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2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
Tournament details
Host nation	USA
Dates	March 29 – April 5, 2008
Teams	10
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Canada ( titles)
Tournament statistics
Games played	26
Goals scored	147 (5.65 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Billy Bridges ( 7 goals) Imre Tiitsu ( 6 goals ) Greg Westlake ( 6 goals ) Rolf Einar Pedersen (5 goals)
MVP	Bradley Bowden (Forward) Adam Dixon (Defence) Roger Johansen (Goal)

The 4th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was held between March 29, 2008 and April 5, 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. The venue will be the New England Sports Center. Organized by Massachusetts Hockey in co-operation with US Paralympics, around 200 athletes from ten countries participated in the 10-team round robin tournament which was featured two divisions: six teams in group A and four teams in group B.

Contents

1 Final rankings
2 A Tournament
- 2.1 Preliminary round
  - 2.1.1 Standings
- 2.2 Final round
3 B Tournament
4 See also
5 External links

Final rankings

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	4th:	5th	6th
Canada Bradley Bowden Billy Bridges A Adam Dixon Marc Dorion Raymond Grassi Jean Labonté C Hervé Lord A Shawn Matheson Graeme Murray Todd Nicholson Mark Noot Paul Rosen Benoît St-Amand Dany Verner Greg Westlake	Norway Audun Bakke Helge Bjørnstad Eskil Hagen Lloyd Remi Johansen Roger Johansen Knut André Nordstoga Rolf Einar Pedersen Tommy Rovelstad Kjell Vidar Røyne Stig Tore Svee Johan Siqveland Morten Værnes C	United States Mike Blabac Steve Cash Taylor Chase Jim Connelly Brad Emmerson Mike Hallman Tim Jones Taylor Lipsett Chris Manns C Bruce Nelson Adam Page Alex Salamone Greg Shaw Nick Teodoro Bubba Torres	Japan Mikio Annaka Takayuki Endo Shinobu Fukushima Naohiko Ishida Noritaka Ito Makoto Majima Eiji Misawa Mitsuru Nagase Toshiyuki Nakamura Satoru Sudo Kazuhiro Takahashi Daisuke Uehara Mamoru Yoshikawa	Germany Gerd Bleidorn Sebastiaan Disveld Thorsten Ellmer Sebastian Kessler Matthias Koch Marco Lahrs Robert Pabst Christian Pilz Rolf Rabe Frank Rennhack Udo Segreff Sven Stumpe Jorg Wedde Rolf-Dieter Wesler	Italy Bruno Balossetti Gianluca Cavaliere Andrea Chiarotti Giuseppe Condello Valerio Corvino Ivan Ghironzi Rupert Kanestrin Gregory Leperdi Florian Planker Gianluigi Rosa Santino Stillitano Werner Winkler

A Tournament

The A Tournament was held between Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and the United States, all teams that competed at the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games and were currently ranked as the worlds best.

Preliminary round

Standings

See also: Ice hockey statistics

Rk.	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PIM	SHOTS	SV	PTS
1	Canada	5	5	0	0	0	28	5	+23	75	123	61	10
2	Norway	5	4	0	0	1	16	9	+7	56	92	69	8
3	United States	5	3	0	0	2	16	8	+8	66	68	66	6
4	Japan	5	2	0	0	3	10	15	-5	48	81	65	4
5	Italy	5	0	1	0	4	5	28	-23	64	38	96	2
6	Germany	5	0	0	1	4	9	19	-10	141	108	64	0

PIM, SHOTS and SV counted in 6 games

Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)

Sat March 29, 2008

Canada

11 – 0

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 14:00 (UTC-5)	Herve Lord 6:05 , 37:50 Greg Westlake 11:27 , 17:22 Billy Bridges 24:47 (PP) , 34:21 , 43:37 Marc Dorion 25:34 Todd Nicholson 37:13 Raymond Grassi 41:44 (PP) Graeme Murray 42:21	( 2 - 0, 3 - 0, 6 - 0 )		Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Peter Hegle Norway

Sat March 29, 2008

0 – 1

Norway

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 16:30 (UTC-5)		( 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 0 - 1 )	41:54 Tommy Rovelstad

Sat March 29, 2008

United States

5 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 19:00 (UTC-5)	Taylor Lipsett 12:22, 14:56, 18:15 Taylor Chace 22:06 Jimmy Connelly 28:44	( 2 - 0, 3 - 1, 0 - 0 )	25:20 (PP) Mamoru Yoshikawa

Sun March 30, 2008

United States

4 – 0

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 14:00 (UTC-5)	Jimmy Connelly 12:54 Taylor Chace 20:41 Chris Manns 39:40 (PP) Taylor Lipsett 43:28	( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 2 - 0 )

