2010 IIHF World Championship Division I
Introduction '''The 2010 IIHF World Championship Division I''' was a pair of international ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournaments were contested between 17 and 25 April 2010.Participants in this championship were drawn into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Tilburg, Netherlands. Group B's games were played in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Austria won the Group A tournament while Slovenia won the Group B tournament to earn promotion to the Top Division of the 2011 IIHF World Championship. Serbia and Croatia finished last in each group and will be relegated to Division II at the 2011 World Championships. Spain and Estonia earned promotion from the 2010 IIHF World Championship Division II and replaced Serbia and Croatia in Division I in 2011.
Group A The Group A tournament was played in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from 19 to 25 April 2010.===Participating teams=== Team QualificationPlaced 14th in Top Division last year and were relegatedPlaced 2nd in Division I Group B last yearPlaced 3rd in Division I Group A last yearPlaced 4th in Division I Group A last year'''Hosts;''' placed 5th in Division I Group B last yearPlaced 1st in Division II Group A last year and were promoted===Final standings======Match results===All times are local.===Tournament awards===; Best players selected by the directorate:*Best Goalkeeper: Yutaka Fukufuji *Best Forward: Kostiantyn Kasianchuk *Best Defenseman: Matthias Trattnig ===Scoring leaders===List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Kostiantyn Kasianchuk  5  6  7  '''13'''  +9  6 Andri Mikhnov  5  3  9  '''12'''  +7  2 Oliver Setzinger 5  1  9  '''10'''  +8  0 Oleksandr Materukhin  5  6  3  '''9'''  +8  12 Thomas Koch  5  5  4  '''9'''  +8  0 Tadas Kumeliauskas  5  5  4  '''9'''  0  33 Matthias Trattnig  5  3  6  '''9'''  +10  4 Oleg Timchenko  5  2  7  '''9'''  +7  14 Vadym Shakhraychuk  5  4  4  '''8'''  +9  6 Daniel Welser  5  4  4  '''8'''  +9  2 Takahito Suzuki  5  3  5  '''8'''  +3  4===Leading goalkeepers===Only the top five goalkeepers, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO Masahito Haruna      120:00  41   1  0.50   '''97.56'''  1 Reinhard Divis     300:00  103   5  1.00   '''95.15'''  1 Yutaka Fukufuji   176:47  98  6  2.04   '''93.88'''  0 Kostiantyn Simchuk   199:50  77  6  1.80   '''92.21'''  0 Phil Groeneveld 211:34  134  12  3.40   '''91.04'''  0
Group B The Group A tournament was played in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 17 to 23 April 2010.===Participating teams=== Team QualificationPlaced 16th in Top Division last year and were relegated'''Hosts;''' placed 2nd in Division I Group A last yearPlaced 3rd in Division I Group B last yearPlaced 4th in Division I Group B last yearPlaced 5th in Division I Group A last yearPlaced 1st in Division II Group B last year and were promoted===Final standings======Match results===All times are local.===Tournament awards===; Best players selected by the directorate:*Best Goalkeeper: Stephen Murphy *Best Forward: Žiga Jeglič *Best Defenseman: András Horváth ===Scoring leaders===List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Žiga Jeglič  5  2  9  '''11'''  +5  0 Rok Tičar  5  7  3  '''10'''  +4  2 Kim Ki-sung 5  3  5  '''8'''  +3  2 Jan Muršak  5  5  2  '''7'''  +4  2 Song Dong-hwan  5  4  3  '''7'''  +5  2 Jan Urbas  5  2  5  '''7'''  +5  6 Balázs Ladányi  5  2  4  '''6'''  +2  0 Marcel Rodman  5  1  5  '''6'''  +4  6 Mitja Šivic  5  1  5  '''6'''  +7  6 Márton Vas  5  4  1  '''5'''  +3  0 Kim Woo-jae  5  1  4  '''5'''  +2  4===Leading goalkeepers===Only the top five goalkeepers, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO Zoltán Hetényi      280:00  131   6  1.29   '''95.52'''  2 Stephen Murphy     240:20  133   9  2.25   '''93.23'''  0 Krzyszstof Zborowski   279:54  122  9  1.93   '''92.62'''  1 Andrej Hočevar   291:03  110  10  2.06   '''90.91'''  0 Vanja Belić 300:00  223  33  6.60   '''85.20'''  0
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