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1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


FieldValue
tourney_nameIIHF World Junior Championship
year1976
countryFinland
datesDecember 26, 1975 –
January 1, 1976
num_teams5
venues4
cities4
typeihj
winnersSoviet Union
secondCanada
thirdCzechoslovakia
fourthFinland
games10
goals78
scoring_leaderUSSR Valeri Evstifeev
points8
prevseason1975
nextseason1977

January 1, 1976 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. This was the third edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records. 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. 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.

Results

Scoring leaders

RankPlayerCountryGAPts
1Valeri Evstifeev448
2Karel Holý527
3Valeri Bragin426
4Sergei Prdgortsev246
5Matti Forss415
6Björn Johansson325
7Josef Lukác235
8Peter Marsh404
9Thomas Gradin314
Hannu Helander314
Anders Håkansson314

Tournament awards

width=180Best Playerswidth=180All-Star TeamGoaltenderDefencemenForwards
USSR Sergei BabarikoTCH Pavol Švárny
USSR Vasili PervukhinUSSR Vassili Pervukhin
SWE Björn Johansson
USSR Valeri EvstifeevCAN Peter Marsh
TCH Karel Holý
USSR Valeri Evstifeev

References

References

  1. "1976 World Junior Championship". Hockey Canada.
  2. "IIHF World U20 Championships". IIHF.
  3. "IIHF World Junior Championship History". Hockey Canada.
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