1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Encyclopedia
The 1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1986 WJHC) was the 10th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
and was held from December 26, 1985, until January 4, 1986. It was held mainly in Hamilton
, Ontario
, Canada
. The Soviet Union
won the gold medal, its seventh championship, Canada silver and the United States
bronze. The bronze medal was the first for the Americans in tournament history.
format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
West Germany
was relegated to Pool B for 1987
.
Austria
from March 13 to 22. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.
Standings
Poland
was promoted to Pool A and Bulgaria
was relegated to Pool C for 1987
.
France
, from March 21 to 27. China made its debut in the junior tournament.
Standings
France
was promoted to Pool B for 1987
.
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 26, 1985, until January 4, 1986. It was held mainly in Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
won the gold medal, its seventh championship, Canada silver and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
bronze. The bronze medal was the first for the Americans in tournament history.
Final standings
The 1986 tournament was a round-robinRound-robin
The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified...
format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 14 | 14 | ||
| 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 54 | 21 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 26 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 8 | |
| 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 23 | 8 | |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 23 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 54 | 2 | |
| 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 65 | 0 |
West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
was relegated to Pool B for 1987
1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia . Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia captured the silver, and Sweden the bronze...
.
Results
Leading scorers
| GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shayne CorsonShayne Corson Shayne Corson is a retired Canadian professional hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Dallas Stars... |
7 | 7 | 14 | ||
| Joe Murphy Joe Murphy (ice hockey) Joseph Patrick Murphy is a former professional hockey right winger. Murphy grew up and played minor hockey in Newmarket, Ontario. Murphy was on the 1990 Edmonton Oilers when they won the Stanley Cup... |
4 | 10 | 14 | ||
 Valeri KamenskyValeri Kamensky Valeri Viktorovich Kamensky is a retired Russian hockey player. Before the NHL, he started his career with Khimik Voskresensk in the Soviet Championship League and also played for CSKA Moscow... |
7 | 6 | 13 | ||
| Jim Sandlak Jim Sandlak James Sandlak, Jr. is a retired professional ice hockey player who spent 11 seasons in the National Hockey League and was known as "The House" due to his large stature.-Playing career:... |
5 | 7 | 12 | ||
 Radek ToupalRadek Toupal Radek Ťoupal is a former ice hockey player. His debut in Czechoslovak ice hockey league came in season 1982/1983, playing for HC České Budějovice, when he was only 16. During an army duty spent two years playing for Slovakian club HC Dukla Trenčín... |
5 | 7 | 12 |
Tournament all-stars
- Goaltender Evgeny BelosheikinEvgeny BelosheikinEvgeny Vladimirovich Belosheikin was a professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for the HC CSKA Moscow and SKA Leningrad. He also played on the Soviet Union's 1987 Canada Cup and Rendez-vous '87 teams...
- Defence Sylvain CôtéSylvain CoteSylvain Côté is a former professional ice hockey player who spent 19 seasons in the NHL, the majority of them with the Washington Capitals. He also played for the Hartford Whalers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars...
- Defence Mikhail TatarinovMikhail TatarinovMikhail Vladimirovich Tatarinov is a retired Russian ice hockey defenceman....
- Forward Shayne CorsonShayne CorsonShayne Corson is a retired Canadian professional hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Dallas Stars...
- Forward Igor VyazmikinIgor VyazmikinIgor Viktorovich Vyazmikin was a professional ice hockey forward, who played for CSKA. He was the final player selected in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, going in the twelfth round, 252nd overall, to the Edmonton Oilers, and went on to play four NHL games with that team...
- Forward Michal PivonkaMichal PivonkaMichal Pivoňka is a retired National Hockey League player. He played his entire NHL career with the Washington Capitals. Selected by the Capitals in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, Pivonka defected to the United States during the summer of 1986...
Pool B
Eight teams contested the second tier this year in KlagenfurtKlagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
from March 13 to 22. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.
Standings
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 17 | 12 | 4 - 3 | 12 - 1 | 4 - 2 | 3 - 0 | 8 - 9 | 9 - 2 | 6 -0 | ||
| 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 18 | 11 | 3 - 4 | 10 - 6 | 4 - 4 | 8 - 0 | 12 - 0 | 4 - 3 | 13 - 1 | ||
| 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 35 | 10 | 1 - 12 | 6 - 10 | 4 - 3 | 6 - 5 | 8 - 0 | 9 - 3 | 8 - 2 | ||
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 28 | 8 | 2 - 4 | 4 - 4 | 3 - 4 | 7 - 5 | 6 - 5 | 4 - 4 | 6 - 2 | ||
| 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 31 | 6 | 0 - 3 | 0 - 8 | 5 - 6 | 5 - 7 | 6 - 5 | 7 - 2 | 12 - 0 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 43 | 6 | 9 - 8 | 0 - 12 | 0 - 8 | 5 - 6 | 5 - 6 | 4 - 2 | 7 - 1 | ||
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 40 | 3 | 2 - 9 | 3 - 4 | 3 - 9 | 4 - 4 | 2 - 7 | 2 - 4 | 10 - 3 | ||
| 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 62 | 0 | 0 - 6 | 1 - 13 | 2 - 8 | 2 - 6 | 0 - 12 | 1 - 7 | 3 - 10 |
Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
was promoted to Pool A and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
was relegated to Pool C for 1987
1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia . Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia captured the silver, and Sweden the bronze...
.
Pool C
This tournament was played in GapGap
-General:* Gap , a spacing between large trees in a forest* Gap , a mountain pass, often carved by a river* Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage-Places:* Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France* Gap, Pennsylvania, United States...
France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, from March 21 to 27. China made its debut in the junior tournament.
Standings
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 13 | 9 | 4 - 4 | 14 - 2 | 11 - 4 | 10 - 2 | 13 - 1 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 16 | 8 | 4 - 4 | 10 - 4 | 4 - 2 | 7 - 2 | 4 - 4 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 32 | 6 | 2 - 14 | 4 - 10 | 6 - 4 | 4 - 2 | 4 - 2 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 27 | 4 | 4 - 11 | 2 - 4 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 7 - 2 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 32 | 2 | 2 - 10 | 2 - 7 | 2 - 4 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 5 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 34 | 1 | 1 - 13 | 4 - 4 | 2 - 4 | 2 - 7 | 5 - 6 | ||
France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
was promoted to Pool B for 1987
1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia . Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia captured the silver, and Sweden the bronze...
.