[1] Russia won the tournament by defeating Slovakia 6–2 in the Final game; the Russians finished the tournament undefeated with a record of 10–0–0, becoming the first team to win every game in regulation since the Soviet Union in the 1989 World Championships.

[4] At the IIHF congress in Moscow in 2007 four nations submitted bids to host the 2012 World Championship: Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Group B preliminary round and quarterfinals were played in Ericsson Globe, Stockholm.

This group saw the three favourites, Canada, the United States and Finland advance pretty easily.

[10] The Americans themselves needed to win their last game against Switzerland to capture the second place in the group ahead of Finland and did so with the result being 5–2.

The game was close throughout, tied the whole way until it was 4–4, this is when Slovakia scored the final and decisive goal to win 5–4 and get to the fourth spot in the group.

[12] France, Switzerland were eliminated alongside Belarus, with Kazakhstan finishing in the last spot and being relegated.

Co-host Sweden captured the second place, after falling short to Russia.

[20] The crowd was stunned and the surprise perfect, Slovakia advanced to the semifinals while Canada was eliminated.

Ovechkin went right away and scored the equalizer after Per-Åge Skrøder gave Norway the lead.

The first period ended scoreless, before Jesse Joensuu broke the tie, just to be answered 21 seconds later by Kyle Palmieri.

[28] Jonathan Ericsson continued the Swedish way of climbing back by tying the game just 45 seconds into the last period.

Both teams had their chance in the next few minutes, Sweden hit the post and the Czechs failed to score against Viktor Fasth.

Malkin was the player of the game with scoring a hat trick to give him 18 points for the tournament.

Russia advanced to the final to try to win their twenty-sixth title, while Finland will battle for bronze.

[35] Slovakia finished off another upset and advanced to the final, while the Czech Republic plays in the bronze medal game.

[37] The second period went scoreless before the Finnish team got new hope when Jussi Jokinen scored a goal ten minutes before the end of the game.

But they did not score again, and the Czech team captured the bronze medal and Finland ended the tournament in fourth place.

The official IIHF final standings of the tournament: List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com Only the top ten goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com Over 100 countries broadcast the matches, live or near-live transmissions, of the 2012 tournament.