Ice Hockey World Championship 1991

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	Winner: Sweden

	European ice hockey championship
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	Winner: Soviet Union

The A group of the 55th Ice Hockey World Championships and 66th Ice Hockey European Championships took place from April 19 to May 4, 1991 in the Finnish cities of Turku , Helsinki and Tampere .

There was a change in the mode of the tournament this year, as no D-WM was held due to a lack of interest; therefore the C group played again with 9 teams. In addition, the IIHF had decided to increase the A group to 12 teams, so that this year there were no relegated teams in either the A or B group, but there were four promoted teams. A total of 25 teams took part in the world championships this year.

In connection with the mode change in the A group, the IIHF also decided not to choose any more European champions in the future. This ended the history of the European ice hockey championship after 81 years . The last European champion was the USSR . It was her 27th European title.

The major political changes in Eastern Europe were noticeable for the first time: due to German reunification, there was no longer a GDR team, which was the first time that an all-German team competed in the ice hockey world championships after the Second World War .

The course of the World Cup was reminiscent of the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1985 and 1987 . After a sovereign preliminary round, the USSR team gambled away the world championship title in the final round; Sweden won the title for the fifth time. Particularly disappointing this year was the performance of Czechoslovakia , which achieved the worst post-war placement at a World Cup with its sixth place.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Turku , Helsinki , Tampere	Apr 19, 1991 - May 4, 1991 0	8th	310,627	40	7,766
B world championship	Ljubljana , Bled , Jesenice	28 Mar 1991 - Apr 7, 1991 0	8th		28
C world championship	Copenhagen	23 Mar 1991 - Apr 3, 1991 0	9		36

A world championship

The group A tournament took place in the Finnish cities of Turku, Helsinki and Tampere.

Preliminary round

April 19, 1991	Turku	Finland	-	Czechoslovakia	2: 0 (0: 0.1: 0.1: 0)
April 19, 1991	Helsinki	Canada	-	United States	4: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
April 19, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Switzerland	3: 1 (1: 0.1: 1.1: 0)
April 19, 1991	Helsinki	Sweden	-	Germany	8: 1 (3: 0.2: 0.3: 1)
April 20, 1991	Turku	Canada	-	Switzerland	3: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.1: 0)
April 20, 1991	Helsinki	Finland	-	Sweden	4: 4 (3: 2.1: 0.0: 2)
April 20, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Germany	7: 3 (1: 0.2: 1.4: 2)
April 20, 1991	Helsinki	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	1: 4 (0: 3.1: 0.0: 1)
April 22, 1991	Turku	Canada	-	Germany	3: 2 (1: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
April 22, 1991	Helsinki	Finland	-	USSR	0: 3 (0: 1.0: 1.0: 1)
April 22, 1991	Turku	Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	4: 1 (1: 0.3: 1.0: 0)
April 22, 1991	Helsinki	Sweden	-	United States	4: 4 (1: 2.2: 1.1: 1)
April 23, 1991	Turku	Czechoslovakia	-	Germany	7: 1 (2: 1.2: 0.3: 0)
April 23, 1991	Helsinki	Finland	-	Canada	3: 5 (0: 0.2: 4.1: 1)
April 23, 1991	Turku	Sweden	-	Switzerland	4: 3 (1: 2.3: 1.0: 0)
April 23, 1991	Helsinki	USSR	-	United States	12: 2 (6: 0.2: 1.4: 1)
April 25, 1991	Turku	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	2: 1 (0: 0.1: 0.1: 1)
April 25, 1991	Tampere	United States	-	Switzerland	4: 2 (3: 1.0: 1.1: 0)
April 25, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Canada	5: 3 (3: 1.0: 1.2: 1)
April 25, 1991	Tampere	Finland	-	Germany	6: 0 (0: 0.3: 0.3: 0)
April 26, 1991	Turku	Canada	-	Sweden	3: 3 (2: 1.0: 2.1: 0)
April 26, 1991	Tampere	United States	-	Germany	4: 4 (1: 1.3: 2.0: 1)
April 26, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	6: 2 (2: 1.2: 0.2: 1)
April 26, 1991	Tampere	Finland	-	Switzerland	6: 1 (1: 0.2: 0.3: 1)
April 28, 1991	Turku	Finland	-	United States	1: 2 (1: 1.0: 0.0: 1)
April 28, 1991	Tampere	Germany	-	Switzerland	2: 5 (0: 2.0: 2.2: 1)
April 28, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Sweden	5: 5 (1: 0.2: 2.2: 3)
April 28, 1991	Tampere	Canada	-	Czechoslovakia	3: 4 (0: 0.3: 3.0: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	USSR	7th	6th	1	0	41:16	+25	13: 01
2	Sweden	7th	3	4th	0	30:21	+ 09	10: 04
3	Canada	7th	4th	1	2	24:20	+ 04	09: 05
4th	United States	7th	3	2	2	23:28	- 05th	08: 06
5	Finland	7th	3	1	3	22:15	+ 07	07: 07
6th	Czechoslovakia	7th	3	0	4th	19:19	± 00	06: 08
7th	Switzerland	7th	1	0	6th	13:26	-13	02:12
8th	Germany	7th	0	1	6th	13:40	-27	01:13

