Ice sledge hockey at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

2006 Winter Paralympics

Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Venue(s)	Torino Esposizioni
Dates	11–18 March
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (1st title)
Runner-up	Norway
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Germany
Tournament statistics
Games played	20
Goals scored	111 (5.55 per game)
Attendance	59,896 (2,995 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Billy Bridges (18 points)
MVP	Rolf Einar Pedersen

At the 2006 Winter Paralympics, the ice sledge hockey events were contested at the Torino Esposizioni.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Canada (CAN)	Norway (NOR)	United States (USA)
	Jeremy Booker Brad Bowden Billy Bridges Marc Dorion Raymond Grassi Jean Labonté Herve Lord Shawn Matheson Graeme Murray Todd Nicholson Mark Noot Paul Rosen Benoit St-Amand Dany Verner Greg Westlake	Helge Bjørnstad Eskil Hagen Atle Haglund Loyd Remi Johansen Roger Johansen Kjetil Korbu Nilsen Knut André Nordstoga Rolf Einar Pedersen Tommy Rovelstad Kjell Vidar Røyne Johan Siqveland Stig Tore Svee Morten Værnes Arne Vik	Steve Cash Taylor Chace David Conklin Jimmy Connelly Brad Emmerson Manuel Guerra Jr. Michael Hallman Lonnie Hannah II Joe Howard Tim Jones Taylor Lipsett Christopher Manns Alexi Salamone Kip St. Germaine Andrew Yohe

Qualification

Qualifying event	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host			1	Italy
2004 World Championship	13–24 April 2004	Örnsköldsvik	3	Norway United States Sweden
Asian-Pacific quota			1	Japan
North American quota			1	Canada
2005 European Championships	10–16 April 2005	Zlín	1	Germany
Paralympic Last Chance Qualification Tournament	5–7 November 2005	Turin	1	Great Britain

Team rosters

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	22	1	+21	6	Semifinals
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	22	4	+18	4
3	Great Britain	3	1	0	2	2	16	−14	2	5–8th place semifinals
4	Italy (H)	3	0	0	3	1	26	−25	0

11 March 2006 09:30

Canada

9–0 (3–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Great Britain

Torino Esposizioni

11 March 2006 17:00

Norway

12–0 (7–0, 3–0, 2–0)

Italy

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 4,000

Game reference
	Roger Johansen Arne Vik	Goalies	Danilo Bosio	Referee: Yoshifumi Kasahara Linesmen: Scott MacDonald Toshiki Takenaka
	Pedersen (Svee, Bjørnstad) – 00:39 1–0 Hagen (Bjørnstad, Pedersen) – 04:43 2–0 Hagen (Pedersen, Nordstoga) – 04:57 3–0 Rovelstad (Nordstoga) – 09:21 4–0 Pedersen – 10:40 5–0 Værnes (Svee) – 11:43 6–0 Bjørnstad (Siqveland, Rovelstad) – 14:46 7–0 Haglund (Siqveland) – 19:24 8–0 Hagen (Nordstoga) (PP) – 21:49 9–0 Svee (Nilsen, Haglund) – 22:08 10–0 Rovelstad (SH) – 34:21 11–0 Rovelstad (Pedersen, Hagen) (PP) – 44:05 12–0
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	25	Shots	5

12 March 2006 09:30

Norway

6–0 (2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Great Britain

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 385

Game reference
	Roger Johansen	Goalies	Philip Saunders
	Rovelstad (Hagen, Svee) – 01:04 1–0 Hagen (Rovelstad) (PP) – 05:11 2–0 Pedersen – 20:14 3–0 Rovelstad (Nordstoga, Pedersen) (PP) – 22:28 4–0 Rovelstad (Bjørnstad) (PP) – 35:28 5–0 L. Johansen (Bjørnstad) – 44:03 6–0
	20 min	Penalties	14 min
	20	Shots	5

12 March 2006 17:00

Italy

0–12 (0–3, 0–4, 0–5)

Canada

Torino Esposizioni

14 March 2006 13:00

Great Britain

2–1 (0–0, 2–1, 0–0)

Italy

Torino Esposizioni

14 March 2006 20:30

Canada

1–4 (0–2, 1–2, 0–0)

Norway

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 4,040

Game reference
	Paul Rosen	Goalies	Roger Johansen	Referee: Yoshifumi Kasahara Linesmen: Scott Bokal Robin Pettersson
	0–1 05:40 – Hagen (Bjørnstad) 0–2 07:37 – Pedersen (Rovelstad, Svee) (PP2) 0–3 17:59 – Rovelstad (Bjørnstad, Svee) (PP) Lord (Noot, Verner) – 23:25 1–3 1–4 28:47 – Rovelstad (Bjørnstad, Pedersen) (PP)
	16 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	12

