1997 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

IIHF World U20 Championship 1997 1997 WJHC logo.png 75px Switzerland December 26, 1996 – January 4, 1997 10 2 2 ihj Canada 10 United States Russia Czech Republic 31 204 31336 USA Mike York 10 1996 1998 The 1997 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Geneva and Morges, Switzerland. The tournament was won by Canada, who won their record fifth-straight gold medal with a 2–0 victory over the United States in the gold-medal match. Mike York of the United States was the top scorer in the tournament, with five goals and five assists for ten points. The tournament all-star team selected upon the conclusion of the tournament included forwards Mike York (United States), Sergei Samsonov (Russia) and Christian Dube (Canada); defencemen Mark Streit (Switzerland) and Chris Phillips (Canada); and goaltender Brian Boucher (United States). Notable future National Hockey League (NHL) stars that played in this year's tournament included Joe Thornton (Canada), Daniel Brière (Canada) and Marián Hossa (Slovakia). Round robin Group A main WDL R n 2 y USA USA CAN CAN CZE CZE SUI SUI GER GER 3 1 0 18 5 2 2 0 15 9 1 2 1 13 8 1 1 2 8 11 0 0 4 5 26 red1 R R complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 26, 1996 USA 4 – 0 SUI Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 26, 1996 CZE 8 – 2 GER Morges #eeeeee December 27, 1996 CAN 4 – 1 0-1 / 1-1 / 2-1 / 3-1 / 4-1 (1-1, 1-0, 2-0) GER Marc Denis Kai Fischer Isbister (Whitfield) (PP) - 17:23Mann - 32:21Jackman (Dubé) - 43:50Thornton (Briere, Mann) (PP) - 51:26 3:18 - Fendt (Kreutzer) (PP) 34 22 SWE Peter Andersson USA Hans Baker SWE Stefan Danielsson 850 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 27, 1996 CZE 1 – 1 SUI Morges #eeeeee December 28, 1996 CAN 4 – 4 1-0 / 1-1 / 1-2 / 2-2 / 3-2 / 3-3 / 3-4 / 4-4 (2-2, 1-0, 1-2) USA Marc Denis Brian Boucher Dubé (Doig) 1:18Dubé (PP) - 8:52Brière (Isbister) - 26:24Schaefer (Mann) - 56:54 1:48 - Parrish (Young)4:43 - Farkas (Smith)40:28 - LaCouture (Boulerice)55:46 - Young (Poti) 32 26 FIN Pekka Haajanen SWE Stefan Danielsson CZE Pavel Halas 2,769 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 29, 1996 SUI 6 – 2 GER Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #eeeeee December 29, 1996 USA 2 – 1 CZE Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 30, 1996 CAN 4 – 1 0-1 / 1-1 / 2-1 / 3-1 / 4-1 (0-1, 2-0, 2-0) SUI Marc Denis David Aebischer Isbister (Brière) 21:32Dubé (Isbister) (PP) - 31:32Thornton (McCauley, Briere) - 43:34Mann (Doig) - 55:30 16:35 - Riesen 35 21 CZE Frantisek Rejhar SWE Stefan Danielsson SVK Milan Misek 3,353 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #eeeeee December 31, 1996 CAN 3 – 3 1-0 / 1-1 / 1-2 / 2-2 / 3-2 / 3-3 (1-1, 1-1, 1-1) CZE Marc Denis Adam Svoboda Letowski (Thornton) - 9:42Jackman (Mann) (PP) - 28:22Mann (Dubé) - 55:38 10:17 - Matejovsky (Zidlicky)26:33 - Melenovský59:50 - Burger (Kratena) (SH) 29 22 SWE Peter Andersson POL Grzegorz Dzięciołowski CZE Pavel Helas 515 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 31, 1996 USA 8 – 0 GER Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva Group B main WDL R n 2 y RUS RUS FIN FIN SVK SVK SWE SWE POL POL 3 1 0 20 5 3 0 1 17 9 2 0 2 17 13 1 1 2 10 10 0 0 4 6 33 red1 R R complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 26, 1996 RUS 4 – 3 SVK Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 