Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 1994

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	Winner: Canada

The A group of the 58th Ice Hockey World Championships was held from April 25 to May 8, 1994 in the Italian cities of Bozen , Canazei and Milan in Italy . Further groups took place in Denmark , Slovakia and Spain .

A total of 35 teams took part in these world championships, which meant a new record; there were also two other teams that failed in qualifying for the C2 group. Originally 36 teams were supposed to take part, but North Korea decided not to participate and was automatically relegated. After a 33-year hiatus, Canada celebrated their 20th title win. After losing in the final in the penalty shootout at the Olympic ice hockey tournament this year, they have now won the penalty shootout title against Finland .

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Bolzano , Canazei , Milan	Apr 25, 1994 - May 8, 1994 0	12	154.210	39	3,954
B world championship	Copenhagen	0Apr 7, 1994 - Apr 17, 1994	8th		28
C1 world championship	Poprad , Spišská Nová Ves	18 Mar 1994 - March 27th 1994	7th		21st
C2 world championship	Barcelona	13 Mar 1994 - March 19 1994	8th		20th
Qualification for the C2 World Championship	various	0Nov 7, 1993 - Nov 20, 1993	4th		4th

Mode and history

There were again changes in the C group area in the 1994 Olympic year. The initially planned C group with twelve teams and qualifying games as in the previous year was shelved and, as in 1992, a C2 group was reintroduced; the C group became the C1 group again. In the C1 group, the B group relegated team and the teams in positions 2–5 played in the last C World Cup ; In addition, with a wildcard came the strong Slovakia , which emerged from the collapse of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993 , and the equally strong Belarus , which had failed in the C group qualification the previous year . In the C2 group, the last six of the last C-WM and two qualifiers met. In the C2 qualification, the teams that failed in the qualification last year met with the exception of Belarus. There was also a small change in the A group, where this year, as in 1992, only the two sixth placed in the preliminary round should fight against relegation.

A world championship

in Bolzano, Canazei and Milan, Italy

Preliminary round

Group A

April 25, 1994	Bolzano	Italy	-	Canada	1: 4 (1: 2.0: 1.0: 1)
April 25, 1994	Bolzano	Germany	-	Austria	2: 2 (0: 1.0: 0.2: 1)
April 26, 1994	Bolzano	Russia	-	Great Britain	12: 3 (6: 1.2: 0.4: 2)
April 26, 1994	Bolzano	Canada	-	Austria	6: 1 (3: 0.0: 0.3: 1)
April 27, 1994	Bolzano	Germany	-	Great Britain	4: 0 (1: 0.2: 0.1: 0)
April 27, 1994	Bolzano	Italy	-	Russia	0: 7 (0: 3.0: 2.0: 2)
April 28, 1994	Bolzano	Canada	-	Germany	3: 2 (1: 1.2: 0.0: 1)
April 29, 1994	Bolzano	Russia	-	Austria	4: 1 (1: 0.1: 1.2: 0)
April 29, 1994	Bolzano	Italy	-	Great Britain	10: 2 (4: 0.5: 1.1: 1)
April 30, 1994	Bolzano	Russia	-	Germany	6: 0 (3: 0.3: 0.0: 0)
April 30, 1994	Bolzano	Canada	-	Great Britain	8: 2 (4: 1.4: 0.0: 1)
May 1, 1994	Bolzano	Italy	-	Austria	3: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.1: 0)
May 2, 1994	Bolzano	Italy	-	Germany	3: 1 (2: 0.0: 0.1: 1)
May 2, 1994	Bolzano	Canada	-	Russia	3: 1 (0: 1.0: 0.3: 0)
May 3, 1994	Bolzano	Austria	-	Great Britain	10: 0 (3: 0.4: 0.3: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Canada	5	5	0	0	24: 7	+17	10-0
2	Russia	5	4th	0	1	30: 7	+23	8: 2
3	Italy	5	3	0	2	17:15	+ 2	6: 4
4th	Austria	5	1	1	3	15:15	0	3: 7
5	Germany	5	1	1	3	9:14	- 5th	3: 7
6th	Great Britain	5	0	0	5	7:44	-37	0:10

