1976 Ice Hockey World Championships

1976 edition of the World Ice Hockey Championships May 2020 1976 Poland 8–25 April 8 ih Czechoslovakia 4 USSR Sweden USA 40 289 219000 TCH Vladimír Martinec 20 points 1975 1977 The 1976 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 43rd Ice Hockey World Championships and the 54th European Championships in ice hockey. The tournament took place in Poland from 8 to 25 April, and the games were played in Katowice. Eight teams took part in the main tournament, with each team first playing each other once. The four best teams then took part in a medal play off, and the teams placed 5–8 took part in a relegation play-off. The teams took the results from the first round through to the second round with them. In response to charges of the rules regarding amateurism being unfair a change was implemented for this year.Podnieks page 145Duplacey page 506 The 1976 IHWC tournament was first to feature major league professionals from the NHL and WHA, although in the end only the United States made use of the new rule, recalling eight pros from the Minnesota North Stars and Minnesota Fighting Saints.Soviet Amateur Athlete: A Real Pro (Published 1974) The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230306024916/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/21/archives/soviet-amateur-athlete-a-real-pro-dr-john-nelson-washburn-is-an.html 2023-03-06 live https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/21/archives/soviet-amateur-athlete-a-real-pro-dr-john-nelson-washburn-is-an.htmlSalming-less Sweden skips Some nations, such as the Soviet Union, had been using pros all along, while circumventing their status by listing them in the military.https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/21/archives/soviet-amateur-athlete-a-real-pro-dr-john-nelson-washburn-is-an.html Soviet Amateur Athlete: A Real Pro The New York Times 21 July 1974 Washburn J. N. The Americans promptly made the medal play off for the first time since 1962 after beating Sweden and tying Finland in the first round. The Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team won nine games and were unbeaten, becoming world champions for the fourth time. The defending champions from the USSR finished 2nd after sensationally losing the opening game 4–6 to hosts Poland.http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/the-iihf/100-year-anniversary/100-top-stories/story-39/ Poland scores biggest shocker in World Championship history IIHF 2008 IIHF.com 2017-05-06 Sweden won the bronze after beating the Americans 7-3 in the medal round. In the European standings Sweden moved up one position leaving the Soviets with the bronze for the first time ever. World Championship Group A (Poland) First round main WDL Q 2 TCH TCH URS URS SWE SWE USA USA POL POL FRG FRG FIN FIN DDR DDR 7 0 0 54 07 5 0 2 37 15 4 0 3 22 18 3 1 3 19 23 2 1 4 21 36 2 0 5 19 35 1 2 4 17 29 2 0 5 11 37 #ccffcc A A A A #ffcccc E E E E complete #eeeeee 8 April FRG 1-4 SWE (0-1, 0-1, 1-2) 0–10–21–21–31–4 Erich Kühnhackl - 40:39 15:15 - Lars-Gunnar Lundberg24:49 - Dan Labraaten54:37 - Roland Eriksson56:44 - Hans Jax #eeeeee 8 April TCH 10-0 GDR #eeeeee 8 April USA 3-3 FIN (0-2, 2-0, 1-1) 0–10–21–22–23–23–3 Brad Morrow - 27:56William Schneider - 35:39Bill Klatt - 45:07 00:17 - Hannu Kapanen14:13 - Timo Nummelin49:04 - Tapio Koskinen #eeeeee 8 April POL 6-4 URS (2-0, 3-2, 1-2) 1–02–02–13–14–14–25–25–36–36–4 