Ice Hockey World Championship 1977

This article covers the men's ice hockey world championship. See also Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1977 .

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	Winner: Czechoslovakia

The games of the A group of the 44th Ice Hockey World Championship and the 55th Ice Hockey European Championship took place from April 21 to May 8, 1977 in Vienna , Austria . Group B played in Tokyo , Japan from March 10 to March 21, and Group C teams met in Copenhagen , Denmark from March 12 to March 20 . With 24 participating teams, there was a new record. For the first time a team from Spain competed in an ice hockey world championship; in addition, a Canadian team took part for the first time since 1969.

After there had been a European ice hockey championship for juniors under 19 years of age (U19) since 1969, a junior world championship was held for the first time this year . Players under 20 years of age (U20) were allowed.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Vienna	Apr 21, 1977 - May 8, 1977 0	8th	171,900	40	4,298
B world championship	Tokyo	10 Mar 1977 - March 21 1977	9		36
C world championship	Copenhagen	March 12 1977 - March 20 1977	7th		21st

Group B played with 9 teams that year, a result of the return of the Canadians. This year there was therefore only one climber from the C group out of 2 relegators from the B group.

A world championship

Men's World Cup 1977
Number of nations	8th
World Champion	Czechoslovakia
silver	Sweden
bronze	USSR
Relegated	Romania
venue	Vienna , Austria
opening	Apr 21, 1977
Endgame	May 8, 1977
spectator	171,900 (4,298 per game)
Gates	338 (8.45 per game)
Best goalkeeper	Göran Högosta
Best defender	Valery Vasilyev
Best striker	Helmuts Balderis
Top scorer	Vladimir Petrov (21 points)

The World Cup tournament in Vienna was one of the most exciting in World Cup history, which was primarily due to the lack of continuity of performance of the supposed favorites. Canada - after the rift with the international amateur ice hockey federation IIHF for the first time in eight years - gambled away almost all chances for gold in the preliminary round when, in addition to two defeats against the USSR and Sweden, it could only fight for at least one point against Czechoslovakia . Even the best record of all participants with convincing victories against Czechoslovakia and Sweden in the subsequent final round did not bring any improvement in the ranking for the record world champion and meant fourth place in the end. On the other hand, the USSR seemed to be heading towards a superior title win after sovereign preliminary round victories against Canada and Czechoslovakia, but suffered two clear defeats against Sweden both in the preliminary and in the final round. After losing revenge against Czechoslovakia in the round of medals, the title contender only ended up in third place. Preliminary round winner Sweden remained after his renewed victory against the Soviet selection in the final round without further success and ultimately won the silver medal. In the end, Czechoslovakia was able to successfully defend its title, although it again failed to win against Canada in both matches. It was the 5th World Cup and the 14th European Championship title win for the Czechoslovaks.

Attendees

The six best teams from the previous year's World Cup as well as the first-placed team from the previous year's B group took part in the tournament. In addition, the Canadian national team returned to the World Cup and was divided into the A group.

6 from Europe	Finland	USSR	Sweden
	BR Germany	Romania (promoted)	Czechoslovakia (defending champion)
2 from North America	Canada (returnees)	United States

Venues

Poster for the World Championship in Vienna

The main venue for the World Cup was the Wiener Stadthalle with a capacity of around 9500 spectators . A game of the preliminary round was played in the Donauparkhalle .

Vienna
Wiener Stadthalle , Hall D Capacity: 9,500	Vienna World championship venue	Donauparkhalle Capacity: around 3,300

mode

The host mode of last year's A-WM was retained. First there was a preliminary round with all eight teams, then the best four teams played for titles and medals and the other four teams against relegation. The points from the preliminary round were taken over; in the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided.

Preliminary round

April 21, 1977 10:00 a.m.

Romania Eduard Pană (58:52)

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

Sweden Mats Åhlberg (13:44) Hans Jax (16:29) Lars Lindgren (24:39) Rolf Edberg (27:52) Bengt Lundholm (41:40) Bengt Lundholm (45:07) Roland Eriksson (49:40) Nils-Olof Olsson (55:14)

Wiener Stadthalle , Vienna Spectators: 1,500

April 21, 1977 2:00 p.m.

