It broke the historical attendance record of IIHF World Championships (741,690 total visitors).

[7] Czech player Jaromír Jágr (at 43 years of age) was the MVP of the tournament, and announced his retirement from international competition afterwards.

On 21 May 2010, the Czech bid was successful and got 84 votes in the race for hosting the 2015 IIHF World Championship.

[13] In the group round, points are awarded as follows: If two or more teams finished with an equal number of points in the same group, their standings were determined by the following tiebreaking formula:[13] Final ranking: places 1–4 are determined by the medal games.

Slovakia and Switzerland swapped their slots between their groups to optimize the seeding for the Czech organizers.

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