Ice Hockey World Championship 1973

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	Winner: Soviet Union

The 40th Ice Hockey World Championships (also the 51st European Ice Hockey Championships ) in 1973 took place in Moscow. The host Soviet Union won for the twelfth time without losing points. In addition to the A group tournament, the B group was held in Graz and the C group in various cities in the Netherlands. For the first time, the three World Cup tournaments took place in three different countries. A total of 22 teams took part in the world championships.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Moscow	31 Mar 1973 - Apr 15, 1973	6th	331,500	30th	11,050
B world championship	Graz	22 Mar 1973 - March 31 1973	8th		28
C world championship	Netherlands	09 Mar 1973 - March 18 1973	8th		28

A world championship

The group A tournament was played between March 31 and April 15, 1973 in the Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow . After a one-year break, this time the title fights were dominated by a superior Soviet team , which - in the previous year still referred to silver rank - celebrated their twelfth world and 15th European championship title without losing points and with a new scoring record. Defending champion Czechoslovakia ended up in third place.

Attendees

Soviet postage stamp for the 1973 World Cup

The five best teams from the previous year's World Cup and the first-placed team from the previous year's B group took part in the tournament:

6 from Europe	BR Germany	Finland
	Poland (promoted from group B)	Sweden
	USSR	Czechoslovakia (defending champion)

venue

Moscow	Moscow World championship venue
Luzhniki Sports Palace Capacity: 14,000

Games

March 31, 1973 4:00 p.m. (local time)

Czechoslovakia 14. Jiří Kochta 17 Oldřich Machač 17. Josef Paleček 29 Richard Farda 34. Bohuslav Šťastný 31. Jan Klapáč 32. Václav Nedomanský 34. Jan Klapáč 37. Václav Nedomanský 47. Jiri Holik 48. Vladimír Martinec 50. Jaroslav Holik 53 . František Pospíšil 58. Jaroslav Holik

14: 1 (3: 0, 6: 0, 5: 1)

Poland 60. Stefan Chowaniec

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

March 31, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 4. Alexander Gusew 7. Alexander Malzew 7. Valery Kharlamov 11. Boris Michailow 16. Alexander Jakuschew 18. Vladimir Petrov 20. Alexander Bodunow 29. Yuri Lebedev 31. Alexander Martynjuk 35. Boris Michailow 35. Vladimir Petrov 40. Alexander Jakuschew 40 Alexander Malzew 41. Alexander Woltschkow 43. Alexander Jakuschew 48. Boris Michailow 49. Alexander Malzew

17: 1 (6: 1, 4: 0, 7: 0)

Germany 2. Alois Schloder

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 14,000

April 1, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Sweden 3:12 Thommy Abrahamsson 4:26 Börje Salming 12:12 Inge Hammarström 35:15 Mats Åhlberg 38:38 Stefan Karlsson 47:29 Anders Hedberg 47:44 Dan Söderström 51:21 Ulf Sterner 56:58 Ulf Sterner, 57:18 Håkan Wickberg 59:16 Mats Åhlberg

11: 2 (3: 1, 2: 1, 6: 0)

Poland 14:25 Leszek Tokarz 35:58 Walenty Ziętara

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

April 1, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Finland 1:06 Timo Sutinen 7:29 Esa Peltonen 8:25 Matti Keinonen 27:53 Timo Turunen 31:37 Timo Turunen 33:31 Henry Leppä 47:28 Lauri Mononen 48:55 Timo Sutinen

8: 3 (3: 1, 3: 0, 2: 2)

Germany 14:28 Ignaz Berndaner 48:16 Martin Hinterstocker 52:35 Rainer Philipp

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

April 2, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia

0: 2 (0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 2)

Sweden 54:31 Dan Söderström 57:36 Tord Lundström

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 2, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 0:47 Valeri Kharlamov 4:59 Vladimir Shadrin 13:20 Vladimir Petrov 22:07 Vyacheslav Anissin 46:49 Alexander Martynjuk 53:45 Alexander Martynjuk 55:06 Boris Mikhailov 59:03 Alexander Gusew

