1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1987 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Czechoslovakia
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
DatesDecember 26, 1986 – January 4, 1987
Teams8
Final positions
Champions  Finland (1st title)
Runner-up  Czechoslovakia
Third place  Sweden
Fourth place United States
Tournament statistics
Games played27
Goals scored272 (10.07 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Sweden Ulf Dahlén (15 points)
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1988 →

The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1987 WJHC) was the 11th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia. Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal, Czechoslovakia took silver, and Sweden the bronze. The tournament is most remembered, however, for how the medals were allocated.

Punch-up in Piestany

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Main article: Punch-up in Piestany

With 6:07 left in the second period of the final game of the tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union, Pavel Kostichkin took a two-handed slash at Theoren Fleury, sparking a fight between the two; the USSR's Evgeny Davydov left the bench to assist Valeri Zelepukin in the fight, who was already playing the game with a separated shoulder, and was being pummeled by Canadian forward Mike Keane. Davydov's intervention sparked one of the most infamous bench-clearing brawls in international hockey history.[1]

The officials, unable to break up the brawl, walked off the ice and tournament officials eventually tried shutting off the arena lights, but the brawl lasted for 20 minutes before the International Ice Hockey Federation declared the contest null and void. An emergency meeting was held following the brawl that ended with the delegates voting 7–1 to eject both teams from the tournament, with the sole dissenter being Canadian Dennis McDonald. The Canadian team, disgusted at what they perceived to be a conspiracy against them, chose to leave rather than stay for the end-of-tournament dinner, from which the Soviet team were banned.

While the Soviets were out of medal contention, Canada was playing for the gold medal, and were leading 4–2 at the time of the brawl (they needed to win by at least five goals to claim the gold).[2] Even had they lost the game, they were assured at least the bronze medal. Afterwards, Soviet hockey official Anatoly Kastriukov claimed that the hostilities were fueled by a Canadian trainer who he alleged had punched one of the Soviet assistant coaches in the stomach. Some Canadians maintained that the Soviets had started the brawl by leaving their bench first, and had deliberately done so with the intention of getting Canada ejected.[3][4][5][6] Alan Eagleson suggested that the IIHF's decision would have been different had it been the Soviets in contention for a medal, and not the Canadians.[7] Soviet administrator Yuri Korolev expressed regret that the incident occurred but did not admit any guilt. He felt that the game should have been finished instead of both teams being disqualified from the tournament.[8]

The ejections of the Canadian and Soviet teams had the retroactive effect of making the Finland-Czechoslovakia game (played earlier the same day) the gold medal game, while the Sweden-United States game became the bronze medal contest, and the Poland-Switzerland game determined who placed fifth. The loser of the latter game (Switzerland) was relegated, just as they were had the brawl not occurred. Poland avoided relegation despite giving up 80 goals in 7 games.

Final standings

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Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1  Finland 7 5 1 1 45 23 +22 11
2  Czechoslovakia 7 5 2 0 36 23 +13 10
3  Sweden 7 4 2 1 45 11 +34 9
4  United States 7 4 3 0 42 30 +12 8
5  Poland 7 1 6 0 21 80 −59 2
6   Switzerland 7 0 7 0 15 62 −47 0
DQ  Canada[a] 6 4 1 1 41 23 +18 9
DQ  Soviet Union[a] 6 2 3 1 27 18 +9 5
Source: Hockey Canada
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The game between  Canada and the  Soviet Union was declared null and void, and is excluded from the final standings.

  Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Results

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All times are local. (Central European Time – UTC+1)

