2004 World Cup of Hockey

The 2004 World Cup of Hockey is the second World Cup of Hockey (WCH), an international ice hockey tournament. Prior to the first World Cup of Hockey in 1996, the Canada Cup was the name of the international competition between nations. The World Cup of Hockey was held from August 30 to September 14, 2004, in various venues in North America and Europe; Canada won the final against Finland. The tournament's main organizer and logistical manager was David Job of Canada.

Contents

1 Team participants 2 Venues 3 Results 3.1 North American Pool 3.2 European Pool 4 Playoffs 4.1 Quarter-finals 4.2 Semi-finals 4.3 Final 5 Leading scorers 6 Leading goaltenders 7 Tournament MVP 8 All-star team 9 See also 10 External links

Team participants

North American Pool	European Pool
Canada	Czech Republic
Russia	Finland
Slovakia	Germany
United States	Sweden

For each team's rosters, see 2004 World Cup of Hockey rosters.

Venues

• Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Bell Centre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Cologne Arena - Cologne, Germany
• Globe Arena - Stockholm, Sweden
• Hartwall Areena - Helsinki, Finland
• Sazka Arena - Prague, Czech Republic
• Xcel Energy Center - St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

Results

North American Pool

	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
Team Canada	3	3	0	0	0	10	3	6
Team Russia	3	2	1	0	0	9	6	4
Team USA	3	1	2	0	0	5	6	2
Team Slovakia	3	0	3	0	0	4	12	0

• Thursday, August 19 - Training camps open

August 31
	United States	1 – 2	Canada		Montreal (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson , Paul Devorski
			St. Louis (Thornton, Niedermayer) pp 16:01
		Second period
			Sakic (Redden, St. Louis) pp 3:05
	Guerin (Gomez) 10:40
		Third period
		no scoring
		Game stats

September 1
	Canada	5 – 1	Slovakia		Montreal (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven , Stephen Walkom
	Thornton 3:02
	Smyth (Foote, Lecavalier) 4:43
		Second period
	Gagné (St. Louis) 4:07
		Third period
	St. Louis (Richards, Foote) pp 0:58
			Cibak (Bartecko , Radivojevic ) 4:53
	Smyth (Lecavalier, Heatley) 7:11
		Game stats

September 2
	United States	1 – 3	Russia		St. Paul (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson , Paul Devorski
		no scoring
		Second period
			Zubrus (Kvasha , Yashin) 12:20
	Tkachuk (Modano, Rafalski) pp 13:44
		Third period
			Kovalev (Khavanov ) 5:05
			Kozlov (Samsonov) 18:02
		Game stats

September 3
	Slovakia	1 – 3	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven , Stephen Walkom
			Smolinski (Leetch, Amonte) pp 3:09
	Nagy (Demitra, Chara ) pp 11:14
			Blake (Chelios, Gomez) 13:27
		Second period
		no scoring
		Third period
			Guerin (Modano) 16:17
		Game stats

September 4
	Canada	3 – 1	Russia		Toronto (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson , Paul Devorski
		no scoring
		Second period
	Richards (Gagne , Hannan ) sh 3:40
	Draper (Doan, Lecavalier) 5:17
		Third period
	Sakic (Lemieux) 5:43
			Gonchar (Afinogenov) 12:46
		Game stats

September 5
	Russia	5 – 2	Slovakia		Toronto (1930*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven , Stephen Walkom
	Datsyuk (Markov, Frolov ) 8:10
			Hossa (Demitra, Chara) 10:27
		Second period
	Kovalev (unassisted) 12:01
	Samsonov (Zubrus , Gonchar) 15:47
		Third period
	Yashin (Frolov ) sh 0:59
			Gaborik (unassisted) 5:47
	Ovechkin (Afanasenkov) 7:10
		Game stats

European Pool

	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
Team Finland	3	2	0	1	0	11	4	5
Team Sweden	3	2	0	1	0	13	9	5
Team Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	0	10	10	2
Team Germany	3	0	3	0	0	4	15	0