Group B

April 25, 1994	Canazei	Sweden	-	Norway	3: 3 (1: 0.2: 2.0: 1)
April 25, 1994	Canazei	Finland	-	Czech Republic	4: 4 (1: 0.1: 3.2: 1)
April 25, 1994	Canazei	United States	-	France	5: 1 (2: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
April 26, 1994	Canazei	Czech Republic	-	France	5: 2 (1: 1.2: 1.2: 0)
April 27, 1994	Canazei	United States	-	Norway	7: 2 (0: 2.4: 0.3: 0)
April 27, 1994	Canazei	Sweden	-	Finland	3: 5 (1: 1.0: 1.2: 3)
April 28, 1994	Canazei	Czech Republic	-	United States	3: 5 (1: 3.1: 0.1: 2)
April 28, 1994	Canazei	Sweden	-	France	6: 0 (2: 0.1: 0.3: 0)
April 29, 1994	Canazei	Finland	-	Norway	5: 1 (1: 1.3: 0.1: 0)
April 30, 1994	Canazei	Finland	-	France	8: 1 (0: 0.6: 0.2: 1)
April 30, 1994	Canazei	Czech Republic	-	Norway	2: 2 (0: 0.1: 1.1: 1)
April 30, 1994	Canazei	Sweden	-	United States	6: 2 (0: 1.5: 0.1: 1)
May 2, 1994	Canazei	Norway	-	France	1: 4 (1: 1.0: 1.0: 2)
May 2, 1994	Canazei	Finland	-	United States	7: 2 (3: 1.3: 0.1: 1)
May 2, 1994	Canazei	Sweden	-	Czech Republic	4: 1 (2: 1.2: 0.0: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Finland	5	4th	1	0	29:11	+18	9: 1
2	Sweden	5	3	1	1	22:11	+11	7: 3
3	United States	5	3	0	2	21:19	+ 2	6: 4
4th	Czech Republic	5	1	2	2	15:17	- 2nd	4: 6
5	France	5	1	0	4th	8:25	-17	2: 8
6th	Norway	5	0	2	3	9:21	-12	2: 8

Play down against relegation

May 6, 1994

Bolzano

Norway

-

Great Britain

5: 2 (2: 0.0: 2.3: 0)

Play-offs

Quarter finals
May 5, 1994	Milan	Russia	-	United States	1: 3 (0: 1.0: 2.1: 0)
May 5, 1994	Milan	Italy	-	Sweden	2: 7 (0: 1.0: 4.2: 2)
May 5, 1994	Milan	Canada	-	Czech Republic	3: 2 (1: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
May 5, 1994	Milan	Finland	-	Austria	10: 0 (1: 0.4: 0.5: 0)
Semifinals
May 7, 1994	Milan	Finland	-	United States	8: 0 (6: 0.2: 0.0: 0)
May 7, 1994	Milan	Canada	-	Sweden	6: 0 (1: 0.2: 0.3: 0)
3rd place match
May 8, 1994	Milan	Sweden	-	United States	7: 2 (1: 0.2: 1.4: 1)
final
May 8, 1994	Milan	Canada	-	Finland	2: 1 n.P. (0: 0.0: 0.1: 1.0: 0.1: 0)

Best scorer

Source: quanthockey.com; Abbreviations: Sp = games, T = goals, V = assists , pts = points, +/- = plus / minus , SM = penalty minutes; Fat: tournament best

player	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
Mats Sundin	8th	5	9	14th	+13	4th
Paul Kariya	8th	5	7th	12	+12	2
Saku Koivu	8th	5	6th	11	+14	4th
Valery Kamensky	6th	5	5	10	+12	12
Jari Kurri	8th	4th	6th	10	+11	2
Magnus Svensson	8th	8th	1	9	+9	8th
Mikko Mäkelä	8th	5	4th	9	+13	6th
Igor Fedulov	6th	4th	5	9	+11	6th
Andrei Kovalenko	6th	3	5	8th	+10	2
Jere Lehtinen	6th	3	5	8th	+14	4th
Jonas Bergqvist	8th	3	5	8th	+8	4th

Best goalkeeper

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

player	Min	GT	GTS	Sv%	SO
Mikhail Shtalenkov	296	5	1.01	96.2	2
Bill Ranford	370	7th	1.14	95.6	1
Jarmo Myllys	410	9	1.32	94.2	2
Michael Puschacher	271	9	1.99	92.6	0
Guy Hebert	300	18th	3.60	90.7	0

Final placement of the world championship

RF	team
1	Canada
2	Finland
3	Sweden
4th	United States
5	Russia
6th	Italy
7th	Czech Republic
8th	Austria
9	Germany
10	France
11	Norway
12	Great Britain

