1975 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Explained

Tourney Name:IIHF World Junior Championship
Year:1975
Country:Canada
Country2:United States
Dates:December 27, 1974 –
January 5, 1975
Num Teams:6
Venues:5
Cities:5
Type:ihj
Winners:Soviet Union
Second:Canada
Third:Sweden
Fourth:Czechoslovakia
Games:15
Goals:95
Points:8
Nextseason: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 Ice Hockey World Junior 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.

Scoring leaders

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1 4 4 8
4 4 8
3 3 5 8
4 0 8 8
5 4 3 7
6 4 2 6
4 2 6
8 4 1 5
4 1 5
10 3 2 5
3 2 5
3 2 5

Tournament awards

width=120width=180Best Players width=180All-Star Team
Goaltender Vladimir Myshkin
Defencemen Richard Lapointe
Viktor Kucherenko
Forwards Dale McMullin
Viktor Khatulev
Boris Alexandrov

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1975 World Junior Championship . Hockey Canada . 2008-05-27.
  2. Web site: IIHF World U20 Championships . IIHF . 2008-05-27.
  3. Web site: IIHF World Junior Championship History . Hockey Canada . 2008-05-27.