Slovenia and Austria move up

Slovenia and Austria move up

26 Apr 2014 | Henrik Lundqvist
 

Today, on the last day of the World Championship Division 1A, Slovenia and Austria secured the first two spots that earn them promotion to next season's elite division. Japan was close. Had they won the shoot-out against Hungary it would have been enough.

 
 
 
 

Since Japan lost the shootout game to Hungary Austria knew already before the game against Slovenia that they had won promotion. Slovenia on the other hand needed at least two points to surpass Japan. They got three as they beat Austria 3-1.

Jan Urbas scored two of the Slovenian goals: "It feels great. It’s been a tough game and tournament. We called the last games quarter-final, semi-final and this was our gold medal game and luckily it ended up well. We deserve what we achieved," he tells IIHF.com.

Japan suffered a tough loss to Hungary. The Asian top nation was in the lead three times but every time the Hungarian team caught up with them. The last equalizer for 4-4 was scored by Marton Vas just 1:06 before the end of regulation. Vas also scored the shootout winner.

Ukraine ended the tournament with a solid 8-2 win over the host Korea, but it was only enough for a fourth spot in the final standings. Korea relegate after five losses.

Individual Awards (selected by the directorate)
Best Goalkeeper: Yutaka Fukufuji, Japan
Best Defenceman: Dominique Heinrich, Austria
Best Forward: Jan Mursak, Slovenia

Most Valuable Player (selected by the media)
Luka Gracnar, Slovenia

All-Star Team (selected by the media)
GK: Luka Gracnar, Slovenia
DE: Dominique Heinrich, Austria
DE: Marton Vas, Hungary
FW: Brian Lebler, Austria
FW: Thomas Koch, Austria
FW: Jan Urbas, Slovenia

#NationGWW-OTL-OTLScoreP
1Slovenia5400115:612
2Austria5220120:1410
3Japan5301114:1410
4Ukraine5201218:137
5Hungary5111216:186
6South Korea5000512:300

season 2013-2014 all time stats

#Player name
TeamGPGAPPIM+/-
1.Brian Lebler
Austria563905
2.Thomas Koch
Austria509944
3.Thomas Hundertpfund
Austria544825
4.Roman Blagoy
Ukraine535825
5.Alexander Materukhin
Ukraine543721
6.Ki Sung Kim
Korea52572-1
7.Jan Urbas
Slovenia551626
8.Istvan Bartalis
Hungary551600
9.Dominique Heinrich
Austria542621
10.Brock Radunske
Korea533610-2

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