BR Germany

0:10 (0: 5, 0: 3, 0: 2)

USSR Valery Kharlamov (2:59) Boris Mikhailov (7:43) Vladimir Luttschenko (8:12) Sergei Kapustin (13:41) Vladimir Petrov (14:28) Viktor Schluktov (22:44) Valeri Kharlamov (23:00) Wladimir Luttschenko (29:07) Sergei Babinow (48:45) Helmuts Balderis (57:20)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 4,500

April 21, 1977 5:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia Ivan Hlinka (1:09) Marián Šťastný (1:51) Ivan Hlinka (6:41) Bohuslav Ebermann (8:43) Jaroslav Pouzar (13:20) Milan Chalupa (13:48) Milan Nový (15:05) Milan Nový (34:31) Marián Šťastný (39:29) Eduard Novák (42:55) Peter Šťastný (52:10)

11: 3 (7: 2, 2: 0, 2: 1)

Finland Esa Peltonen (3:30) Jukka Alkula (14:59) Periti Koivulahti (40:27)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 2,500

April 21, 1977 8:30 p.m.

Canada Phil Esposito (11:32) Jean Pronovost (13:42) Wilf Paiement (33:27) Pierre Larouche (59:14)

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

USA Bob Miller (13:03)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 7,500

April 22, 1977 2:00 p.m.

USA James McElmury (25:36) Warren Miller (27:55) David Debol (32:57) Warren Williams (39:47) David Debol (41:08) Bob Miller (52:48) Bob Krieger (54:51)

7: 2 (0: 1, 4: 0, 3: 1)

Romania Doru Tureanu (9:29) Florea Sgîncă (21:56)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 1,000

April 22, 1977 4:00 p.m.

USSR Vladimir Petrov (7:31) Vladimir Petrov (16:06) Sergei Kapustin (26:35) Valeri Kharlamov (27:07) Valeri Kharlamov (31:32) Alexander Malzew (33:37) Vyacheslav Fetissov (37:35) Viktor Schluktow (38:37) Sergei Kapustin (43:57) Boris Michailow (44:30) Valeri Kharlamov (47:25)

11: 6 (2: 0, 6: 2, 3: 4)

Finland Periti Koivulahti (24:59) Jukka Alkula (36:28) Martti Jarkko (53:45) Periti Koivulahti (56:48) Hannu Haapalainen (58:16) Jukka Alkula (58:25)

Donauparkhalle , Vienna Spectators: 1,000

April 22, 1977 5:00 p.m.

Czechoslovakia Milan Nový (2:04) Marián Šťastný (8:55) Bohuslav Ebermann (13:21) Bohuslav Ebermann (18:55) Bohuslav Ebermann (27:24) Milan Nový (38:47) Ivan Hlinka (45:18) Vladimír Martinec (50:56) Marián Šťastný (56:11)

9: 3 (4: 2, 2: 1, 3: 0)

BR Germany Erich Kühnhackl (0:24) Udo Kiessling (7:46) Lorenz Funk (28:06)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 1,000

April 22, 1977 8:00 p.m.

Sweden Mats Åhlberg (5:43) Lars-Erik Ericsson (7:08) Lars-Erik Ericsson (27:07) Per-Olov Brasar (59:48)

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

Canada Jean Pronovost (53:23) Pierre Larouche (59:34)

