1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1995 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details

Host country	Canada
Dates	December 26 - January 4
Teams	8
Venue(s)	13 (in 13 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (8th title)
Runner-up	Russia
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	247 (8.82 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Marty Murray & Jason Allison (15 points)
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The 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1995 WJHC) was the 18th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was hosted in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia won silver, and Sweden the Bronze

Final standings

The 1995 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	7	0	0	49	22	14
02 !	Russia	7	5	2	0	36	24	10
03 !	Sweden	7	4	2	1	35	21	9
4	Finland	7	3	3	1	29	26	7
5	United States	7	3	4	0	28	33	6
6	Czech Republic	7	3	4	0	43	26	6
7	Germany	7	1	6	0	17	55	2
8	Ukraine	7	1	6	0	12	42	2

No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996.

Results

December 26, 1994

7 – 1

December 26, 1994

10 – 2

December 26, 1994

3 – 0

December 26, 1994

4 – 3

December 27, 1994

9 – 1

December 27, 1994

4 – 3

December 27, 1994

6 – 2

Rocky Mountain House

December 27, 1994

4 – 2

December 29, 1994

8 – 3

December 29, 1994

4 – 3

December 29, 1994

4 – 2

December 29, 1994

7 – 1

December 30, 1994

7 – 5

December 30, 1994

7 – 1

December 30, 1994

8 – 1

December 30, 1994

7 – 5

January 1, 1995

6 – 4

January 1, 1995

6 – 4

January 1, 1995

10 – 1

January 1, 1995

5 – 3

January 2, 1995

8 – 5

January 2, 1995

3 – 3

January 2, 1995

14 – 3

January 2, 1995

3 – 2

January 4, 1995

4 – 3

January 4, 1995

6 – 2

January 4, 1995

6 – 2

January 4, 1995

7 – 5

Leading scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Marty Murray		6	9	15
Jason Allison		3	12	15
Bryan McCabe		3	9	12
Alixander Serikow		2	9	11

Tournament all-stars

Goaltender Igor Karpenko
Defence Bryan McCabe
Defence Anders Eriksson
Forward Jason Allison
Forward Éric Dazé
Forward Marty Murray

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Caen, Rouen, Le Havre, and Louviers France from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Switzerland	7	5	0	2	40	12	12			3 - 1	4 - 4	4 - 1	4 - 4	6 - 1	11 - 1	8 - 0
2	Slovakia	7	5	2	0	33	16	10		1 - 3		4 - 2	6 - 1	4 - 1	8 - 2	7 - 3	3 - 4
3	Poland	7	4	2	1	26	22	9		4 - 4	2 - 4		0 - 6	5 - 4	4 - 1	6 - 0	5 - 3
4	France	7	4	3	0	24	15	8		1 - 4	1 - 6	6 - 0		1 - 2	3 - 0	6 - 3	6 - 0
5	Norway	7	3	3	1	27	26	7		4 - 4	1 - 4	4 - 5	2 - 1		2 - 7	9 - 1	5 - 4
6	Austria	7	2	4	1	20	31	5		1 - 6	2 - 8	1 - 4	0 - 3	7 - 2		4 - 4	5 - 4
7	Japan	7	1	5	1	17	44	3		1 - 11	3 - 7	0 - 6	3 - 6	1 - 9	4 - 4		5 - 1
8	Italy	7	1	6	0	16	37	2		0 - 8	4 - 3	3 - 5	0 - 6	4 - 5	4 - 5	1 - 5

Switzerland and Slovakia were promoted to Pool A for 1996.

Qualification for Pool C1

This would be the final year for a pre-tournament qualification. The winner of this tournament would participate in the C1 pool, second and third would participate in C2. It was played from September 3 to 5, in Minsk, Belarus.^[1]

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Belarus	2	2	0	0	13	5	4			8 - 4	5 - 1
Kazakhstan	2	1	1	0	15	8	2		4 - 8		11 - 0
Slovenia	2	0	2	0	1	16	0		1 - 5	0 - 11

Pool C1

Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). Because there were to be two teams promoted, each group winner secured promotion before the placement games. The tournament took place from December 29 to January 3, in Puigcerda Spain.

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Hungary	3	3	0	0	22	3	6			5 - 2	11 - 0	6 - 1
Belarus	3	2	1	0	13	9	4		2 - 5		3 - 2	8 - 2
Romania	3	1	2	0	6	17	2		0 - 11	2 - 3		4 - 3
Great Britain	3	0	3	0	6	18	0		1 - 6	2 - 8	3 - 4

Hungary was promoted to Pool B for 1996.

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	3	3	0	0	29	6	6			7 - 5	9 - 0	13 - 1
Denmark	3	2	1	0	15	11	4		5 - 7		5 - 2	5 - 2
Spain	3	1	2	0	6	17	2		0 - 9	2 - 5		4 - 3
Netherlands	3	0	3	0	6	22	0		1 - 13	2 - 5	3 - 4

Latvia was promoted to Pool B for 1996.

Placement Games

7th place: Netherlands 4 - 3(ot) Great Britain
5th place: Spain 3 - 2 Romania
3rd place: Denmark 3 - 2 Belarus
1st Place: Latvia 5 - 2 Hungary

Pool C2

Six teams played a round robin, with the top two gain promotion for the following year's Pool C, the remaining teams would be placed in Pool D. It was played from December 31 to January 6, in Tallinn Estonia.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Kazakhstan	5	3	0	2	47	10	8			3 - 3	13 - 1	11 - 2	2 - 2	18 - 2
2	Slovenia	5	3	0	2	40	15	8		3 - 3		3 - 3	9 - 3	8 - 2	17 - 4
3	Estonia	5	2	1	2	24	25	6		1 - 13	3 - 3		6 - 4	2 - 2	12 - 3
4	Lithuania	5	2	3	0	29	30	4		2 - 11	3 - 9	4 - 6		7 - 2	13 - 2
5	Croatia	5	0	2	3	10	21	3		2 - 2	2 - 8	2 - 2	2 - 7		2 - 2
6	Yugoslavia	5	0	4	1	13	62	1		2 - 18	4 - 17	3 - 12	2 - 13	2 - 2

Kazakhstan and Slovenia were promoted to Pool C for 1996.

References

Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
1995 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1995.htm at Passionhockey.com

↑ http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1995.htm

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