1994 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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1994 IIHF U20 World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Czech Republic
DatesDecember 26 – January 4
Teams8
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Canada (7th title)
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Sweden
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Russia
Fourth place Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played28
Goals scored195 (6.96 per match)
Attendance58,143 (2,077 per match)
Scoring leader(s)Sweden Niklas Sundström
(11 points)
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1995 →

The 1994 Ice Hockey World Junior Championship (1994 WJC) was the 18th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Ostrava and Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic. Canada won the gold medal for the second consecutive year, and its seventh overall, while Sweden won silver, and Russia the bronze.

Final standings[]

The 1994 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 39 20 13
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Sweden 7 6 1 0 35 16 12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Russia 7 5 1 1 23 17 11
4  Finland 7 4 3 0 27 24 8
5  Czech Republic 7 3 4 0 31 29 6
6  United States 7 1 5 1 20 33 3
7  Germany 7 1 6 0 10 26 2
8   Switzerland 7 0 6 1 10 30 1

Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for 1995.

Results[]

December 26, 1993 Canada5 – 1  SwitzerlandFrydek-Mistek
December 26, 1993 Sweden4 – 1 GermanyOstrava
December 26, 1993 Russia5 – 1 Czech RepublicOstrava
December 26, 1993 Finland5 – 2 United StatesFrydek-Mistek
December 27, 1993 Canada5 – 2 GermanyOstrava
December 27, 1993 Sweden3 – 0 RussiaOstrava
December 27, 1993 Finland7 – 3 Czech RepublicFrydek-Mistek
December 27, 1993  Switzerland1 – 1 United StatesFrydek-Mistek
December 29, 1993 Canada3 – 3 RussiaFrydek-Mistek
December 29, 1993 Czech Republic6 – 0  SwitzerlandFrydek-Mistek
December 29, 1993 Sweden6 – 2 FinlandOstrava
December 29, 1993 United States7 – 2 GermanyOstrava
December 30, 1993 Canada6 – 3 FinlandOstrava
December 30, 1993 Czech Republic6 – 2 GermanyOstrava
December 30, 1993 Sweden6 – 2  SwitzerlandFrydek-Mistek
December 30, 1993 Russia4 – 3 United StatesFrydek-Mistek
January 1, 1994 Canada8 – 3 United StatesFrydek-Mistek
January 1, 1994 Finland4 – 2  SwitzerlandOstrava
January 1, 1994 Sweden6 – 4 Czech RepublicFrydek-Mistek
January 1, 1994 Russia1 – 0 GermanyOstrava
January 2, 1994 Canada6 – 4 Czech RepublicOstrava
January 2, 1994 Finland2 – 0 GermanyFrydek-Mistek
January 2, 1994 Russia5 – 3  SwitzerlandFrydek-Mistek
January 2, 1994 Sweden6 – 1 United StatesOstrava
January 4, 1994 Canada6 – 4 SwedenOstrava
January 4, 1994 Germany3 – 1  SwitzerlandOstrava
January 4, 1994 Russia5 – 4 FinlandFrydek-Mistek
January 4, 1994 Czech Republic7 – 3 United StatesFrydek-Mistek

Scoring leaders[]

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Niklas Sundström  Sweden 4 7 11
2 Martin Gendron  Canada 6 4 10
3 Yanick Dubé  Canada 5 5 10
4 Rick Girard  Canada 6 3 9
5 Mats Lindgren  Sweden 5 4 9
6 Jason Allison  Canada 3 6 9
6 Saku Koivu  Finland 3 6 9
8 Petr Sýkora  Czech Republic 6 2 8
9 Valeri Bure  Russia 5 3 8
10 Kenny Jönsson  Sweden 3 5 8

Tournament awards[]

IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Canada Jamie Storr Russia Evgeni Ryabchikov
Defencemen Sweden Kenny Jönsson Finland Kimmo Timonen
Sweden Kenny Jönsson
Forwards Sweden Niklas Sundström Sweden Niklas Sundström
Russia Valeri Bure
Czech Republic David Výborný


Pool B[]

