1999 IIHF World Championship

3-0

Kazakhstan

5 November 1998

6-2

Estonia

7 November 1998

7-1

Estonia

7 November 1998

6-2

Kazakhstan

8 November 1998

Kazakhstan

8-0

Estonia

8 November 1998

0-2

Group 2 (Slovenia)

Played 5–8 November 1998 in Ljubljana.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ukraine	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	5
2	France	3	2	0	1	9	7	+2	4
3	Slovenia	3	0	2	1	5	8	−3	2
4	Germany	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ukraine and France advanced to the World Championship.

5 November 1998

Slovenia

1-1

Germany

5 November 1998

4-1

7 November 1998

Germany

1-2

7 November 1998

Slovenia

2-5

8 November 1998

3-1

Germany

8 November 1998

Slovenia

2-2

Far East (Japan)

Played 4–6 September 1998 in Tokyo.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	24	4	+20	4
2	South Korea	2	1	1	3	9	−6	2
3	China	2	0	2	2	16	−14	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Japan advanced to the World Championship.

4 September 1998

15-2

China

5 September 1998

South Korea

1-0

China

6 September 1998

9-2

South Korea

First round

In each group, the top two nations advanced to the next round. Third place teams played a final round against each other to determine who escaped having to qualify for next year's tournament. Fourth place teams did not play further, they were automatically entered in qualifiers for next year's tournament.

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	12	6	+6	6
Slovakia	3	2	1	17	9	+8	4
Norway	3	1	2	9	14	−5	2
Italy	3	0	3	8	17	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Italy was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.

1 May

3-2

1 May

5-2

Italy

3 May

7-4

Italy

3 May

2-4

5 May

5-2

Italy

5 May

2-8

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	3	0	14	5	+9	6
Switzerland	3	2	1	12	9	+3	4
Latvia	3	1	2	14	14	0	2
France	3	0	3	6	18	−12	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

France was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.

1 May

5-3

1 May

4-1

3 May

8-5

3 May

6-1

5 May

6-0

5 May

4-3

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czech Republic	3	3	0	23	5	+18	6
United States	3	2	1	15	7	+8	4
Austria	3	1	2	6	14	−8	2
Japan	3	0	3	5	23	−18	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Japan was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.

2 May

7-0

2 May

7-1

4 May

12-2

4 May

5-2

6 May

4-3

6 May

4-2

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Finland	3	2	1	0	10	5	+5	5
Russia	3	1	2	0	9	6	+3	4
Belarus	3	1	1	1	9	7	+2	3
Ukraine	3	0	0	3	3	13	−10	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ukraine was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.

2 May

2-2

2 May

3-1

4 May

4-1

4 May

1-4

6 May

6-1

6 May

3-3

Second round

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Finland	3	3	0	13	6	+7	6
Canada	3	2	1	14	7	+7	4
United States	3	1	2	7	8	−1	2
Switzerland	3	0	3	3	16	−13	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

7 May

8-2

7 May

4-3

8 May

4-1

8 May

5-1

10 May

4-2

10 May

3-0

Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	11	8	+3	4
Sweden	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	4
Russia	3	1	1	1	9	7	+2	3
Slovakia	3	0	1	2	5	12	−7	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

7 May

6-1

7 May

2-1

8 May

8-2

8 May

4-1

10 May

2-2

10 May

0-2

Final Round

Each playoff match up consisted of a two-game series. If tied, the two teams would play an overtime-style mini game (10 minutes in duration for the semi-finals and 20 minutes in the final) to determine the winner, and then a shoot-out if no scoring occurred. The only mini-game to go to a shoot-out was the Czech versus Canada tiebreaker, with a 4 to 3 Czech victory. Note that the mini-games show up as a game played in the players statistics. The exception was for the bronze medal game which was just one game.

Semifinals				Finals

12 and 13 May – Lillehammer

Finland (OT)	3	1	1 (1)
				15 and 16 May – Lillehammer
Sweden	1	2	1 (0)
				Finland	1	4	1 (0)
12 and 13 May – Lillehammer
				Czech Republic (OT)	3	1	1 (1)
Czech Republic (SO)	1	6	1 (4)

Canada	2	4	1 (3)
				Bronze medal game

				15 May – Lillehammer

				Sweden			3

				Canada			2

Semifinals

12 May

3–1
(0–0, 2–1, 1–0)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 6,353

Ari Sulander

Goalies

Tommy Salo

Marko Tuomainen − 23:38	1–0
Raimo Helminen − 29:09	2–0
	2–1	33:38 − Niklas Sundström
Jere Karalahti − 50:17	3–1

12 May

1–2
(0–1, 0–1, 1–0)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 6,100

	0–1	04:01 − Wade Redden
	0–2	35:35 − Cory Stillman
Pavel Kubina − 53:54	1–2

13 May

2–1 (0–1 OT)
(0–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 7,379

Tommy Salo

Goalies

Ari Sulander

Jörgen Jönsson − 26:37	1–0
	1–1	51:58 − Juha Lind
Jörgen Jönsson − 53:04	2–1

0–1

06:26 − Marko Tuomainen ot.

13 May

4–6 (3–4 GWS)
(1–2, 1–1, 2–3)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 6,579

Match for third place

15 May

3–2
(2–0, 1–0, 0–2)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 8,811

Tommy Salo

Goalies

Ron Tugnutt

Referee:
Rami Savolainen

Linesmen:
Panu Bruun

Hirokazu Takahashi

Markus Näslund − 12:14	1–0
Christer Olsson − 14:53	2–0
Jörgen Jönsson − 37:57	3–0
	3–1	41:18 − Brian Savage
	3–2	48:49 − Adam Graves

Final

15 May

1–3
(0–1, 0–1, 1–1)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 8,949

Ari Sulander

Goalies

Milan Hnilička

Referee:
Danny Kurmann

Linesmen:
Nadir Mandioni

Kent Thudén

	0–1	10:53 − František Kaberle
	0–2	37:20 − Martin Ručinský
Juha Lind − 54:42	1–2
	1–3	59:29 − Radek Dvořák

16 May

1–4 (1–0 OT)
(0–2, 1–1, 0–1)

Lillehammer
Attendance: 9,187

Milan Hnilička

Goalies

Miikka Kiprusoff

Referee:
Danny Kurmann

Linesmen:
Nadir Mandioni

Kent Thudén

	0–1	01:41 − Antti-Jussi Niemi
	0–2	05:35 − Juha Lind
	0–3	21:51 − Marko Tuomainen
Viktor Ujčík − 30:47	1–3
	1–4	46:52 − Ville Peltonen

ot. Jan Hlaváč − 16:32

1–0

Consolation round 9–12 place

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	3	3	0	7	3	+4	6
Austria	3	2	1	10	5	+5	4
Latvia	3	1	2	10	8	+2	2
Norway	3	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Latvia and Norway were relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.

8 May

5-2

8 May

0-2

9 May

3-2

9 May

1-7

11 May

1-2

11 May

0-3