1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Encyclopedia
The 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1995 WJHC) was the 18th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
and was hosted in Red Deer
, Alberta
, Canada
with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia
won silver, and Sweden
the Bronze
format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996
.
, Rouen
, Le Havre
, and Louviers
France
from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.
Standings
and were promoted to Pool A for 1996
.
Belarus
.
Spain
.
was promoted to Pool B for 1996
.
Group B
was promoted to Pool B for 1996
.
Estonia
.
Standings
and were promoted to Pool C for 1996
.
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 hosted in Red Deer
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer is a city in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's third-most-populous city – after Calgary and Edmonton. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, 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...
with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
won silver, and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
the Bronze
Final standings
The 1995 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 | 49 | 22 | 14 | ||
| 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 24 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 21 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 26 | 7 | |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 33 | 6 | |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 26 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 55 | 2 | |
| 8 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 42 | 2 |
No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996
1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Massachusetts...
.
Results
Leading scorers
| GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Marty MurrayMarty Murray Marty Murray , is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for several teams in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:... |
6 | 9 | 15 | ||
| Jason Allison Jason Allison Jason Paul Allison is a professional ice hockey centre who is currently an unrestricted free agent. Allison is most notably known for his former role with the Boston Bruins of the NHL, for which he briefly served as team captain.... |
3 | 12 | 15 | ||
| Bryan McCabe Bryan McCabe Bryan McCabe is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is a free agent.McCabe moved to Calgary, Alberta at a young age and spent the majority of his minor hockey career playing in the Calgary area.... |
3 | 9 | 12 | ||
 Alixander Serikow |
2 | 9 | 11 |
Tournament all-stars
- Goaltender
Igor Karpenko - Defence Bryan McCabeBryan McCabeBryan McCabe is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is a free agent.McCabe moved to Calgary, Alberta at a young age and spent the majority of his minor hockey career playing in the Calgary area....
- Defence
Anders ErikssonAnders ErikssonAnders Eriksson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing for Modo Hockey of the Swedish Elitserien.-Playing career:Eriksson was drafted 22nd overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings.... - Forward Jason AllisonJason AllisonJason Paul Allison is a professional ice hockey centre who is currently an unrestricted free agent. Allison is most notably known for his former role with the Boston Bruins of the NHL, for which he briefly served as team captain....
- Forward Éric DazéEric DazeÉric Dazé is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League for eleven seasons.- Playing career :...
- Forward Marty MurrayMarty MurrayMarty Murray , is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for several teams in the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
Pool B
Eight teams contested the second tier this year in CaenCaen
Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....
, Rouen
Rouen
Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...
, Le Havre
Le Havre
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
, and Louviers
Louviers
Louviers is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.Louviers is from Paris and from Rouen.-Population:-Sights:Its church, Notre Dame, has parts which date from the thirteenth century...
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 December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.
Standings
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 12 | 12 | 3 - 1 | 4 - 4 | 4 - 1 | 4 - 4 | 6 - 1 | 11 - 1 | 8 - 0 | ||
| 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 16 | 10 | 1 - 3 | 4 - 2 | 6 - 1 | 4 - 1 | 8 - 2 | 7 - 3 | 3 - 4 | ||
| 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 22 | 9 | 4 - 4 | 2 - 4 | 0 - 6 | 5 - 4 | 4 - 1 | 6 - 0 | 5 - 3 | ||
| 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 - 4 | 1 - 6 | 6 - 0 | 1 - 2 | 3 - 0 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 0 | ||
| 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 26 | 7 | 4 - 4 | 1 - 4 | 4 - 5 | 2 - 1 | 2 - 7 | 9 - 1 | 5 - 4 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 31 | 5 | 1 - 6 | 2 - 8 | 1 - 4 | 0 - 3 | 7 - 2 | 4 - 4 | 5 - 4 | ||
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 44 | 3 | 1 - 11 | 3 - 7 | 0 - 6 | 3 - 6 | 1 - 9 | 4 - 4 | 5 - 1 | ||
| 8 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 37 | 2 | 0 - 8 | 4 - 3 | 3 - 5 | 0 - 6 | 4 - 5 | 4 - 5 | 1 - 5 |
and were promoted to Pool A for 1996
1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Massachusetts...
.
Qualification for Pool C1
This would be the final year for a pre-tournament qualification. The winner of this tournamet would participate in the C1 pool, second and third would participate in C2. It was played from September 3 to 5, in MinskMinsk
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Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
.
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 8 - 4 | 5 - 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 - 8 | 11 - 0 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 1 - 5 | 0 - 11 |
Pool C1
Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). Because there were to be two teams promoted, each group winner secured promotion before the placement games. The tournament took place from December 29 to January 3, in PuigcerdaPuigcerdà
Puigcerdà is the capital of the Catalan comarca of Cerdanya, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, northern Spain, near the river Segre and the border with France .- History :...
Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
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Preliminary Round
Group A| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 5 - 2 | 11 - 0 | 6 - 1 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 - 5 | 3 - 2 | 8 - 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 - 11 | 2 - 3 | 4 - 3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 1 - 6 | 2 - 8 | 3 - 4 |
was promoted to Pool B for 1996
1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Massachusetts...
.
Group B
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |  |
 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6 | 6 | 7 - 5 | 9 - 0 | 13 - 1 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 5 - 7 | 5 - 2 | 5 - 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 - 9 | 2 - 5 | 4 - 3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 0 | 1 - 13 | 2 - 5 | 3 - 4 |
was promoted to Pool B for 1996
1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Massachusetts...
.
Placement Games
- 7th place: 4 - 3(ot)
- 5th place: 3 - 2
- 3rd place: 3 - 2
- 1st Place: 5 - 2
Pool C2
Six teams played a round robin, with the top two gain promotion for the following year's Pool C, the remaining teams would be placed in Pool D. It was played from December 31 to January 6, in TallinnTallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
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Standings
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 10 | 8 | 3 - 3 | 13 - 1 | 11 - 2 | 2 - 2 | 18 - 2 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 15 | 8 | 3 - 3 | 3 - 3 | 9 - 3 | 8 - 2 | 17 - 4 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 25 | 6 | 1 - 13 | 3 - 3 | 6 - 4 | 2 - 2 | 12 - 3 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 30 | 4 | 2 - 11 | 3 - 9 | 4 - 6 | 7 - 2 | 13 - 2 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 3 | 2 - 2 | 2 - 8 | 2 - 2 | 2 - 7 | 2 - 2 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 62 | 1 | 2 - 18 | 4 - 17 | 3 - 12 | 2 - 13 | 2 - 2 | ||
and were promoted to Pool C for 1996
1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Massachusetts...
.