1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Under-20s tournament in Czechoslovakia IIHF World U20 Championship 1987 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey logo.jpg Czechoslovakia December 26, 1986 – January 4, 1987 8 4 4 ihj Finland 1 Czechoslovakia Sweden United States 27 272 SWE Ulf Dahlén 15 1986 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 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 a 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.January 4, 2017 Jan. 4, 1987 Canada and USSR brawl to elimination from junior tournament https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jan-4-1987-canada-and-ussr-brawl-to-elimination-from-junior-tournament-1.3921820 October 9, 2023 CBC News 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).https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-canada-ussr-brawl-at-the-1987-world-junior-hockey-tournament-1.4964469 The Canada-USSR brawl at the 1987 world junior hockey tournament Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 4 January 2019 23 May 2023 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.Joyce 2006 164Pettit Andrew 2017-12-27 From the Punch-up in Piestany to Boxing Day on the Couch: The Invention of a Canadian Junior Hockey Tradition https://ussporthistory.com/2017/12/27/from-the-punch-up-in-piestany-to-boxing-day-on-the-couch-the-invention-of-a-canadian-junior-hockey-tradition/ 2023-10-09 Sport in American HistoryMaki Alan 2017-12-22 The 1987 brawl that made the world junior hockey championships what they are today The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/the-1987-brawl-that-made-the-world-junior-hockey-championships-what-they-aretoday/article37423757/ 2023-10-09Joyce Gare The Punch-Up in Piestany: 30 years later https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/punch-piestany-30-years-later/ 2023-10-09 sportsnet.ca 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.Lance Hornby Real tragedy for hockey Canadian Press Calgary Sun 1987-01-05 33 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.Joyce 2006 213 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 main WDL QR 2 y FIN FIN TCH TCH SWE SWE USA USA POL POL SUI SUI CAN DQ CAN The game between CAN and the URS was declared null and void, and is excluded from the final standings. URS DQ URS CAN 5 1 1 45 23 5 0 2 36 23 4 1 2 45 11 4 0 3 42 30 1 0 6 21 80 0 0 7 15 62 4 1 1 41 23 2 1 3 27 20 #F7F6A8 1ST #DCE5E5 2ND #FFDAB9 3RD red1 R black2 DQ DQ complete Hockey Canada SUI was relegated to Pool B for the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Results All times are local. (Central European Time – UTC+1) #eeeeee December 26, 1986 CAN 6–4 1-0 / 2-0 / 3-0 / 4-0 / 4-1 / 5-1 / 5-2 / 6-2 / 6-3 / 6-4 (5-2, 1-1, 0-1) SUI Jimmy Waite Beat Aebischer Elynuik (Chiasson - 0:31McLlwain (Latta) - 6:45Elynuik (McLlwain) - 7:24McLlwain (SH) - 12:20Nemeth (Metcalfe) - 15:36McLlwain (Latta) - 33:22 12:52 - Künzi (PP)16:41 - Walder38:32 - Mattioni (Walder) (PP)54:23 - Nyffenegger NOR Hans Rønning Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #ffffff December 26, 1986 URS 7–3 POL