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World Hockey Championship

Men

The World Hockey Championship, held in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland May 1-17, 1998. Top two teams (*) in each pool after preliminary round-robin advance to the qualifying round. Third place teams play in a consolation round. Top two teams from each pool of the qualifying round advance to the semifinals. The semifinals are a best-of-two series with a 10-minute mini-game if necessary. If teams are still tied, a shootout will decide the advancers. Winners meet in the best-of-two final series.

Final Round Robin Standings

POOL A	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Czech Republic	3-0-0	6	20	5
*Belarus	2-1-0	4	12	10
Germany	1-2-0	2	8	13
Japan	0-3-0	0	7	19

POOL B	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Canada	2-0-1	5	12	5
*Slovakia	2-0-1	5	9	4
Italy	1-2-0	2	8	8
Austria	0-3-0	0	3	15

POOL C	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Sweden	3-0-0	6	16	4
*Switzerland	1-2-0	2	9	10
United States	1-2-0	2	7	11
France	1-2-0	2	5	12

Note: Switzerland advances to the qualifying round due to a better goal differential then the United States and France.

POOL D	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Russia	3-0-0	6	19	11
*Finland	2-1-0	4	12	4
Latvia	1-2-0	2	12	15
Kazakhstan	0-3-0	0	6	19

Qualifying Round

POOL E	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Sweden	3-0-0	6	10	2
*Finland	1-1-1	3	8	6
Canada	1-1-1	3	10	12
Belarus	0-3-0	0	5	13

POOL F	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
*Czech Republic	2-0-1	5	6	3
*Switzerland	1-1-1	3	6	6
Russia	1-1-1	3	10	7
Slovakia	0-2-1	1	2	8

Consolation Round

	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
Italy	1-0-1	3	5	1
Latvia	1-0-1	3	6	1
Germany	0-1-1	1	1	6
United States	0-1-1	1	1	5

Note: Only the top two finishers in the consolation round retain their spots in the 1999 World Championship. The United States must now play through a qualifying tournament in November of 1998 in order to be given entry into the 1999 elite group.

Semifinals (best of two)

Sweden 7	Switzerland 2
Sweden 4	Switzerland 1

Czech Republic 2	Finland 2
Finland 4	Czech Republic 1

Bronze Medal Game

Czech Republic 4

Switzerland 0

Championship (best of two)

Sweden 1	Finland 0
Sweden 0	Finland 0

Scoring Leaders

	Gm	G	A	Pts	PM
Peter Forsberg, Sweden	7	6	5	11	0
Raimo Helminen, Finland	10	2	9	11	0
Mats Sundin, Sweden	10	5	6	11	6
Ville Peltonen, Finland	10	4	6	10	8
Victor Kozlov, Russia	6	4	5	9	0
Radek Belohlav, Czech Rep.	9	6	3	9	2
Pavel Patera, Czech Rep.	9	6	3	9	12
Sergei Berezin, Russia	6	6	2	8	2
Olegs Znaroks, Latvia	6	5	3	8	2
Alexei Kovalev, Russia	6	5	3	8	14
Martin Prochazka, Czech Rep.	8	3	5	8	14
Marcel Jenni, Switzerland	9	3	5	8	14
Gian-Marco Crameri, Switzerland	9	2	6	8	8
Mikael Renberg, Sweden	10	5	3	8	6
Kimmo Timonen, Finland	10	2	6	8	4

Goaltending Leaders

(At least 180 minutes)	Gm	Min	W-L-T	GAA	Sv%
Tommy Salo, Sweden	9	540	8-0-0	0.78	.954
Ari Sulander, Finland	8	477	3-2-2	1.26	.953
Milan Hnilicka, Czech Rep.	8	430	4-1-2	1.39	.935
Michael Rosati, Italy	5	298	2-1-2	1.61	.945
Miroslav Simonovic, Slovakia	6	359	2-2-2	2.00	.923
Felix Potvin, Canada	4	240	3-0-1	2.00	.925
Oleg Chevtsov, Russia	4	240	2-1-1	2.25	.910
Garth Snow, United States	5	259	1-2-1	2.77	.864
Arturs Irbe, Latvia	6	359	3-2-1	2.84	.875
David Aebischer, Switzerland	7	375	2-4-1	2.87	.895

World All-Star Teams

(Selected by media)

First Team: G— Tommy Salo, Sweden; D— Frantisek Kucera, Czech Republic and Jere Karalahti, Finland; F— Peter Forsberg, Sweden; Mats Sundin, Sweden; Ville Peltonen, Finland.

Second Team: G— Ari Sulander, Finland; D— Marko Kiprusoff, Finland and Mattias Ohlund, Sweden; F— Marcel Jenni, Switzerland; Sergei Berezin, Russia; Pavel Patera, Czech Republic.

Minor League Hockey

1997-98 Season