The 2004 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship was held between 24 April and 9 May 2004 in

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Qualification

Far Eastern Qualification for the tournament was held on 6 September 2003 in

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Final tournament

Venues

Preliminary round

Sixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the qualifying round while the last team competed in the relegation round. ''All times are local ( UTC+2).''

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Qualifying round

The top three teams in the standings of each group of the preliminary round advance to the qualifying round, and are placed in two groups: teams from Groups A and D compete in Group E, while teams from Groups B and C compete in Group F. Each team is to play three games in this round, one against each of the three teams from the other group with which they have been paired. These three games, along with the two games already played against the other two advancing teams from the same group in the preliminary round, will count in the qualifying round standings. The top four teams in both groups E and F advanced to the Playoff round.

Group E

Group F

Relegation round

Playoff round

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards

*Best players selected by the directorate: **Best Goaltender: Ty Conklin **Best

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: Dick Tärnström **Best Forward: Dany Heatley **

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: Dany Heatley *Media All-Star Team: **Goaltender: Henrik Lundqvist **Defence: Zdeno Chára, Dick Tärnström **Forwards: Dany Heatley, Jaromír Jágr, Ville Peltonen

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Scoring leaders

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Leading goaltenders

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IIHF honors and awards

The 2004 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Prague during the World Championships. Aggie Kukulowicz of Canada was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey. IIHF Hall of Fame inductees * Rudi Ball, Germany * Mike Buckna, Canada * Ove Dahlberg, Sweden * Vitali Davydov, Russia * Ladislav Horský, Slovakia * Yury Karandin, Russia * Tsutomu Kawabuchi, Japan * Lou Nanne, United States * Ronald Pettersson, Sweden * Nikolai Sologubov, Russia * Miroslav Šubrt, Czech Republic * František Tikal, Czech Republic

References

External links

* {{Ice Hockey World Championships 2004 IIHF World Championship, IIHF World Championship 1 World championships World Championship, 2004 International ice hockey competitions hosted by the Czech Republic Sports competitions in Prague IIHF World Championship IIHF World Championship Sport in Ostrava 2000s in Prague