December 26, 1986Canada 6–4
(5-2, 1-1, 0-1)		  SwitzerlandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
Jimmy WaiteGoaliesBeat Aebischer
Elynuik (Chiasson - 0:311-0
McLlwain (Latta) - 6:452-0
Elynuik (McLlwain) - 7:243-0
McLlwain (SH) - 12:204-0
4-112:52 - Künzi (PP)
Nemeth (Metcalfe) - 15:365-1
5-216:41 - Walder
McLlwain (Latta) - 33:226-2
6-338:32 - Mattioni (Walder) (PP)
6-454:23 - Nyffenegger
December 26, 1986Soviet Union 7–3 PolandB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
December 26, 1986Czechoslovakia 4–1 SwedenNitra Aréna, Nitra
December 26, 1986Finland 4–1 United StatesZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
December 27, 1986Canada 6–6
(1-0, 2-5, 3-1)		 FinlandB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
December 27, 1986Soviet Union 8–0  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
December 27, 1986Sweden 15–0 PolandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 27, 1986United States 8–2 CzechoslovakiaNitra Aréna, Nitra
December 29, 1986Czechoslovakia 5–1
(1-0, 1-1 , 3-0)		 CanadaNitra Aréna, Nitra
Oldrich SvobodaGoaliesShawn Simpson
Lubina - 0:141-0
Hosták - 30:262-0
2-137:06 - Hawgood
Latal (Jurík) - 42:543-1
Lubina (Hosták) - 53:534-1
Kron (PP) - 58:365-1
35Shots18
December 29, 1986Sweden 8–0  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
December 29, 1986United States 15–2 PolandB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
December 29, 1986Finland 5–4 Soviet UnionTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 30, 1986Canada 18–3
(7-0, 5-1, 6-2)		 PolandNitra Aréna, Nitra
Jimmy Waite (8-11), Shawn Simpson (11-11)GoaliesWlodzimierz Krauzowicz (14-21), Grzegorz Wojakiewicz (21-32)
Nemeth (Hawgood) - 7:501-0
Sanipass (Fleury) - 13:302-0
Shanahan (Metcalfe, Nemeth) - 13:433-0
Fleury (Sanipass) - 15:224-0
Elynuik (Metcalfe) - 16:175-0
Turgeon - 16:536-0
Sanipass (Huffman) - 18:057-0
7-122:46 - Neidospial (PP)
Fleury (PP) - 26:178-1
Elynuik (Roy) - 26:589-1
Nemeth (Shanahan) - 33:5510-1
Turgeon (Joseph, Corriveau) - 36:5511-1
Wesley (Fleury) - 38:0912-1
Corriveau - 40:3513-1
13-245:55 - Merta (Raszewski)
Elynuik (Nemeth) - 46:5314-2
Shanahan (Nemeth, Metcalfe) - 50:0515-2
Latta (Shanahan, Elynuik) - 51:1716-2
Chiasson (Latta) - 52:2617-2
Joseph - 54:2518-2
18-357:47 - Kasperczyk (PP)
53Shots22
December 30, 1986Sweden 5–0 FinlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
December 30, 1986United States 12–6  SwitzerlandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 30, 1986Czechoslovakia 5–3 Soviet UnionB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
January 1, 1987
16:00		Czechoslovakia 9–2 PolandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
January 1, 1987
19:00		Canada 6–2
(3-1, 1-1, 2-0)		 United StatesZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
Jimmy WaiteGoaliesPat Jablonski
McLlwain (Elynuik) (PP) - 3:211-0
Sanipass (Fleury, Keane) - 5:032-0
Nemeth (Roy) (PP) - 15:333-0
3-119:24 - Turcotte (Davidson)
3-220:33 - Young (Leetch)
Elynuik (Latta) - 27:424-2
Wesley (Shanahan) - 44:275-2
Elynuik (Latta) - 59:006-2
31Shots24
January 1, 1987
19:00		Finland 12–1  SwitzerlandB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
January 1, 1987
20:00		Soviet Union 3–3 SwedenNitra Aréna, Nitra
January 2, 1987
16:00		Czechoslovakia 8–1  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
January 2, 1987
19:00		Finland 13–3 PolandNitra Aréna, Nitra
January 2, 1987
19:00		United States 4–2 Soviet UnionTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
January 2, 1987
20:00		Canada 4–3
(2-0, 1-1, 1-2)		 SwedenB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
Jimmy WaiteGoaliesSam Lindståhl
Latta (McLlwain) (PP) - 3:531-0
Metcalfe - 12:582-0
2-1Franzén (Sjögren, Hansson) - 22:20
Hawgood (Wesley) (PP) - 38:183-1
3-2Sandström (Sjögren) (PP) - 53:58
3-3Dahlén (Hansson, Öhman) (PP) - 55:46
Shanahan (Hawgood, Metcalfe) - 58:104-3
16 minPenalties10 min
15Shots36
January 4, 1987
16:00		Finland 5–3 CzechoslovakiaNitra Aréna, Nitra
January 4, 1987
19:00		Poland 8–3  SwitzerlandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
January 4, 1987
19:00		Sweden 8–0 United StatesB.O.F. Arena, Trenčín
January 4, 1987 (1987-01-04)
20:00		Canada Game declared null and void
(3–1, 1–1, Not Played)		 Soviet UnionZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany
Jimmy WaiteGoaliesValeri IvannikovReferee:
Norway Hans Rønning
Linesmen:
Finland Peter Pomoell
Poland Julian Gorski
Fleury (Keane, Sanipass) – 4:341 – 0
1 – 104:45 - Shesterikov (Zelepukin)
Latta (Hawgood) - 15:322 – 1
Fleury - 18:473 – 1
3 – 231:13 - Kostichkin (Tsygurov) (PP)
Nemeth - 32:084 – 2
DQ – DQ
12 minPenalties14 min