8: 2 (3: 0, 1: 2, 4: 0)

Finland 30:00 Veli-Pekka Ketola 35. Henry Leppä

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 3, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 10:42 Jaroslav Holík 24:45 Oldřich Machač 36:23 Jiří Kochta 50. Jaroslav Holík

4: 2 (1: 0, 2: 1, 1: 1)

Germany 21:09 Alois Schloder 59:25 Erich Kühnhackl

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 8,000

April 3, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 0:50 Vladimir Petrov 19:38 Valeri Kharlamov 25:59 Alexander Gussew 28:13 Vyacheslav Anissin 34:33 Alexander Bodunov 36:21 Vladimir Petrov 43:57 Alexander Jakuschew 44:28 Vladimir Schadrin 44:50 Boris Mikhailov

9: 3 (2: 1, 4: 1, 3: 1)

Poland 18:11 Krzysztof Birula-Białynicki 31:47 Mieczysław Jaskierski 55. Krzysztof Birula-Białynicki

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 4, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Germany 19. Lorenz Funk 44. Reinhold Bauer

2: 8 (1: 1, 0: 4, 1: 3)

Sweden 10. Björn Johansson 21. Björn Johansson 27. Mats Åhlberg 25. Ulf Sterner 35. Inge Hammarström 44. Inge Hammarström 49. Inge Hammarström 50. Mats Åhlberg

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow

April 4, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Poland

0: 5 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 2)

Finland 3. Esa Peltonen 15. Timo Sutinen 31. Esa Peltonen 56. Heikki Riihiranta 57. Seppo Ahokainen

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 8,000

April 5, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Sweden 43. Börje Salming 44. Stefan Karlsson 58:35 Mats Åhlberg

3: 2 (0: 1, 0: 0, 3: 1)

Finland 17. Esa Peltonen 52:12 Matti Keinonen

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 5, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 17. Václav Nedomanský 49. Jiří Kochta

2: 3 (1: 1, 0: 1, 1: 1)

USSR 6:09 am Alexander Wolchkov 25. Alexander Bodunow 44:45 Valeri Kharlamov

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 6, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Germany 3. Erich Kühnhackl 23. Rainer Philipp 36. Johann Eimansberger 53. Erich Kühnhackl

4: 2 (1: 2, 2: 0, 1: 0)

Poland 6. Leszek Tokarz 14. Mieczysław Jaskierski

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

April 7, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 3. Jaroslav Holík 6. Bohuslav Šťastný 10. Bohuslav Šťastný 38. Richard Farda

4: 2 (3: 1, 1: 1, 0: 0)

Finland 11th Seppo Ahokainen 40th Timo Sutinen

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 7, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 17. 6. Boris Michailow 11. Valery Kharlamov 13. Alexander Wolchkov 16. Vladimir Petrov 26. Alexander Bodunov 26. Vladimir Petrov

6: 1 (4: 0, 2: 1, 0: 0)

Sweden 32. Ulf Sterner

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 8, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 10. Jiří Holíkk 25. Václav Nedomanský 28. Ivan Hlinka 49. Václav Nedomanský

4: 1 (1: 0, 2: 0, 1: 1)

Poland 41. Tadeusz Obłój

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

April 8, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 2. Alexander Gusew 6. Alexander Jakuschew 7. Alexander Martynjuk, 9. Vladimir Petrow 10. Alexander Martynjuk, 14. Alexander Martynjuk, 15. Alexander Jakuschew 16. Vyacheslav Anissin 17. Alexander Martynjuk, 29. Alexander Gusew 33. Yuri Lebedew 41 Vladimir Petrov 46. ​​Alexander Martynjuk, 47. Alexander Martynjuk, 49. Vladimir Lutčenko, 56. Alexander Martynjuk, 58. Valeri Kharlamov 59. Alexander Martynjuk

18: 2 (9: 1, 2: 0, 7: 1)

Germany 16. Walter Stadler 58th Martin Hinterstocker

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

April 9, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Sweden 9. Lars-Erik Sjöberg 26. Arne Carlsson 29th Dan Söderström 46. ​​Ulf Nilsson 46. ​​Tord Lundström 47. Inge Hammarström 49. Ulf Nilsson

