Ice Hockey World Championship 1971

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	Winner: Soviet Union

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	Winner: Czechoslovakia

The 38th Ice Hockey World Championships and the 49th Ice Hockey European Championships took place in Switzerland in 1971 .

For the ninth time in a row, the USSR was unable to take the world title, it was the 11th world championship gold overall. However, this time the subscription world champion was dependent on the support of the Swedes and the Americans , as he lost the direct comparison against the Czechoslovaks . This secured at least their eleventh European championship title. The USA team finished sixth and last in the first World Cup since its promotion, which meant the immediate return to the second division.

The GDR than in fifth place of the last title fights abandoned because of by the competitive sports decision set the GDR leadership on promoting participation in the A group and went voluntarily to the B group from. Therefore, in the run-up to the World Cup, a qualification for the vacated place between the relegated from the last A-World Cup , Poland , and the runner-up of the last B-World Cup , BR Germany , took place. Remarkable here: Although the Poles were 4-0 in the front in the second leg until four minutes before the end, which would have been enough for participation in the A-World Cup after the 3-6 defeat in the first leg, they ultimately had to accept the equalizer and give way to the West German selection.

The B group of the World Championship was held in Switzerland in the run-up to the A World Championship. The C group was played in the Netherlands. A total of 22 ice hockey nations took part in the championships, a new record.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Geneva , Bern	19 Mar 1971 - April 3, 1971 0	6th	190.251	30th	6.342
B world championship	Switzerland	05th Mar 1971 - March 14th 1971	8th		28
C world championship	Netherlands	Feb 26, 1971 - Mar 7 1971 0	8th		28

A world championship

qualification

November 8, 1970	Munich	BR Germany	-	Poland	6: 3 (1: 0.1: 1.4: 2)
November 12, 1970	Łódź	Poland	-	BR Germany	4: 4 (2: 0.2: 0.0: 4)

Qualified for the A group:	BR Germany
Qualified for the B group:	Poland

Main tournament

The men's A World Championship was held in Geneva and Bern.

Games

1 round
March 19, 1971	Bern	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	1: 5 (1: 3.0: 1.0: 1)
March 19, 1971	Bern	USSR	-	BR Germany	11: 2 (2: 2.3: 0.6: 0)
March 20, 1971	Bern	Sweden	-	United States	4: 2 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 0)
March 20, 1971	Bern	Finland	-	BR Germany	4: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 1)
March 21, 1971	Bern	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	6: 5 (2: 1.0: 2.4: 2)
March 21, 1971	Bern	USSR	-	Finland	8: 1 (1: 1.2: 0.5: 0)
March 22, 1971	Bern	Czechoslovakia	-	BR Germany	9: 1 (1: 1.3: 0.5: 0)
March 22, 1971	Bern	USSR	-	United States	10: 2 (1: 0.7: 1.2: 1)
March 23, 1971	Bern	Sweden	-	BR Germany	7: 2 (3: 0.2: 1.2: 1)
March 23, 1971	Bern	Finland	-	United States	7: 4 (2: 0.3: 3.2: 1)
March 24, 1971	Bern	Sweden	-	Finland	1: 1 (0: 1.0: 0.1: 0)
March 24, 1971	Bern	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	3: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.1: 1)
March 25, 1971	Bern	United States	-	BR Germany	2: 7 (0: 3.1: 2.1: 2)
March 26, 1971	Bern	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland	5: 0 (0: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
March 26, 1971	Bern	USSR	-	Sweden	8: 0 (4: 0.1: 0.3: 0)
2nd round
March 27, 1971	Geneva	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	5: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.3: 0)
March 27, 1971	Geneva	USSR	-	BR Germany	12: 2 (1: 1.7: 0.4: 1)
March 28, 1971	Geneva	Sweden	-	United States	4: 3 (1: 0.1: 3.2: 0)
March 28, 1971	Geneva	Finland	-	BR Germany	7: 2 (3: 0.0: 1.4: 1)
March 29, 1971	Geneva	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	1: 3 (0: 1.0: 1.1: 1)
March 29, 1971	Geneva	USSR	-	Finland	10: 1 (5: 1.1: 0.4: 0)
March 30, 1971	Geneva	Czechoslovakia	-	BR Germany	4: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
March 30, 1971	Geneva	USSR	-	United States	7: 5 (1: 1.5: 2.1: 2)
March 31, 1971	Geneva	Sweden	-	BR Germany	1: 2 (1: 0.0: 2.0: 0)
March 31, 1971	Geneva	Finland	-	United States	7: 3 (1: 1.3: 1.3: 1)
April 1, 1971	Geneva	Sweden	-	Finland	2: 1 (0: 0.2: 0.0: 1)
April 1, 1971	Geneva	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	2: 5 (1: 1.1: 1.0: 3)
April 2nd 1971	Geneva	United States	-	BR Germany	5: 1 (1: 0.4: 0.0: 1)
3rd April 1971	Geneva	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland	4: 2 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
3rd April 1971	Geneva	USSR	-	Sweden	6: 3 (2: 1.0: 2.4: 0)

