1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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1976 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Finland
DatesDecember 26, 1975 –
January 1, 1976
Teams5
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Soviet Union
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Canada
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Czechoslovakia
Fourth place Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored78 (7.8 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Soviet Union
(8 points)
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The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975, and January 1, 1976, in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Rauma Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record.[1] This was the third 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 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 place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union 4 4 0 0 19 10 8
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Canada 4 2 2 0 12 27 4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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  Soviet Union 4 4 8
2 Karel Holý  Czechoslovakia 5 2 7
3 Valeri Bragin  Soviet Union 4 2 6
4  Soviet Union 2 4 6
5 Matti Forss  Finland 4 1 5
6 Björn Johansson  Sweden 3 2 5
7  Czechoslovakia 2 3 5
8 Peter Marsh  Canada 4 0 4
9 Thomas Gradin  Sweden 3 1 4
 Finland 3 1 4
Anders Håkansson  Sweden 3 1 4

Tournament awards[]

Best Players All-Star Team
Goaltender Soviet Union Czechoslovakia
Defencemen Soviet Union Vasili Pervukhin Soviet Union Vassili Pervukhin
Sweden Björn Johansson
Forwards Soviet Union 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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