• Thursday, August 19 - Training camps open

August 30
	Czech Republic	0 – 4	Finland		Helsinki (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Marc Joannette , Don Koharski
			Hentunen (Kapanen, Numminen ) 6:33
		Second period
		no scoring
		Third period
			S. Koivu (Lehtinen) 0:30
			Kapanen (Salo , Peltonen ) pp 4:54
			Eloranta (Timonen, M. Koivu ) 8:51
		Game stats

August 31
	Germany	2 – 5	Sweden		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli , Kevin Pollock
			Holmström (Näslund, Forsberg) pp 16:44
	Sturm sh 17:57
		Second period
			Sundin 1:59
			Johnsson (Alfredsson, Modin) 7:26
			Nilson (Sundin, Holmström) 11:51
	Kreutzer (Boos ) sh 13:00
			Modin (Johnsson) 16:25
		Third period
		no scoring
		Game stats

September 1
	Czech Republic	3 – 4	Sweden		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli , Kevin Pollock
			Modin (Sundin) 11:49
		Second period
			Forsberg (Holmström, Näslund) pp 2:58
			Öhlund (Alfredsson, Modin) pp 4:28
			Zetterberg (Johnsson) pp 10:30
		Third period
	Rucinsky (Havlat) 3:20
	Zidlicky 5:16
	Eliáš (Hamrlik) 14:25
		Game stats

September 2
	Finland	3 – 0	Germany		Cologne (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski , Marc Joanette
	Timonen (Lehtinen, Selänne) pp 10:47
		Second period
	Selänne (Timonen, S. Koivu) pp 11:27
		Third period
	Lehtinen (Timonen) 15:38
		Game stats

September 3
	Germany	2 – 7	Czech Republic		Prague (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski , Marc Joanette
		no scoring
		Second period
			Zidlicky (Straka , Prospal) pp 2:56
			Slegr (Dopita , Sykora) 4:27
			Jagr (Prospal) 5:52
			Hejduk (Eliáš) pp 10:50
			Eliáš (Havlat) 15:48
		Third period
	Boos (Lewandowski ) 3:55
			Havlat (Vlasak , Hamrlik) 10:59
	Hecht (Leask ) 17:19
			Prospal (Jagr) 18:36
		Game stats

September 4
	Sweden	4 – 4	Finland		Helsinki (1330*)
		First period			Refs: Dan Marouelli , Kevin Pollock
			Peltonen (Ruutu, Vaananen ) 1:39
			Vaananen (Lydman , Hentunen) pp 4:34
	Modin (unassisted) pp 12:27
			S. Koivu (Lehtinen, Selänne) 12:46
	Lidström (Alfredsson, Sundin) pp 17:24
	Modin (Johnsson) 19:17
		Second period
			Jokinen (Ruutu, Peltonen ) 0:38
		Third period
	Holmström (Forsberg, Modin) 19:15
		Overtime
		no scoring
		Game stats

Playoffs

Quarter-finals

September 6
	Finland	2 – 1	Germany		Helsinki (1300*)
		First period			Refs: N/A
		no scoring
		Second period
	Hagman (Kapanen, Timonen) pp 10:50
		Third period
			Sturm (Goc , Kreutzer ) 13:58
	Eloranta (Timonen, Jokinen ) 16:38
		Game stats

September 7
	Sweden	1 – 6	Czech Republic		Stockholm (1300*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski , Marc Joanette
			Straka (Prospal) 6:15
			Havlat (Elias) 13:30
		Second period
			Zidlicky (Straka ) 16:08
		Third period
			Dvorak (Cajanek ) sh 8:17
			Hejduk (Zidlicky) 14:37
	Holmström (Näslund, Forsberg) pp 16:29
			Hejduk (Cajanek ) en 18:15
		Game stats

September 7
	Russia	3 – 5	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Brad Watson , Paul Devorski
			Tkachuk (Modano) 10:20
		Second period
			Tkachuk (Guerin, Modano) 1:56
	Afanasenkov (Chubarov, Gonchar) 7:14
		Third period
	Zubrus (Yashin, Kasparaitis) 0:36
			Gomez (Tkachuk) 4:25
			Tkachuk (Guerin, Modano) 4:47
	Kovalchuk (Samsonov, Kovalev) pp 11:04
			Tkachuk (Modano, Rafalski) en 19:05
		Game stats