Final table of the A-WM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	USSR	10	8th	1	1	77:24	+53	17: 3
2	Czechoslovakia	10	7th	1	2	44:20	+24	15: 5
3	Sweden	10	5	1	4th	29:33	−4	11: 9
4th	Finland	10	4th	1	5	31:42	−11	09:11
5	BR Germany +	10	2	0	8th	22:62	−40	04:16
6th	USA +	10	2	0	8th	31:53	−22	04:16

+ the direct comparison (7: 2.1: 5) decides for the Federal Republic of Germany

Moved up and down

Relegated:	United States
Newcomers:	Switzerland

Master teams

World Champion USSR	Viktor Konowalenko , Vladislav Tretiak - Alexander Ragulin , Vitaly Davydov , Igor Romischewski , Vladimir Luttschenko , Yuri Ljapkin , Viktor Kuskin - Boris Mikhailov , Vladimir Petrov , Valeri Kharlamov , Alexander Maltsev , Anatoly Firsov , Vladimir Wikulow , Vyacheslav Starschinow , Vladimir Shadrin , Yevgeny Mischakow , Evgeni Simin , Alexander Martynjuk , Gennadi Zygankow Coaching staff: Anatoli Tarasow and Arkady Chernyshov
Silver Czechoslovakia	Jiří Holeček , Marcel Sakac - Jan Suchý , František Pospíšil , Oldřich Machač , František Panchartek , Josef Horešovský , Rudolf Tajcnár , Jiří Bubla - Jan Havel , Václav Nedomanský , Jiri Holik , Eduard Novák , Richard Farda , Josef Cerny , Vladimír Martinec , Ivan Hlinka , Bohuslav Šťastný , Jiří Kochta , Bedřich Brunclík Coaching staff: Vladimír Kostka , Jaroslav Pitner
Bronze Sweden	Christer Abrahamsson , Leif Holmqvist , William Löfqvist - Thommy Abrahamsson , Gunnar Andersson , Thommie Bergman , Arne Carlsson , Kjell-Rune Milton , Bert-Ola Nordlander , Lennart Svedberg - Inge Hammarström , Stig-Göran Johansson , Stefan Karlsson , Hans Lindberg , Tord Lundström , Lars-Göran Nilsson , Håkan Nygren , Björn Palmqvist , Håkan Pettersson , Ulf Sterner , Håkan Wickberg Trainer: Arne Strömberg

Final table of the EM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Czechoslovakia +	8th	6th	1	1	38:15	+23	13: 3
2	USSR +	8th	6th	1	1	60:17	+43	13: 3
3	Sweden	8th	3	1	4th	21:28	−7	7: 9
4th	Finland	8th	2	1	5	17:35	−18	5:11
5	BR Germany	8th	1	0	7th	14:55	−41	2:14

