2012 Winter Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

The boys' ice hockey tournament at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held from January 13 to 22 at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria.

Teams from five national hockey associations competed, in one single preliminary round group. The tournament consisted of 14 games: 10 in the preliminary round (teams played all other teams); 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.

All games wwere played in three 15-minute periods, as opposed to the traditional 20-minute periods.

Qualification

The top eight teams in the 2011 IIHF World Ranking will choose which tournament (either boys' or girls') they want to compete in. First priority is given to higher ranked nations.

Preliminary Round

Points to each team are awarded as follows:

• 3 points for a win at the conclusion of regulation time
• 2 points for an overtime or shootout win
• 1 point for an overtime or shootout loss
• 0 points for a loss at the conclusion of regulation

If two or more teams are tied in points, the following tiebreaker criteria will be used:

• points earned in games involving only tied teams
• goal difference in games involving only tied teams
• goals scored in games involving only tied teams
• goal difference in all group games
• goals scored in all group games

If a criterion leaves only two teams tied, then those teams will be ranked based on their head-to-head result.

Group A

Standings

Legend
	Teams to Playoffs

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	PTS
Russia	4	3	0	0	1	25	9	+16	9
Canada	4	2	1	0	1	20	7	+13	8
Finland	4	2	0	1	1	13	11	+2	7
United States	4	2	0	0	2	14	18	–4	6
Austria	4	0	0	0	4	3	30	–27	0

Results

13 January 10:15

Austria

0 – 3 (0–0, 0–0, 0–3)

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 520

Game reference
				Referee: Simon Acher (GER)
	10 min	Penalties	2 min
	8	Shots	43

13 January 14:45

Russia

4 – 3 (2–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Canada

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 932

Game reference
				Referee: Andreas Harnebring (SWE)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	23	Shots	29

14 January 12:30

United States

7 – 2 (4–0, 1–1, 2–1)

Austria

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,180

Game reference
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	42	Shots	16

15 January 13:30

Finland

4 – 3 (0–2, 3–0, 1–1)

Russia

Tyrolean Ice Arena

Game reference

15 January 18:00

Canada

5 – 1 (1–0, 2–1, 2–0)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,575

Game reference
	2 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	16

16 January 12:45

Russia

11 – 1 (0–1, 4–0, 7–0)

Austria

Tyrolean Ice Arena

Game reference

17 January 11:15

Austria

0 – 9 (0–4, 0–2, 0–3)

Canada

Tyrolean Ice Arena

Game reference

17 January 15:45

Finland

4 – 5 (1–0, 2–3, 1–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,824

Game reference
	10 min	Penalties	26 min
	29	Shots	32

18 January 11:45

Canada

3 – 2 (SO) (0–0, 2–1, 0–1, 0–0, 2/3–1/3)

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena

Game reference

18 January 16:15

United States

1 – 7 (0–2, 0–3, 1–2)

Russia

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,124

Game reference
	16 min	Penalties	4 min
	15	Shots	30

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Russia	5
	4	United States	2
						1	Russia	1
						3	Finland	2
	2	Canada	1
	3	Finland	2			Bronze medal game
						4	United States	5
						2	Canada	7

Semifinals

20 January 14:15

Russia

5 – 2 (1–0, 1–0, 3–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,632

Game reference
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	16	Shots	32

January 20, 2012 18:45

Canada

1 – 2 (1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,426

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	17	Shots	19

Bronze medal game

January 21, 2012 14:45

Canada

7 – 5 (3–1, 4–1, 0–3)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,592

Game reference
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	19	Shots	40

Gold medal game

January 22, 2012 12:15

Russia

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

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 3,008

Game reference
	24 min	Penalties	26 min
	28	Shots	25

References

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