1991 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1991 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	December 26 - January 4
Teams	8
Venue(s)	9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (5th title)
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	253 (9.04 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Doug Weight (21 points)
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The 1991 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1991 WJHC) was the 15th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in various communities in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canada won its second consecutive gold medal, and fifth overall, while the Soviet Union won silver, and Czechoslovakia the bronze.

Final standings

The 1991 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
01 !	Canada	7	5	1	1	40	18	11
02 !	Soviet Union	7	5	1	1	44	15	11
03 !	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	0	44	19	10
4	United States	7	4	2	1	45	19	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	35	30	7
6	Sweden	7	3	4	0	32	29	6
7	Switzerland	7	1	6	0	5	48	2
8	Norway	7	0	7	0	8	75	0

Norway was relegated to Pool B for 1992.

Results

December 26, 1990

6 – 0

December 26, 1990

11 – 3

Rosetown

December 26, 1990

8 – 5

December 26, 1990

4 – 2

December 27, 1990

4 – 4

December 27, 1990

4 – 3

December 28, 1990

7 – 1

December 28, 1990

13 – 0

December 29, 1990

10 – 1

December 29, 1990

5 – 1

December 29, 1990

10 – 0

Kindersley

December 29, 1990

6 – 3

North Battleford

December 30, 1990

7 – 4

December 30, 1990

5 – 1

December 31, 1990

10 – 2

December 31, 1990

10 – 1

January 1, 1991

5 – 1

January 1, 1991

19 – 1

January 1, 1991

6 – 1

January 1, 1991

5 – 3

January 2, 1991

6 – 5

January 2, 1991

5 – 2

January 3, 1991

5 – 5

January 3, 1991

2 – 1

January 4, 1991

3 – 2

January 4, 1991

10 – 0

January 4, 1991

6 – 1

January 4, 1991

8 – 0

Leading scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Doug Weight		11	10	21
Eric Lindros		6	11	17
Pavel Bure		12	3	15
Martin Ručínský		9	5	14
Žigmund Pálffy		7	6	13

Tournament all-stars

Goaltender Pauli Jaks
Defence Dmitry Yushkevich
Defence Scott Lachance
Forward Mike Craig
Forward Eric Lindros
Forward Martin Ručínský

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Tychy and Oswiecim Poland from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Germany	7	6	0	1	49	15	13			5 - 3	2 - 2	7 - 4	9 - 1	8 - 1	11 - 2	7 - 2
2	Poland	7	6	1	0	53	17	12		3 - 5		5 - 4	7 - 2	6 - 3	10 - 0	14 - 0	8 - 3
3	France	7	4	1	2	42	19	10		2 - 2	4 - 5		4 - 4	13 - 3	7 - 1	5 - 1	7 - 3
4	Japan	7	4	2	1	34	22	9		4 - 7	2 - 7	4 - 4		7 - 0	4 - 2	6 - 1	7 - 1
5	Romania	7	2	4	1	23	43	5		1 - 9	3 - 6	3 - 13	0 - 7		3 - 3	4 - 2	9 - 3
6	Netherlands	7	1	5	1	16	43	3		1 - 8	0 - 10	1 - 7	2 - 4	3 - 3		6 - 3	3 - 8
7	Austria	7	1	6	0	13	48	2		2 - 11	0 - 14	1 - 5	1 - 6	2 - 4	3 - 6		4 - 2
8	Denmark	7	1	6	0	22	45	2		2 - 7	3 - 8	3 - 7	1 - 7	3 - 9	8 - 3	2 - 4

Germany was promoted to Pool A and Denmark was relegated to Pool C for 1992.

Pool C

Eight teams contested the third tier this year in Belgrade Yugoslavia from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Greece's national junior team made their debut this year.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	North Korea	7	6	1	0	50	18	12			4 - 3	1 - 9	4 - 2	5 - 2	10 - 1	6 - 1	20 - 0
2	Italy	7	6	1	0	57	11	12		3 - 4		6 - 2	5 - 2	5 - 1	8 - 1	9 - 0	21 - 1
3	Yugoslavia	7	5	1	1	77	21	11		9 - 1	2 - 6		5 - 2	7 - 7	13 - 2	8 - 2	33 - 1
4	Great Britain	7	4	3	0	45	20	8		2 - 4	2 - 5	2 - 5		3 - 2	5 - 1	9 - 3	22 - 0
5	South Korea	7	3	3	1	55	28	7		2 - 5	1 - 5	7 - 7	2 - 3		8 - 2	9 - 5	26 - 1
6	Bulgaria	7	2	5	0	34	48	4		1 - 10	1 - 8	2 - 13	1 - 5	2 - 8		5 - 3	22 - 1
7	Hungary	7	1	6	0	28	46	2		1 - 6	0 - 9	2 - 8	3 - 9	5 - 9	3 - 5		14 - 0
8	Greece	7	0	7	0	4	158	0		0 - 20	1 - 21	1 - 33	0 - 22	- 26	1 - 22	0 - 14

North Korea was promoted to Pool B for 1992.

References

Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
1991 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
Results at Passionhockey.com

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