7: 0 (1: 0, 2: 0, 4: 0)

Poland

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 4,000

April 9, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Finland 51. Timo Turunen 57. Juhani Tamminen

2: 1 (0: 0, 0: 1, 2: 0)

Germany 26. Lorenz Funk

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 4,000

April 10, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 9. Jiří Holík 38. Josef Paleček 46. ​​Ivan Hlinka

3: 3 (1: 0, 1: 2, 1: 1)

Sweden 21. Dan Söderström 30. Tord Lundström 51. Ulf Sterner

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 10, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 3. Vladimir Schadrin 15. Alexander Martynjuk 18. Alexander Jakuschew 31. Alexander Bodunow 32. Vyacheslav Anissin 34., 43. Vladimir Petrov 46. ​​Alexander Malzew 50. Vladimir Petrov

9: 1 (3: 0, 3: 1, 3: 0)

Finland 28. Veli-Pekka Ketola

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 11, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 10. Richard Farda 18. Josef Horešovský 26. Josef Paleček 36. Oldřich Machač 40. Bohuslav Šťastný 44. Jiří Bubla 50. Václav Nedomanský

7: 2 (2: 1, 3: 0, 2: 1)

Germany 6. Erich Kühnhackl 58. Erich Kühnhackl

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 8,000

April 11, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 4. Valeri Kharlamov 6. Vyacheslav Anissin 7. Vladimir Petrov 10th, 14th, 18th, 23rd Boris Mikhailov 27th Vladimir Petrov 29th Alexander Bodunov 31st Boris Mikhailov 33rd Alexander Bodunov 41th Vladimir Petrov 42nd Alexander Malzew 46. ​​Alexander Jakuschew 48., 54. Vladimir Petrov 57. Valeri Kharlamov 58. Vjačeslav Anisin 59., 60. Boris Michailow

20: 0 (6: 0.5: 0.9: 0) (6: 0.5: 0.9: 0)

Poland

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 14,000

April 12, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Sweden 15. Mats Åhlberg 18. Ulf Nilsson 23rd Dan Söderström 27th Ulf Nilsson 30th Arne Carlsson 31st Ulf Nilsson 39th Dan Söderström 40. Kjell-Arne Vikström 43. Mats Åhlberg 44. Karl-Johan Sundqvist 51. Inge Hammarström 56 Håkan Wickberg

12: 1 (2: 1, 6: 0, 4: 0)

Germany 4. Alois Schloder

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 8,000

April 11, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Poland 33rd Jan Szeja

1: 1 (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0)

Finland 12. Kuusisto

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 4,000

April 13, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Sweden 33. Dan Söderström 51. Börje Salming

2: 1 (0: 1, 1: 0, 1: 0) (0: 1, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Finland 16:24 Henry Leppä

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

April 13, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 11. Jiří Holík 43. Václav Nedomanský

2: 4 (1: 2, 0: 1, 1: 1)

USSR 7. Alexander Jakuschew 16. Boris Michailow 28. Boris Michailow 54. Valery Kharlamov

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 14,000

April 14, 1973 7:30 p.m.

Poland 13. Tadeusz Obłój 43. Jan Szeja 54. Mieczysław Jaskierski 60. Jan Szeja

4: 1 (1: 1, 0: 0, 3: 0)

Germany 4. Erich Kühnhackl

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 14,000

April 15, 1973 4:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia 14. Václav Nedomanský 15. Bohuslav Šťastný 20. Josef Paleček 41. Richard Farda 45. Václav Nedomanský 46. ​​Jiří Novák 55. Jiří Holík 57. Bohuslav Šťastný

8: 0 (3: 0, 0: 0, 5: 0)

Finland Henry Leppä 16:24

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 14,000

April 13, 1973 7:30 p.m.