B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #eeeeee December 26, 1986 TCH 4–1 SWE Nitra Aréna, Nitra #ffffff December 26, 1986 FIN 4–1 USA Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #eeeeee December 27, 1986 CAN 6–6 (1-0, 2-5, 3-1) FIN B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #ffffff December 27, 1986 URS 8–0 SUI Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #eeeeee December 27, 1986 SWE 15–0 POL Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #ffffff December 27, 1986 USA 8–2 TCH Nitra Aréna, Nitra #eeeeee December 29, 1986 TCH 5–1 (1-0, 1-1, 3-0) 1-0 / 2-0 / 2-1 / 3-1 / 4-1 / 5-1 CAN Oldrich Svoboda Shawn Simpson Lubina - 0:14Hosták - 30:26Latal (Jurík) - 42:54Lubina (Hosták) - 53:53Kron (PP) - 58:36 37:06 - Hawgood 35 18 Nitra Aréna, Nitra #ffffff December 29, 1986 SWE 8–0 SUI Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #eeeeee December 29, 1986 USA 15–2 POL B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #ffffff December 29, 1986 FIN 5–4 URS Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #eeeeee December 30, 1986 CAN 18–3 1-0 / 2-0 / 3-0 / 4-0 / 5-0 / 6-0 / 7-0 / 7-1 / 8-1 / 9-1 / 10-1 / 11-1 / 12-1 / 13-1 / 13-2 / 14-2 / 15-2 / 16-2 / 17-2 / 18-2 / 18-3 (7-0, 5-1, 6-2) POL Jimmy Waite (8-11), Shawn Simpson (11-11) Wlodzimierz Krauzowicz (14-21), Grzegorz Wojakiewicz (21-32) Nemeth (Hawgood) - 7:50Sanipass (Fleury) - 13:30Shanahan (Metcalfe, Nemeth) - 13:43Fleury (Sanipass) - 15:22Elynuik (Metcalfe) - 16:17Turgeon - 16:53Sanipass (Huffman) - 18:05Fleury (PP) - 26:17Elynuik (Roy) - 26:58Nemeth (Shanahan) - 33:55Turgeon (Joseph, Corriveau) - 36:55Wesley (Fleury) - 38:09Corriveau - 40:35Elynuik (Nemeth) - 46:53Shanahan (Nemeth, Metcalfe) - 50:05Latta (Shanahan, Elynuik) - 51:17Chiasson (Latta) - 52:26Joseph - 54:25 22:46 - Neidospial (PP)45:55 - Merta (Raszewski)57:47 - Kasperczyk (PP) 53 22 Nitra Aréna, Nitra #ffffff December 30, 1986 SWE 5–0 FIN Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #eeeeee December 30, 1986 USA 12–6 SUI Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #ffffff December 30, 1986 TCH 5–3 URS B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #eeeeee January 1, 1987 16:00 TCH 9–2 POL Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #ffffff January 1, 1987 19:00 CAN 6–2 1-0 / 2-0 / 3-0 / 3-1 / 3-2 / 4-2 / 5-2 / 6-2 (3-1, 1-1, 2-0) USA Jimmy Waite Pat Jablonski McLlwain (Elynuik) (PP) - 3:21Sanipass (Fleury, Keane) - 5:03Nemeth (Roy) (PP) - 15:33Elynuik (Latta) - 27:42Wesley (Shanahan) - 44:27Elynuik (Latta) - 59:00 19:24 - Turcotte (Davidson)20:33 - Young (Leetch) 31 24 Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #eeeeee January 1, 1987 19:00 FIN 12–1 SUI B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #ffffff January 1, 1987 20:00 URS 3–3 SWE Nitra Aréna, Nitra #eeeeee January 2, 1987 16:00 TCH 8–1 SUI Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany #ffffff January 2, 1987 19:00 FIN 13–3 POL Nitra Aréna, Nitra #eeeeee January 2, 1987 19:00 USA 4–2 URS Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #ffffff January 2, 1987 20:00 CAN 4–3 1-0 / 2-0 / 2-1 / 3-1 / 3-2 / 3-3 / 4-3 (2-0, 1-1, 1-2) SWE Jimmy Waite Sam Lindståhl Latta (McLlwain) (PP) - 3:53Metcalfe - 12:58Hawgood (Wesley) (PP) - 38:18Shanahan (Hawgood, Metcalfe) - 58:10 Franzén (Sjögren, Hansson) - 22:20Sandström (Sjögren) (PP) - 53:58Dahlén (Hansson, Öhman) (PP) - 55:46 15 36 16 10 B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín #eeeeee January 4, 1987 16:00 FIN 5–3 TCH Nitra Aréna, Nitra #ffffff January 4, 1987 19:00 POL 8–3 SUI Topvar Aréna, Topolcany #eeeeee January 4, 1987 19:00 SWE 8–0 USA B.O.F. Arena, Trenčín 1987 01 04 20:00 CAN URS Game declared null and void (3–1, 1–1, Not Played) Jimmy Waite Valeri Ivannikov 1 – 01 – 12 – 13 – 13 – 24 – 2 DQ – DQ Fleury (Keane, Sanipass) – 4:34Latta (Hawgood) - 15:32Fleury - 18:47Nemeth - 32:08 04:45 - Shesterikov (Zelepukin)31:13 - Kostichkin (Tsygurov) (PP) NOR Hans Rønning FIN Peter Pomoell POL Julian Gorski Zimný Štadión Piešťany, Piešťany 12 14 #DADADA Scoring leaders RankPlayerCountryG GoalsA AssistsPts Points 1 Ulf Dahlén SWE 7 8 15 2 Teppo Kivelä FIN 6 7 13 3 Janne Ojanen FIN 3 9 12 3 Jukka Seppo FIN 3 9 12 5 Scott Young USA 7 4 11 6 Pär Edlund SWE 5 6 11 6 Roger Öhman SWE 5 6 11 8 Sami Wahlsten FIN 4 7 11 9 Bo Svanberg SWE 7 3 10 9 Martin Hosták TCH 7 3 10 Canada and the USSR were disqualified from the final scoring standings; Canada's Pat Elynuik had 11 points.https://www.hockeyarchives.info/U-20_1987.htm Championnats du monde juniors 1987 de hockey sur glace www.hockeyarchives.info 3 December 2022 Tournament awards IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team Goaltender FIN Markus Ketterer SWE Sam Lindstahl Defencemen SWE Calle Johansson TCH Jiří LátalUSA Brian Leetch Forwards TCH Robert Kron TCH Juraj JuríkSWE Ulf DahlénUSA 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 main WDL Q n 2 y FRG FRG JPN JPN FRA FRA ROM ROM 1965 2 1 0 24 8 2 0 1 17 14 1 1 1 7 8 0 0 3 13 31 #ccffcc A A yes flag FBR grey 6–3 2–2 16–3 3–6 3–1 11–7 2–2 1–3 4–3 3–16 7–11 3–4 complete Group B main WDL Q n 2 y NOR NOR AUT AUT NED NED ITA ITA 2 1 0 28 7 1 1 1 11 19 1 1 1 16 16 0 1 2 10 23 #ccffcc A A yes flag FBR grey 11–1 5–5 12–1 1–11 6–4 4–4 5–5 4–6 7–5 1–12 4–4 5–7 complete Final Round Promotion Group main WDL Q n 2 y FRG FRG NOR NOR JPN JPN AUT AUT 3 0 0 30 6 2 0 1 21 19 1 0 2 14 16 0 0 3 4 28 #ccffcc A yes flag FBR grey 13–3 6–3 11–0 3–13 7–5 11–1 3–6 5–7 6–3 0–11 1–11 3–6 complete West Germany was promoted to Pool A for 1988. Relegation Group main WDL R n 2 y FRA FRA ROM ROM 1965 NED NED ITA ITA 3 0 0 18 11 2 0 1 15 9 1 0 2 16 19 0 0 3 9 19 red1 R yes flag FBR grey 4–3 7–5 7–3 3–4 7–4 5–1 5–7 4–7 7–5 3–7 1–5 5–7 complete Italy was Demoted to Pool C for 1988. Pool C Pool C was played in Esbjerg, Denmark from March 16 to 22. Standings main WDL Q 2 y YUG YUG DEN DEN GBR GBR BUL BUL ESP ESP AUS AUS 5 0 0 56 12 4 0 1 44 24 3 0 2 25 21 2 0 3 21 23 1 0 4 19 34 0 0 5 5 56 #ccffcc A yes flag FBR grey 13–4 6–4 5–1 11–2 21–1 4–13 11–4 8–3 7–3 14–1 4–6 4–11 4–2 6–2 7–0 1–5 3–8 2–4 8–5 7–1 2–11 3–7 2–6 5–8 7–2 1–21 1–14 0–7 1–7 2–7 complete Yugoslavia was promoted to Pool B for 1988. 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