1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

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 (now Slovakia). 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 (and Canada ended up with no medal); see the next section for more details.

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

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). 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. 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.[1]

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 would have been had the brawl not occurred. Poland avoided relegation despite giving up 80 goals in 7 games.

Final standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
 Finland7511452311
 Czechoslovakia7520362310
 Sweden742145119
4 United States743042308
5 Poland716021802
6  Switzerland707015620
DQ Canada1641141239
DQ Soviet Union1623127185

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

1 The game between  Canada and the  Soviet Union was declared null and void, and is excluded from the final standings.

Results

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

December 26, 1986Canada 6–4
(5-2, 1-1, 0-1)		  SwitzerlandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 26, 1986Soviet Union 7–3 PolandB.O.F. Arena, Trencin
December 26, 1986Czechoslovakia 4–1 SwedenNitra Aréna, Nitra
December 26, 1986Finland 4–1 United StatesZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany
December 27, 1986Canada 6–6
(1-0, 2-5, 3-1)		 FinlandB.O.F. Arena, Trencin
December 27, 1986Soviet Union 8–0  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany
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
December 29, 1986Sweden 8–0  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany
December 29, 1986United States 15–2 PolandB.O.F. Arena, Trencin
December 29, 1986Finland 5–4 Soviet UnionTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 30, 1986Canada 18–3
(7-0, 5-1, 6-2)		 PolandNitra Aréna, Nitra
December 30, 1986Sweden 5–0 FinlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany
December 30, 1986United States 12–6  SwitzerlandTopvar Aréna, Topolcany
December 30, 1986Czechoslovakia 5–3 Soviet UnionB.O.F. Arena, Trencin
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, Piestany
January 1, 1987
19:00		Finland 12–1  SwitzerlandB.O.F. Arena, Trencin
January 1, 1987
20:00		Soviet Union 3–3 SwedenNitra Aréna, Nitra
January 2, 1987
16:00		Czechoslovakia 8–1  SwitzerlandZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany
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, Trencin
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, Trencin
January 4, 1987 (1987-01-04)
20:00		Canada Game declared null and void
(3–1, 1–1, Not Played)		 Soviet UnionZimný Štadión Piešťany, Piestany


Scoring leaders
Rank Player Country G A Pts
1Ulf Dahlén Sweden7815
2Teppo Kivelä Finland6713
3Janne Ojanen Finland3912
3Jukka Seppo Finland3912
5Scott Young United States7411
6Pär Edlund Sweden5611
7Roger Öhman Sweden5611
8Sami Wahlsten Finland4711
9Bo Svanberg Sweden7310
9Martin Hosták Czechoslovakia7310
  • Canada and the USSR were disqualified from the final scoring standings; Canada's Pat Elynuik had 11 points.[2]

Tournament awards
IIHF Directorate AwardsMedia All-Star Team
Goaltender Markus Ketterer Sam Lindstahl
Defencemen Calle Johansson Jiří Látal
Brian Leetch
Forwards Robert Kron Juraj Jurik
Ulf Dahlén
Scott Young

Pool B

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
Group A
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
 West Germany 320124856–32–216–3
 Japan 3210171443–63–111–7
 France 31117832–21–34–3
 Romania 3030133103–167–113–4
Group B
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
 Norway 3201287511–15–512–1
 Austria 3111111931–116–44–4
 Netherlands 3111161635–54–67–5
 Italy 3021102311–124–45–7

Final Round
Promotion Group
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
 West Germany 3300306613–36–311–0
 Norway 3210211943–137–511–1
 Japan 3120141623–65–76–3
 Austria 303042800–111–113–6

West Germany was promoted to Pool A for 1988.

Relegation Group
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
 France 3300181164–37–57–3
 Romania 321015943–47–45–1
 Netherlands 3120161925–74–77–5
 Italy 303091903–71–55–7

Italy was Demoted to Pool C for 1988.

Pool C

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

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
1 Yugoslavia 550056121013–46–45–111–221–1
2 Denmark 5410442484–1311–48–37–314–1
3 Great Britain 5320252164–64–114–26–27–0
4 Bulgaria 5230212341–53–82–48–57–1
5 Spain 5140193422–113–72–65–87–2
6 Australia 505055601–211–140–71–72–7

Yugoslavia was promoted to Pool B for 1988.

References
  1. Joyce, Gare (2006). When the Lights Went Out: How One Brawl Ended Hockey's Cold War and Changed the Game. Canada: Anchor Canada. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-385-66275-8 – via Google Books.
  2. Championnats du monde juniors 1987 de hockey sur glace
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