Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1982

	Junior World Championship
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	Winner: Canada

The juniors' ice hockey world championship in 1982 was the sixth staging of the world championship in the under-20 age group (U20) by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. Team Canada became Junior World Champion for the first time .

The A World Championship was held from December 22, 1981 to January 2, 1982 in the United States and Canada . The B World Championship was held from March 16 to 20, 1982 in Heerenveen in the Netherlands . As in previous years, a total of 16 teams took part, with Japan for the first time a team from outside Europe and North America .

World Championship

The World Cup took place in a total of twelve US and three Canadian cities. The majority of the venues were in the US state of Minnesota , where 23 of the 28 games were played. Five games took place in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario . The Canadian team became junior world champions for the first time . The team from Switzerland was relegated and replaced by promoted Norway .

mode

Players under 20 years of age (U-20) were allowed. Eight teams took part, each of which competed once against each group opponent in a common group. World champion became the group winner. The last was relegated to the B World Championship.

Games and final table

Pl.										Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Canada		3: 3	5: 1	7-0	3: 2	5: 4	11: 3	11: 1	7th	6th	1	0	45:14	13: 1
2.	Czechoslovakia	3: 3		5: 1	3: 2	4: 6	6: 4	7: 1	16: 0	7th	5	1	1	44:17	11: 3
3.	Finland	1: 5	1: 5		6: 3	9: 6	8: 4	8: 4	14: 2	7th	5	0	2	47:29	10: 4
4th	USSR	0: 7	2: 3	3: 6		7: 2	7-0	12: 3	11: 4	7th	4th	0	3	42:25	08: 6
5.	Sweden	2: 3	6: 4	6: 9	2: 7		4: 2	5: 1	17: 0	7th	4th	0	3	42:26	08: 6
6th	United States	4: 5	4: 6	4: 8	0: 7	2: 4		8: 1	6: 3	7th	2	0	5	28:34	04:10
7th	BR Germany	3:11	1: 7	4: 8	3:12	1: 5	1: 8		6: 5	7th	1	0	6th	19:56	02:12
8th.	Switzerland	1:11	0:16	2:14	4:11	0:17	3: 6	5: 6		7th	0	0	7th	15:81	00:14

Best scorer

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

player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
Raimo Summanen	Finland	7th	7th	9	16	0
Petri Skriko	Finland	7th	8th	7th	15th	4th
Risto Jalo	Finland	7th	7th	8th	15th	2
Mike Moller	Canada	7th	5	9	14th	4th
Anatoly Semenov	USSR	7th	5	8th	13	22nd
Marc Habscheid	Canada	7th	6th	6th	12	2
Scott Arniel	Canada	7th	5	6th	11	4th
Bruce Eakin	Canada	7th	4th	7th	11	4th
Oleg Starkov	USSR	7th	3	8th	11	6th
Magnus Roupé	Sweden	7th	7th	3	10	6th

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion Canada

Scott Arniel , Paul Boutilier , Garth Butcher , Frank Caprice , Paul Cyr , Bruce Eakin , Marc Habscheid , Gord Kluzak , Moe Lemay , Mike Moffat , Mike Moller , Randy Moller , Dave Morrison , Mark Morrison , Troy Murray , Gary Nylund , James Patrick , Pierre Rioux , Todd Strueby , Carey Wilson Trainer: Dave King

Silver Czechoslovakia

Václav Baďouček , Mojmír Božík , Ivan Dornič , Jiří Dudáček , Milan Eberle , Václav Fürbacher , Peter Harazin , Jaroslav Hauer , Tomáš Jelínek , Petr Kasík , Ludvik Kopecký , František Musil , Kamil Přecechtěl , Pavel Prorok , Petr Rosol , Vladimír Růžička , Karel Soudek , Antonín Stavjaňa , Vladimír Svitek , Rostislav Vlach Coaching staff: František Pospíšil , Václav Červený

Bronze Finland

Hannu Henriksson , Risto Jalo , Pekka Järvelä , Hannu Järvenpää , Timo Jutila , Markus Lehto , Heikki Leime , Jari Munck , Harry Nyström , Jose Pekkala , Sakari Petäjäaho , Simo Saarinen , Arto Sirviö , Petri Skriko , Raimo Summanen , Kari Takko , Juki Tammi , Esa Tommila , Hannu Virta , Teppo Virta Trainer: Alpo Suhonen

Relegated:	Switzerland
Newcomers:	Norway

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Mike Moffat	Canada
Best defender	Gord Kluzak	Canada
Best striker	Petri Skriko	Finland

All-Star Team

Attack:	Petri Skriko - Vladimír Růžička - Mike Moller
Defense:	Gord Kluzak - Ilya Bjakin
Goal:	Mike Moffat

B world championship

in Heerenveen, the Netherlands

Preliminary round

Group A Games AUT THE FRA YUG Gates Pt. 1. Austria  6: 2 4: 3 9: 5 19:10 6-0 2. Denmark  2: 6 9: 3 7: 3 18:12 4: 2 3. France  3: 4 3: 9 6: 1 12:14 2: 4 4. Yugoslavia  5: 9 3: 7 1: 6 9:22 0: 6

Group B Games NOR JPN ITA NED Gates Pt. 1. Norway  4: 2 6: 2 5: 2 15: 6 6-0 2. Japan  2: 4 5: 2 9: 2 16: 8 4: 2 3. Italy  2: 6 2: 5 2: 2 6:13 1: 5 4. Netherlands  2: 5 2: 9 2: 2 6:16 1: 5

Placement games

Game for 7th place
March 20, 1982	Heerenveen	Netherlands	-	Yugoslavia	6: 3
Play for 5th place
March 20, 1982	Heerenveen	France	-	Italy	6: 2
3rd place match
March 20, 1982	Heerenveen	Japan	-	Denmark	6: 4
final
March 20, 1982	Heerenveen	Norway	-	Austria	3: 2

Final placement

Pl.	team
1	Norway
2	Austria
3	Japan
4th	Denmark
5	France
6th	Italy
7th	Netherlands
8th	Yugoslavia

Moved up and down

Promoted to the A group:	Norway
Relegated from the A group:	Switzerland

Top scorer

player	team	Gates	Assists	Points
Wolfgang Kocher	Austria	7th	2	9
Erik Lodberg	Denmark	6th	0	6th
Jean-François Beaudoing	France	4th	2	6th
Motoki Ebina	Japan	4th	2	6th
Finn Juhl	Denmark	4th	2	6th
Franck Ganis	France	3	3	6th
Toshiyuki Sakai	Japan	3	3	6th
Herbert Keckeis	Austria	3	3	6th
Miloš Piperski	Yugoslavia	5	0	5

Web links

• The Junior World Championship at hockeyarchives.info (French)