Relegated:	Great Britain
Climbers	Switzerland

Master teams

World Champion Canada	Bill Ranford , Luke Richardson , Joe Sakic , Bobby Dollas , Pat Verbeek , Shayne Corson , Geoff Sanderson , Luc Robitaille , Kelly Buchberger , Marc Bergevin , Yves Racine , Stéphane Fiset , Paul Kariya , Mike Ricci , Jason Arnott , Rob Blake , Rod Brind 'Amour , Steve Thomas , Nelson Emerson , Darryl Sydor , Steve Duchesne , Brendan Shanahan Trainers : George Kingston
Silver Finland	Jarmo Myllys , Jukka Tammi , Pasi Kuivalainen - Timo Jutila , Hannu Virta , Waltteri Immonen , Mika Strömberg , Marko Kiprusoff , Erik Hämäläinen , Janne Laukkanen - Saku Koivu , Jari Kurri , Mikko Mäkelä , Jere Lehtinen , Sami Kapanen , Raimo Helminen , Ville Peltonen , Esa Keskinen , Mika Nieminen , Christian Ruuttu , Janne Ojanen , Marco Palo , Mika Alatalo Trainer : Curt Lindström
Bronze Sweden	Roger Nordström , Tommy Salo , Johan Hedberg - Magnus Svensson , Roger Johansson , Fredrik Stillman , Nicklas Lidström , Kenny Jönsson , Peter Andersson , Tommy Sjödin - Mats Sundin , Jonas Bergkvist , Roger Hansson , Jörgen Jönsson , Charles Berglund , Tomas Forslund , Andreas Dackell , Mikael Johansson , Stefan Örnskog , Mikael Andersson , Jan Larsson , Patrik Carnbäck , Patrik Juhlin Trainer : Curt Lundmark

Awards

Player trophies

• Best goalkeeper: Bill Ranford
• Best defender: Magnus Svensson
• Best striker: Paul Kariya

Media All-Star Team

• Goalkeeper: Bill Ranford
• Defenders: Timo Jutila , Magnus Svensson
• Forwards: Paul Kariya, Saku Koivu , Jari Kurri

B world championship

in Copenhagen, Denmark

Games

April 7, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	China	20: 1 (4: 0.10: 0.6: 1)
April 7, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Netherlands	5: 3 (2: 1.0: 1.3: 1)
April 7, 1994	Copenhagen	Latvia	-	Romania	12: 0 (3: 0.6: 0.3: 0)
April 7, 1994	Copenhagen	Poland	-	Japan	6: 1 (1: 0.3: 1.2: 0)
April 8, 1994	Copenhagen	Latvia	-	China	22: 0 (8: 0.7: 0.7: 0)
April 8, 1994	Copenhagen	Poland	-	Netherlands	6: 4 (2: 0.1: 2.3: 2)
April 8, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	Japan	10: 3 (1: 1.3: 2.6: 0)
April 9, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Romania	4: 2 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
April 10, 1994	Copenhagen	Netherlands	-	China	8: 3 (2: 0.3: 2.3: 1)
April 10, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Poland	2: 5 (1: 0.1: 4.0: 1)
April 10, 1994	Copenhagen	Latvia	-	Japan	9: 3 (4: 0.2: 1.3: 2)
April 10, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	Romania	5: 0 (3: 0.0: 0.2: 0)
April 11, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	Netherlands	10: 0 (3: 0.3: 0.4: 0)
April 12, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	China	12: 2 (4: 0.4: 0.4: 2)
April 12, 1994	Copenhagen	Latvia	-	Poland	7: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.5: 0)
April 12, 1994	Copenhagen	Japan	-	Romania	7: 4 (4: 3.2: 0.1: 1)
April 13, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Switzerland	1: 2 (1: 0.0: 2.0: 0)
April 13, 1994	Copenhagen	Poland	-	Romania	10: 2 (3: 0.3: 1.4: 1)
April 14, 1994	Copenhagen	Japan	-	China	14: 2 (5: 0.5: 1.4: 1)
April 14, 1994	Copenhagen	Latvia	-	Netherlands	4: 2 (0: 0.1: 0.3: 2)
April 15, 1994	Copenhagen	Romania	-	China	7: 1 (4: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
April 15, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Latvia	2: 6 (1: 2.0: 3.1: 1)
April 15, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	Poland	3: 3 (1: 2.1: 1.1: 0)
April 16, 1994	Copenhagen	Japan	-	Netherlands	2: 2 (2: 1.0: 0.0: 1)
April 17, 1994	Copenhagen	Poland	-	China	15: 2 (2: 1.8: 0.5: 1)
April 17, 1994	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Japan	5: 7 (2: 0.1: 4.2: 3)
April 17, 1994	Copenhagen	Switzerland	-	Latvia	2: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.0: 0)
April 17, 1994	Copenhagen	Netherlands	-	Romania	4: 3 (1: 1.1: 2.2: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Switzerland	7th	6th	1	0	52: 9	+43	13: 1
2	Latvia	7th	6th	0	1	61: 9	+52	12: 2
3	Poland	7th	5	1	1	45:21	+24	11: 3
4th	Japan	7th	3	1	3	37:38	- 1	7: 7
5	Denmark	7th	3	0	4th	31:27	+ 4	6: 8
6th	Netherlands	7th	2	1	4th	23:33	-10	5: 9
7th	Romania	7th	1	0	6th	18:43	-25	2:12
8th	People's Republic of China	7th	0	0	7th	11:98	-87	0:14