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Bucharest, Romania from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Ukraine Norway France Poland Italy Austria Japan Romania
1  Ukraine 7 7 0 0 35 10 14 4 - 3 5 - 1 7 - 0 2 - 1 5 - 2 3 - 0 9 - 3
2  Norway 7 5 1 1 28 15 11 3 - 4 6 - 2 4 - 1 3 - 2 6 - 2 3 - 1 3 - 3
3  France 7 3 3 1 23 23 7 1 - 5 2 - 6 1 - 3 5 - 2 4 - 4 3 - 1 7 - 2
4  Poland 7 3 4 0 15 26 6 0 - 7 1 - 4 3 - 1 3 - 0 2 - 4 5 - 4 1 - 6
5  Italy 7 2 4 1 20 22 5 1 - 2 2 - 3 2 - 5 0 - 3 3 - 3 7 - 5 5 - 1
6  Austria 7 1 3 3 21 27 5 2 - 5 2 - 6 4 - 4 4 - 2 3 - 3 3 - 4 3 - 3
7  Japan 7 2 5 0 19 27 4 0 - 3 1 - 3 1 - 3 4 - 5 5 - 7 4 - 3 4 - 3
8  Romania 7 1 4 2 21 32 4 3 - 9 3 - 3 2 - 7 6 - 1 1 - 5 3 - 3 3 - 4

 Ukraine was promoted to Pool A and  Romania was relegated to Pool C for 1995.

Qualification for Pool C[]

A Qualification tournament was played in Nitra and Nové Zámky, Slovakia, from November 1 to 7. Games between teams that had played each other in the preliminary round carried forward and counted in the final round.

Preliminary Round[]

Group A
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Latvia Belarus Slovenia Estonia
 Latvia 3 3 0 0 15 10 6 2 - 1 9 - 1 13 - 1
 Belarus 3 2 1 0 22 11 4 1 - 2 6 - 0 6 - 1
 Slovenia 3 1 2 0 19 17 2 1 - 9 0 - 6 5 - 1
 Estonia 3 0 3 0 9 27 0 1 - 13 1 - 6 1 - 5
Group B
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Slovakia Kazakhstan Croatia
 Slovakia 2 2 0 0 21 4 4 6 - 4 15 - 0
 Kazakhstan 2 1 1 0 16 7 2 4 - 6 12 - 1
 Croatia 2 0 2 0 1 27 0 0 - 15 1 - 12

Final Round[]

Group A
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Latvia Slovakia Kazakhstan Belarus
 Latvia 3 2 1 0 8 7 4 4 - 3 2 - 3 2 - 1
 Slovakia 3 2 1 0 16 10 4 3 - 4 6 - 4 7 - 2
 Kazakhstan 3 1 1 1 9 10 3 3 - 2 4 - 6 2 - 2
 Belarus 3 0 2 1 5 11 1 1 - 2 2 - 7 2 - 2

 Latvia and  Slovakia won the right to participate in Pool C.

Pool C[]

Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). The tournament took place from December 30 to January 3, in Odense and Esbjerg, Denmark.

Preliminary Round[]

Group A
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Latvia United Kingdom Netherlands Bulgaria
 Latvia 3 3 0 0 55 3 6 16 - 2 14 - 0 25 - 1
 Great Britain 3 2 1 0 16 22 4 2 - 16 6 - 1 8 - 5
 Netherlands 3 1 2 0 6 22 2 0 - 14 1 - 6 5 - 2
 Bulgaria 3 0 3 0 8 38 0 1 - 25 5 - 8 2 - 5
Group B
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Slovakia Denmark Hungary Spain
 Slovakia 3 3 0 0 49 1 6 22 - 0 12 - 1 15 - 0
 Denmark 3 2 1 0 9 26 4 0 - 22 5 - 4 4 - 0
 Hungary 3 1 2 0 15 17 2 1 - 12 4 - 5 10 - 0
 Spain 3 0 3 0 0 29 0 0 - 15 0 - 4 0 - 10

Placement Games[]

 Slovakia was promoted to Pool B for 1995.

References[]

  • Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
  • 1994 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
  • 1994 results at Passionhockey.com
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