September 8
	Canada	5 – 0	Slovakia		Toronto (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Vanmassenhoven , Stephen Walkom
		no scoring
		Second period
	Lecavalier (Richards, Brewer) pp 2:28
	Iginla (Sakic, Brewer) 5:26
	Smyth (Lecavalier, Heatley) 11:29
	Sakic (Iginla, Lemieux) 11:48
		Third period
	Iginla (Lemieux, Sakic) 7:49
		Game stats

Semi-finals

September 10
	Finland	2 – 1	United States		St. Paul (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Don Koharski , Marc Joanette
		no scoring
		Second period
			Weight (Gomez, Martin ) pp 12:57
		Third period
	Jokinen (Numminen ) 5:04
	S. Koivu (Vaananen , Selanne) 16:06
		Game stats

September 11
	Canada	4 – 3	Czech Republic		Toronto (1830*)
		First period			Refs: Paul Devorski , Stephen Walkom
		no scoring
		Second period
	Brewer (Draper , Thornton) 11:15
	Lemieux (Lecavalier, Richards) pp 14:25
			Cajanek (Hejduk, Rucinsky) 15:07
		Third period
			Havlat (Kaberle , Hejduk) pp 7:21
	Draper (Thornton) 13:47
			Elias (Havlat) 13:53
		Overtime
	Lecavalier (Smyth) 3:45
		Game stats

Final

September 14
	Canada	3 – 2	Finland		Toronto (1900*)
		First period			Refs: Paul Devorski , Stephen Walkom
	Sakic (Lemieux, Brewer) 0:52		Hahl (Lydman , Berg), 6:34
		Second period
	Niedermayer (Thornton, Draper ), 3:15		T. Ruutu (Lydman ), 19:00
		Third period
	Doan (Thornton, Foote), 0:34
		Game stats

Note: All times Eastern Daylight-Saving Time (UTC - 4 h)

Leading scorers

Rk	Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1	Fredrik Modin	4	4	4	8	2
2	Vincent Lecavalier	6	2	5	7	8
3	Keith Tkachuk	5	5	1	6	23
4	Martin Havlat	5	3	3	6	2
5	Kimmo Timonen	6	1	5	6	2
6	Mike Modano	5	0	6	6	0
7	Daniel Alfredsson	4	0	6	6	2
8	Joe Sakic	6	3	3	6	2
9	Milan Hejduk	5	3	2	5	2
10	Patrik Elias	5	3	2	5	10

Leading goaltenders

Rk	Goaltender	Mins	GA	GAA	SV%
1	Martin Brodeur	300	5	1.00	.961
2	Rick DiPietro	60	1	1.00	.941
3	Miikka Kiprusoff	365	9	1.50	.939
4	Tommy Salo	60	2	2.00	.895
5	Ilja Bryzgalov	180	7	2.34	.897
6	Robert Esche	238	10	2.53	.909
7	Roberto Luongo	64	3	2.82	.925
8	Tomas Vokoun	302	15	2.98	.881
9	Maxim Sokolov	60	3	3.01	.893
10	Olaf Kölzig	180	10	3.34	.905

Tournament MVP

• Vincent Lecavalier, Canada

All-star team

• Goaltender: Martin Brodeur, Canada
• Defence: Adam Foote, Canada; Kimmo Timonen, Finland
• Forwards: Vincent Lecavalier, Canada; Saku Koivu, Finland; Fredrik Modin, Sweden

See also

• Wiki project hockey:World Cup 2004
• International Ice Hockey Federation
• National Hockey League
• Summit Series
• World Cup of Hockey
• World Professional Hockey Championships
• 1996 World Cup of Hockey

External links

• Official World Cup of Hockey 2004 site
• ESPN World Cup of Hockey page
• TSN's World Cup of Hockey page
• CBC's World Cup of Hockey page
• International Hockey Statistics Database