M. Jaskierski - 10:27R. Nowiński - 14:33W. Jobczyk - 22:45M. Jaskierski - 23:06W. Jobczyk - 26:48W. Jobczyk - 58:57 20:39 - Boris Mikhailov25:16 - Alexander Yakushev53:50 - Valeri Kharlamov59:09 - Boris Mikhailov 30 37 #eeeeee 9 April POL 0-12 TCH (0-2, 0-2, 0-8) 0–10–20–30–40–50–60–70–80–90–100–110–12 17:53 – Jiří Holík19:43 – Peter Šťastný24:19 – Jiří Novák25:44 – Jiří Holík40:56 – Peter Šťastný 42:00 – Vladimír Martinec45:36 – Jiří Novák47:46 – Jiří Bubla50:52 – Bohuslav Šťastný53:55 – Jiří Novák54:32 – František Černík59:47 – Ivan Hlinka #eeeeee 9 April URS 4-0 GDR (1-0, 1-0, 2-0) 1–02–03–04–0 Viktor Zhluktov – 13:00Valeri Kharlamov – 25:50Boris Mikhailov – 52:50Segey Kapustin – 57:29 #eeeeee 10 April FRG 2-5 FIN (1-0, 1-3, 0-2) 1–02–02–12–22–32–42–5 Erich Kühnhackl – 11:26Erich Kühnhackl – 25:44 32:56 – Timo Nummelin38:06 – Jouni Peltonen39:40 – Matti Murto40:11 – Matti Murto43:50 – Jouni Rinne #eeeeee 10 April SWE 0-2 USA (0-1, 0-0, 0-1) 0–10–2 18:24 – Sarner47:57 – Klatt #eeeeee 11 April POL 6-4 GDR (3-0, 2-2, 1-2) 1–02–03–04–04–15–15–25–35–46–4 Potz – 01:18Jobczyk – 04:14Kokoszka – 18:25Marcińczak – 21:25Ziętara – 38:00Jobczyk – 56:54 24:24 – Stasche38:25 – Stasche47:20 – Patschinski55:40 – Slapke #eeeeee 11 April FIN 1-8 URS (0-1, 1-3, 0-4) 0–10–21–21–31–41–51–61–71–8 Leppä – 33:59 13:25 – Zhluktov22:02 – Korotkov34:24 – Maltsev37:47 – Shalimov54:14 – Lutchenko56:01 – Lyapkin56:53 – Zhluktov59:19 – Balderis #eeeeee 11 April TCH 3-1 SWE (0-0, 2-0, 1-1) 1–02–03–03–1 Chalupa – 25:40Nový – 34:42Martinec – 50:07 54:31 – Jax #eeeeee 12 April POL 3-5 FRG (1-2, 1-1, 1-2) 1–01–11–22–22–32–42–53–5 Kokoszka – 03:45Góralczyk – 31:59Góralczyk – 55:24 08:51 – Köberle14:24 – KühnhacklPhilipp – 35:56Kretschner – 42:50Köberle – 53:30 #eeeeee 12 April GDR 2-1 USA (0-0, 0-0, 2-1) 1–02–02–1 Patschinski – 40:53Müller – 45:35 57:56 – Klatt #eeeeee 13 April TCH 7-1 FIN (1-1, 4-0, 2-0) 0–11–12–13–14–15–16–17–1 Martinec – 19:53Holík – 21:44Nový – 28:12Nový – 31:03Šťastný – 35:20Bubla – 43:37Šťastný – 59:25 01:20 – Koskinen #eeeeee 13 April URS 6-1 SWE (2-0, 2-0, 2-1) 1–02–03–04–05–06–06–1 Maltsev – 03:49Mikhailov – 07:25Maltsev – 24:10Yakushev – 24:32Mikhailov – 44:01Shalimov – 49:36 50:59 – Lundberg #eeeeee 14 April POL 2-4 USA (0-2, 1-1, 1-1) 0–10–21–21–31–42–4 Jobczyk – 26:39Góralczyk – 51:45 02:38 – Younghans04:56 – Jensen27:17 – Schneider49:06 – Ross #eeeeee 14 April GDR 1-7 FRG #eeeeee 15 April FIN 3-4 SWE #eeeeee 15 April USA 2-10 TCH #eeeeee 15 April FRG 2-8 URS #eeeeee 17 April SWE 8-2 GDR #eeeeee 17 April POL 3-3 FIN #eeeeee 17 April URS 2-3 TCH #eeeeee 18 April USA 5-1 FRG #eeeeee 18 April FIN 1-2 GDR #eeeeee 19 April TCH 9-1 FRG #eeeeee 19 April POL 1-4 SWE #eeeeee 19 April URS 5-2 USA Final Round 1–4 place main WDL 2 TCH TCH URS URS SWE SWE USA USA 9 1 0 67 14 6 1 3 50 23 6 0 4 36 29 3 1 6 24 42 gold 1ST silver 2ND #cc9966 3RD complete #eeeeee 21 April TCH 5-1 USA #eeeeee 21 April URS 3-4 SWE #eeeeee 23 April SWE 3-5 TCH #eeeeee 23 April USA 1-7 URS #eeeeee 25 April SWE 7-3 USA #eeeeee 25 April TCH 3-3 URS Consolation Round 5–8 place main WDL 2 5 FIN FIN FRG FRG POL POL DDR DDR 2 4 4 35 41 5 head-to-head points 3 2 5 26 41 5 head-to-head points 3 2 5 32 47 2 head-to-head points 2 1 7 19 52 red1 R R complete East Germany was relegated to Group B. Poland was also relegated to make room for the return of team Canada. #eeeeee 20 April POL 5-4 GDR #eeeeee 20 April FIN 4-4 FRG #eeeeee 22 