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna Spectators: 4,500

April 24, 1977	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	-	Romania	13: 1 (5: 0.4: 0.4: 1)
April 24, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Canada	11: 1 (3: 0.5: 1.3: 0)
April 24, 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	Finland	5: 1 (0: 1.1: 0.4: 0)
April 24, 1977	Vienna	United States	-	BR Germany	3: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.0: 1)
April 25, 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	BR Germany	7: 1 (2: 0.3: 0.2: 1)
April 25, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Romania	18: 1 (4: 0.8: 0.6: 1)
April 26, 1977	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	3: 3 (0: 0.2: 3.1: 0)
April 26, 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	United States	3: 2 (1: 1.0: 0.2: 1)
April 27, 1977	Vienna	BR Germany	-	Romania	6: 3 (3: 0.1: 2.2: 1)
April 27, 1977	Vienna	Canada	-	Finland	5: 1 (2: 0.0: 1.3: 0)
April 28, 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	United States	9: 0 (4: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
April 28, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	6: 1 (1: 1.4: 0.1: 0)
April 29, 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	Romania	4: 2 (2: 0.0: 1.2: 1)
April 29, 1977	Vienna	Canada	-	BR Germany	9: 3 (2: 1.3: 0.4: 2)
April 30, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	United States	8: 2 (5: 0.3: 2.0: 0)
April 30, 1977	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden	3: 1 (1: 1.0: 0.2: 0)
May 1, 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	BR Germany	4: 1 (2: 0.1: 0.1: 1)
May 1, 1977	Vienna	Canada	-	Romania	7: 2 (2: 2.2: 0.3: 0)
May 2, 1977	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	6: 3 (1: 2.3: 1.2: 0)
May 2, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Sweden	1: 5 (0: 1.0: 2.1: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Sweden	7th	6th	0	1	39: 9	12: 2
2.	USSR	7th	6th	0	1	65:16	12: 2
3.	Czechoslovakia	7th	5	1	1	46:20	11: 3
4th	Canada	7th	4th	1	2	31:25	09: 5
5.	Finland	7th	3	0	4th	22:37	06: 8
6th	United States	7th	1	1	5	18:35	03:11
7th	BR Germany	7th	1	1	5	17:45	03:11
8th.	Romania	7th	0	0	7th	12:63	00:14

Abbreviations: Pl = place, Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats
Explanations: championship round , relegation round

Championship round for places 1–4

(Points from the preliminary round also taken over)

May 4th 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	3: 4 (0: 3.3: 1.0: 0)
May 4th 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	Canada	0: 7 (0: 3.0: 3.0: 1)
May 6, 1977	Vienna	USSR	-	Canada	8: 1 (1: 1.4: 0.3: 0)
May 6, 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	1: 2 (0: 0.0: 0.1: 2)
May 8, 1977	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	2: 8 (0: 2.2: 2.0: 4)
May 8, 1977	Vienna	Sweden	-	USSR	3: 1 (1: 1.2: 0.0: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	10	7th	1	2	54:32	+22	15: 5
2	Sweden	10	7th	0	3	43:19	+24	14: 6
3	USSR	10	7th	0	3	77:24	+53	14: 6
4th	Canada	10	6th	1	3	47:35	+12	13: 7

Relegation round for places 5–8

Ticket for game 33: Finland versus Germany

(Points from the preliminary round also taken over)

May 3, 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	Romania	14: 1 (3: 0.6: 1.5: 0)
May 3, 1977	Vienna	United States	-	BR Germany	4: 1 (1: 1.3: 0.0: 0)
May 5th 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	BR Germany	7: 2 (4: 0.0: 2.3: 0)
May 5th 1977	Vienna	United States	-	Romania	4: 5 (0: 1.1: 4.3: 0)
May 7, 1977	Vienna	BR Germany	-	Romania	3: 2 (1: 0.1: 2.1: 0)
May 7, 1977	Vienna	Finland	-	United States	2: 3 (0: 0.1: 2.1: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
5	Finland	10	5	0	5	45:43	+2	10:10
6th	United States	10	3	1	6th	29:43	−14	07:13
7th	BR Germany	10	2	1	7th	23:58	−35	05:15
8th	Romania	10	1	0	9	20:84	−64	02:18

