The IIHF Referees and Linesmen working the 2021 U18 World Championship in Frisco, Texas.
This is the third time the Under-18 tournament has been held in the US, and the first time it’s been held in Texas.
Due to COVID concerns and travel restrictions, there’s a distinctively heavy US population in the officiating lineup.
“The highest quality and performance of the game officials without compromise is the goal and the officiating committee is convinced that we will achieve this goal with the assigned referees and linesmen,” said IIHF Officiating Manager Danny Kurmann.
The 2021 IIF U18 World Championship Officials:
Referees
Riku Brander #19 – FIN
Sean Fernandez #15 – USA
Micha Hebeisen #16 – SUI
Christoffer Holm #22 – SWE
Adam Kika #10 – CZE
Lukas Kohlmueller #18 – GER
Sean MacFarlane #14 – USA
Jake Rekucki #20 – USA
Stephen Reneau #17 – USA
Peter Schlittenhardt #12 – USA
Andrew Wilk #13 – USA
Sergei Yudakov #24 – RUS
Linesmen
Kevin Briganti #54 – USA
Nick Briganti #61 – USA
Jake Davis #58 – USA
William Hancock #51 – USA
David Kloucek #52 – CZE
Tommi Niittyla #63 – FIN
Nikita Polyakov #56 – BLR
Patrick Richardson #57– USA
Roman Slavikovskii #64 – RUS
Davis Zunde #55 – LAT
Officiating Supervisors
Peter Gebei – HUN
Keith Kaval – USA
Matt Leaf – USA
Scott Zelkin – USA
The tournament gets underway April 26, with the Gold Medal Game set for May 6.