Scoring leaders

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Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Ulf Dahlén  Sweden 7 8 15
2 Teppo Kivelä  Finland 6 7 13
3 Janne Ojanen  Finland 3 9 12
3 Jukka Seppo  Finland 3 9 12
5 Scott Young  United States 7 4 11
6 Pär Edlund  Sweden 5 6 11
6 Roger Öhman  Sweden 5 6 11
8 Sami Wahlsten  Finland 4 7 11
9 Bo Svanberg  Sweden 7 3 10
9 Martin Hosták  Czechoslovakia 7 3 10
  • Canada and the USSR were disqualified from the final scoring standings; Canada's Pat Elynuik had 11 points.[9]

Tournament awards

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IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Finland Markus Ketterer Sweden Sam Lindstahl
Defencemen Sweden Calle Johansson Czechoslovakia Jiří Látal
United States Brian Leetch
Forwards Czechoslovakia Robert Kron Czechoslovakia Juraj Jurík
Sweden Ulf Dahlén
United States Scott Young

Pool B

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Took place from March 15 to 21 in Rouen France. Two groups of four played round robins, the top two and bottom two from the respective groups met up in two final round robins to determine placement. Teams did not replay opponents they were grouped with previously, their scores were carried forward to the final rounds.

Preliminary round

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Group A
Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
 West Germany 3 2 0 1 24 8 +16 5 6–3 2–2 16–3
 Japan 3 2 1 0 17 14 +3 4 3–6 3–1 11–7
 France 3 1 1 1 7 8 −1 3 2–2 1–3 4–3
 Romania 3 0 3 0 13 31 −18 0 3–16 7–11 3–4
Source: [citation needed]
Group B
Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
 Norway 3 2 0 1 28 7 +21 5 11–1 5–5 12–1
 Austria 3 1 1 1 11 19 −8 3 1–11 6–4 4–4
 Netherlands 3 1 1 1 16 16 0 3 5–5 4–6 7–5
 Italy 3 0 2 1 10 23 −13 1 1–12 4–4 5–7
Source: [citation needed]

Final Round

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Promotion Group
Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
 West Germany 3 3 0 0 30 6 +24 6 13–3 6–3 11–0
 Norway 3 2 1 0 21 19 +2 4 3–13 7–5 11–1
 Japan 3 1 2 0 14 16 −2 2 3–6 5–7 6–3
 Austria 3 0 3 0 4 28 −24 0 0–11 1–11 3–6
Source: [citation needed]

West Germany was promoted to Pool A for 1988.

Relegation Group
Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
 France 3 3 0 0 18 11 +7 6 4–3 7–5 7–3
 Romania 3 2 1 0 15 9 +6 4 3–4 7–4 5–1
 Netherlands 3 1 2 0 16 19 −3 2 5–7 4–7 7–5
 Italy 3 0 3 0 9 19 −10 0 3–7 1–5 5–7
Source: [citation needed]

Italy was Demoted to Pool C for 1988.

Pool C

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Pool C was played in Esbjerg, Denmark from March 16 to 22.

Standings
Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1  Yugoslavia 5 5 0 0 56 12 +44 10 13–4 6–4 5–1 11–2 21–1
2  Denmark 5 4 1 0 44 24 +20 8 4–13 11–4 8–3 7–3 14–1
3  Great Britain 5 3 2 0 25 21 +4 6 4–6 4–11 4–2 6–2 7–0
4  Bulgaria 5 2 3 0 21 23 −2 4 1–5 3–8 2–4 8–5 7–1
5  Spain 5 1 4 0 19 34 −15 2 2–11 3–7 2–6 5–8 7–2
6  Australia 5 0 5 0 5 56 −51 0 1–21 1–14 0–7 1–7 2–7
Source: [citation needed]

Yugoslavia was promoted to Pool B for 1988.

References

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  1. ^ "Jan. 4, 1987 Canada and USSR brawl to elimination from junior tournament". CBC News. January 4, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Canada-USSR brawl at the 1987 world junior hockey tournament". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. ^ Joyce 2006, p. 164
  4. ^ Pettit, Andrew (2017-12-27). "From the Punch-up in Piestany to Boxing Day on the Couch: The Invention of a Canadian Junior Hockey Tradition". Sport in American History. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  5. ^ Maki, Alan (2017-12-22). "The 1987 brawl that made the world junior hockey championships what they are today". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  6. ^ Joyce, Gare. "The Punch-Up in Piestany: 30 years later". sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  7. ^ Hornby, Lance (1987-01-05). "Real tragedy for hockey". Calgary Sun. Canadian Press. p. 33.
  8. ^ Joyce 2006, p. 213.
  9. ^ "Championnats du monde juniors 1987 de hockey sur glace". www.hockeyarchives.info. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
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