1976 IIHF European U19 Championship

International ice hockey tournament The 1976 IIHF European U19 Championship was the ninth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships. Group A Played in Kopřivnice and Opava, Czechoslovakia in March 21–29, 1976. First round Group 1 {| class="wikitable" bgcolor="#EFEFFF" width="50%" |-bgcolor="#BCD2EE" ! Team ! URS ! FIN ! POL ! TCH'B! GF/GA ! Points |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" align="center" | align="left" | 1. URS | style="background:#000000;" | | 6:1 | 9:2 | 4:2 | 15:3 | 4 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" align="center" | align="left" | 2. FIN | 1:6 | style="background:#000000;" | | 5:2 | style="background:#000000;" | | 6:8 | 2 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" align="center" | align="left" | 3. POL | 2:9 | 2:5 | style="background:#000000;" | | 2:11 | 4:14 | 0 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" align="center" | align="left" | NR TCHB | 2:4 | style="background:#000000;" | | 11:2 | style="background:#000000;" | | 13:6 | 2 |}NOTE''' Bulgaria was supposed to participate in this group, but could not because of an epidemic of the Grippe. An under 18 Czech team filled in, but arrived too late to play their game against Finland. None of their games counted in the standings, so their totals are only shown for interest.Bulgaria withdraws Group 2 Team TCH SWE FRG SUI GF/GA Points 1. TCH 4:3 5:3 8:1 17:7 6 2. SWE 3:4 7:2 8:1 18:7 4 3. FRG 3:5 2:7 7:5 12:17 2 4. SUI 1:8 1:8 5:7 7:23 0 Final round Championship round Team URS SWE FIN TCH GF/GA Points 1. URS 2:2 (6:1) 7:4 15:7 5 2. SWE 2:2 5:1 (3:4) 10:7 3 3. FIN (1:6) 1:5 6:3 8:14 2 4. TCH 4:7 (4:3) 3:6 11:16 2 Placing round {| class="wikitable" bgcolor="#EFEFFF" width="50%" |-bgcolor="#BCD2EE" ! Team ! FRG ! POL ! SUI ! TCH'B'! GF/GA ! Points |- bgcolor="#CAE1FF" align="center" | align="left" | 1. FRG | style="background:#000000;" | | 11:5 | (7:5) | 1:10| 18:10 | 4 |- bgcolor="#CAE1FF" align="center" | align="left" | 2. POL | 5:11 | style="background:#000000;" | | 8:4 | (2:11)| 13:15 | 2 |- bgcolor="#CAE1FF" align="center" | align="left" | 3. SUI | (5:7) | 4:8 | style="background:#000000;" | | 2:16| 9:15 | 0 |- bgcolor="#CAE1FF" align="center" | align="left" | NR TCHB | 10:1| (11:2)| 16:2| style="background:#000000;" | | 37:5| 6|} The Czechoslovakia B games do not count in the standings. Bulgaria was relegated to Group B for 1977.Tournament Awards Top Scorer: FRGErnst Höfner (12 Points) Top Goalie: SWEPelle Lindbergh Top Defenceman:URSViacheslav Fetisov Top Forward: URSValeri Yevstifeyev Group B Played in Bucharest and Ploiești, Romania from March 13–21, 1976 First round Group 1 Team ROM NOR FRA ITA ESP GF/GA Points 1. ROM 1965 6:4 3:2 7:3 12:2 28:11 8 2. NOR 4:6 6:1 6:1 15:2 31:10 6 3. FRA 2:3 1:6 6:4 6:1 15:14 4 4. ITA 3:7 1:6 4:6 7:3 15:22 2 5. ESP 1945 2:12 2:15 1:6 3:7 8:40 0 Group 2 Team YUG AUT DEN HUN GF/GA Points 1. YUG 4:0 9:0 12:0 25:0 6 2. AUT 0:4 4:0 6:2 10:6 4 3. DEN 0:9 0:4 8:5 8:18 2 4. HUN 1957 0:12 2:6 5:8 7:26 0 Placing round 7th place ITA 7:5(0:1, 4:2, 3:2) HUN 1957 5th place DEN 7:6 o.t.(4:1, 0:1, 2:4, 1:0) FRA 3rd place AUT 3:2(1:0, 0:2, 2:0) NOR Final ROM 1965 6:2(1:0, 2:0, 3:2) YUG Results for the fifth and the seventh place games are taken from the International Ice Hockey Encyclopedia and disagree with the scores posted on passionhockey.com's archive page.Romania was promoted to Group A for 1977.'' References Complete results Duplacey James Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League 1998 Total Sports 530–2 0-8362-7114-9 registration https://archive.org/details/totalhockeyoffic0000unse/page/530 International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005 Müller Stephan 2005 Books on Demand Germany 3-8334-4189-5 240–395 Junior Category:IIHF European Junior Championships Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Romania Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Czechoslovakia Jun Category:Sport in Opava Category:March 1976 sports events in Europe Category:Sport in Ploiești Category:Sports competitions in Bucharest Jun Category:20th century in Bucharest