Best scorer

Source: eliteprospects.com ; 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	7th	14th	21st	8th
Boris Mikhailov	USSR	10	12	7th	19th	4th
Valery Kharlamov	USSR	10	9	7th	16	4th
Sergei Kapustin	USSR	10	9	7th	16	7th
Milan Nový	Czechoslovakia	10	6th	10	16	2
Vladimír Martinec	Czechoslovakia	10	6th	10	16	4th
Helmuts Balderis	USSR	9	8th	7th	15th	4th
Pierre Larouche	Canada	10	7th	8th	15th	16
Ivan Hlinka	Czechoslovakia	10	9	3	12	5
Roland Eriksson	Sweden	10	7th	5	12	0

Best goalkeeper

Abbreviations: Sp = games, Min = ice age (in minutes), GT = goals conceded, Sv% = shots saved (in%) , GTS = goals conceded ; Fat: tournament best

player	team	Sp	Min	SaT	GT	SVS	Sv%	GTS
Göran Högosta	Sweden	7th	412: 24	229	9	220	96.07	1.31
Vladislav Tretyak	USSR	9	482: 41	208	17th	191	91.83	2.11
Vladimír Dzurilla	Czechoslovakia	7th	400: 00	160	18th	142	88.75	2.70
Tony Esposito	Canada	9	519: 50	273	27	246	90.11	3.12
Dave Reece	United States	5	299: 10	172	16	156	90.70	3.21
Jorma Valtonen	Finland	7th	400: 00	230	25th	205	89.13	3.75
Sigmund Suttner	BR Germany	6th	291: 58	162	24	138	85.19	4.93
Mike Curran	United States	5	298: 29	185	27	158	85.41	5.43
Anton Kehle	BR Germany	8th	318: 02	174	34	139	79.89	6.41
Valerian Netedu	Romania	10	373: 18	297	41	256	86.20	6.59

Final placement of the World Cup

Pl	team
1	Czechoslovakia
2	Sweden
3	USSR
4th	Canada
5	Finland
6th	United States
7th	BR Germany
8th	Romania

Relegated:	Romania
Climbers	GDR

Final placement of the EM

Pl	team
1	Czechoslovakia
2	Sweden
3	USSR
4th	Finland
5	BR Germany
6th	Romania

Master teams

World champion Czechoslovakia	Jiří Holeček , Vladimír Dzurilla - Oldřich Macháč , František Pospíšil , Jiří Bubla , Milan Kajkl , Frantisek Kaberle , Miroslav Dvořák , Milan Chalupa - Vladimír Martinec , Milan Nový , Bohuslav Ebermann , Jiří Novák , Ivan Hlinka , Jiri Holik , Marián Šťastný , Peter Šťastný , Jaroslav Pouzar , Eduard Novák , Vincent Lukáč Coaching staff: Karel Gut , Ján Starší
Silver Sweden	Göran Högosta , Hardy Åström - Lars Lindgren , Stefan Persson , Stig Salming , Jan-Erik Silfverberg , Mats Waltin , Ulf Weinstock , Lars Zetterström - Kent-Erik Andersson , Per-Olov Brasar , Rolf Edberg , Lars-Erik Ericsson , Roland Eriksson , Hans Jax , Martin Karlsson , Lars-Gunnar Lundberg , Bengt Lundholm , Nils-Olof Olsson , Mats Åhlberg Coaching staff: Hans Lindberg , Kjell Larsson
Bronze USSR	Vladislav Tretiak , Alexander Sidelnikov - Vladimir Luttschenko , Alexander Gusev , Gennady Tsygankov , Valeri Vasilyev , Vasily Pervukhin , Sergei Babinow - Vyacheslav Fetisov , Boris Michailjow , Vladimir Petrov , Valeri Kharlamov , Vladimir Shadrin , Alexander Yakushev , Viktor Shalimov , Helmut Balderis , Viktor Schluktow , Sergei Kapustin , Alexander Golikow , Alexander Malzew , coaching staff: Boris Kulagin , Konstantin Loktew , Wladimir Jursinow

B world championship

The Group B tournament was held in Tokyo, Japan.