Ascent and descent

B-World Champion 1994:	Switzerland
Promoted to the A group:	Switzerland
Relegated from the A group:	Great Britain
Relegated to the C group:	China
Newcomers from the C group:	Slovakia

C1 world championship

The games of the C1 World Championship were played in March 1994 in Zimný štadión Poprad and Spišská Nová Ves .

Games

March 18, 1994	Poprad	Slovakia	-	Bulgaria	20: 0 (4: 0.7: 0.9: 0)
March 18, 1994	Poprad	Ukraine	-	Belarus	2: 4 (1: 0.1: 2.0: 2)
March 18, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovenia	-	Hungary	8: 2 (4: 0.2: 0.2: 2)
March 19, 1994	Poprad	Belarus	-	Bulgaria	13: 1 (6: 0.3: 0.4: 1)
March 19, 1994	Poprad	Kazakhstan	-	Hungary	14: 5 (5: 1.4: 0.5: 4)
March 19, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovakia	-	Slovenia	9: 0 (7: 0.0: 0.2: 0)
March 21, 1994	Poprad	Belarus	-	Slovenia	6: 3 (1: 0.1: 1.4: 2)
March 21, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Ukraine	-	Hungary	8: 0 (3: 0.2: 0.3: 0)
March 21, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovakia	-	Kazakhstan	0: 0 (0: 0.0: 0.0: 0)
March 22, 1994	Poprad	Kazakhstan	-	Belarus	3: 6 (0: 2.1: 3.2: 1)
March 22, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Hungary	-	Bulgaria	7: 2 (0: 0.3: 2.4: 0)
March 22, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovakia	-	Ukraine	2: 2 (0: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
March 24, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovenia	-	Bulgaria	13: 0 (8: 0.2: 0.3: 0)
March 24, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Ukraine	-	Kazakhstan	0: 0 (0: 0.0: 0.0: 0)
March 24, 1994	Poprad	Slovakia	-	Hungary	10: 0 (4: 0.3: 0.3: 0)
March 25, 1994	Poprad	Kazakhstan	-	Bulgaria	31: 0 (9: 0.8: 0.14: 0)
March 25, 1994	Poprad	Belarus	-	Hungary	5: 0 (2: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
March 25, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Ukraine	-	Slovenia	6: 1 (2: 0.3: 0.1: 1)
March 27, 1994	Spišská Nová Ves	Ukraine	-	Bulgaria	31: 0 (6: 0.7: 0.18: 0)
March 27, 1994	Poprad	Slovakia	-	Belarus	2: 1 (1: 0.1: 0.0: 1)
March 27, 1994	Poprad	Kazakhstan	-	Slovenia	4: 1 (1: 0.1: 1.2: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Slovakia	6th	4th	2	0	43: 3	+ 40	10: 2
2	Belarus	6th	5	0	1	35:11	+ 24	10: 2
3	Ukraine	6th	3	2	1	49: 7	+ 42	8: 4
4th	Kazakhstan	6th	3	2	1	52:12	+ 40	8: 4
5	Slovenia	6th	2	0	4th	26:27	- 1	4: 8
6th	Hungary	6th	1	0	5	14:47	- 33	2:10
7th	Bulgaria	6th	0	0	6th	3: 115	-112	0:12
8th	North Korea	renounced

Ascent and descent

C1 world champion 1994:	Slovakia
Moving up to the B group:	Slovakia
Relegated from group B:	China
Relegated to the C2 group:	North Korea
Newcomers to the C1 group:	Estonia, Yugoslavia (boycott lifted)

