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) 1 (in 1 host city)
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, 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  Soviet Union 4 4 0 0 19 10 8
2nd  Canada 4 2 2 0 12 27 4
3rd  Czechoslovakia 4 2 2 0 12 10 4
4  Finland 4 1 3 0 12 14 2
5  Sweden 4 1 3 0 23 17 2

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
1 Valeri Evstifeev  Soviet Union 4 4 8
2 Karel Holý  Czechoslovakia 5 2 7
3 Valeri Bragin  Soviet Union 4 2 6
4 Sergei Prdgortsev  Soviet Union 2 4 6
5 Matti Forss  Finland 4 1 5
6 Björn Johansson  Sweden 3 2 5
7 Josef Lukác  Czechoslovakia 2 3 5
8 Peter Marsh  Canada 4 0 4
9 Thomas Gradin  Sweden 3 1 4
Hannu Helander  Finland 3 1 4
Anders Håkansson  Sweden 3 1 4

Tournament awards

Best Players All-Star Team
Goaltender Soviet Union Sergei Babariko Czechoslovakia Pavol Švárny
Defencemen Soviet Union Vasili Pervukhin Soviet Union Vassili Pervukhin
Sweden Björn Johansson
Forwards Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev Canada 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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