USSR 7. Alexander Malzew 9. Alexander Gusew 23. Alexander Gusew 36. Alexander Malzew 50. Vladimir Petrov 53. Boris Michailow

6: 4 (2: 1, 2: 2, 2: 1)

Sweden 2. Anders Hedberg 32. Kjell-Arne Vikström 33. Stefan Karlsson, 60. Börje Salming

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,500

table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1.	Soviet Union	10	10	0	0	100: 18	+82	20: 0
2.	Sweden	10	07th	1	2	053:23	+30	15: 5
3.	Czechoslovakia	10	06th	1	3	048:20	+28	13: 7
4th	Finland	10	03	1	6th	024:39	−15	07:13
5.	Poland	10	01	1	8th	014:76	−62	03:17
6th	Germany	10	01	0	9	019:82	−63	02:18

Moved up and down

Relegated:	BR Germany
Newcomers:	GDR

Master teams

World Champion USSR	Vladislav Tretiak , Alexander Sidelnikov , Alexander Gusev , Valery Vasilyev , Vladimir Luttschenko , Gennady Tsygankov , Yevgeny Paladjew , Alexander Ragulin , Yuri Ljapkin , Boris Mikhailov , Vladimir Petrov , Valeri Kharlamov , Alexander Maltsev , Alexander Yakushev , Alexander Martyniuk , Vladimir Shadrin , Vyacheslav Anissin , Yuri Lebedew , Alexander Woltschkow , Alexander Bodunow Coaching staff : Vsevolod Bobrow , Boris Kulagin
Silver Sweden	Christer Abrahamsson , Curt Larsson , William Löfqvist - Thommy Abrahamsson , Roland Bond , Arne Carlsson , Björn Johansson , Börje Salming , Lars-Erik Sjöberg , Karl-Johan Sundqvist - Inge Hammarström , Anders Hedberg , Stefan Karlsson , Tord Lundström , Ulf Nilsson , Ulf Sterner , Dan Söderström , Kjell-Arne Vikström , Håkan Wickberg , Dick Yderström , Mats Åhlberg Trainer : Kjell Svensson
Bronze Czechoslovakia	Jiří Holeček , Jiri Crha - Oldřich Machač , František Pospíšil , Jiří Bubla , Josef Horešovský , Milan Kužela , Karel Vohralík , Petr Adamík - Jan Klapáč , Jaroslav Holik , Jiri Holik , Jiří Kochta , Václav Nedomanský , Josef Paleček , Vladimír Martinec , Richard Farda , Bohuslav Šťastný , Ivan Hlinka , Jiří Novák Coaching staff : Jaroslav Pitner , Vladimír Kostka

Best scorer

Abbreviations: Sp = games, T = goals, V = assists , pts = points, SM = penalty minutes; Fat: tournament best

player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
Vladimir Petrov	USSR	10	18th	16	34	12
Boris Mikhailov	USSR	10	16	13	29	4th
Valery Kharlamov	USSR	10	9	14th	23	31
Alexander Martynjuk	USSR	10	12	4th	16	2
Mats Åhlberg	Sweden	10	9	7th	16	6th
Alexander Yakushev	USSR	10	9	6th	15th	2
Alexander Bodunov	USSR	10	7th	8th	15th	6th
Jiří Holík	Czechoslovakia	10	5	10	15th	23
Alexander Gusew	USSR	10	7th	7th	14th	4th

Awards

Player trophies

• Best goalkeeper: Jiří Holeček
• Best defender: Valery Vasilyev
• Best striker: Boris Mikhailov

All-Star Team

• Jiří Holeček - Börje Salming , Alexander Gussew - Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov , Valeri Kharlamov

B world championship

The group B tournament was played in Graz, Austria. In the game between Yugoslavia and the United States , with a score of 4-1 for Yugoslavia, a hard shot destroyed the mask of Yugoslav goalkeeper Anton Jože Gale at the beginning of the second period and injured his eye so badly that he not only played the game but even his career had to finish.

