1976 IIHF World Junior Championship
Tournament details
Host country Finland
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
DatesDecember 26, 1975 –
January 1, 1976
Teams5
Final positions
Champions  Soviet Union
Runner-up  Canada
Third place  Czechoslovakia
Fourth place Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played10
Goals scored78 (7.8 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev (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.

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1  Soviet Union 4 4 0 0 19 10 +9 8
2  Canada 4 2 2 0 12 27 −15 4
3  Czechoslovakia 4 2 2 0 12 10 +2 4
4  Finland 4 1 3 0 12 14 −2 2
5  Sweden 4 1 3 0 23 17 +6 2
Source:[citation needed]

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 Valeri Evstifeev  Soviet Union 4 4 8
2 Karel Holý  Czechoslovakia 5 2 7
3 Valeri Bragin  Soviet Union 4 2 6
4 Sergei Prdgortsev  Soviet Union 2 4 6
5 Matti Forss  Finland 4 1 5
6 Björn Johansson  Sweden 3 2 5
7 Josef Lukác  Czechoslovakia 2 3 5
8 Peter Marsh  Canada 4 0 4
9 Thomas Gradin  Sweden 3 1 4
Hannu Helander  Finland 3 1 4
Anders Håkansson  Sweden 3 1 4

Tournament awards

Best Players All-Star Team
Goaltender Soviet Union Sergei Babariko Czechoslovakia Pavol Švárny
Defencemen Soviet Union Vasili Pervukhin Soviet Union Vassili Pervukhin
Sweden Björn Johansson
Forwards Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev 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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