1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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1974 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Soviet Union
DatesDecember 27, 1973 –
January 6, 1974
Teams6
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Soviet Union
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Finland
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Canada
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored135 (9 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Sweden Roland Eriksson
(9 points)
1975 →

The 1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 27, 1973, and January 6, 1974. The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record.[1] This was the first edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.[2] Canada was represented by a club team, the Peterborough Petes, while the other five nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.[3]

Final standings[]

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

Rank Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union 5 5 0 0 36 12 10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Finland 5 3 2 0 21 23 6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Canada 5 3 2 0 17 23 6
4  Sweden 5 2 3 0 32 21 4
5  United States 5 1 4 0 10 32 2
6  Czechoslovakia 5 1 4 0 19 24 2

Results[]

Czechoslovakia 6 – 4
(3–1, 1–2, 2–1)		 Sweden
Canada 5 – 4
(1–1, 1–2, 3–1)		 United States
Soviet Union 6 – 2
(1–1, 3–1, 2–0)		 Finland
Sweden 9 – 4
(1–2, 6–2, 2–0)		 Finland
United States 1 – 11
(0–6, 1–1, 0–4)		 Sweden
Soviet Union 7 – 5
(1–0, 6–2, 0–3)		 Czechoslovakia
Finland 4 – 3
(2–1, 0–2, 2–0)		 Canada
Soviet Union 5 – 4
(2–2, 2–2, 1–0)		 Sweden
Finland 5 – 1
(2–0, 2–0, 1–1)		 United States
Canada 4 – 2
(2–0, 1–1, 1–1)		 Czechoslovakia
Finland 6 – 4
(4–1, 1–2, 1–1)		 Czechoslovakia
Canada 5 – 4
(1–2, 1–1, 3–1)		 Sweden
Soviet Union 9 – 1
(3–0, 1–1, 5–0)		 United States
United States 3 – 2
(0–1, 2–1, 1–0)		 Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union 9 – 0
(1–0, 3–0, 5–0)		 Canada

Scoring leaders[]

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Roland Eriksson  Sweden 5 4 9
2 Viktor Khatulev  Soviet Union 3 6 9
3 Edmunds Vasiljevs  Soviet Union 7 1 8
 Sweden 7 1 8
5 Boris Aleksandrov  Soviet Union 6 1 7
6 Thomas Gradin  Sweden 4 3 7
7 Doug Jarvis  Canada 2 5 7
8  Soviet Union 1 6 7
9 Bo Berglund  Sweden 2 4 6
10  Soviet Union 1 5 6

Tournament awards[]

Best Players All-Star Team
Goaltender Canada Frank Salive Finland
Defencemen Soviet Union Canada Jim Turkiewicz
Canada Paul McIntosh
Forwards Sweden Sweden Thomas Gradin
Sweden Roland Eriksson
Finland Ismo Villa

References[]

  1. ^ "1974 World Junior Championship". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  2. ^ "IIHF World U20 Championships". IIHF. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  3. ^ "IIHF World Junior Championship History". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
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