Placement round for places 5–8

(Points from the preliminary round were also taken over)

April 29, 1991	Turku	Finland	-	Germany	4: 2 (2: 1.0: 1.2: 0)
April 29, 1991	Turku	Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	3: 4 (1: 0.0: 2.2: 2)
May 1, 1991	Turku	Czechoslovakia	-	Germany	4: 1 (3: 0.0: 0.1: 1)
May 1, 1991	Turku	Finland	-	Switzerland	6: 2 (1: 1.1: 0.4: 1)
May 3, 1991	Turku	Finland	-	Czechoslovakia	3: 2 (1: 0.2: 1.0: 1)
May 3, 1991	Turku	Germany	-	Switzerland	3: 3 (0: 0.2: 1.1: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Finland	10	6th	1	3	35:21	+14	13: 7
2	Czechoslovakia	10	4th	0	6th	28:27	+ 1	8:12
3	Switzerland	10	2	1	7th	22:38	-16	5:15
4th	Germany	10	0	2	8th	19:51	-32	2:18

Championship round for places 1–4

(without points from the preliminary round)

April 30, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	United States	6: 4 (4: 2.2: 2.0: 0)
April 30, 1991	Turku	Sweden	-	Canada	3: 3 (0: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
May 2, 1991	Turku	Sweden	-	United States	8: 4 (2: 0.4: 2.2: 2)
May 2, 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Canada	3: 3 (1: 1.2: 1.0: 1)
May 4th 1991	Turku	Canada	-	United States	9: 4 (2: 1.4: 2.3: 1)
May 4th 1991	Turku	USSR	-	Sweden	1: 2 (1: 1.0: 0.0: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Sweden	3	2	1	0	13: 08	+ 05	5: 1
2	Canada	3	1	2	0	15:10	+ 05	4: 2
3	USSR	3	1	1	1	10: 09	+ 01	3: 3
4th	United States	3	0	0	3	12:23	-11	0: 6

Final placement of the A-WM

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

Ascent and descent

Relegated to group B:	none
Promoted to the A group:	Italy Norway France Poland

Master teams

World Champion 1991 Sweden	Tommy Söderström , Peter Lindmark , Rolf Ridderwall - Håkan Loob , Thomas Rundqvist , Johan Garpenlöv , Per-Erik Eklund , Mikael Johansson - Peter Andersson , Tomas Jonsson , Mats Sundin , Jonas Bergqvist , Kjell Samuelsson , Charles Berglund , Calle Johansson , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Kenneth Kennholt , Nicklas Lidström , Fredrik Stillman , Mats Näslund , Jan Viktorsson , Anders Carlsson , Patrick Erickson Coaching staff : Conny Evensson , Curt Lindström
Silver medal Canada	Sean Burke , Mike Vernon , Craig Billington - Doug Lidster , Rob Blake , Steve Konroyd , Ric Nattress , Trent Yawney , Brad Schlegel - Yves Racine , Jamie Macoun , Russ Courtnall , Geoff Courtnall , Dave Archibald , Theoren Fleury , Trevor Linden , Joe Sakic , Randy Smith , Steve Thomas , Steve Larmer , Murray Craven , Steve Bozek Coaching staff : Dave King
Bronze medal USSR	Andrei Trefilow , Vladimir Myshkin , Alexei Marjin - Vyacheslav Fetisov , Igor Kravchuk , Vladimir Malakhov , Alexei Gusarov , Ilya Bjakin , Alexei Kassatonow - Dmitri Mironov , Vladimir Konstantinov , Vyacheslav Kozlov , Sergei Nemchinov , Valeri Kamensky , Dmitri Kwartalnow , Andrei Lomakin , Alexander Semak , Vyacheslav Buzayev , Sergei Makarov , Alexei Shamnow , Vyacheslav Bykov , Valery Selepukin Coaching staff : Viktor Tikhonov , Igor Dmitriev