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	5	Semifinals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	10	3	+7	4
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3	5–8th place semifinals
4	Sweden	3	0	0	3	2	15	−13	0

11 March 2006 13:00

United States

1–2 (1–2, 0–0, 0–0)

Germany

Torino Esposizioni

11 March 2006 20:30

Sweden

1–5 (0–1, 1–3, 0–1)

Japan

Torino Esposizioni

12 March 2006 13:00

Germany

4–0 (1–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Sweden

Torino Esposizioni

12 March 2006 20:30

Japan

0–3 (0–0, 0–2, 0–1)

United States

Torino Esposizioni

14 March 2006 09:30

Japan

0–0 (0–0, 0–0, 0–0)

Germany

Torino Esposizioni

14 March 2006 17:00

Sweden

1–6 (0–3, 1–2, 0–1)

United States

Torino Esposizioni

Classification round

Bracket

	5–8th place semifinal				Fifth place game
	15 March
	Japan	10
					17 March
	Italy	1
					Japan (OT)	2
	15 March
					Sweden	1
	Great Britain	0
	Sweden	3
					Seventh place game
					17 March
					Italy	1
					Great Britain (OT)	2

5–8th place semifinals

15 March 2006 11:00

Great Britain

0–3 (0–1, 0–1, 0–1)

Sweden

Torino Esposizioni

15 March 2006 20:30

Japan

10–1 (2–1, 3–0, 5–0)

Italy

Torino Esposizioni

Seventh place game

17 March 2006 11:00

Italy

1–2 OT (0–0, 1–0, 0–1) (OT: 0–1)

Great Britain

Torino Esposizioni

Fifth place game

17 March 2006 20:30

Japan

2–1 OT (1–0, 0–1, 0–0) (OT: 1–0)

Sweden

Torino Esposizioni

Medal round

Bracket

	Semifinals				Gold medal game
	16 March
	Norway	4
					18 March
	United States	2
					Norway	0
	16 March
					Canada	3
	Germany	0
	Canada	5
					Bronze medal game
					18 March
					Germany	3
					United States	4

Semifinals

16 March 2006 11:00

Norway

4–2 (1–1, 1–1, 2–0)

United States

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 4,057

Game reference
	Roger Johansen	Goalies	Manuel Guerra Jr.	Referee: Mats Edenborg Linesmen: Scot MacDonald Maksim Toode
	0–1 05:59 – Hallman (Howard) Pedersen – 06:50 1–1 Bjørnstad (Rovelstad, Svee) (PP) – 15:36 2–1 2–2 26:03 – Howard (Hannah) (PP) Rovelstad (PS) – 30:54 3–2 Bjørnstad (Hagen, Svee) (PP) – 43:51 4–2
	6 min	Penalties	26 min
	17	Shots	7

16 March 2006 20:30

Germany

0–5 (0–0, 0–3, 0–2)

Canada

Torino Esposizioni

Bronze medal game

18 March 2006 17:00

Germany

3–4 (1–1, 1–1, 1–2)

United States

Torino Esposizioni

Gold medal game

18 March 2006 20:30

Norway

0–3 (0–1, 0–1, 0–1)

Canada

Torino Esposizioni Attendance: 4,020

Game reference
	Roger Johansen	Goalies	Paul Rosen	Referee: Jonathan Morrison Linesmen: Scott Bokal Maksim Toode
	0–1 02:52 – Bowden (Bridges) 0–2 29:29 – Westlake (Bowden, Bridges) (PP) 0–3 44:56 – Bridges (ENG)
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	18	Shots	9

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Billy Bridges	5	11	7	18	+16	6	F
Tommy Rovelstad	5	9	4	13	+7	6	D
Brad Bowden	5	6	7	13	+14	0	F
Rolf Einar Pedersen	5	5	5	10	+6	8	D
Helge Bjørnstad	5	3	7	10	+6	4	F
Eskil Hagen	5	5	3	8	+4	4	F
Daisuke Uehara	5	5	3	8	+6	0	F
Greg Westlake	5	3	5	8	+15	4	F
Stig Tore Svee	5	1	7	8	+2	16	F
Takayuki Endo	5	4	3	7	+6	2	D

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Source: Torino 2006

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

Player	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Paul Rosen	195:00	4	0.92	55	92.73	4
Roger Johansen	191:54	5	1.17	38	86.84	2
Manuel Guerra Jr.	218:40	10	2.06	72	86.11	1
Rolf Rabe	215:37	9	1.88	64	85.94	2
Kenth Jonsson	213:51	13	2.74	77	83.12	1

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts

Awards

• Most Valuable Player: Rolf Einar Pedersen
• Best players selected by the directorate:
  • Best Goaltender: Rolf Rabe
  • Best Defenceman: Rolf Einar Pedersen
  • Best Forward: Billy Bridges

Source: Torino 2006