1994 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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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 Frýdek-Místek, Czech Republic. Canada won the gold medal for the second consecutive year, and its seventh overall, while Sweden won silver, and Russia the bronze.

1994 IIHF U20 World Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	December 26, 1993 – January 4, 1994
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (7th title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played	28
Goals scored	195 (6.96 per game)
Attendance	58,143 (2,077 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Niklas Sundström (11 points)
← 1993 1995 →

Final standings edit

The 1994 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	6	0	1	39	20	+19	13
2	Sweden	7	6	1	0	35	16	+19	12
3	Russia	7	5	1	1	23	17	+6	11
4	Finland	7	4	3	0	27	24	+3	8
5	Czech Republic	7	3	4	0	31	29	+2	6
6	United States	7	1	5	1	20	33	−13	3
7	Germany	7	1	6	0	10	26	−16	2
8	Switzerland	7	0	6	1	10	30	−20	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for 1995.

Results edit

December 26, 1993

5 – 1

Frýdek-Místek

December 26, 1993

4 – 1

December 26, 1993

5 – 1

December 26, 1993

5 – 2

Frýdek-Místek

December 27, 1993

5 – 2

December 27, 1993

3 – 0

December 27, 1993

7 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

December 27, 1993

1 – 1

Frýdek-Místek

December 29, 1993

3 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

December 29, 1993

6 – 0

Frýdek-Místek

December 29, 1993

6 – 2

December 29, 1993

7 – 2

December 30, 1993

6 – 3

December 30, 1993

6 – 2

December 30, 1993

6 – 2

Frýdek-Místek

December 30, 1993

4 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

January 1, 1994

8 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

January 1, 1994

4 – 2

January 1, 1994

6 – 4

Frýdek-Místek

January 1, 1994

1 – 0

January 2, 1994

6 – 4

January 2, 1994

2 – 0

Frýdek-Místek

January 2, 1994

5 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

January 2, 1994

6 – 1

January 4, 1994

6 – 4

January 4, 1994

3 – 1

January 4, 1994

5 – 4

Frýdek-Místek

January 4, 1994

7 – 3

Frýdek-Místek

Scoring leaders edit

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 edit

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

Pool B edit

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ukraine	7	7	0	0	35	10	+25	14			4–3	5–1	7–0	2–1	5–2	3–0	9–3
2	Norway	7	5	1	1	28	15	+13	11		3–4		6–2	4–1	3–2	6–2	3–1	3–3
3	France	7	3	3	1	23	23	0	7		1–5	2–6		1–3	5–2	4–4	3–1	7–2
4	Poland	7	3	4	0	15	26	−11	6		0–7	1–4	3–1		3–0	2–4	5–4	1–6
5	Italy	7	2	4	1	20	22	−2	5		1–2	2–3	2–5	0–3		3–3	7–5	5–1
6	Austria	7	1	3	3	21	27	−6	5		2–5	2–6	4–4	4–2	3–3		3–4	3–3
7	Japan	7	2	5	0	19	27	−8	4		0–3	1–3	1–3	4–5	5–7	4–3		4–3
8	Romania	7	1	4	2	21	32	−11	4		3–9	3–3	2–7	6–1	1–5	3–3	3–4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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

Qualification for Pool C edit

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 edit

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	3	3	0	0	15	10	+5	6			2–1	9–1	13–1
Belarus	3	2	1	0	22	11	+11	4		1–2		6–0	6–1
Slovenia	3	1	2	0	19	17	+2	2		1–9	0–6		5–1
Estonia	3	0	3	0	9	27	−18	0		1–13	1–6	1–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	2	2	0	0	21	4	+17	4			6–4	15–0
Kazakhstan	2	1	1	0	16	7	+9	2		4–6		12–1
Croatia	2	0	2	0	1	27	−26	0		0–15	1–12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final Round edit

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	3	2	1	0	8	7	+1	4			4–3	2–3	2–1
Slovakia	3	2	1	0	16	10	+6	4		3–4		6–4	7–2
Kazakhstan	3	1	1	1	9	10	−1	3		3–2	4–6		2–2
Belarus	3	0	2	1	5	11	−6	1		1–2	2–7	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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

Pool C edit

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 edit

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	3	3	0	0	55	3	+52	6			16–2	14–0	25–1
Great Britain	3	2	1	0	16	22	−6	4		2–16		6–1	8–5
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	6	22	−16	2		0–14	1–6		5–2
Bulgaria	3	0	3	0	8	38	−30	0		1–25	5–8	2–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	3	3	0	0	49	1	+48	6			22–0	12–1	15–0
Denmark	3	2	1	0	9	26	−17	4		0–22		5–4	4–0
Hungary	3	1	2	0	15	17	−2	2		1–12	4–5		10–0
Spain	3	0	3	0	0	29	−29	0		0–15	0–4	0–10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Placement Games edit

7th place: Spain 7 - 2 Bulgaria
5th place: Hungary 11 - 1 Netherlands
3rd place: Denmark 6 - 5 Great Britain
1st Place: Slovakia 6 - 2 Latvia

Slovakia was promoted to Pool B for 1995.

References edit

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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