1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Explained

Tourney Name:IIHF U20 World Championship
Year:1999
Size:200px
Country:Canada
Dates:December 26, 1998 – January 5, 1999
Num Teams:10
Venues:6
Cities:6
Type:ihj
Winners:Russia
Count:1
Second:Canada
Third:Slovakia
Fourth:Sweden
Games:31
Goals:225
Attendance:173453
Points:11
Nextseason:2000

The 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1999 WJC) was held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada from December 26, 1998, to January 5, 1999.[1] In the gold medal match at Winnipeg Arena, Russia defeated Canada 3–2 on Artem Chubarov's overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.

The playoff round reverted back to six teams qualifying, with group leaders getting a bye to the semifinals.

Pool A

Relegation round

Source:[2]

was relegated for the 2000 World Juniors

Final round

Source:[3]

Gold medal game

Final standings

RankCountry
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Scoring leaders

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6 6 5 11 -1 6
7 6 4 10 +1 10
6 5 5 10 +6 2
6 3 7 10 +2 4
6 3 69+7 10
6 2 7 9 +2 6
7 7 18 +9 2
6 4 4 8 +5 33
6 4 4 8 0 2
6 3 5 8 +3 2
6 3 5 8 –3 14

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

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1 405:13 13 1.92 94.20 2
2 407:27 10 1.47 93.55 0
3 206:52 8 2.32 93.28 0
4 359:48 14 2.33 92.71 1
5 358:55 18 3.01 90.77 0

Tournament awards

Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Roberto Luongo
Defencemen Brian Campbell
Vitaly Vishnevskiy
Forwards Daniel Tkaczuk
Brian Gionta
Maxim Balmochnykh

Pool B

The Pool B tournament was played in Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros, Hungary from December 27, 1998, to January 3, 1999. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group.

Preliminary round

Group B

Medal round

was promoted to Pool A for 2000.

Relegation round

Source:[4]

lost two games to none and was relegated to Pool C for 2000.

Pool C

The Pool C tournament was played in Kaunas and Elektrėnai, Lithuania from December 30, 1998, to January 3, 1999.

Preliminary round

Group B

Placement games

Source:[5]

7th place game

was relegated to Pool D for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

1st place game

was promoted to Pool B for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Pool D

The Pool D tournament was played in Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia from December 29, 1998, to January 4, 1999.

1st–3rd place group

was promoted to Pool C for 2000.

7th–9th place group

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1999 IIHF World U20 Championship Pool A statistics . 2023-01-21 . 1999-04-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/19990428165949/http://www.iihf.net/U20POOLA.ASP . bot: unknown .
  2. Web site: Relegation round results . 2023-01-21 . 1999-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991003084708/http://www.iihf.net/J2099/poola/poolarelround.htm . bot: unknown .
  3. Web site: Playoff round results . 2023-01-21 . 1999-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991003063212/http://www.iihf.net/J2099/poola/poolaplayoffround.htm . bot: unknown .
  4. Web site: Relegation round results . 2023-01-21 . 1999-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991005031405/http://www.iihf.net/J2099/poolb/poolbrelstand.htm . bot: unknown .
  5. Web site: Playoff round results . 2023-01-21 . 1999-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991005054215/http://www.iihf.net/J2099/poolc/POOLCqualgames.htm . bot: unknown .