Sun March 30, 2008

Norway

5 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 16:30 (UTC-5)	Rolf Einar Pedersen 24:19 , 24:25 , 28:35 Helge Bjørnstad 29:03 , 34:12	( 0 - 1, 4 - 0, 1 - 0 )	12:54 Takahiko Sudo

Sun March 30, 2008

Canada

6 – 3

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 19:00 (UTC-5)	Billy Bridges 4:26 , 10:37 (SHG) , 40:24 Greg Westlake 12:34 Jean Labonté 30:33 Adam Dixon 34:34 (PP)	( 3 - 0, 0 - 1, 3 - 2 )	20:24 (PP) Bas Disveld 33:59 (PP) Sebastien Kessler 40:50 Jorg Wedde	Attendance: 105 Referee: Jonathan Morrison

Tue April 1, 2008

Italy

4 – 3 (SO)

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 14:00 (UTC-5)	Florian Planker 8:39 , 37:34 Bruno Balossetti 34:05 Andrea Chiarotti 50:00 (PS)	( 1 - 2, 0 - 0, 2 - 1, 1 - 0 (OT) )	7:55 Udo Segreff 14:43 Sebastian Kessler 31:44 Gerd Bleidorn

Tue April 1, 2008

1 – 3

Canada

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 16:30 (UTC-5)	Satoru Sudo 34:04	( 0 - 1, 0 - 2, 1 - 0 )	5:01 Graeme Murray 15:20 Bradley Bowden 21:58 Todd Nicholson	Attendance: 130

Tue April 1, 2008

Norway

3 – 2

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 19:00 (UTC-5)	Morten Værnes 1:51 Helge Bjørnstad 17:31 Tommy Rovelstad 20:28 (PP)	( 1 - 0, 2 - 1, 0 - 1 )	27:33 (PP) , 36:46 (PP) Chris Manns

Wed April 2, 2008

Japan

3 – 2

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 12:30 (UTC-5)	Daisuke Uehara 23:49 (PP) Satoru Sudo 32:15 (PP) Naohiko Ishida 37:55	( 0 - 0, 1 - 1, 2 - 1 )	21:11 (SH) Jörg Wedde 39:25 Frank Rennhack

Wed April 2, 2008

Norway

6 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 15:00 (UTC-5)	Stig Tore Svee 2:49 Eskil Hagen 3:21 Rolf Einar Pedersen16:15 Knut André Nordstoga 22:48 Helge Bjørnstad 33:31 Tommy Rovelstad 37:16	( 2 - 1, 2 - 0, 2 - 0 )	5:31 Werner Winkler

Wed April 2, 2008

Canada

3 – 0

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 20:00 (UTC-5)	Bradley Bowden 0:33 Adam Dixon 29:41 , 38:13 (PP)	( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 0 )

Fri April 4, 2008

0 – 4

Japan

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 12:00 (UTC-5)		( 0 - 1, 0 - 0, 0 - 3 )	3:45 Kazuhiro Takahashi 34:52 Takayuki Endo 35:51 Satoru Sudo 43:01 Naohiko Ishida

Fri April 4, 2008

United States

5 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 14:40 (UTC-5)	Brad Emmerson 0:27, 35:49 Adam Page 5:58 Bubba Torres 13:30 (PP) Greg Shaw 44:23 (PP)	( 3 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 0 )	18:13 Adam Page

Fri April 4, 2008

1 – 5

Canada

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 17:20 (UTC-5)	Rolf Einar Pedersen 22:36 (SH)	( 0 - 2, 1 - 1, 0 - 2 )	4:17 (SH) Marc Dorion 7:45 (PP) Adam Dixon 26:03 Bradley Bowden 36:50, 40:15 Greg Westlake

Final round

5th place playoff

Sat April 5, 2008

Germany A5

6 – 1

A6

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 11:50 (UTC-5)	Frank Rennhack 1:12 Udo Segreff 2:59, 34:24 (SH) Gerd Bleidorn 4:29 Sebastian Kessler 14:29 (PP) Sven Stumpe 30:26	( 4 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 0 )	16:41 Gregory Leperdi

Bronze medal game

Sat April 5, 2008

United States A3

3 – 1

A4

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 16:30 (UTC-5)	Jimmy Connelly 5:29 (PP) Alex Salamone 14:59, 26:38	( 2 - 0, 1 - 0, 0 - 1 )	39:15 (PP) Daisuke Uehara

Gold medal game

Sat April 5, 2008

Canada A1

3 – 2

A2

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 19:30 (UTC-5)	Billy Bridges 7:51 Adam Dixon 36:41 (PP) Greg Westlake 44:50	( 1 - 0, 0 - 1, 2 - 1 )	15:23 (PP) Kjell Vidar Røyne 30:41 Eskil Hagen

B Tournament

The B Tournament was held between Czech Republic, Estonia, Korea and Poland, the second tier elite teams all vying for a position in 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A Tournament.

