1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

August 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship 1996 1996 WJHC logo.svg 120px United States December 26, 1995 – January 4, 1996 10 7 6Podnieks Andrew IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011 2010 198–99 Moydart Press ihj Canada 9 Sweden Russia Czech Republic 31 218 CAN Jarome Iginla 12 1995 1997 The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1996 WJHC) was the 20th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, hosted in Massachusetts, United States. The tournament was won by Canada—defeating Sweden 4–1 in the gold-medal game—earning Canada their fourth straight gold medal and ninth overall, tying the Soviet team's record in both regards. Attendance was less than spectacular for the championships in the United States. It would be the last time the US would host the tournament until 2005 in Grand Forks. Among this edition of the tournament's future NHL stars were Milan Hejduk, Miikka Kiprusoff, Chris Drury, Marco Sturm, José Théodore, Mattias Öhlund, Daymond Langkow, Sergei Samsonov and tournament scoring leader Jarome Iginla. This was the first World Juniors tournament to implement the two groups, round-robin/preliminaries and playoff format. It was also Slovakia's first appearance at the top level in the junior tournament. Round robin Group A main WDL Q n 2 y CAN CAN USA US FIN FIN SUI SUI UKR UKR 4 0 0 19 4 2 0 2 13 17 2 0 2 14 10 1 0 3 10 14 1 0 3 9 20 #ccffcc A A A complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 26, 1995 CAN 6–1 US Centrum in Worcester, Worcester #ffffff December 26, 1995 FIN 5–1 SUI New England Sports Center, Marlborough #eeeeee December 27, 1995 CAN 2–1 SUI Mullins Center, Amherst #ffffff December 27, 1995 UKR 4–3 US Matthews Arena, Boston #eeeeee December 28, 1995 FIN 4–1 UKR Matthews Arena, Boston #ffffff December 29, 1995 CAN 3–1 FIN Matthews Arena, Boston #eeeeee December 29, 1995 US 4–3 SUI Springfield Civic Center, Springfield #ffffff December 30, 1995 SUI 5–3 UKR New England Sports Center, Marlborough #eeeeee December 31, 1995 CAN 8–1 UKR Matthews Arena, Boston #ffffff December 31, 1995 US 5–4 FIN Mullins Center, Amherst Group B main WDL Q n 2 y CZE CZE RUS RUS SWE SWE SVK SVK GER GER 2 2 0 15 10 2 1 1 19 12 2 1 1 14 7 0 3 1 11 17 0 1 3 11 24 #ccffcc A A A complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 26, 1995 CZE 5–3 RUS Mullins Center, Amherst #ffffff December 26, 1995 SWE 6–0 SVK Centrum in Worcester, Worcester #eeeeee December 27, 1995 SVK 3–3 RUS Matthews Arena, Boston #ffffff December 27, 1995 CZE 6–3 GER Mullins Center, Amherst #eeeeee December 28, 1995 SWE 6–2 GER Matthews Arena, Boston #ffffff December 29, 1995 CZE 4–4 SVK Matthews Arena, Boston #eeeeee December 29, 1995 RUS 5–2 SWE Springfield Civic Center, Springfield #ffffff December 30, 1995 GER 4–4 SVK New England Sports Center, Marlborough #eeeeee December 31, 1995 CZE 0–0 SWE Matthews Arena, Boston #ffffff December 31, 1995 RUS 8–2 GER Mullins Center, Amherst Relegation round main WDL Q n 2 y SVK SVK GER