1975 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1975 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host countries  Canada
 United States
Dates December 27, 1974 –
January 5, 1975
Teams 6
Venue(s) 5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Soviet Union
Runner-up   Canada
Third place   Sweden
Fourth place  Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 95 (6.33 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Soviet Union Boris Chuchin
Sweden Dag Bredberg
(8 points)
1974
1976

The 1975 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1974 and January 5, 1975 in several venues in Winnipeg and Brandon in Canada and in Minneapolis, Bloomington, and Fargo in the United States. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record.[1] This was the second edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.[2] Canada was represented by an all-star team from just the Western Canada Hockey League, while the other five nations were represented by teams of all their top under-20 players.[3]

Final standings

The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other five teams once each.

Rank Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1st, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union 5 5 0 0 22 8 10
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Canada 5 4 1 0 27 10 8
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden 5 2 2 1 18 24 5
4  Czechoslovakia 5 1 2 2 9 11 4
5  Finland 5 1 3 1 10 14 3
6  United States 5 0 5 0 9 28 0

Results

Finland 1 – 4
 Soviet Union
Canada 10 – 2
(2–0, 6–1, 2–1)
 Sweden
Czechoslovakia 1 – 1
 Finland
Canada 9 – 3
 United States
Soviet Union 5 – 1
(2–0, 3–1, 0–0)
 Czechoslovakia
Sweden 7 – 3
(2–0, 1–1, 4–2)
 United States
Canada 2 – 1
 Finland
Canada 3 – 0
(2–0, 0–0, 1–0)
 Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union 3 – 1
(1–0, 2–1, 0–0)
 United States
Sweden 5 – 3
(3–2, 0–0, 2–1)
 Finland
Soviet Union 6 – 2
(0–0, 2–2, 4–0)
 Sweden
United States 0 – 5
 Czechoslovakia
Canada 3 – 4
(1–2, 0–2, 2–0)
 Soviet Union
Finland 4 – 2
 United States
Sweden 2 – 2
(1–1, 0–1, 1–0)
 Czechoslovakia

Scoring leaders

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Boris Chuchin  Soviet Union 4 4 8
Dag Bredberg  Sweden 4 4 8
3 Dale McMullin  Canada 3 5 8
4 Vladimir Kucherenko  Soviet Union 0 8 8
5 Emil Meszáros  Sweden 4 3 7
6 Kent Nilsson  Sweden 4 2 6
Bryan Trottier  Canada 4 2 6
8 Mel Bridgman  Canada 4 1 5
Viktor Khatulev  Soviet Union 4 1 5
10 Mark Davidson  Canada 3 2 5
Peter Šťastný  Czechoslovakia 3 2 5
Matti Hagman  Finland 3 2 5

Tournament awards

Best Players All-Star Team
Goaltender Canada Ed Staniowski Soviet Union Vladimir Myshkin
Defencemen Soviet Union Sergei Babinov Canada Richard Lapointe
Soviet Union Viktor Kucherenko
Forwards Soviet Union Viktor Khatulev Canada Dale McMullin
Soviet Union Viktor Khatulev
Soviet Union Boris Alexandrov

References

  1. "1975 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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