Games

March 22, 1973	Graz	United States	-	Japan	6: 4 (2: 2.3: 2.1: 0)
March 22, 1973	Graz	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	6: 4 (3: 1.1: 1.2: 2)
March 22, 1973	Graz	Switzerland	-	Italy	4: 3 (0: 0.2: 1.2: 2)
March 22, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	Romania	2: 4 (0: 1.2: 3.0: 0)
March 23, 1973	Graz	United States	-	Yugoslavia	6: 6 (1: 4.4: 1.1: 1)
March 23, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	Italy	6: 5 (0: 3.5: 1.1: 1)
March 24, 1973	Graz	Romania	-	Japan	3: 0 (0: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
March 24, 1973	Graz	GDR	-	Switzerland	8: 5 (4: 3.1: 0.3: 2)
March 25, 1973	Graz	USA Palazzari (2nd) Brown (28th) Ness (33th) Mellor (59th)	-	DDR Domko (18th) Nickel (36th) Stasche (43rd) Bielas (52nd) Patschinski (58th) Patschinski (60th)	4: 6 (1: 1.2: 1.1: 4)
March 25, 1973	Graz	Romania	-	Italy	5: 2 (2: 1.2: 0.1: 1)
March 25, 1973	Graz	Switzerland	-	Yugoslavia	0: 6 (0: 3.0: 0.0: 3)
March 25, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	Japan	2: 4 (1: 2.0: 1.1: 1)
March 26, 1973	Graz	United States	-	Italy	11: 0 (6: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
March 26, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	Yugoslavia	1: 6 (0: 2.1: 3.0: 1)
March 27, 1973	Graz	Switzerland	-	Japan	5: 4 (3: 1.1: 2.1: 1)
March 27, 1973	Graz	GDR	-	Romania	4: 2 (0: 0.0: 1.4: 1)
March 28, 1973	Graz	Yugoslavia	-	Italy	8: 4 (4: 1.3: 3.1: 0)
March 28, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	United States	0: 9 (0: 1.0: 6.0: 2)
March 28, 1973	Graz	GDR	-	Japan	5: 3 (1: 0.3: 1.1: 2)
March 28, 1973	Graz	Switzerland	-	Romania	4: 5 (3: 1.1: 2.0: 2)
March 30, 1973	Graz	United States	-	Romania	6: 3 (1: 1.3: 1.2: 1)
March 30, 1973	Graz	Yugoslavia	-	Japan	4: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 1)
March 30, 1973	Graz	GDR	-	Italy	15: 1 (3: 0.4: 0.8: 1)
March 30, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	Switzerland	8: 4 (2: 1.4: 1.2: 2)
March 31, 1973	Graz	Japan	-	Italy	5: 3 (0: 1.2: 2.3: 0)
March 31, 1973	Graz	United States	-	Switzerland	10: 4 (1: 2.5: 1.4: 1)
March 31, 1973	Graz	Austria	-	GDR	2:12 (1: 4.1: 3.0: 5)
March 31, 1973	Graz	Yugoslavia	-	Romania	2: 2 (0: 1.2: 0.0: 1)

Final table of the B-WM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	GDR	7th	7th	0	0	56:21	+35	14: 0
2	United States	7th	5	1	1	52:23	+29	11: 3
3	Yugoslavia	7th	4th	2	1	36:22	+14	10: 4
4th	Romania	7th	4th	1	2	24:20	+4	9: 5
5	Austria +	7th	2	0	5	21:44	−23	4:10
6th	Japan +	7th	2	0	5	23:28	−5	4:10
7th	Switzerland +	7th	2	0	5	26:44	−18	4:10
8th	Italy	7th	0	0	7th	18:54	−36	0:14

+ Order based on direct comparisons (Austria 2: 4.8: 4, Japan 4: 2.4: 5, Switzerland 4: 8.5: 4)

Moved up and down

B-World Champion 1973:	GDR
Promoted to the A group:	GDR
Relegated from the A group:	BR Germany
Relegated to the C group:	Italy, Switzerland
Newcomers from the C group:	Norway, the Netherlands

