1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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1988 IIHF World U20 Championship
WJC 1988 logo.gif
Tournament details
Host country Soviet Union
DatesDecember 26 – January 4
Teams8
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Canada (3rd title)
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Soviet Union
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Finland
Fourth place Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Matches played28
Goals scored247 (8.82 per match)
Attendance46,220 (1,651 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Soviet Union Alexander Mogilny
(18 points)
← 1987
1989 →

The 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 12th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada 7 6 0 1 37 16 13
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union 7 6 1 0 44 18 12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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, 1987Canada 4 – 2 Sweden
December 26, 1987Soviet Union 6 – 4 Czechoslovakia
December 26, 1987Finland 6 – 0 West Germany
December 26, 1987Poland 4 – 3 United States
December 28, 1987Canada 4 – 2 Czechoslovakia
December 28, 1987Sweden 13 – 0 Poland
December 28, 1987Soviet Union 6 – 2 Finland
December 28, 1987United States 6 – 4 West Germany
December 29, 1987Finland 4 – 4 Canada
December 29, 1987Sweden 5 – 1 West Germany
December 29, 1987Czechoslovakia 6 – 1 Poland
December 29, 1987Soviet Union 7 – 3 United States
December 31, 1987Canada 5 – 4 United States
December 31, 1987Czechoslovakia 7 – 4 West Germany
December 31, 1987Soviet Union 4 – 2 Sweden
December 31, 1987Finland 9 – 1 Poland
January 1, 1988Canada 3 – 2 Soviet Union
January 1, 1988West Germany 6 – 3 Poland
January 1, 1988Czechoslovakia 5 – 5 Sweden
January 1, 1988Finland 8 – 6 United States
January 3, 1988Canada 8 – 1 West Germany
January 3, 1988Finland 5 – 2 Sweden
January 3, 1988Soviet Union 7 – 2 Poland
January 3, 1988Czechoslovakia 11 – 1 United States
January 4, 1988Canada 9 – 1 Poland
January 4, 1988Soviet Union 12 – 2 West Germany
January 4, 1988Finland 2 – 1 Czechoslovakia
January 4, 1988Sweden 7 – 5 United States

Scoring leaders[]

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Alexander Mogilny  Soviet Union 9 9 18
2 Thomas Sjögren  Sweden 6 9 15
3  Sweden 9 5 14
3 Sergei Fedorov  Soviet Union 6 6 12
5 Janne Ojanen  Finland 6 5 11
6 Robert Reichel  Czechoslovakia 3 8 11
6  Finland 3 8 11
8 Jeremy Roenick  United States 5 4 9
9 Petr Pavlas  Czechoslovakia 4 5 9
10 Greg Hawgood  Canada 1 8 9

Tournament awards[]

IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Canada Jimmy Waite Canada Jimmy Waite
Defencemen Finland Teppo Numminen Canada Greg Hawgood
Finland Teppo Numminen
Forwards Soviet Union Alexander Mogilny Soviet Union Alexander Mogilny
Canada Theoren Fleury
Czechoslovakia Petr Hrbek

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 Norway Romania Switzerland Japan France Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Netherlands Austria
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 Denmark Italy Bulgaria United Kingdom Spain Hungary North Korea Belgium
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 ineligible player, a challenge series with Italy was played the following December to determine promotion.[1]

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
  1. ^ http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1989.htm
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