C2 world championship

qualification

November 7, 1993	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Lithuania	8: 3 (3: 0.2: 1.3: 2)
November 20, 1993	Elektrėnai	Lithuania	-	Estonia	1: 8 (1: 1.0: 2.0: 5)
November 19, 1993	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Turkey	34: 1 (10: 0.15: 1.9: 0)
November 20, 1993	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Turkey	24: 0 (9: 0.8: 0.7: 0)

qualified for the C2-WM:

Estonia, Croatia

Preliminary round

Group A

March 13, 1994	Barcelona	Croatia	-	Australia	3: 2 (2: 1.0: 0.1: 1)
March 13, 1994	Barcelona	Spain	-	Israel	17: 2 (5: 0.7: 0.5: 2)
March 15, 1994	Barcelona	Australia	-	Israel	5: 4 (1: 3.2: 0.2: 1)
March 15, 1994	Barcelona	Spain	-	Croatia	9: 2 (4: 0.5: 2.0: 0)
March 16, 1994	Barcelona	Croatia	-	Israel	2: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.0: 0)
March 16, 1994	Barcelona	Spain	-	Australia	2: 1 (1: 1.0: 0.1: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	28: 5	+23	6-0
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	7:11	- 4th	4: 2
3	Australia	3	1	0	2	8: 9	- 1	2: 4
4th	Israel	3	0	0	3	6:24	-18	0: 6

Group B

March 13, 1994	Barcelona	South Korea	-	South Africa	6: 2 (1: 1.2: 1.3: 0)
March 13, 1994	Barcelona	Estonia	-	Belgium	12: 0 (5: 0.5: 0.2: 0)
March 15, 1994	Barcelona	Belgium	-	South Africa	13: 1 (5: 0.6: 0.2: 1)
March 15, 1994	Barcelona	Estonia	-	South Korea	10: 0 (3: 0.3: 0.4: 0)
March 16, 1994	Barcelona	South Korea	-	Belgium	3: 2 (0: 1.3: 0.0: 1)
March 16, 1994	Barcelona	Estonia	-	South Africa	27: 1 (11: 0.8: 0.8: 1)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Estonia	3	3	0	0	49: 1	+48	6-0
2	South Korea	3	2	0	1	9:14	- 5th	4: 2
3	Belgium	3	1	0	2	15:16	- 1	2: 4
4th	South Africa	3	0	0	3	4:46	-42	0: 6

Placement round for places 5–8

(direct comparisons of the preliminary round have been adopted)

March 18, 1994	Barcelona	Australia	-	South Africa	9: 2 (4: 0.3: 1.2: 1)
March 18, 1994	Barcelona	Belgium	-	Israel	5: 2 (2: 1.1: 0.2: 1)
March 19, 1994	Barcelona	Israel	-	South Africa	7: 2 (2: 1.4: 0.1: 1)
March 19, 1994	Barcelona	Belgium	-	Australia	5: 3 (1: 1.3: 2.1: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Belgium	3	3	0	0	23: 6	+17	6-0
2	Australia	3	2	0	1	17:11	+ 6	4: 2
3	Israel	3	1	0	2	13:12	+ 1	2: 4
4th	South Africa	3	0	0	3	5:29	-24	0: 6

Final round for places 1–4

(direct comparisons of the preliminary round have been adopted)

March 18, 1994	Barcelona	Estonia	-	Croatia	8: 0 (1: 0.4: 0.3: 0)
March 18, 1994	Barcelona	Spain	-	South Korea	2: 2 (0: 0.1: 2.1: 0)
March 19, 1994	Barcelona	South Korea	-	Croatia	2: 1 (0: 0.2: 1.0: 0)
March 19, 1994	Barcelona	Spain	-	Estonia	0: 9 (0: 2.0: 5.0: 2)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Estonia	3	3	0	0	27: 0	+27	6-0
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	11:13	- 2nd	3: 3
3	South Korea	3	1	1	1	4:13	- 9	3: 3
4th	Croatia	3	0	0	3	3:19	-16	0: 6

Final placement of the C2 World Championship

RF	team
1	Estonia
2	Spain
3	South Korea
4th	Croatia
5	Belgium
6th	Australia
7th	Israel
8th	South Africa

Ascent and descent

C2 World Champion 1994:	Estonia
Newcomers to the C1 group:	Estonia
Relegated from the C1 group:	North Korea

See also

• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1994
• Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 1994

Web links

• 58th World Senior Championship at hokej.snt.cz
• Championnats du monde 1994 at hockeyarchives.info

Individual evidence

1. ^ IIHF World Championship 1994 - Player Stats. In: quanthockey.com. Retrieved September 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ quanthockey.com, IIHF World Championship 1994 - Goalie Stats