April POL 5-5 FIN #eeeeee 22 April GDR 1-1 FRG #eeeeee 24 April FIN 9-3 GDR #eeeeee 24 April POL 1-2 FRG World Championship Group B (Switzerland) Played in Aarau and Bienne 18–27 March. main WDL Q 2 9 ROU ROU 1965 JPN JPN NOR NOR SUI SUI YUG YUG NED NED ITA ITA BUL BUL 1971 5 1 1 40 23 5 0 2 34 17 4 0 3 29 21 4 0 3 25 28 4 0 3 37 26 3 0 4 22 30 2 1 4 23 41 0 0 7 23 47 #ccffcc A #ffcccc E E complete Romania was promoted to Group A, and both Italy and Bulgaria were relegated to Group C. #eeeeee 18 March NED 4-3 NOR #eeeeee 18 March SUI 5-1 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 18 March ITA 2-8 YUG #eeeeee 18 March ROU 1965 7-5 JPN #eeeeee 19 March ITA 8-3 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 19 March SUI 5-4 YUG #eeeeee 20 March JPN 4-0 NED #eeeeee 20 March ROU 1965 2-1 NOR #eeeeee 21 March YUG 5-2 ROU 1965 #eeeeee 21 March SUI 4-2 NED #eeeeee 21 March ITA 4-2 NOR #eeeeee 21 March BUL 1971 3-4 JPN #eeeeee 22 March YUG 9-7 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 22 March SUI 4-1 ITA #eeeeee 23 March ROU 1965 8-1 NED #eeeeee 23 March NOR 3-2 JPN #eeeeee 24 March ROU 1965 5-5 ITA #eeeeee 24 March JPN 3-2 YUG #eeeeee 24 March NED 5-3 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 24 March SUI 3-7 NOR #eeeeee 26 March JPN 10-0 ITA #eeeeee 26 March NOR 7-2 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 26 March NED 1-5 YUG #eeeeee 26 March SUI 2-7 ROU 1965 #eeeeee 27 March NOR 6-4 YUG #eeeeee 27 March SUI 2-6 JPN #eeeeee 27 March ROU 1965 9-4 BUL 1971 #eeeeee 27 March NED 9-3 ITA World Championship Group C (Poland) Played in Gdańsk 8–13 March. main WDL Q 2 17 AUT AUT HUN HUN 1957 FRA FRA DEN DEN GBR GBR 4 0 0 38 09 3 0 1 30 09 2 0 2 14 18 1 0 3 16 24 0 0 4 06 44 #ccffcc A A complete Both Austria and Hungary were promoted to Group B. #eeeeee 8 March AUT 4-3 DEN #eeeeee 8 March HUN 1957 11-0 GBR #eeeeee 9 March GBR 2-21 AUT #eeeeee 9 March HUN 1957 6-1 FRA #eeeeee 10 March FRA 7-4 DEN #eeeeee 11 March DEN 7-3 GBR #eeeeee 11 March AUT 6-3 HUN 1957 #eeeeee 12 March FRA 5-1 GBR #eeeeee 13 March HUN 1957 10-2 DEN #eeeeee 13 March AUT 7-1 FRA Ranking and statistics ih 1976 IIHF World Championship winners CSK 4th Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goaltender: CSK Jiří Holeček Best Defenceman: CSK František Pospíšil Best Forward: CSK Vladimír Martinec Media All-Star Team: Goaltender: CSK Jiří Holeček Defence: CSK František Pospíšil, SWE Mats Waltin Forwards: URS Valeri Kharlamov, CSK Vladimír Martinec, CSK Milan Nový Final standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: CSK URS SWE4 USA5 FIN6 FRG7 POL8 GDR European championships final standings The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF: CSK SWE URS4 FRG5 POL6 FIN7 GDR References Complete results Duplacey James Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League 1998 Total Sports 0-8362-7114-9 498–528 registration https://archive.org/details/totalhockeyoffic0000unse/page/498 Podnieks Andrew IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011 2010 Moydart Press 145 Category:IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships I 1976 Category:Sports competitions in Katowice Ice Hockey World Championships Category:20th century in Katowice Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Switzerland Ice Hockey World Championships Category:Aarau World Championships Category:Sports competitions in Gdańsk Category:20th century in Gdańsk