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Annual Report Annual Report July 2010–June 2011 July 2010–June 2011 The Future is Now: At just 19 years old, Mikael Granlund is already a World Champion. The young Finn and others like him will carry the torch into the next generation of hockey superstars. Congratulations 2010-2011 Champions IIHF World Championship Finland IIHF World Championship Division I Group A Italy IIHF World Championship Division I Group B Kazakhstan IIHF World Championship Division II Group A Australia IIHF World Championship Division II Group B Romania IIHF World Championship Division III Israel IIHF World U20 Championship Russia IIHF World U20 Championship Division I Group A Latvia IIHF World U20 Championship Division I Group B Denmark IIHF World U20 Championship Division II Group A France IIHF World U20 Championship Division II Group B Poland IIHF World U20 Championship Division III Mexico IIHF World U18 Championship USA IIHF World U18 Championship Division I Group A Latvia IIHF World U18 Championship Division I Group B Denmark IIHF World U18 Championship Division II Group A Austria IIHF World U18 Championship Division II Group B Ukraine IIHF World U18 Championship Division III Group A Australia IIHF World U18 Championship Division III Group B Iceland IIHF World Women’s Championship USA IIHF World Women’s Championship Division I Germany IIHF World Women’s Championship Division II Czech Republic IIHF World Women’s Championship Division III Netherlands IIHF World Women’s Championship Division IV New Zealand IIHF World Women’s Championship Division V Poland IIHF World Women’s U18 Championship USA IIHF World Women’s U18 Championship Division I Russia IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Czech Republic IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I Great Britain Continental Cup Yunost Minsk European Women’s Champion’s Cup Ilves Tampere INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION Annual Report July 2010–June 2011 Semi-Annual Congress 1 Istanbul, Turkey September 22-23, 2011 Publisher: International Ice Hockey Federation Horst Lichtner, General Secretary Supervising Editor: Szymon Szemberg Editor and layout: Adam Steiss Contributors: Martin Merk Darren Boyko, Jörg Polzer Production Editor: Romain Golay, Reproscan Group Photos: Hockey Hall of Fame and IIHF Images on Ice www.imagesonice.net Print: Reproscan Group AG, Zurich Copyright: International Ice Hockey Federation Cover photo: Finland captain Mikko Koivu hoists the IIHF World Championship trophy after winning the gold medal game against Sweden. Photo by Matthew Manor / HHOF-IIHF Images. Red, white and a little blue: It may have been held in the US, but the 2011 U20 World Championship was taken over by enthusiastic Canadian fans. An astounding 14.2 million INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION Canadians watched the gold medal game. The tournament was also the best attended IIHF tournament ever held in the United States, eclipsing even the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. 2 INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION 3 Photo by Andre Ringuette/HHOF-IIHF Images INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION Stamp THAT! 4 Photo by CTK/Kamaryt Michal A Goal to Collect: Putting an exclamation point on a fine hockey season, Mikael Granlund’s goal in the semi-final against Russia will go down as one of the greatest ever in World Championship history. It has already been immortalized in Finland as a postage stamp. My mind was blank, my jaw just dropped and I probably slipped out“ a cussword, just out of disbelief. I saw that it was a goal, right away, but when I saw the replay on the jumbotron, how he stole the puck in the corner and went around that other defenceman, and that I had missed...That whole sequence was a fantastic performance.” - Finland Head Coach Jukka Jalonen INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION Table of Contents President’s Report ................................................................................................................ 6 Report of the General Secretary ......................................................................................... 10 IIHF Council ........................................................................................................................ 14 IIHF Member Associations ................................................................................................. 16 IIHF Survey of Players ......................................................................................................... 19 IIHF National Team 2010-2011 Jersey Program ................................................................. 20 IIHF Office .......................................................................................................................... 24 5 World Championship & Olympics Results Timeline 1920-2011 ......................................... 26 IIHF Committee Members .................................................................................................. 28 Financial Report ................................................................................................................. 29 Infront Report .................................................................................................................... 30 IIHF World Ranking ............................................................................................................ 31 IIHF Semi-Annual Congress: Portoroz, Slovenia ................................................................ 34 IIHF Extra-Ordinary Congress: Bratislava, Slovakia ............................................................ 38 IIHF Annual Congress: Bratislava, Slovakia ........................................................................ 40 IIHF Sport Development Report .......................................................................................... 46 IIHF Committee Reports ..................................................................................................... 50 A Goal to Collect: Putting an exclamation point on a fine hockey season, Mikael Granlund’s goal in the semi-final against Russia will go down as one of the greatest Referee & Linesmen Assignments ...................................................................................... 56 ever in World Championship history. It has already been immortalized in Finland as a postage stamp. IIHF Hall of Fame 2011 Induction ....................................................................................... 62 IIHF Hall of Fame Inductee List .......................................................................................... 64 2011 IIHF World Championship ..........................................................................................66 2011 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship ................................................................... 90 IIHF Continental Cup 2010-2011........................................................................................ 91 European Women’s Champion’s Cup ................................................................................. 92 IIHF Calendar of Events ...................................................................................................... 93 2011-2012 IIHF Championship Program ............................................................................ 96 IIHF Supplier Pool ............................................................................................................... 98 IIHF Partners ...................................................................................................................... 99 www.IIHF.com ................................................................................................................. 101 Hockey Hall of Fame ........................................................................................................ 102 Parting Shot .................................................................................................................... 104 INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION President’s Report A season of unity and progress 2011 campaign among most productive in IIHF history They say that a post-Olympic season can be gress in Portoroz, Slovenia approved a format change somewhat of a “hangover”. Let me inform all IIHF for the top division of the IIHF World Championship, members, stakeholders, partners and friends that it has as of 2012. The IIHF’s first format change in a decade been anything but. The 2010-2011 season has been will eliminate the qualifying (second) round as the tradi- one of the most successful and productive in the history tional four groups of four will now become two groups of the IIHF. of eight. 6 Even before the first puck was dropped, the global Apart from an increase in games (from 56 to 64), the hockey community gathered at the Molson Canadian biggest change is that the entire preliminary round World Hockey Summit in Toronto, Canada. It was not schedule will be known to fans and organizers before- only a four-day meeting, but the beginning of an era hand, which should of course be good for ticket sales. of better understanding between ice hockey’s major It will be very exciting to see how this will work out for organizations. Finland 2012 and Sweden 2013. It is not very often the hockey world gets together like The 35th IIHF World U20 Championship in Buffalo and this. The last time an international summit was held Niagara took this remarkable event to yet another level. was 16 years earlier in Boston. Now in Toronto, follow- USA Hockey and the host organizers sold 329,687 tick- ing the unprecedented success of Vancouver 2010, it ets for