The 1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1982 WJHC) was the 6th edition World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The International Ice Hockey Federation World Under 20 Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world...

 and was held from December 22, 1981 until January 2, 1982. The tournament was hosted by the United States

United States

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 in various cities across the state of Minnesota

Minnesota

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 with some games also played in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba

Manitoba

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 and Ontario

Ontario

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. Canada

Canada

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 won their first gold medal at the World Juniors, while Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 and Finland

Finland

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 won silver and bronze, respectively.

Final standings

The 1982 tournament was a round-robin

Round-robin

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 format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
		7	6	0	1	45	14	13
		7	5	1	1	44	17	11
		7	5	2	0	47	29	10
4		7	4	3	0	42	25	8
5		7	4	3	0	42	26	8
6		7	2	5	0	28	34	4
7		7	1	6	0	19	56	2
8		7	0	7	0	15	81	0

Switzerland

Switzerland

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 was relegated to Pool B for 1983

1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 7th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 26, 1982 and January 4, 1983...

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Results

Leading scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Raimo Summanen Raimo Summanen Raimo Olavi Summanen , is a former professional ice hockey forward and also a former coach of the Finnish national team. He was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the sixth round of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, 125th overall, and spent his NHL career with Edmonton and the Vancouver Canucks...		7	9	16
Petri Skriko Petri Skriko Petri Kalevi Skriko is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player, best remembered for his seasons starring in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks in the 1980s...		8	7	15
Risto Jalo Risto Jalo Risto Uolevi Jalo is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga and National Hockey League. He played for Ilves, HPK, and Edmonton Oilers. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.-External links:*...		7	8	15
Mike Moller Mike Moller Michael John Moller is a former professional ice hockey right wing. He was drafted in the second round, 41st overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft...		5	9	14
Anatoli Semenov Anatoli Semenov Anatoli Anatolievich Semenov is a retired professional ice hockey centre who was a star in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and later spent parts of 8 seasons in the National Hockey League.-Soviet Union:...		5	8	13

Tournament all-stars

Mike Moffat

Mike Moffat (ice hockey)

Michael Anthony Moffat is a Canada ice hockey goaltender, who played in the NHL for the Boston Bruins. He also played in the AHL for the Baltimore Skipjacks, Hershey Bears, and Nova Scotia Oilers....

 Ilya Byakin

Ilya Byakin

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 Gord Kluzak

Gord Kluzak

Gordon Glen Kluzak is a retired NHL defenceman who played his entire abbreviated career for the Boston Bruins, and is now a broadcaster for the team.-Playing career:...

 Mike Moller

Mike Moller

Michael John Moller is a former professional ice hockey right wing. He was drafted in the second round, 41st overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft...

 Petri Skriko

Petri Skriko

Petri Kalevi Skriko is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player, best remembered for his seasons starring in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks in the 1980s...

 Vladimír Růžička

Pool B

Pool B was played on March 16–20, in Heerenveen

Heerenveen

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 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Two groups of four played round robins, with placement games pitting the respective finishers against each other. Japan made their debut, replacing absent Poland.

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	0	19	10	6		6 - 2	4 - 3	9 - 5
	3	2	1	0	18	12	4	2 - 6		9 - 3	7 - 3
	3	1	2	0	12	14	2	3 - 4	3 - 9		6 - 1
	3	0	3	0	9	22	0	5 - 9	3 - 7	1 - 6

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
	3	3	0	0	15	6	6		4 - 2	6 - 2	5 - 2
	3	2	1	0	16	8	4	2 - 4		5 - 2	9 - 2
	3	0	2	1	6	13	1	2 - 6	2 - 5		2 - 2
	3	0	2	1	6	16	1	2 - 5	2 - 9	2 - 2

Placement Games

• 7th place: 6 - 3
• 5th place: 6 - 2
• 3rd place: 6 - 4
• 1st Place: 3 - 2

Norway

Norway

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 was promoted to Pool A for 1983

1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 7th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 26, 1982 and January 4, 1983...

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