+ the direct comparison (3: 3.5: 2) decides for Czechoslovakia

European ice hockey champion 1971 Czechoslovakia

B world championship

in Bern and other places, Switzerland

Games

March 5th 1971	Bern	Norway	-	Yugoslavia	6: 3 (2: 0.2: 1.2: 2)
March 5th 1971	Bern	Poland	-	Italy	6: 2 (2: 0.2: 1.2: 1)
March 5th 1971	Bern	GDR	-	Japan	9: 4 (0: 1.4: 1.5: 2)
March 5th 1971	Lyss	Switzerland	-	Austria	4: 1 (2: 0.1: 0.1: 1)
March 6, 1971	Bern	Yugoslavia	-	Austria	3: 1 (2: 0.1: 1.0: 0)
March 6, 1971	Bern	Japan	-	Italy	4: 4 (0: 1.2: 0.2: 3)
March 6, 1971	Lyss	Switzerland	-	Norway	3: 2 (0: 1.2: 0.1: 1)
March 7, 1971	Bern	GDR	-	Poland	4: 7 (0: 3.4: 1.0: 3)
March 8, 1971	Bern	Norway	-	Italy	7: 2 (2: 1.3: 1.2: 0)
March 8, 1971	Geneva	Japan	-	Austria	6: 2 (2: 0.2: 0.2: 2)
March 8, 1971	Bern	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	5: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
March 8, 1971	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Switzerland	-	Poland	4: 4 (2: 0.1: 3.1: 1)
March 9, 1971	Bern	GDR	-	Italy	11: 0 (5: 0.1: 0.5: 0)
March 9, 1971	Geneva	Norway	-	Austria	7: 2 (1: 0.5: 0.1: 2)
March 9, 1971	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Switzerland	-	Yugoslavia	8: 5 (0: 1.3: 2.5: 2)
March 10, 1971	Lyss	Poland	-	Japan	4: 6 (0: 2.2: 1.2: 3)
March 11, 1971	Lyss	GDR	-	Austria	11: 3 (3: 1.5: 1.3: 1)
March 11, 1971	Bern	Yugoslavia	-	Italy	4: 4 (2: 2.1: 1.1: 1)
March 11, 1971	Bern	Poland	-	Norway	8: 1 (0: 0.5: 0.3: 1)
March 11, 1971	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Switzerland	-	Japan	4: 1 (1: 0.3: 0.0: 1)
March 13, 1971	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Norway	-	Japan	10: 6 (5: 1.0: 3.5: 2)
March 13, 1971	Bern	Poland	-	Yugoslavia	4: 0 (1: 0.0: 0.3: 0)
March 13, 1971	Geneva	Austria	-	Italy	6: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.4: 0)
March 13, 1971	Bern	Switzerland	-	GDR	3: 1 (2: 0.0: 1.1: 0)
March 14, 1971	Bern	Yugoslavia	-	Japan	7: 6 (1: 2.5: 0.1: 4)
March 14, 1971	Geneva	Poland	-	Austria	3: 2 (0: 0.2: 0.1: 2)
March 14, 1971	La Chaux-de-Fonds	GDR	-	Norway	8: 4 (1: 0.4: 2.3: 2)
March 14, 1971	Lyss	Switzerland	-	Italy	5: 0 (2: 0.2: 0.1: 0)

Final table of the B-WM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Switzerland	7th	6th	1	0	31:14	+17	13: 1
2	Poland	7th	5	1	1	36:19	+17	11: 3
3	GDR	7th	5	0	2	49:24	+25	10: 4
4th	Norway	7th	4th	0	3	37:32	+5	8: 6
5	Yugoslavia +	7th	2	1	4th	25:34	−9	5: 9
6th	Japan +	7th	2	1	4th	33:40	−7	5: 9
7th	Austria +	7th	1	0	6th	17:34	−17	2:12
8th	Italy +	7th	0	2	5	12:43	−31	2:12

+ the direct comparison decides for Yugoslavia (7: 6) and Austria (6: 0)

Squad of the GDR team

GDR	Striker:	Rolf Bielas , Reinhard Kareer , Knut Meisel , Rüdiger Noack (all Weißwasser), Jürgen Breitschuh , Dieter Janke , Hartmut Nickel , Rainer Patschinski , Roland Peters , Peter Prusa (all Berlin)
	Defender:	Frank Braun , Helmut Novy , Hartwig Schur , Peter Slapke , Ralf Thomas (all Weißwasser), Dietmar Peters , Bernd Karrenbauer , Hans Schmidt (all Berlin)
	Goalkeeper:	Wolfgang Fischer (SG Dynamo Weißwasser), Joachim Hurbanek (SC Dynamo Berlin)
	Trainer:	Wolfgang Nickel

Scorer

	player	country	Gates	templates	Points
1	Michel Turler	Switzerland	6th	4th	10
2	Jozef Stefaniak	Poland	6th	3	09
3	Krzysztof Byalinicki	Poland	5	4th	09
	Tadeusz Kacik	Poland	5	4th	09
5	Per Skjerwen Olsen	Norway	3	6th	09

All-Star Team

Gérald Rigolet (Switzerland); Andrzej Slovakiewicz (Poland) - Marcel Sgualdo (Switzerland); Rüdiger Noack (GDR) - Michel Türler (Switzerland) - Rudi Hiti (Yugoslavia)

Moved up and down

B-World Champion 1971:	Switzerland
Promoted to the A group:	Switzerland
Relegated from the A group:	United States
Relegated to the C group:	Austria, Italy
Newcomers from the C group:	Romania, France

