2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

Main article: 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

2017 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III

Tournament details
Host country	New Zealand
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	16–22 January 2017
Teams	8
Tournament statistics
Games played	20
Goals scored	148 (7.4 per game)
Attendance	3,105 (155 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Rudi Ying (19 points)
Official website
www.iihf.com

The 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was played in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 16 to 22 January 2017. 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-placed teams, South Africa and Chinese Taipei, were afterwards moved to a Division III Qualification tournament.

Participating teams

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

Preliminary round

Format

The best two ranked teams from each group of the preliminary round advance to the semi-finals, while the bottom two teams from both groups advance to the 5th–8th place playoffs.

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	0	19	8	+11	9	Semifinals
2	Iceland	3	2	0	0	1	11	6	+5	6
3	Israel	3	1	0	0	2	7	9	−2	3	5th–8th place playoffs
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	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	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	3	3	0	0	0	20	5	+15	9	Semifinals
2	New Zealand	3	2	0	0	1	12	12	0	6
3	Bulgaria	3	1	0	0	2	10	15	−5	3	5th–8th place playoffs
4	South Africa	3	0	0	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

5th–8th place playoffs

Bracket

	5th–8th place semifinals					5th place match
	A3	Israel	9
	B4	South Africa	0
						A3	Israel	3
						B3	Bulgaria	2
	B3	Bulgaria	6
	A4	Chinese Taipei	1			7th place match
						B4	South Africa	1
						A4	Chinese Taipei	7

5th–8th place 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

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

Championship playoffs

Bracket

	Semifinals					Final
	B1	Turkey	3
	A2	Iceland	2
						B1	Turkey	2
						A1	China	1
	A1	China	11
	B2	New Zealand	2			3rd place match
						A2	Iceland	10
						B2	New Zealand	0

Semifinals

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

Third place 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

Awards

Best players selected by the directorate

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

Final standings

Rank	Team	Result
1	Turkey	Promoted to the 2018 Division II B
2	China
3	Iceland
4	New Zealand
5	Israel
6	Bulgaria
7	Chinese Taipei	Relegated to the 2018 Division III Qualification
8	South Africa

External links

• Official website of IIHF