Final table of the EM

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	USSR	5	4th	1	0	24:11	+13	9: 01
2	Sweden	5	3	2	0	23:14	+ 09	8: 02
3	Finland	5	3	1	1	18: 08	+10	7: 03
4th	Czechoslovakia	5	2	0	3	14:12	+ 02	4: 06
5	Switzerland	5	1	0	4th	11:19	- 08	2: 08
6th	Germany	5	0	0	5	07:33	-26	0:10

B world championship

The B tournament took place in Ljubljana, Bled and Jesenice, Yugoslavia.

Games

March 28, 1991	Bled	Austria	-	Japan	2: 2 (1: 0.1: 2.0: 0)
March 28, 1991	Ljubljana	Poland	-	France	2: 4 (0: 0.0: 0.2: 4)
March 28, 1991	Jesenice	Italy	-	Netherlands	13: 0 (3: 0.7: 0.3: 0)
March 28, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Norway	1: 5 (0: 2.0: 0.1: 3)
March 29, 1991	Ljubljana	Poland	-	Austria	2: 1 (1: 0.0: 1.1: 0)
March 29, 1991	Bled	Norway	-	Netherlands	4: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
March 29, 1991	Jesenice	Yugoslavia	-	France	2: 4 (0: 3.1: 0.1: 1)
March 29, 1991	Ljubljana	Italy	-	Japan	7: 2 (3: 0.1: 0.3: 2)
March 31, 1991	Ljubljana	France	-	Netherlands	9: 1 (4: 0.4: 1.1: 0)
March 31, 1991	Bled	Italy	-	Poland	2: 1 (1: 1.0: 0.1: 0)
March 31, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Austria	1: 6 (0: 4.0: 2.1: 0)
March 31, 1991	Jesenice	Norway	-	Japan	6: 1 (3: 1.2: 0.1: 0)
April 1, 1991	Ljubljana	Austria	-	Netherlands	6: 4 (1: 2.1: 1.4: 1)
April 1, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Italy	3:13 (1: 4.2: 6.0: 3)
April 2, 1991	Ljubljana	France	-	Japan	5: 3 (3: 1.1: 1.1: 1)
April 2, 1991	Ljubljana	Poland	-	Norway	2: 4 (0: 0.0: 1.2: 3)
April 3, 1991	Ljubljana	Italy	-	Austria	5: 1 (0: 1.3: 0.2: 0)
April 3, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Poland	3: 6 (0: 3.2: 2.1: 1)
April 4, 1991	Ljubljana	Japan	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 1.1: 1.0: 0)
April 4, 1991	Ljubljana	Norway	-	France	3: 2 (1: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
April 5, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Japan	5: 1 (2: 0.1: 1.2: 0)
April 5, 1991	Ljubljana	Italy	-	France	5: 1 (0: 1.2: 0.3: 0)
April 6, 1991	Ljubljana	Poland	-	Netherlands	4: 1 (0: 1.1: 0.3: 0)
April 6, 1991	Ljubljana	Norway	-	Austria	1: 3 (1: 1.0: 1.0: 1)
April 7, 1991	Ljubljana	Italy	-	Norway	4: 3 (1: 1.2: 2.1: 0)
April 7, 1991	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	-	Netherlands	3: 1 (2: 0.0: 1.1: 0)
April 7, 1991	Bled	Poland	-	Japan	7: 0 (2: 0.2: 0.3: 0)
April 7, 1991	Jesenice	France	-	Austria	3: 2 (2: 1.0: 1.1: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Italy	7th	7th	0	0	49:10	+39	14: 00
2	Norway	7th	5	0	2	26:13	+13	10: 04
3	France	7th	5	0	2	28:18	+10	10: 04
4th	Poland	7th	4th	0	3	24:15	+ 09	08: 06
5	Austria	7th	3	1	3	21:18	+ 03	07: 07
6th	Yugoslavia	7th	2	0	5	18:36	-18	04:10
7th	Netherlands	7th	1	0	6th	09:40	-31	02:12
8th	Japan	7th	0	1	6th	09:34	-25	01:13

Promoted to the A group:	Italy Norway France Poland
Relegated from the A group:	no relegation
Relegated to the C group:	no relegation
Newcomers from the C group:	Denmark People's Republic of China Romania Bulgaria

C world championship

This competition took place in Copenhagen-Brondby, Denmark.

