1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1976 IIHF World Junior Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Dates	December 26, 1975 – January 1, 1976
Teams	5
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played	10
Goals scored	78 (7.8 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Valeri Evstifeev (8 points)

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: Hockey Canada

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	Sergei Babariko	Pavol Švárny
Defencemen	Vasili Pervukhin	Vassili Pervukhin Björn Johansson
Forwards	Valeri Evstifeev	Peter Marsh Karel Holý 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.

• "Matches internationaux des moins de 20 ans 1975/76". Retrieved 2011-10-18.