1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1988 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details

Host country	Soviet Union
Dates	December 26 - January 4
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (3rd title)
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	247 (8.82 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Alexander Mogilny (18 points)
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The 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 12th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Canada and the Soviet Union won the gold and silver medals respectively as the two nations redeemed themselves following their mutual disqualification in the 1987 tournament as a result of the Punch-up in Piestany. Finland won the bronze medal.

Final standings

The 1988 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
01 !	Canada	7	6	0	1	37	16	13
02 !	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	44	18	12
03 !	Finland	7	5	1	1	36	20	11
4	Czechoslovakia	7	3	3	1	36	23	7
5	Sweden	7	3	3	1	36	24	7
6	United States	7	1	6	0	28	46	2
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	18	47	2
8	Poland	7	1	6	0	12	53	2

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1989.

Results

December 26, 1987

4 – 2

December 26, 1987

6 – 4

December 26, 1987

6 – 0

December 26, 1987

4 – 3

December 28, 1987

4 – 2

December 28, 1987

13 – 0

December 28, 1987

6 – 2

December 28, 1987

6 – 4

December 29, 1987

4 – 4

December 29, 1987

5 – 1

December 29, 1987

6 – 1

December 29, 1987

7 – 3

December 31, 1987

5 – 4

December 31, 1987

7 – 4

December 31, 1987

4 – 2

December 31, 1987

9 – 1

January 1, 1988

3 – 2

January 1, 1988

6 – 3

January 1, 1988

5 – 5

January 1, 1988

8 – 6

January 3, 1988

8 – 1

January 3, 1988

5 – 2

January 3, 1988

7 – 2

January 3, 1988

11 – 1

January 4, 1988

9 – 1

January 4, 1988

12 – 2

January 4, 1988

2 – 1

January 4, 1988

7 – 5

Leading scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Alexander Mogilny		9	9	18
Thomas Sjögren		6	9	15
Ola Rosander		9	5	14
Sergei Fedorov		5	7	12
Janne Ojanen		6	5	11

Tournament All-Star Team

Goaltender: Jimmy Waite
Defencemen: Teppo Numminen, Greg Hawgood
Forwards: Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov, Theoren Fleury^[1]

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 12 to 21. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Norway	7	5	2	0	38	18	10			8 - 0	3 - 2	3 - 4	8 - 2	6 - 7	5 - 1	5 -2
2	Romania	7	5	2	0	24	27	10		0 - 8		4 - 2	3 - 2	3 - 6	5 - 4	3 - 1	6 - 4
3	Switzerland	7	4	2	1	34	23	9		2 - 3	2 - 4		1 - 1	6 - 5	6 - 5	9 - 2	8 - 3
4	Japan	7	3	2	2	34	27	8		4 - 3	2 - 3	1 - 1		7 - 1	6 - 8	4 - 4	10 - 7
5	France	7	4	3	0	31	36	8		2 - 8	6 - 3	5 - 6	1 - 7		7 - 6	7 - 5	3 - 1
6	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	37	36	7		7 - 6	4 - 5	5 - 6	8 - 6	6 - 7		2 - 2	5 - 4
7	Netherlands	7	0	4	3	20	35	3		1 - 5	1 - 3	2 - 9	4 - 4	5 - 7	2 - 2		5 - 5
8	Austria	7	0	6	1	26	42	1		2 - 5	4 - 6	3 - 8	7 - 10	1 - 3	4 - 5	5 - 5

Norway was promoted to Pool A and Austria was relegated to Pool C for 1989.

Pool C

Eight teams contested the third tier this year in Belluno and Feltre, Italy from March 18 to 27. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. The North Korean juniors debuted this year.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Denmark	7	7	0	0	59	11	14			6 - 2	3 - 2	9 - 2	19 - 0	4 - 2	5 - 3	13 - 0
2	Italy	7	6	1	0	27	17	12		2 - 6		4 - 1	6 - 4	4 - 2	3 - 2	3 - 2	5 - 0
3	Bulgaria	7	5	2	0	39	16	10		2 - 3	1 - 4		7 - 3	8 - 1	10 - 0	8 - 4	3 - 1
4	Great Britain	7	3	3	1	21	27	7		2 - 9	4 - 6	3 - 7		4 - 1	3 - 1	2 - 2	3 - 1
5	Spain	7	2	4	1	19	45	5		0 - 19	2 - 4	1 - 8	1 - 4		6 - 2	5 - 5	4 - 3
6	Hungary	7	2	5	0	14	28	4		2 - 4	2 - 3	0 - 10	1 - 3	2 - 6		4 - 1	3 - 1
7	North Korea	7	1	4	2	20	29	4		3 - 5	2 - 3	4 - 8	2 - 2	5 - 5	1 - 4		3 - 2
8	Belgium	7	0	7	0	8	34	0		0 - 13	0 - 5	1 - 3	1 - 3	3 - 4	1 - 3	2 - 3

Denmark was initially promoted to Pool B for 1989, however because they used an ineligble player, a challenge series with Italy was played the following December to determine promotion.^[2]

References

Joyce, Gare (2006). When the Lights Went Out. Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-66275-8.
Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
1988 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1988.htm

IIHF World U20 Championships

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