26, 1996 FIN 7 – 0 POL Morges #eeeeee December 27, 1996 SVK 4 – 1 SWE Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 27, 1996 RUS 12 – 0 POL Morges #eeeeee December 28, 1996 FIN 4 – 2 SWE Morges #ffffff December 29, 1996 SVK 7 – 4 POL Morges #eeeeee December 29, 1996 RUS 4 – 2 FIN Morges #ffffff December 30, 1996 SWE 7 – 2 POL Morges #eeeeee December 31, 1996 FIN 4 – 3 SVK Morges #ffffff December 31, 1996 RUS 0 – 0 SWE Morges Relegation round main WDL R n 2 y SUI SUI SWE SWE GER GER POL POL 3 0 0 18 5 2 0 1 17 10 1 0 2 11 14 0 0 3 3 20 red1 R complete Hockey Canada #eeeeee December 29, 1996 SUI 6 – 2 GER Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #ffffff December 30, 1996 SWE 7 – 2 POL Morges #eeeeee January 2, 1997 SUI 6 – 1 POL Morges #ffffff January 2, 1997 SWE 8 – 2 GER Morges #eeeeee January 3, 1997 SUI 6 – 2 SWE Morges #ffffff January 3, 1997 GER 7 – 0 POL Morges POL was relegated for the 1998 World Junior Championships. Medal Rounds Quarter finals Semi finals Final A2 CAN 7 B3 SVK 2 B2 FIN 2 A3 CZE 3 QF1 CAN 3 B1 RUS 2 QF2 CZE 2 A1 USA 5 SF1 CAN 2 SF2 USA 0 QF1 RUS 4 QF2 CZE 1 Quarterfinals #eee January 1, 1997 CAN 7 – 2 1-0 / 2-0 / 2-1 / 3-1 / 3-2 / 4-2 / 5-2 / 6-2 / 7-2 (0-0, 3-1, 4-1) SVK Marc Denis Stanislav Petrik Briere (Isbister) - 25:07Whitfield (Thornton, Mann) (PP) - 27:35Schaefer (Dubé, McCauley) (PP) - 38:49Isbister - 44:51Devereaux (McCauley) - 49:42Letowski - 51:50Dubé (Schaefer) (PP) - 56:28 32:25 - Hossa (Vaic, Pavlikovský) (PP)41:15 - Rieciciar (Handzus, Somik) 31 39 USA Alex Dell GER Oswald Christian CZE Pavel Halas 1,101 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #eff January 1, 1997 CZE 3 – 2 GWS FIN (0–1, 1–0, 1–1, 0-0, 3-1) Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva Semifinals #eee January 3, 1997 CAN 3 – 2 0-1 / 1-1 / 1-2 / 2-2 / 3-2 (1-1, 0-1, 2-0) RUS Marc Denis Radmir Faizov Schaefer (McCauley) (PP) - 18:10Devereaux (McCauley) - 40:49Devereaux (Larsen, Phillips) - 49:44 11:53 - Morozov (Sidulov) (PP)29:56 - Gabdulin (Volchkov) 27 28 SWE Henrik Andersson SWE Stefan Danielsson CZE Pavel Halas 1,976 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva #eff January 3, 1997 USA 5 – 2 CZE (2–2, 1–0, 2–0) Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva 5th-place game #eee January 3, 1997 FIN 6 – 4 SVK (4–1, 0–1, 2–2) Morges Bronze-medal game #ffdab9 4 January 1997 RUS CZE 4 – 1 (2-0, 1-1, 1-0) http://slam.canoe.ca/HockeyWorldJunior/jan4_cze_rus.html Alexei Morozov 6:23 (SH) Alexei Kolkunin 15:10 (PP) Oleg Kvasha 22:33 Sergei Samsonov 49:04 Marek Melenovsky 36:47 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva 855 Gold-medal game #f7f6a8 4 January 1997 CAN USA 2 – 0 (0-0, 1-0, 1-0) 1-0 / 2-0 http://slam.canoe.ca/HockeyWorldJunior/jan4_can_usa.html Devereaux (Letowski) - 28:38 / Isbister (Briere) - 43:09 23 35 Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva CZE Frantisek Rejhar SWE Stefan Danielsson CZE Pavel Halas 4,269 Final standings Team CAN USA RUS 4th CZE 5th FIN 6th SVK 7th SUI 8th SWE 9th GER 10th POL POL was relegated for the 1998 World Juniors Scoring leaders PlayerCountryGPGA Pts Mike York USA 6 5 5 10 Tomi Kallio FIN 6 5 4 9 Erik Rasmussen USA 6 4 5 9 Rastislav Pavlikovský SVK 7 2 7 9 Alexei Morozov RUS 6 5 3 8 Niko Kapanen FIN 6 4 4 8 Alexei Kolkounov RUS 6 4 4 8 Ľubomír Vaic SVK 6 1 7 8 Sergei Samsonov RUS 6 6 1 7 Marián Hossa SVK 6 5 2 7 Mark Parrish USA 6 5 2 7 Brad Isbister CAN 6 4 