1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1974 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Soviet Union
Dates December 27, 1973 –
January 6, 1974
Teams 6
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions   Soviet Union
Runner-up   Finland
Third place   Canada
Fourth place  Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 135 (9 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Sweden Roland Eriksson
(9 points)
1975

The 1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 27, 1973, and January 6, 1974. The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record.[1] This was the first edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.[2] Canada was represented by a club team, the Peterborough Petes, while the other five nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.[3]

Final standings

The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other five teams once each.

Rank Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1st, gold medalist(s) Soviet Union5500361210
2nd, silver medalist(s) Finland532021236
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Canada532017236
4 Sweden523032214
5 United States514010322
6 Czechoslovakia514019242

Results

Czechoslovakia 6 – 4
(3–1, 1–2, 2–1)
 Sweden
Canada 5 – 4
(1–1, 1–2, 3–1)
 United States
Soviet Union 6 – 2
(1–1, 3–1, 2–0)
 Finland
Sweden 9 – 4
(1–2, 6–2, 2–0)
 Finland
United States 1 – 11
(0–6, 1–1, 0–4)
 Sweden
Soviet Union 7 – 5
(1–0, 6–2, 0–3)
 Czechoslovakia
Finland 4 – 3
(2–1, 0–2, 2–0)
 Canada
Soviet Union 5 – 4
(2–2, 2–2, 1–0)
 Sweden
Finland 5 – 1
(2–0, 2–0, 1–1)
 United States
Canada 4 – 2
(2–0, 1–1, 1–1)
 Czechoslovakia
Finland 6 – 4
(4–1, 1–2, 1–1)
 Czechoslovakia
Canada 5 – 4
(1–2, 1–1, 3–1)
 Sweden
Soviet Union 9 – 1
(3–0, 1–1, 5–0)
 United States
United States 3 – 2
(0–1, 2–1, 1–0)
 Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union 9 – 0
(1–0, 3–0, 5–0)
 Canada

Scoring leaders

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1Roland Eriksson Sweden549
2Viktor Khatulev Soviet Union369
3Edmunds Vasiljevs Soviet Union718
Mats Ulander Sweden718
5Boris Aleksandrov Soviet Union617
6Thomas Gradin Sweden437
7Doug Jarvis Canada257
8Viktor Vakhrushev Soviet Union167
9Bo Berglund Sweden246
10Vladimir Gostyuzhev Soviet Union156

Tournament awards

Best PlayersAll-Star Team
Goaltender Canada Frank SaliveFinland Tapio Virhimo
Defencemen Soviet Union Viktor KucherenkoCanada Jim Turkiewicz
Canada Paul McIntosh
Forwards Sweden Mats UlanderSweden Thomas Gradin
Sweden Roland Eriksson
Finland Ismo Villa

References

  1. "1974 World Junior Championship". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  2. "IIHF World U20 Championships". IIHF. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  3. "IIHF World Junior Championship History". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
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