1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
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The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975 and January 1, 1976 in Tampere, Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record.[1] This was the third edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.[2] Canada was represented by a club team, the Sherbrooke Castors, while the other four nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.[3] The United States did not participate in this tournament, after having competed in the 1974 and 1975 tournaments.
[edit] Tournament results
The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other four teams once each.
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |  |
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Soviet Union |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 8 | — | 5–2 | 3–2 | 6–4 | 5–2 | |
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Canada |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 4 | 2–5 | — | 5–4 | 4–1 | 1–17 | |
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Czechoslovakia |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2–3 | 4–5 | — | 2–0 | 4–2 | |
| 4 | Finland |
4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 4–6 | 1–4 | 0–2 | — | 7–2 | |
| 5 | Sweden |
4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 17 | 2 | 2–5 | 17–1 | 2–4 | 2–7 | — |
[edit] References
- ^ 1976 World Junior Championship. Hockey Canada. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
- ^ IIHF World U20 Championships. IIHF. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
- ^ IIHF World Junior Championship History. Hockey Canada. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
| Preceded by 1975 World Juniors |
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 1976 World Championships |
Succeeded by 1977 World Juniors |
