Talk:2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Attendance
The 2008 Senior Worlds in Canada were never the most attended IIHF event. The record is held by the 2004 Worlds in Prague and Ostrava with about 50 000 more. So I will have to cut that reference to the 2009 WJC being the second most attended IIHF event ever behind the 2008 Senior Worlds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SD3107E (talk • contribs) 17:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

A & B
Are there any references to the group A and group B line ups? ccwaters (talk) 14:05, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Tie breakers
Tie breakers are documented here: ccwaters (talk) 17:22, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Given those tiebreakers, Germany isn't QUITE done yet. Despite the fact that it's unlikely, should the Kazakhs beat the Czechs by 4 goals (or by 3 in a scoreline lower than 5-2), the Germans advance. Wjmorris3 (talk) 04:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * According to the IIHF here, the Germans are indeed done. Kaiser matias (talk) 04:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe so, but I think that's under the assumption that the Kazakhs are going to get crushed by the Czechs. Likely, yes, but not completely certain.  Wjmorris3 (talk) 04:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * the first tiebreaker is head to head play, and since CZE beat GER and KAZ, they are both out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DCnative311 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * But the Czechs haven't played Kazakstan yet. They play today.  -- Farmerman (talk) 19:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Relegation Round
Something is wrong I think, it seems highly unlikely that teams from the same group will play eachother again as it is represented now. As Latvia is already put on one loss, I assume the matches from the first round count too, so the match vs 5A (whoever that is) is already played. Probably the matches on January 4th need to be 4B vs Latvia (5B) and 4A vs 5A, so that all teams have played eachother once. -- Pelotas talk  14:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

If Kazakhstan does not earn at least a point in today's game with Finland, they will be relegated. There will be no way mathematically for them to stay in the top division. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.95.36.125 (talk) 14:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I take that back, there would be one possibility where the winners of the games are FIN/KAZ -- GER/FIN -- LAT/KAZ. In this case, it would be a three-way tie for the 2-4 spots and it would come down to goal differential. 68.95.36.125 (talk) 14:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)68.95.36.125


 * Kazakhstan must win their final game 3-0, 4-1, 5-2 to keep Germany from being relegated. If they win by four goals, it doesn't matter what the score is, Germany stays in; Latvia and Kazakhstan are relegated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.69.68.8 (talk) 22:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC) <!--Autosigned by SineBot-

IIHF should make the div 1 winner play in the championship ~