1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1976 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Finland
Dates December 26, 1975 –
January 1, 1976
Teams 5
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Soviet Union
Runner-up   Canada
Third place   Czechoslovakia
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 10
Goals scored 78 (7.8 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev
(8 points)
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1977 →

The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975, and January 1, 1976, in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Rauma Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record.[1] This was the third 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 Sherbrooke Castors, while the other four nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.[3] The United States did not participate in this tournament, after having competed in the 1974 and 1975 tournaments.

Final standings

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

Rank Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1st, gold medalist(s) Soviet Union440019108
2nd, silver medalist(s) Canada422012274
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Czechoslovakia422012104
4 Finland413012142
5 Sweden413023172

Results

Finland 1 – 4
(1–1, 0–2, 0–1)		 Canada
Soviet Union 3 – 2
(0–2, 2–0, 1–0)		 Czechoslovakia
Sweden 17 – 1
(3–1, 9–0, 5–0)		 Canada
Sweden 2 – 5
(2–2, 0–2, 0–1)		 Soviet Union
Finland 0 – 2
(0–1, 0–0, 0–1)		 Czechoslovakia
Finland 4 – 6
(0–4, 0–0, 4–2)		 Soviet Union
Canada 5 – 4
(0–1, 1–2, 4–1)		 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 4 – 2
(3–0, 0–2, 1–0)		 Sweden
Finland 7 – 2
(2–0, 1–2, 4–0)		 Sweden
Soviet Union 5 – 2
(1–0, 1–0, 3–2)		 Canada

Scoring leaders

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1Valeri Evstifeev Soviet Union448
2Karel Holý Czechoslovakia527
3Valeri Bragin Soviet Union426
4Sergei Prdgortsev Soviet Union246
5Matti Forss Finland415
6Björn Johansson Sweden325
7Josef Lukác Czechoslovakia235
8Peter Marsh Canada404
9Thomas Gradin Sweden314
Hannu Helander Finland314
Anders Håkansson Sweden314

Tournament awards

Best PlayersAll-Star Team
Goaltender Soviet Union Sergei BabarikoCzechoslovakia Pavol Švárny
Defencemen Soviet Union Vasili PervukhinSoviet Union Vassili Pervukhin
Sweden Björn Johansson
Forwards Soviet Union Valeri EvstifeevCanada Peter Marsh
Czechoslovakia Karel Holý
Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev

References

  1. ↑ "1976 World Junior Championship". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  2. ↑ "IIHF World U20 Championships". IIHF. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  3. ↑ "IIHF World Junior Championship History". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
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