3 7 Christian Dubé CAN 6 4 3 7 Cameron Mann CAN 6 4 3 7 Marek Melenovský CZE 6 4 3 7 Boris Lingemann GER 6 4 3 7 Ondrej Kratena CZE 6 3 4 7 Ville Nieminen FIN 6 2 5 7 Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time) PlayerCountryMINSGAA Denis Khlopotnov RUS 180 0.33 Brian Boucher USA 357.13 1.51 Marc Denis CAN 419.52 1.86 David Aebischer SUI 300 2.00 Adam Svoboda CZE 428.27 2.66 Tournament awards IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team Goaltender CAN Marc Denis USA Brian Boucher Defencemen USA Joe Corvo CAN Chris PhillipsSUI Mark Streit Forwards RUS Alexei Morozov CAN Christian DubéRUS Sergei SamsonovUSA Michael York Pool B This tournament was played in Kyiv Ukraine, from December 27 to January 5. Standings main WDL QR 2 y KAZ KAZ LAT LAT FRA FRA NOR NOR UKR UKR JPN JPN HUN HUN ITA ITA 6 1 0 39 15 5 1 1 28 19 4 2 1 22 16 2 3 2 33 23 3 1 3 26 18 2 2 3 24 17 1 0 6 14 44 0 0 7 12 46 #ccffcc A red1 R yes flag FBR grey 4–1 1–1 7–5 3–1 4–0 11–3 9–4 1–4 4–3 5–5 2–1 4–3 9–1 3–2 1–1 3–4 5–4 4–3 1–1 3–2 5–1 5–7 5–5 4–5 2–2 3–3 5–1 9–0 1–3 1–2 3–4 2–2 4–3 8–1 7–3 0–4 3–4 1–1 3–3 3–4 6–1 8–0 3–11 1–9 2–3 1–5 1–8 1–6 5–2 4–9 2–3 1–5 0–9 3–7 0–8 2–5 complete KAZ was promoted to Pool A, and ITA was relegated to Pool C, for 1998. Pool C Played in Gheorgheni and Miercurea Ciuc, Romania from December 30 to January 3. Preliminary round Group A main WDL n 2 y BLR BLR 1995 GBR GBR AUT AUT CRO CRO 3 0 0 26 2 2 0 1 13 9 1 0 2 6 12 0 0 3 0 22 yes flag FBR grey 7–2 8–0 11–0 2–7 4–2 7–0 0–8 2–4 4–0 0–11 0–7 0–4 complete Group B main WDL n 2 y SLO SLO DEN DEN ROM ROM NED NED 3 0 0 22 6 2 0 1 27 8 1 0 2 8 18 0 0 3 7 32 yes flag FBR grey 6–2 6–2 10–2 2–6 9–0 16–2 2–6 0–9 6–3 2–10 2–16 3–6 complete Placement Games 7th place:CRO 5 - 3 NED 5th place:AUT 3 - 1 ROM 3rd place:DEN 5 - 4 GBR 1st Place:BLR 1995 8 - 2 SLO BLR 1995 was promoted to Pool B, and NED was relegated to Pool D for 1998. Pool D Played in Sofia Bulgaria from December 30 to January 3. Preliminary round Group A main WDL n 2 y LTU LTU 1988 ESP ESP BUL BUL MEX MEX 3 0 0 45 4 2 0 1 17 12 1 0 2 9 20 0 0 3 5 40 yes flag FBR grey 10–1 15–1 20–2 1–10 3–1 13–1 1–15 1–3 7–2 2–20 1–13 2–7 complete Group B main WDL n 2 y EST EST YUG FR Yugoslavia ISR ISR RSA RSA 3 0 0 38 7 2 0 1 22 12 1 0 2 13 23 0 0 3 3 34 yes flag FBR grey 8–3 12–3 18–1 3–8 9–4 10–0 3–12 4–9 6–2 1–18 0–10 2–6 complete Placement Games 7th place:RSA 5 - 3 MEX 5th place:ISR 7 - 3 BUL 3rd place:FR Yugoslavia 4 - 1 ESP 1st Place:EST 8 - 4 LTU 1988 EST was promoted to Pool C for 1998. References External links 1997 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN.ca Complete details in French at Passionhockey.com Podnieks Andrew IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011 2010 Moydart Press Category:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships I I World Junior Ice Hockey Championships World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Category:Sports competitions in Geneva Category:20th century in Geneva Category:Morges Category:Sports competitions in Kyiv Category:1990s in Kyiv Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Ukraine World Junior Championships World Junior Championships Category:Sports competitions in Sofia Category:1990s in Sofia Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Bulgaria Category:Sport in Miercurea Ciuc Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Romania World Junior Championships