Games

March 10, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Netherlands	4: 2 (2: 2.2: 0.0: 0)
March 10, 1977	Tokyo	Norway	-	Yugoslavia	4: 2 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
March 10, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Austria	7: 1 (0: 0.2: 1.5: 0)
March 10, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Hungary	5: 2 (3: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
March 11, 1977	Tokyo	Austria	-	Hungary	4: 7 (0: 1.1: 3.3: 3)
March 11, 1977	Tokyo	Norway	-	Switzerland	4: 3 (1: 3.1: 0.2: 0)
March 12, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	7: 6 (2: 1.2: 1.3: 4)
March 12, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Switzerland	5: 2 (3: 0.1: 1.1: 1)
March 12, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Netherlands	8: 2 (3: 1.1: 0.4: 1)
March 13, 1977	Tokyo	Yugoslavia	-	Austria	6: 4 (1: 1.3: 3.2: 0)
March 13, 1977	Tokyo	Netherlands	-	Hungary	2: 8 (1: 4.0: 2.1: 2)
March 13, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Norway	2: 2 (0: 0.2: 1.0: 1)
March 14, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Hungary	9: 2 (3: 1.0: 0.6: 1)
March 14, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Norway	7: 3 (2: 1.4: 0.1: 2)
March 14, 1977	Tokyo	Switzerland	-	Austria	10: 3 (4: 1.3: 0.3: 2)
March 15, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Poland	7: 1 (2: 0.2: 1.3: 0)
March 15, 1977	Tokyo	Yugoslavia	-	Netherlands	5: 5 (2: 0.2: 4.1: 1)
March 15, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Switzerland	3: 2 (1: 2.2: 0.0: 0)
March 16, 1977	Tokyo	Netherlands	-	Austria	4: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
March 16, 1977	Tokyo	Norway	-	Hungary	8: 2 (3: 1.2: 0.3: 1)
March 16, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Yugoslavia	4: 1 (0: 1.4: 0.0: 0)
March 17, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Switzerland	10: 3 (4: 0.5: 1.1: 2)
March 17, 1977	Tokyo	Norway	-	Austria	4: 2 (0: 0.2: 0.2: 2)
March 17, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Hungary	10: 0 (5: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
March 18, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Netherlands	4: 2 (2: 0.2: 2.0: 0)
March 18, 1977	Tokyo	Switzerland	-	Yugoslavia	5: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
March 18, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Poland	2: 5 (1: 2.0: 2.1: 1)
March 19, 1977	Tokyo	Norway	-	Netherlands	4: 4 (1: 2.1: 1.2: 1)
March 19, 1977	Tokyo	Yugoslavia	-	Hungary	1: 3 (0: 1.1: 0.0: 2)
March 19, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	Austria	6: 2 (4: 1.0: 1.2: 0)
March 20, 1977	Tokyo	Switzerland	-	Hungary	7: 3 (3: 1.3: 1.1: 1)
March 20, 1977	Tokyo	GDR	-	Norway	8: 1 (1: 0.3: 0.4: 1)
March 20, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Austria	3: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.1: 0)
March 21, 1977	Tokyo	Switzerland	-	Netherlands	3: 2 (1: 0.0: 1.2: 1)
March 21, 1977	Tokyo	Japan	-	GDR	0: 5 (0: 1.0: 2.0: 2)
March 21, 1977	Tokyo	Poland	-	Yugoslavia	4: 6 (1: 1.3: 3.0: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	GDR	8th	8th	0	0	57:16	+41	16: 0
2	Poland	8th	6th	0	2	39:22	+17	12: 4
3	Japan	8th	5	1	2	30:21	+9	11: 5
4th	Norway	8th	4th	2	2	30:30	00	10: 6
5	Switzerland	8th	4th	0	4th	35:33	+2	08: 8
6th	Hungary	8th	3	0	5	27:46	−19	06:10
7th	Yugoslavia	8th	2	1	5	30:36	−6	05:11
8th	Netherlands	8th	1	2	5	23:39	−16	04:12
9	Austria	8th	0	0	8th	19:47	−28	00:16

