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 this 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.
The NHL announced the lockout the next day after the tournament final was played.

Contents

Team participants

Venues

Results

North American Pool

European Pool

Playoffs

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Leading scorers

Leading goaltenders

Tournament MVP

All-star team

Trivia

See also

External links

References

Team participants

North American Pool	European Pool

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

Venues

★ Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

★ Bell Centre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

★ Kölnarena - 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
	3	3	0	0	0	10	3	'6'
	3	2	1	0	0	9	6	'4'
	3	1	2	0	0	5	6	'2'
	3	0	3	0	0	4	13	'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, Radivojevič) 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
	3	2	0	1	0	11	4	'5'
	3	2	0	1	0	13	9	'5'
	3	1	2	0	0	10	10	'2'
	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, Väänänen) 1:39
			Väänänen (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 (Väänänen, Selänne) 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

Trivia

After the World Cup final game, a sign was posted on the Canadian team dressing room stating "Practice is cancelled tomorrow. No one else left to beat."^[1]

See also

★ International Ice Hockey Federation

★ National Hockey League

★ Summit Series

★ World Cup of Hockey

★ World Professional Hockey Championships

★ 1996 World Cup of Hockey

★ 2004 World Cup of Hockey statistics

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

★ Series du Sommet (série du siècle), Coupe Canada et Coupe du Monde

References

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