C world championship

in Eindhoven and other places, Netherlands

Games

February 26, 1971	Nijmegen	Hungary	-	Bulgaria	7: 6 (1: 0.4: 2.2: 4)
February 26, 1971	Utrecht	Romania	-	France	7: 1 (0: 0.2: 1.5: 0)
February 26, 1971	Eindhoven	Great Britain	-	Belgium	18: 2 (8: 0.4: 0.6: 2)
February 27, 1971	Rotterdam	Romania	-	Denmark	6: 1 (0: 0.2: 0.4: 1)
February 27, 1971	Utrecht	France	-	Belgium	18: 1 (7: 0.7: 0.4: 1)
February 27, 1971	Tilburg	Hungary	-	Great Britain	7: 6 (3: 1.1: 2.3: 3)
February 27, 1971	Jellies	Netherlands	-	Bulgaria	0: 7 (0: 4.0: 1.0: 2)
February 28, 1971	Tilburg	Netherlands	-	Denmark	3: 1 (2: 0.0: 0.1: 1)
March 1, 1971	Tilburg	France	-	Bulgaria	2: 1 (0: 1.0: 0.2: 0)
March 1, 1971	Eindhoven	Romania	-	Hungary	3: 3 (1: 3.0: 0.2: 0)
March 1, 1971	Rotterdam	Denmark	-	Belgium	21: 1 (8: 0.5: 0.8: 1)
March 1, 1971	's-Hertogenbosch	Netherlands	-	Great Britain	4: 7 (0: 3.3: 1.1: 3)
March 2nd 1971	Nijmegen	Great Britain	-	Denmark	5: 4 (1: 2.3: 2.1: 0)
March 2nd 1971	Rotterdam	Hungary	-	France	4: 8 (2: 3.0: 2.2: 3)
March 2nd 1971	Utrecht	Romania	-	Bulgaria	12: 2 (2: 1.6: 1.4: 0)
March 2nd 1971	Eindhoven	Netherlands	-	Belgium	18: 0 (5: 0.8: 0.5: 0)
March 4th 1971	Jellies	France	-	Great Britain	6: 4 (0: 1.4: 3.2: 0)
March 4th 1971	Heerenveen	Bulgaria	-	Denmark	4: 5 (2: 0.1: 3.1: 2)
March 4th 1971	's-Hertogenbosch	Hungary	-	Belgium	31: 1 (9: 1.9: 0.13: 0)
March 4th 1971	Tilburg	Netherlands	-	Romania	2:10 (2: 4.0: 5.0: 1)
March 5th 1971	Eindhoven	Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	5: 5 (2: 1.1: 2.2: 2)
March 5th 1971	Tilburg	Romania	-	Belgium	21: 0 (7: 0.7: 0.7: 0)
March 5th 1971	Groningen	France	-	Denmark	5: 1 (3: 0.1: 0.1: 1)
March 5th 1971	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	Hungary	3: 4 (0: 1.1: 1.2: 2)
March 7, 1971	Rotterdam	Bulgaria	-	Belgium	12: 1 (4: 0.4: 0.4: 1)
March 7, 1971	Eindhoven	Hungary	-	Denmark	2: 0 (1: 0.0: 0.1: 0)
March 7, 1971	Jellies	Romania	-	Great Britain	11: 2 (3: 0.4: 1.4: 1)
March 7, 1971	Utrecht	Netherlands	-	France	2: 9 (1: 4.0: 3.1: 2)

Final table of the C-WM

Play media file

Game summary Netherlands versus Romania

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Romania	7th	6th	1	0	70:11	+59	13: 1
2	France	7th	6th	0	1	49:20	+29	12: 2
3	Hungary	7th	5	1	1	58:27	+31	11: 3
4th	Great Britain	7th	3	1	3	47:39	+8	7: 7
5	Bulgaria	7th	2	1	4th	36:32	+4	5: 9
6th	Netherlands +	7th	2	0	5	32:38	−6	4:10
7th	Denmark +	7th	2	0	5	33:26	+7	4:10
8th	Belgium	7th	0	0	7th	6: 138	−132	0:14

+ the direct comparison decides for the Netherlands (3: 1)

Moved up and down

C world champion 1971:	Romania
Moving up to the B group:	Romania, France
Relegated from group B:	Italy, Austria

Web links

• Neue Zürcher Zeitung , The Ice Hockey World Championships on Swiss Ice - 1971 There were six left

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strongly rejuvenated for the World Cup. In: New Germany. Archives of the State Library in Berlin, March 3, 1971, accessed on March 14, 2013 . 
2. ^ Ice hockey 1971. In: Neues Deutschland . Archives of the Berlin State Library (free registration required), March 3, 1971, accessed on March 14, 2013 .