Games

March 23, 1991	Copenhagen	Hungary	-	Belgium	11: 1 (4: 0.2: 1.5: 0)
March 23, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	South Korea	15: 1 (6: 0.3: 1.6: 0)
March 23, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	Great Britain	6: 5 (3: 2.1: 0.2: 3)
March 24, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	Belgium	14: 0 (7: 0.5: 0.2: 0)
March 24, 1991	Copenhagen	North Korea	-	Great Britain	2: 7 (0: 2.1: 3.1: 2)
March 24, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	Bulgaria	4: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
March 25, 1991	Copenhagen	Hungary	-	South Korea	9: 4 (1: 2.3: 2.5: 0)
March 25, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	North Korea	7: 2 (5: 0.0: 2.2: 0)
March 25, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Bulgaria	7: 3 (4: 0.1: 1.2: 2)
March 26, 1991	Copenhagen	South Korea	-	Belgium	7: 2 (1: 1.2: 0.4: 1)
March 26, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	Hungary	4: 3 (0: 1.2: 2.2: 0)
March 26, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Great Britain	3: 2 (0: 0.1: 0.2: 2)
March 27, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	Bulgaria	3: 1 (2: 0.0: 0.1: 1)
March 27, 1991	Copenhagen	Belgium	-	Great Britain	0:11 (0: 3.0: 3.0: 5)
March 27, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	North Korea	3: 2 (0: 0.3: 1.0: 1)
March 28, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	North Korea	11: 1 (4: 0.1: 1.6: 0)
March 28, 1991	Copenhagen	Hungary	-	Bulgaria	3: 4 (1: 0.1: 3.1: 1)
March 28, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	South Korea	11: 3 (5: 0.1: 0.5: 3)
March 29, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Belgium	17: 1 (6: 0.3: 1.8: 0)
March 29, 1991	Copenhagen	Hungary	-	Great Britain	3: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.1: 1)
March 29, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	South Korea	9: 1 (4: 0.1: 1.4: 0)
March 30, 1991	Copenhagen	North Korea	-	Belgium	12: 0 (1: 0.5: 0.6: 0)
March 30, 1991	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	Great Britain	5: 4 (2: 3.2: 1.1: 0)
March 30, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	Romania	1: 3 (0: 1.1: 1.0: 1)
March 31, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Romania	8: 2 (4: 0.0: 1.4: 1)
March 31, 1991	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	South Korea	4: 2 (1: 2.3: 0.0: 0)
March 31, 1991	Copenhagen	Hungary	-	North Korea	6: 2 (1: 1.3: 0.2: 1)
April 1, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Hungary	8: 1 (2: 0.4: 0.2: 1)
April 1, 1991	Copenhagen	South Korea	-	Great Britain	1: 7 (1: 2.0: 3.0: 2)
April 1, 1991	Copenhagen	China	-	Belgium	15: 5 (6: 2.4: 2.5: 1)
April 2, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	Great Britain	5: 6 (2: 2.0: 3.3: 1)
April 2, 1991	Copenhagen	North Korea	-	Bulgaria	1: 1 (1: 0.0: 0.0: 1)
April 3, 1991	Copenhagen	Romania	-	Hungary	6: 1 (2: 0.4: 1.0: 0)
April 3, 1991	Copenhagen	Bulgaria	-	Belgium	14: 2 (6: 2.3: 0.5: 0)
April 3, 1991	Copenhagen	North Korea	-	South Korea	7: 0 (3: 0.2: 0.2: 0)
April 3, 1991	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	China	2: 2 (1: 0.1: 1.0: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Denmark	8th	7th	1	0	71: 013	+58	15: 01
2	People's Republic of China	8th	6th	1	1	44: 024	+20	13: 03
3	Romania	8th	6th	0	2	51: 022	+29	012: 04
4th	Bulgaria	8th	4th	1	3	35: 026	+ 09	09: 07
5	Great Britain	8th	4th	1	3	45: 025	+20	09: 07
6th	Hungary	8th	3	1	4th	37: 032	+ 05	07: 09
7th	North Korea	8th	2	1	5	29: 035	- 06	05:11
8th	South Korea	8th	1	0	7th	19: 064	-45	02:14
9	Belgium	8th	0	0	8th	11: 101	-90	00:16

Ascent and descent

Moving up to the B group:	Denmark People's Republic of China Romania Bulgaria
Relegated from group B:	no relegation

See also

• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1991