Ascent and descent

B-World Champion 1977:	GDR
Promoted to the A group:	GDR
Relegated from the A group:	Romania
Relegated to the C group:	Austria Netherlands
Newcomers from the C group:	Italy

C world championship

in Copenhagen, Denmark

Games

March 12, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Great Britain	9: 2 (2: 1.4: 0.3: 1)
March 12, 1977	Copenhagen	France	-	Belgium	12: 3 (3: 1.3: 0.6: 2)
March 12, 1977	Copenhagen	Italy	-	Spain	12: 0 (2: 0.5: 0.5: 0)
March 13, 1977	Copenhagen	France	-	Great Britain	6: 3 (3: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
March 13, 1977	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	Spain	14: 2 (3: 0.5: 1.6: 1)
March 13, 1977	Copenhagen	Italy	-	Belgium	21: 1 (5: 0.8: 0.8: 1)
March 14, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Bulgaria	6: 3 (1: 1.0: 1.5: 1)
March 15, 1977	Copenhagen	Italy	-	France	8: 2 (4: 1.2: 0.2: 1)
March 15, 1977	Copenhagen	Great Britain	-	Belgium	6: 5 (1: 2.2: 0.3: 3)
March 15, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Spain	14: 3 (6: 1.2: 2.6: 0)
March 16, 1977	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	France	6: 4 (3: 0.0: 2.3: 2)
March 17, 1977	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	Belgium	17: 4 (9: 2.3: 0.5: 2)
March 17, 1977	Copenhagen	Italy	-	Great Britain	15: 1 (3: 0.6: 0.6: 1)
March 18, 1977	Copenhagen	France	-	Spain	12: 1 (2: 0.5: 1.5: 0)
March 18, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Belgium	27: 4 (11: 1.8: 2.8: 1)
March 19, 1977	Copenhagen	Italy	-	Bulgaria	6: 0 (4: 0.1: 0.1: 0)
March 19, 1977	Copenhagen	Great Britain	-	Spain	2: 5 (0: 2.1: 3.1: 0)
March 19, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	France	3: 1 (0: 1.2: 0.1: 0)
March 20, 1977	Copenhagen	Belgium	-	Spain	7: 6 (3: 3.1: 1.3: 2)
March 20, 1977	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	7: 3 (3: 2.4: 1.0: 0)
March 20, 1977	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Italy	2: 2 (0: 0.1: 0.1: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1	Italy	6th	5	1	0	64: 6	+58	11: 1
2	Denmark	6th	5	1	0	61:15	+46	11: 1
3	Bulgaria	6th	4th	0	2	47:25	+22	8: 4
4th	France	6th	3	0	3	37:24	+13	6: 6
5	Spain	6th	1	0	5	17:61	−44	2:10
6th	Belgium	6th	1	0	5	24:89	−65	2:10
7th	Great Britain	6th	1	0	5	17:47	−30	2:10

Ascent and descent

C-World Champion 1977:	Italy
Moving up to the B group:	Italy
Relegated from group B:	Austria Netherlands

See also

• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1977

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey World Championship 1977  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ice Hockey World Championship 1977 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
• Andrew Podnieks: IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011 . Ed .: Moydart Press. 2010, p. 145 f .
• World Championships 1977. In: hokej.sfrp.cz. Retrieved November 19, 2019 . 
• History světových hokejových turnajů a zlínského hokeje - MISTROVSTVÍ SVĚTA 1977 (1.část). In: hokejbonus.estranky.cz. Retrieved November 19, 2019 (Czech). 
• History světových hokejových turnajů a zlínského hokeje - MISTROVSTVÍ SVĚTA 1977 (2.část). In: hokejbonus.estranky.cz. Retrieved November 19, 2019 (Czech). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rough legs from overseas - Canadian professionals are taking part in an ice hockey World Cup for the first time. zeit.de , April 22, 1978, accessed on August 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ eliteprospects.com, WC 1976-1977 Player Stats