GER SUI SUI UKR UKR 2 1 0 17 10 1 2 0 12 7 1 1 1 11 13 0 0 3 6 16 #ccffcc A A A complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 30, 1995 SUI 5–3 UKR New England Sports Center, Marlborough #ffffff December 30, 1995 GER 4–4 SVK New England Sports Center, Marlborough #eeeeee January 2, 1996 SUI 3–3 GER New England Sports Center, Marlborough #ffffff January 2, 1996 UKR 3–6 SVK New England Sports Center, Marlborough #eeeeee January 3, 1996 SUI 3–7 SVK New England Sports Center, Marlborough #ffffff January 3, 1996 UKR 0–5 GER New England Sports Center, Marlborough UKR was relegated for the 1997 World Junior Championships. Playoffs Quarter finals Semi finals Final A2 US 0 B3 SWE 3 B2 RUS 6 A3 FIN 2 QF1 SWE 8 B1 CZE 2 QF2 RUS 3 A1 CAN 4 SF1 SWE 1 SF2 CAN 4 QF1 CZE 1 QF2 RUS 4 QF1 US 8 QF2 FIN 7 Quarterfinals #eee January 1, 1996 13:00 US 0–3 SWE 0–1 / 0–2 / 0–3 (0–1, 0–1, 0–1) Mullins Center, Amherst 10:12 – Ekman38:45 – Molin59:21 – Davidsson 24 31 Brian Boucher Per-Ragnar Bergkvist #eff January 1, 1996 17:00 RUS 6–2 FIN (0–1, 5–1, 1–0) Mullins Center, Amherst Semifinals #eee January 3, 1996 15:30 CAN 4–3 RUS 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1 / 3–1 / 3–2 / 4–2 / 4–3 (1–1, 2–1, 1–1) José Theodore Alexei Yegorov Podollan (Gauthier) (PP) – 8:41Watt (Redden, Dube) (PP) – 31:11Podollan (Botterill, Holland) – 32:43Iginla (SH) – 46:40 11:24 – Morozov (Shafikov, Nabokov) (PP)35:39 – Petrochinin (Nabokov)50:34 – Morozov (Nabokov, Shafikov) (PP) 28 49 2,500 (approx.) Matthews Arena, Boston #eff January 3, 1996 18:30 SWE 8–2 CZE (0–0, 6–1, 2–1) Matthews Arena, Boston 5th place game #eee January 4, 1996 12:00 FIN 7–8 US 1–0 / 1–1 / 2–1 / 3–1 / 3–2 / 4–2 / 4–3 / 4–4 / 4–5 / 5–5 / 6–5 / 7–5 / 7–6 / 7–7 / 7–8 (3–1, 3–4, 1–2, 0–1) Vesa Toskala Brian Boucher Miika Elomo – 0:58Riihijärvi (Salpa, Kuki) – 13:26Salonen (Lydman, Jokinen) – 15:22Niemi (Jokinen) – 25:08Niemi (Elomo, Lotvonen) – 33:41Kuki (Salpa) – 36:43Elomo (Jokinen) – 43:59 8:41 – Swanson (Farkas, Smith)22:35 – Drury (Sylvia)29:52 – Cullen (Drury, Sylvia)30:08 – York (Swanson, Clymer)10:41 – Herr (Kealty)52:32 – Cullen (Parrish)53:21 – Reasoner (Swanson, Sylvia)63:02 – McCarthy (Reasoner) 17 44 New England Sports Center, Marlborough Bronze medal game #ffdab9 January 4, 1996 15:30 CZE 1–4 RUS 1–0 / 1–1 / 1–2 / 1–3 / 1–4 (1–0, 0–2, 0–2) Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill Varada (Kubina) – 1:40 27:42 – Morozov (Ryabykin, Shafikov)39:18 – Samsonov (Klevakin, Yepanchintsev)43:11 – Petrunin (Korolyuk)46:01 – Shafikov (Zyuzin) Tomáš Vokoun Alexei Yegorov 42 21 Gold medal game #f7f6a8 January 4, 1996 19:30 SWE 1–4 CAN 0–1 / 1–1 / 1–2 / 1–3 / 1–4 (1–1, 0–2, 0–1) Nilson – 8:41 1:36 – Langkow (Domenichelli, Iginla)33:00 – Langkow (Iginla)34:12 – Domenichelli (Langkow)48:12 – McCauley (Wright, Botterill) Per-Ragnar Bergkvist José Théodore 33 35 5,781 Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill Scoring leaders PlayerCountryGPGA Pts Jarome Iginla 6 5 7 12 Florian Keller 6 4 8 12 Marco Sturm 6 4 6 10 Miika Elomo 6 4 5 9 Johan Davidsson 7 3 6 