitri

Forwards: CHERNENKO Sergei, DONIKA Vitalii, DYACHENKO Yuri, KARAULSHCHUK Aleksandr, KASIANCHUK Kostiantyn, LITVINENKO Vitaly, MATERUKHIN Aleksandr, MATVIYCHUK Aleksandr, OLETSKYY Valentyn, SALNIKOV Roman,SEMENCHENKO Vitaliy, SHAFARENKO Oleg, TSYRUL Dmitri, SHAKHRAYCHUK Vadym, VARLAMOV Sergii, YAKOVENKO Aleksandr

Head Coach: GOLUBOVICH Vladimir

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Croatia - Ukraine 0-4 (0-1, 0-1, 0-2)
0-1 Dyachenko Y (Sryubko A, Varlamov S)
0-2 Tsyrul D (Kasianchuk K, Klmentiev S) PP
0-3 Shakhraychuk V (Klmentiev S, Tsyrul D)
0-4 Karaulshchuk O (Dyachenko Y, Matviichuk O)

Estonia - Hungary 3-5 (1-2, 2-1, 0-2)
1-0 Ivanov M (Petrov A)
1-1 Vas M (Ladanyi B, Horvath A)
1-2 Vas M (Ladanyi B, Toaji V) PP
2-2 Makarov A (Lahesalu L, Kaljuste K) PP
3-2 Polozov A (Sorokin J)
3-3 Kovacs C (Kangyal B, Groschl T)
3-4 Kovacs C (Ennaffati O)
3-5 Fekete D (Majoross G)
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Lithuania - Japan 0-5 (0-4, 0-0, 0-1)
0-1 Kon Y (Saito T) PP
0-2 Nishiwaki M (Obara D, Tonosaki J) PP
0-3 Sato S (Keller A, Haga Y) PP
0-4 Mitani D (Suzuki T)
0-5 Kawai R (Keller A, Mitani D) PP

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Ukraine - Estonia 3-1 (0-0, 2-1, 1-0)
0-1 Markov A (Kaljuste K) PP
1-1 Tsyrul D (Kasianchuk K)
2-1 Navarenko Y (Lytvynenko V) SH
3-1 Salnikov R (Tsyrul D, Klymentiev S)

Hungary - Lithuania 6-0 (2-0, 2-0, 2-0)
1-0 Vas M (Tokaji V) PP
2-0 Ocskay G (Palkovics K, Szelig V) PP
3-0 Palkovics K (Sille T) PP
4-0 Kovacs C PS
5-0 Ocskay G (Svasznek B)
6-0 Ladanyi B (Vas M)
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Japan - Croatia 3-0 (1-0, 0-0, 2-0)
1-0 Mitani D (Keller A, Suzuki T) PP
2-0 Obara D ( Miyauchi F, Saito T) PP
3-0 Suzuki T (Keller A, Kawai R) PP

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Croatia - Estonia 2-1 SO
0-1 Urushev I (Polozov A, Konoshev D) PP
1-1 Lovrencic M (Mladjenovic M, Glavota I) PP
2-1 Novak M SOG

Ukraine - Lithuania 6-1 (4-0, 1-1, 1-0)
1-0 Shakhraychuk V (Sryubko A)
2-0 Kasianchuk K (Shakhraychuk V, Varlamov S)
3-0 Sryubko A (Kasianchuk K, Shakhraychuk V) PP
4-0 Materukhin O PS
5-0 Klymntiev S (Varlamov S, Kasianchuk K)
5-1 Kumeliauskas T
6-1 Salnikov R (Navarenko Y, Tsyrul D)

Hungary - Japan 4-2 (0-0, 3-1, 1-1)
1-0 Ladanyi B (Vas M, Peterdi I)
2-0 Palkovics K (Kangyal B)
3-0 Ocskay G (Palkovics K) SH
3-1 Sato S (Iimura Y)
3-2 Nishiwaki M (Obara D, Saito T)
4-2 Palkovics K ENG
Video

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Estonia - Lithuania 1-4 (0-1, 1-1, 0-2)
0-1 Kieras M (Bernatavicius D, Kulevicius D)
0-2 Lelenas D (Aliukonis R) PP
1-2 Ivanov M (Lahesalu L, Petrov A) PP
1-3 Vaiciukevicius D (Kulevicius D, Aliukonis R) PP
1-4 Bauba E (Katulis A, Lelenas D) EN

Hungary - Croatia 3-0 (0-0, 1-0, 2-0)
1-0 Peterdi I (Ladanyi B, Sille T)
2-0 Palkovics K (Ocskay G)
3-0 Palkovics K (Sille T, Ocskay G) PP
Video

Japan - Ukraine 2-3 SO (0-0, 2-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1)
0-1 Kasianchuk K (Shakhraychuk V,Varlamov S) PP
1-1 Suzuki T (Sato S, Mitani D)
2-1 Kamino T (Tanaka G)
2-2 Varlamov S (Klymentiev S, Sryubko A) PP
2-3 Tsyrul D SOG

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Lithuania - Croatia 4-3 (0-2, 1-0, 3-1)
0-1 Cunko T (Smerdelj M, Grozaj T)
0-2 Zibret V (Chovanec V)
1-2 Kulevicius D (Bauba E) PP
2-2 Kieras M (Bauba E) PP
3-2 Kulevicius D ( Bernatavicius D, Bauba E)
3-3 Svigir K (Chovanec V, Novosell L)
4-3 Lelenas D ( Kieras M)

Japan - Estonia 7-3 (4-2, 1-0, 2-1)
0-1 Ivanov M (Petrov A, Makrov A)
1-1 Saito T (Domeki M)
2-1 Keller A (Sato S, Haga Y)
3-1 Obara D (Saito T) PP
3-2 Makrov A (Petrov A, Kaljuste K)
4-2 Mitani D (Suzuki T, Sato S)
5-2 Mitani D (Sato S, Keller A) PP
6-2 Saito T (Domeki M, Osawa H) PP
7-2 Kon Y( Saito T, Domeki M,)
7-3 Sibirtsev A (Sorokin J, Ivanov M) PP

Ukraine - Hungary 2-4 (0-2, 2-1, 0-1)
0-1 Vas J (Ladanyi B)
0-2 Palkovics K PP
0-3 Peterdi I (Ladanyi B)
1-3 Blagoi O (Pobiedonostsev O, Karaulshchuk O
2-3 SemenchenkoV (Yakushyn D, Lyutkevych V
2-4 Vas J (Tokaji V, Ladanyi B)
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Final Standings

1. Hungary 15 pts
2. Ukraine 11
3. Japan 10
4. Lithuania 6
5. Croatia 2
6. Estonia 1

Scoring Leaders

1. LADANYI Balazs- HUN 9
2. PALKOVICS Krisztian- HUN 8
3. MITANI Darcy- JPN 6
4. VAS Marton- HUN 6
5. TSYRUL Dmytro- UKR 6

Hungary has qualified for the 2009 IIHF World Championship in Switzerland. It will be the first appearance in the top division in 70 years!
It came down to the last game where Hungary beat the Ukraine 4-2 to earned the return to the elite nations after 70 long years with a perfect 5-0 record in Sapporo. Hungary hasn’t played a top division World Championship since 1939, when they finished seventh in Zurich and Basle, Switzerland.

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