C world championship

in The Hague and other places, Netherlands

Games

March 9, 1973	Nijmegen	China	-	Denmark	3: 3 (0: 1.2: 1.1: 1)
March 9, 1973	Utrecht	Hungary	-	Great Britain	9: 0 (4: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
March 9, 1973	Tilburg	Norway	-	Bulgaria	4: 3 (2: 2.0: 0.2: 1)
March 9, 1973	The hague	Netherlands	-	France	2: 4 (0: 2.0: 0.2: 2)
March 10, 1973	The hague	China	-	Bulgaria	3: 3 (1: 2.1: 1.1: 0)
March 10, 1973	Tilburg	Netherlands	-	Hungary	5: 3 (3: 0.2: 2.0: 1)
March 10, 1973	Utrecht	Norway	-	Denmark	14: 2 (4: 1.5: 0.5: 1)
March 10, 1973	The hague	France	-	Great Britain	3: 1 (0: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
March 12, 1973	The hague	Norway	-	China	4: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
March 12, 1973	The hague	Bulgaria	-	Denmark	2: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.0: 0)
March 12, 1973	Tilburg	Hungary	-	France	7: 1 (2: 1.1: 0.4: 0)
March 12, 1973	Utrecht	Netherlands	-	Great Britain	13: 3 (3: 3.5: 0.5: 0)
March 13, 1973	The hague	France	-	Denmark	6: 3 (2: 2.2: 1.2: 0)
March 13, 1973	The hague	Norway	-	Great Britain	11: 3 (5: 1.5: 1.1: 1)
March 13, 1973	Utrecht	Hungary	-	China	9: 6 (2: 0.4: 3.3: 3)
March 13, 1973	Tilburg	Netherlands	-	Bulgaria	8: 5 (1: 2.4: 1.3: 2)
March 15, 1973	Tilburg	France	-	China	1: 2 (0: 1.0: 0.1: 1)
March 15, 1973	Tilburg	Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	9: 2 (3: 0.2: 1.4: 1)
March 15, 1973	Jellies	Norway	-	Hungary	6: 0 (1: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
March 15, 1973	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	Denmark	14: 0 (6: 0.6: 0.2: 0)
March 16, 1973	Tilburg	Norway	-	France	8: 3 (1: 3.4: 0.3: 0)
March 16, 1973	Nijmegen	Hungary	-	Bulgaria	5: 1 (3: 1.0: 0.2: 0)
March 16, 1973	The hague	Denmark	-	Great Britain	8: 8 (4: 1.1: 4.3: 3)
March 16, 1973	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	China	7: 0 (1: 0.2: 0.4: 0)
March 17, 1973	Rotterdam	China	-	Great Britain	7: 1 (2: 0.2: 1.3: 0)
March 18, 1973	Utrecht	France	-	Bulgaria	5: 6 (1: 4.3: 0.1: 2)
March 18, 1973	Rotterdam	Hungary	-	Denmark	11: 5 (3: 1.6: 1.2: 3)
March 18, 1973	The hague	Netherlands	-	Norway	3: 6 (1: 2.1: 2.1: 2)

Final table of the C-WM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Norway	7th	7th	0	0	53:14	+39	14: 0
2	Netherlands +	7th	5	0	2	52:21	+31	10: 4
3	Hungary +	7th	5	0	2	44:24	+20	10: 4
4th	Bulgaria	7th	3	1	3	29:28	+1	7: 7
5	People's Republic of China +	7th	2	2	3	21:28	−7	6: 8
6th	France +	7th	3	0	4th	23:29	−6	6: 8
7th	Denmark	7th	0	2	5	22:58	−36	2:12
8th	Great Britain	7th	0	1	6th	18:60	−42	1:13

+ the direct comparison decides for the Netherlands (5: 3) or for China (2: 1)

Moved up and down

C world champion 1973:	Norway
Moving up to the B group:	Norway, the Netherlands
Relegated from group B:	Italy, Switzerland

Web links

• 40-й чемпионат мира по хоккею. 1973 год. Москва , sport-express.ru
• Ice Hockey World Championship 1973 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
• 40th World and 51st European Championship, March 31 - April 15, 1973, Moscow, Soviet Union , hokej.snt.cz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Remembering Gale. Played three Olympics for Yugoslavia ” from www.iihf.com, accessed on March 28, 2018.