Final ranking

Rank	Nation	Roster
1	South Korea	Byeongseok Cho, Youngjae Cho, Hyukjun Choi, Minsu Han, Jaewa Hong, Jongho Jang, Heechul Jung, Seunghwan Jung, Younghoon Jung, Haeman Lee, Jongkyung Lee, Yongmin Lee, Sanghyun Park, Woochui Park, Seongkeun Sa.
2	Czech Republic	Jiří Berger C, Erik Fojtík A, Michal Geier, Zdeněk Hábl, Miroslav Hrbek, Daniel Kalina, Zdeněk Klíma, Martin Kovář, Zdeněk Krupička, Pavel Kubeš, Tomáš Kvoch, Jan Matoušek, Michal Vápenka.
3	Estonia	Aare Aasamets, Tarmo Eerma, Valeri Falkenberg, Aleksander Jarlõkov, Kaido Kalm C, Tarmo Kolk, Ivar Liiv, Arvi Piirioja, Andrei Sokolov, Imre Tiitsu, Alar Õige.
4	Poland	Łukasz Ciuła, Sylwester Czyż, Jarosław Czyżewski, Sylwester Flis, Rafał Fusiek, Marcin Hebda, Zbigniew Kempiński, Jacek Kozłowski, Jan Maliszak, Andrzej Młynarczyk, Jacek Sapela, Jan Skapowicz, Michał Suliga, Arkadiusz Zoga, Piotr Truszkowski, Krzysztof Wojtaszek, Tomasz Woźny.

Preliminary round

Standings

See also: Ice hockey statistics

Rk.	Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	DIF	PIM	SHOTS	SV	PTS
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	0	14	4	+10	22	18	4	6
2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	0	1	11	3	+8	24	17	9	4
3	Estonia	3	1	0	0	2	9	6	+3	40	10	15	2
4	Poland	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	-21	16	5	10	0

Schedule

All times are local (UTC-5)

Sat March 29, 2008

South Korea

2 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 9:00 (UTC-5)	Byeongseok Cho 3:55 Minsu Han 21:24	( 1 - 1, 1 - 0, 0 - 0 )	1:12 Jiří Berger

Sat March 29, 2008

0 – 6

Estonia

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 11:30 (UTC-5)		( 0 - 1 , 0 - 3 , 0 - 2 )	1:19, 27:49 Imre Tiitsu 20:24, 39:08 Ivar Liiv 21:37 Tarmo Eerma 41:08 Arvi Piirioja

Sun March 30, 2008

South Korea

4 – 2

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 9:00 (UTC-5)	Yongmin Lee 3:37, 21:27 Woochui Park 10:28 Seunghwan Jung 13:50	( 3 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 )	0:20 Kaido Kalm 10:53 Imre Tiitsu

Sun March 30, 2008

0 – 8

Czech Republic

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 11:30 (UTC-5)		( 0 - 3 , 0 - 4 , 0 - 1 )	0:12 Erik Fojtík 3:53, 16:06 Zdeněk Krupička 13:30, 28:38 Jiří Berger 16:34 Martin Kovář 21:43 Michal Geier 30:44 Zdeněk Hábl

Tue April 1, 2008

Czech Republic

2 – 1

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 9:00 (UTC-5)	Jiří Berger 13:32 Michal Geier 36:37	( 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 , 1 - 0 )	1:29 Imre Tiitsu

Tue April 1, 2008

1 – 8

South Korea

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 11:30 (UTC-5)	Sylwester Flis 3:46	( 1 - 2 , 0 - 4 , 0 - 2 )	11:39 Minsu Han 12:38 Yongmin Lee 15:59 , 26:46 Seunghwan Jung 21:17 Sanghyun Park 28:28 Jongkyung Lee 32:20 Byeongseok Cho 41:43 Youngjae Cho

Final round

9th place playoff

Wed April 2, 2008

Estonia B3

8 – 2

B4

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough

Game Summary
Start time: 10:00 (UTC-5)	Imre Tiitsu 6:53, 35:47 Kaido Kalm 19:11, 22:54, 34:12 Ivar Liiv 20:06 Tarmo Eerma 28:32 Andrei Sokolov 39:27	( 1 - 0 , 4 - 0 , 3 - 2 )	31:30, 33:10 Sylwester Flis

7th place playoff

Wed April 2, 2008

South Korea B1

2 – 0

B2

New England Sports Arena, Marlborough