1994 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1994 Ice Hockey World Junior Championship (1994 WJC) was the 18th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Ostrava and Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic. Canada won the gold medal for the second consecutive year, and its seventh overall, while Sweden won silver, and Russia the bronze.

1994 IIHF U20 World Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Dates	December 26 – January 4
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (7th title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	195 (6.96 per match)
Attendance	58,143 (2,077 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Niklas Sundström (11 points)
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Final standings

The 1994 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	Canada	7	6	0	1	39	20	13
	Sweden	7	6	1	0	35	16	12
	Russia	7	5	1	1	23	17	11
4	Finland	7	4	3	0	27	24	8
5	Czech Republic	7	3	4	0	31	29	6
6	United States	7	1	5	1	20	33	3
7	Germany	7	1	6	0	10	26	2
8	Switzerland	7	0	6	1	10	30	1

Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for 1995.

Results

December 26, 1993

5 – 1

December 26, 1993

4 – 1

December 26, 1993

5 – 1

December 26, 1993

5 – 2

December 27, 1993

5 – 2

December 27, 1993

3 – 0

December 27, 1993

7 – 3

December 27, 1993

1 – 1

December 29, 1993

3 – 3

December 29, 1993

6 – 0

December 29, 1993

6 – 2

December 29, 1993

7 – 2

December 30, 1993

6 – 3

December 30, 1993

6 – 2

December 30, 1993

6 – 2

December 30, 1993

4 – 3

January 1, 1994

8 – 3

January 1, 1994

4 – 2

January 1, 1994

6 – 4

January 1, 1994

1 – 0

January 2, 1994

6 – 4

January 2, 1994

2 – 0

January 2, 1994

5 – 3

January 2, 1994

6 – 1

January 4, 1994

6 – 4

January 4, 1994

3 – 1

January 4, 1994

5 – 4

January 4, 1994

7 – 3

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Niklas Sundström	Sweden	4	7	11
2	Martin Gendron	Canada	6	4	10
3	Yanick Dubé	Canada	5	5	10
4	Rick Girard	Canada	6	3	9
5	Mats Lindgren	Sweden	5	4	9
6	Jason Allison	Canada	3	6	9
6	Saku Koivu	Finland	3	6	9
8	Petr Sýkora	Czech Republic	6	2	8
9	Valeri Bure	Russia	5	3	8
10	Kenny Jönsson	Sweden	3	5	8

Tournament awards

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Jamie Storr	Evgeni Ryabchikov
Defencemen	Kenny Jönsson	Kimmo Timonen Kenny Jönsson
Forwards	Niklas Sundström	Niklas Sundström Valeri Bure David Výborný

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Bucharest, Romania from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Ukraine	7	7	0	0	35	10	14			4 - 3	5 - 1	7 - 0	2 - 1	5 - 2	3 - 0	9 - 3
2	Norway	7	5	1	1	28	15	11		3 - 4		6 - 2	4 - 1	3 - 2	6 - 2	3 - 1	3 - 3
3	France	7	3	3	1	23	23	7		1 - 5	2 - 6		1 - 3	5 - 2	4 - 4	3 - 1	7 - 2
4	Poland	7	3	4	0	15	26	6		0 - 7	1 - 4	3 - 1		3 - 0	2 - 4	5 - 4	1 - 6
5	Italy	7	2	4	1	20	22	5		1 - 2	2 - 3	2 - 5	0 - 3		3 - 3	7 - 5	5 - 1
6	Austria	7	1	3	3	21	27	5		2 - 5	2 - 6	4 - 4	4 - 2	3 - 3		3 - 4	3 - 3
7	Japan	7	2	5	0	19	27	4		0 - 3	1 - 3	1 - 3	4 - 5	5 - 7	4 - 3		4 - 3
8	Romania	7	1	4	2	21	32	4		3 - 9	3 - 3	2 - 7	6 - 1	1 - 5	3 - 3	3 - 4

Ukraine was promoted to Pool A and Romania was relegated to Pool C for 1995.

Qualification for Pool C

A Qualification tournament was played in Nitra and Nové Zámky, Slovakia, from November 1 to 7. Games between teams that had played each other in the preliminary round carried forward and counted in the final round.

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	3	3	0	0	15	10	6			2 - 1	9 - 1	13 - 1
Belarus	3	2	1	0	22	11	4		1 - 2		6 - 0	6 - 1
Slovenia	3	1	2	0	19	17	2		1 - 9	0 - 6		5 - 1
Estonia	3	0	3	0	9	27	0		1 - 13	1 - 6	1 - 5

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	2	2	0	0	21	4	4			6 - 4	15 - 0
Kazakhstan	2	1	1	0	16	7	2		4 - 6		12 - 1
Croatia	2	0	2	0	1	27	0		0 - 15	1 - 12

Final Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	3	2	1	0	8	7	4			4 - 3	2 - 3	2 - 1
Slovakia	3	2	1	0	16	10	4		3 - 4		6 - 4	7 - 2
Kazakhstan	3	1	1	1	9	10	3		3 - 2	4 - 6		2 - 2
Belarus	3	0	2	1	5	11	1		1 - 2	2 - 7	2 - 2

Latvia and Slovakia won the right to participate in Pool C.

Pool C

Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). The tournament took place from December 30 to January 3, in Odense and Esbjerg, Denmark.

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Latvia	3	3	0	0	55	3	6			16 - 2	14 - 0	25 - 1
Great Britain	3	2	1	0	16	22	4		2 - 16		6 - 1	8 - 5
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	6	22	2		0 - 14	1 - 6		5 - 2
Bulgaria	3	0	3	0	8	38	0		1 - 25	5 - 8	2 - 5

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	3	3	0	0	49	1	6			22 - 0	12 - 1	15 - 0
Denmark	3	2	1	0	9	26	4		0 - 22		5 - 4	4 - 0
Hungary	3	1	2	0	15	17	2		1 - 12	4 - 5		10 - 0
Spain	3	0	3	0	0	29	0		0 - 15	0 - 4	0 - 10

Placement Games

7th place: Spain 7 - 2 Bulgaria
5th place: Hungary 11 - 1 Netherlands
3rd place: Denmark 6 - 5 Great Britain
1st Place: Slovakia 6 - 2 Latvia

Slovakia was promoted to Pool B for 1995.

References

Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
1994 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
1994 results at Passionhockey.com

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