9 Ruslan Shafikov 7 1 8 9 Alexei Morozov 7 5 3 8 Juho Jokinen 6 3 5 8 Dmitri Nabokov 7 3 5 8 Marcus Nilson 7 3 5 8 Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time) PlayerCountryMINSGAGAASOW LT José Théodore 240 6 1.50 0 4 0 0 Per-Ragnar Bergkvist 240 6 1.50 1 2 1 1 Magnus Wennström 180 7 2.33 0 2 1 1 Alexei Yegorov 358.9 17 2.84 0 3 2 1 Miikka Kiprusoff 159.3 9 3.39 0 1 2 0 Tournament awards All-star teamhttp://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1996.htm Championnat du Monde Junior 1995/96 des moins de 20 ans Goaltender:CAN José Théodore Defencemen:CAN Nolan Baumgartner, SWE Mattias Öhlund Forwards:CAN Jarome Iginla, SWE Johan Davidsson, RUS Alexei Morozov IIHF best player awards Goaltender:CAN José Théodore Defenceman:SWE Mattias Öhlund Forward:CAN Jarome Iginla Final standings Team CAN Sweden RUS 4th CZE 5th US 6th FIN 7th SVK 8th GER 9th SUI 10th UKR Pool B The second tier was held in Sosnowiec and Tychy, Poland, from December 28 to January 4. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group. Preliminary round Group A main WDL Q n y 2 POL POL HUN HUN JPN JPN AUT AUT 3 0 0 32 2 2 0 1 14 12 1 0 2 4 17 0 0 3 5 24 #ccffcc A A A y flag FBR grey 7–2 9–0 16–0 2–7 7–1 5–4 0–9 1–7 3–1 0–16 4–5 1–3 complete Group B main WDL Q n y 2 LAT LAT ITA ITA NOR NOR FRA FRA 3 0 0 15 9 1 0 2 8 11 1 0 2 8 9 1 0 2 7 9 #ccffcc A A A y flag FBR grey 5–1 5–4 5–4 1–5 3–4 4–2 4–5 4–3 0–1 4–5 2–4 1–0 complete Final Round main WDL Q y 2 POL POL LAT LAT NOR NOR HUN HUN ITA ITA JPN JPN 5 0 0 31 7 4 0 1 22 16 3 0 2 18 15 2 0 3 19 16 1 0 4 9 25 0 0 5 10 30 #ccffcc A y flag FBR grey 5–3 3–2 7–2 7–0 9–0 3–5 5–4 5–4 5–1 4–2 2–3 4–5 3–1 4–3 5–3 2–7 4–5 1–3 5–0 7–1 0–7 1–5 3–4 0–5 5–4 0–9 2–4 3–5 1–7 4–5 complete POL was promoted to Pool A for 1997. Relegation Round #eeeeee FRA 4–2 AUT #ffffff FRA 7–3 AUT AUT was relegated to Pool C for 1997. Pool C Played in Jesenice, Bled, and Kranj, Slovenia, from December 30 to January 3. Preliminary round Group A main WDL n y 2 SLO SLO DEN DEN ROM ROM NED NED 3 0 0 22 5 2 0 1 18 5 1 0 2 10 26 0 0 3 6 20 y flag FBR grey 2–1 10–4 10–0 1–2 13–0 4–3 4–10 0–13 6–3 0–10 3–4 3–6 complete Group B main WDL n y 2 KAZ KAZ BLR BLR 1995 GBR GBR ESP ESP 3 0 0 25 11 2 0 1 23 11 1 0 2 14 14 0 0 3 4 30 y flag FBR grey 7–6 7–2 11–3 6–7 6–4 11–0 2–7 4–6 8–1 3–11 0–11 1–8 complete Placement Games 7th place:NED 4 – 1 ESP 5th place:GBR 3 – 2 ROM 3rd place:DEN 5 – 4 BLR 1995 1st Place:KAZ 6 – 5 SLO KAZ was promoted to Pool B, and ESP was relegated to Pool D for 1997. Pool D Played in Tallinn, Estonia, from December 31 to January 4. Preliminary round Group A main WDL n y 2 EST EST YUG FR Yugoslavia RSA RSA 2 0 0 24 3 1 0 1 10 5 0 0 2 2 28 y flag FBR grey 4–2 20–1 2–4 8–1 1–20 1–8 complete Group B main WDL n y 2 CRO CRO LTU LTU 1988 BUL BUL 2 0 0 20 4 1 0 1 21 7 0 0 2 4 34 y flag FBR grey 5–2 15–2 2–5 19–2 2–15 2–19 complete Placement Games 5th place:BUL 10 – 1 RSA 3rd place:FR Yugoslavia 5 – 4 LTU 1988 1st Place:CRO 2 – 0 EST CRO was promoted to Pool C for 1997. 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