1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1990 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Finland
Dates December 26 - January 4
Teams 10
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Canada (4th title)
Runner-up   Soviet Union
Third place   Czechoslovakia
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 28
Goals scored 261 (9.32 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Czechoslovakia Robert Reichel (21 points)
1989
1991

The 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1990 WJHC) was the 14th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held mainly in Helsinki, Finland. Canada won the gold medal, its fourth world junior championship, while the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia won silver and bronze, respectively.

Final standings

The 1990 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
1st Canada 7511361811
2nd Soviet Union 7511502311
3rd  Czechoslovakia 7520511710
4 Finland 742132219
5 Sweden 742138299
6 Norway 725025514
7 United States 716022372
8 Poland 70707650

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1991.

Results

December 26, 1989 Canada  3 – 2
 United States Turku
December 26, 1989 Soviet Union  11 – 0
 Poland Kerava
December 26, 1989 Sweden  4 – 3
 Norway Kauniainen
December 26, 1989 Czechoslovakia  7 – 1
 Finland Helsinki
December 27, 1989 Soviet Union  12 – 2
 Norway Kauniainen
December 27, 1989 Czechoslovakia  7 – 1
 United States Helsinki
December 28, 1989 Canada  12 – 0
 Poland Kauniainen
December 28, 1989 Finland  5 – 2
 Sweden Turku
December 29, 1989 Canada  6 – 3
 Norway Kerava
December 29, 1989 Soviet Union  3 – 2
 Finland Turku
December 29, 1989 Czechoslovakia  11 – 1
 Poland Kauniainen
December 29, 1989 Sweden  6 – 5
 United States Helsinki
December 30, 1989 Czechoslovakia  13 – 2
 Norway Kauniainen
December 30, 1989 Soviet Union  7 – 3
 United States Helsinki
December 31, 1989 Canada  3 – 3
 Finland Helsinki
December 31, 1989 Sweden  14 – 0
 Poland Turku
January 1, 1990 Canada  6 – 4
 Soviet Union Helsinki
January 1, 1990 Czechoslovakia  7 – 2
 Sweden Turku
January 1, 1990 Finland  8 – 2
 Norway Helsinki
January 1, 1990 United States  3 – 2
 Poland Kerava
January 2, 1990 Soviet Union  8 – 5
 Czechoslovakia Helsinki
January 2, 1990 Norway  6 – 5
 United States Kerava
January 3, 1990 Sweden  5 – 4
 Canada Helsinki
January 3, 1990 Finland  7 – 1
 Poland Helsinki
January 4, 1990 Canada  2 – 1
 Czechoslovakia Turku
January 4, 1990 Soviet Union  5 - 5
 Sweden Helsinki
January 4, 1990 Norway  7 – 3
 Poland Turku
January 4, 1990 Finland  6 – 3
 United States Helsinki

Leading scorers

  GP G A Pts PIM
Czechoslovakia Robert Reichel 101121
Czechoslovakia Jaromír Jágr 51318
Canada David Chyzowski 9413
Sweden Patric Englund 9211
Czechoslovakia Bobby Holík 6511

Tournament all-stars

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Bad Tolz West Germany from March 26 to April 4. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Switzerland West Germany Japan Denmark France Austria Romania Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1  Switzerland 7610481412 3 - 08 - 47 - 14 - 69 - 26 - 111 - 0
2 West Germany 76103512120 - 3 5 - 24 - 25 - 24 - 011 - 16 - 2
3 Japan 7421383394 - 82 - 5 5 - 35 - 49 - 26 - 47 - 7
4 Denmark 7232263161 - 72 - 43 - 5 6 - 24 - 45 - 55 - 4
5 France 7340393066 - 42 - 54 - 52 - 6 11 - 24 - 510 - 3
6 Austria 7241204352 - 90 - 42 - 94 - 42 - 11 3 - 27 - 4
7 Romania 7241273951 - 61 - 114 - 65 - 55 - 42 - 3 9 - 4
8 Yugoslavia 7061245510 - 112 - 67 - 74 - 53 - 104 - 74 - 9

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and Yugoslavia was relegated to Pool C for 1991.

Pool C

Pool C was contested by seven teams in Eindhoven Netherlands from March 16 to 25. The South Korean juniors made their debut this year.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Netherlands North Korea Italy Bulgaria South Korea United Kingdom Hungary
1 Netherlands 6510401710 3 - 44 - 36 - 211 - 47 - 29 - 2
2 North Korea 6411271494 - 3 3 - 14 - 410 - 12 - 34 - 2
3 Italy 6420341183 - 41 - 3 6 - 16 - 07- 111 - 2
4 Bulgaria 6321263072 - 64 - 41 - 6 7 - 63 - 29 - 6
5 South Korea 6240244044 - 111 - 100 - 66 - 7 6 - 47 - 2
6 Great Britain 6240183042 - 73 - 21 - 72 - 34 - 6 6 - 5
7 Hungary 6060194602 - 92 - 42 - 116 - 92 - 75 - 6

The Netherlands was promoted to Pool B for 1991.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 03, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.