1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1985 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Finland
Dates December 23 - January 1
Teams 8
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Canada (2nd title)
Runner-up   Czechoslovakia
Third place   Soviet Union
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 28
Goals scored 234 (8.36 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Finland Esa Keskinen (20 points)
1984
1986

The 1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1985 WJHC) was the ninth edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held mainly in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. Canada won the gold medal, its second championship, Czechoslovakia silver and the Soviet Union bronze.

Final standings

The 1985 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, gold medalist(s) Canada 7502441412
2nd, silver medalist(s) Czechoslovakia 7502321312
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Soviet Union 7520381710
4 Finland 7412422010
5 Sweden 734032266
6 United States 725023374
7 West Germany 70619441
8 Poland 706110591

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1986.

Results

December 23, 1984Canada 8 – 2
 SwedenHelsinki
December 23, 1984Soviet Union 10 – 0
 PolandVantaa
December 23, 1984Finland 9 – 0
 West GermanyTurku
December 23, 1984Czechoslovakia 9 – 1
 United StatesTurku
December 25, 1984Canada 12 – 1
 PolandTurku
December 25, 1984Soviet Union 12 – 1
 West GermanyVantaa
December 25, 1984Czechoslovakia 4 – 3
 SwedenHelsinki
December 25, 1984Finland 7 – 4
 United StatesTurku
December 26, 1984Canada 6 – 0
 West GermanyHelsinki
December 26, 1984Czechoslovakia 6 – 2
 PolandEspoo
December 26, 1984Finland 5 – 3
 SwedenTurku
December 26, 1984Soviet Union 4 – 2
 United StatesTurku
December 28, 1984Canada 7 – 5
 United StatesTurku
December 28, 1984Soviet Union 5 – 1
 SwedenTurku
December 28, 1984Czechoslovakia 7 – 3
 West GermanyVantaa
December 28, 1984Finland 11 – 2
 PolandHelsinki
December 29, 1984Canada 5 – 0
 Soviet UnionTurku
December 29, 1984Sweden 11 – 0
 PolandTurku
December 29, 1984Czechoslovakia 1 – 1
 FinlandHelsinki
December 29, 1984United States 2 – 1
 West GermanyHelsinki
December 31, 1984Finland 4 – 4
 CanadaHelsinki
December 31, 1984Sweden 5 – 1
 West GermanyTurku
December 31, 1984Czechoslovakia 3 – 1
 Soviet UnionTurku
December 31, 1984United States 6 – 2
 Poland
January 1, 1985Canada 2 – 2
 CzechoslovakiaHelsinki
January 1, 1985Poland 3 – 3
 West GermanyVantaa
January 1, 1985Soviet Union 6 – 5
 FinlandHelsinki
January 1, 1985Sweden 7 – 3
 United StatesVantaa

Leading scorers

  GP G A Pts PIM
Finland Esa Keskinen 61420
Canada Brian Bradley 9514
Finland Esa Tikkanen 7714
Sweden Peter Andersson 41014
Finland Mikko Mäkelä 11213

Tournament all-stars

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Switzerland Netherlands Japan Austria Norway Italy Romania France
1  Switzerland 7700582214 5 - 45 - 320 - 76 - 17 - 18 - 67 -0
2 Netherlands 75114714114 - 5 4 - 48 - 15 - 17 - 17 - 112 - 1
3 Japan 7421342393 - 54 - 4 10 - 33 - 15 - 23 - 56 - 3
4 Austria 7331305377 - 201 - 83 - 10 5 - 53 - 27 - 64 - 2
5 Norway 7241232851 - 61 - 51 - 35 - 5 1 - 27 - 17 - 6
6 Italy 7250142841 - 71 - 72 - 52 - 32 - 1 5 - 31 - 2
7 Romania 7151274236 - 81 - 75 - 36 - 71 - 73 - 5 5 - 5
8 France 7151194230 - 71 - 123 - 62 - 46 - 72 - 15 - 5

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and France was relegated to Pool C for 1986.

Pool C

This tournament took place in Belgium from February 22 to 27.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Bulgaria Hungary Belgium Denmark United Kingdom Spain
1 Bulgaria 5500281710 3 - 211 - 95 - 14 - 15 - 4
2 Hungary 5410351282 - 3 6 - 110 - 211 - 26 - 4
3 Belgium 5221322759 - 111 - 6 5 - 511 - 16 - 4
4 Denmark [A] 5221202451 - 52 - 105 - 5 8 - 14 - 3
5 Great Britain 5140103721 - 42 - 111 - 111 - 8 5 - 3
6 Spain 5050182604 - 54 - 64 - 63 - 43 - 5

Bulgaria was promoted to Pool B for 1986.

^ A. While Total Hockey lists Denmark in their standings, passionhockey.com states that this was a Netherlands team that does not count in the standings.

References

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