2013 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 15th IIHF World U18 Championship and was hosted in Sochi, Russia. This was also a test event for the facilities to be used in the 2014 Winter Olympics. It began on 18 April 2013 with the gold medal game played on 28 April 2013.

Canada won its third under-18 championship by defeating the four time defending champion Americans 3–2. The host Russians lost to Finland 2–1 in the bronze medal game. MVP Connor McDavid set Canadian records for goals and points in the tournament.

Format
A new format was implemented. The four best ranked teams from the preliminary round advanced to the quarterfinals, while the last placed teams played a relegation round in a best of three format to determine the relegated team. Additionally the practice of playing ranking games (fifth place through eighth place) was abandoned.

Venues

 * Bolshoy Ice Dome
 * Shayba Arena

Officials
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship.

They were the following:

Referees
 * 🇸🇪 Tobias Björk
 * 🇩🇪 Marcus Brill
 * Igor Dremelj
 * 🇭🇺 Peter Gebei
 * Jacob Grumsen
 * 🇨🇿 René Hradil
 * Andreas Koch
 * 🇫🇮 Jari Leppäalho
 * 🇺🇸 Timothy Mayer
 * 🇸🇰 Róbert Mullner
 * 🇨🇦 Steve Papp
 * 🇷🇺 Evgeniy Romasko

Linesmen
 * 🇧🇾 Vasili Kaliada
 * 🇯🇵 Kenji Kosaka
 * Joep Leermakers
 * 🇺🇸 Fraser McIntyre
 * 🇷🇺 Eduard Metalnikov
 * 🇫🇮 Pasi Nieminen
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Pihlblad
 * 🇵🇱 Mariusz Smura
 * 🇨🇿 Rudolf Tosenovjan
 * 🇨🇦 Matt Traub

Group A
''All times are local. (Moscow Time – UTC+4)''

Group B
''All times are local. (Moscow Time – UTC+4)''

Relegation round
The last-placed teams play a best-of-three series.


 * Latvia is relegated to 2014 Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.

Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the directorate: Source: IIHF.com
 * Best Goalkeeper: 🇫🇮 Juuse Saros (FIN)
 * Best Defenseman: 🇺🇸 Steven Santini (USA)
 * Best Forward: 🇨🇦 Connor McDavid (CAN)

Division I A
The Division I A tournament was played in Asiago, Italy, from 7 to 13 April 2013.

Division I B
The Division I B tournament was played in Tychy, Poland, from 14 to 20 April 2013.

Division II A
The Division II A tournament was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 31 March to 6 April 2013.

Division II B
The Division II B tournament was played in Belgrade, Serbia, from 9 to 15 March 2013.

Division III A
The Division III A tournament was played in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 11 to 16 March 2013.

Division III B
The Division III B tournament was played in İzmit, Turkey, from 7 to 10 February 2013.