| 2008 CMHL ANNUAL INVITATIONAL SUMMER CLASSIC | ||||||||||||
| MEDAL ROUND | ||||||||||||
| Quarter-Final Round | ||||||||||||
| Game 1: 3rd place - POOL A at 2nd place - POOL B | ||||||||||||
| Columbus | 4 | AT | Carolina | 2 | ||||||||
| Game 2: 3rd place - POOL B at 2nd place - POOL A | ||||||||||||
| Washington | 2 | AT | Tampa Bay | 3 | ||||||||
| 1st place finishers from POOL A and B in round robin play get byes. | ||||||||||||
| Buffalo | ||||||||||||
| Los Angeles | ||||||||||||
| Semi-Final Round | ||||||||||||
| Game 3: Game 1 Winner at 1st place - POOL B Bye team | ||||||||||||
| Columbus | 2 | AT | Los Angeles | 4 | ||||||||
| Game 4: Game 2 Winner at 1st place - POOL A Bye team | ||||||||||||
| Tampa Bay | 6 | AT | Buffalo | 3 | ||||||||
| Metal Round | ||||||||||||
| Game 5: Game 3 Loser at Game 4 Loser | ||||||||||||
| Columbus | 1 | AT | Buffalo | 2 | ||||||||
| GAME 6: Game 3 Winner at Game 4 Winner | ||||||||||||
| Los Angeles | 2 | AT | Tampa Bay | 3 | ||||||||
| Winner of Game 6 | Gold | Tampa Bay Lightning | ||||||||||
| Loser of Game 6 | Silver | Los Angeles Kings | ||||||||||
| Winner of Game 5 | Bronze | Buffalo Sabres | ||||||||||
| POOL A standings - Detroit and Dallas drop to POOL B next year. (Vancouver wins head-to- | ||||||||||||
| head tie-breaker over Detroit) | ||||||||||||
| POOL B standings - Los Angeles and Carolina move up to POOL A next year. | ||||||||||||
| POOL B standings - New Jersey and Minnesota (Toronto wins 3-way head-to-head tie-breaker) | ||||||||||||
| drop out of the tournament and are replaced by the two highest ranking regular season | ||||||||||||
| teams not in the previous summer's tournament. | ||||||||||||
| ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS | ||||||||||||
| POOL A | ||||||||||||
| W | OTW | OTL/T | L | GF | GA | PTS | ||||||
| Buffalo | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 16 | 17 | |||||
| Tampa Bay | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 13 | |||||
| Columbus | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 16 | 12 | |||||
| NY Islanders | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 24 | 9 | |||||
| Boston | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 25 | 9 | |||||
| Vancouver | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 7 | |||||
| Detroit | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 7 | |||||
| Dallas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 6 | |||||
| POOL B | ||||||||||||
| W | OTW | OTL/T | L | GF | GA | PTS | ||||||
| Los Angeles | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 22 | 14 | |||||
| Carolina | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 23 | 14 | |||||
| Washington | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 22 | 12 | |||||
| Montreal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 11 | |||||
| Pittsburgh | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 24 | 8 | |||||
| Toronto | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 24 | 7 | |||||
| New Jersey | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 7 | |||||
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 27 | 7 | |||||