Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1984

	Junior World Championship
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	Winner: Soviet Union

The juniors' ice hockey world championship in 1984 was the eighth edition of the world championship in the under-20 age group (U20) by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. The defending champion from the Soviet Union won his sixth world title in the U20 age group.

The A-World Championship took place from December 25, 1983 to January 3, 1984 in the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Nyköping . The B-World Championship was the 19th bis 25. March 1984 in Caen in France held. The C-Group from was played from March 25th to 31st in Varese , Italy . A total of 23 countries took part in the three tournaments.

As in 1980 , there was no men's ice hockey world championship in the 1984 Olympic year , so the junior world championship was the only ice hockey world championship of that year.

A world championship

The World Cup took place in the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Nyköping . The team of the USSR became the junior world champion . The team from Switzerland was relegated and replaced by promoted Poland .

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.	USSR		3: 1	6: 4	3: 3	8: 2	7: 4	9: 1	14: 2	7th	6th	1	0	50:17	13: 1
2.	Finland	1: 3		8: 7	4: 2	4: 1	7: 2	8: 2	12: 4	7th	6th	0	1	44:21	12: 2
3.	Czechoslovakia	4: 6	7: 8		6: 4	5: 2	10: 1	6: 1	13: 2	7th	5	0	2	51:24	10: 4
4th	Canada	3: 3	2: 4	4: 6		6: 2	5: 2	7-0	12: 0	7th	4th	1	2	39:17	09: 5
5.	Sweden	2: 8	2: 4	2: 5	2: 6		4: 1	11: 2	5: 2	7th	3	0	4th	27:28	06: 8
6th	United States	4: 7	2: 7	1:10	2: 5	1: 4		10: 2	12: 3	7th	2	0	5	32:38	04:10
7th	BR Germany	1: 9	2: 8	1: 6	0: 7	2:11	2:10		4: 3	7th	1	0	6th	12:54 pm	02:12
8th.	Switzerland	2:14	4:12	2:13	0:12	2: 5	3:12	3: 4		7th	0	0	7th	16:72	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 Helminen	Finland	7th	11	13	24	4th
Petr rosol	Czechoslovakia	7th	10	5	15th	23
Alexander Tschornych	USSR	7th	7th	7th	14th	12
Russ Courtnall	Canada	7th	7th	6th	13	0
Nikolai Borschtschewski	USSR	7th	6th	7th	13	4th
Esa Tikkanen	Finland	7th	8th	4th	12	8th
Esa Keskinen	Finland	7th	4th	8th	12	0
Sergei Nemchinov	USSR	7th	5	6th	11	2
Alfie Turcotte	United States	7th	2	9	11	2
Petr Klíma	Czechoslovakia	7th	6th	4th	10	22nd

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion USSR

Yevgeny Beloscheikin , Igor Boldin , Nikolai Borschtschewski , Yuri Chmyljow , Alexei Gusarov , Vasily Kamenev , Andrei Lomakin , Alexandr Lysenko , Igor Martynov , Aleh Mikultschyk , Sergei Nemchinov , Sergei Schendelew , Alexander Semak , Alexander Smirnov , Mikhail Tatarinow , Alexei Chervyakov , Yevgeny Tschischmin , Alexander Tschornych , Igor Vjasmikin , Sergei Wostrikow Coaching staff: Igor Dmitrijew , Anatoli Bogdanow

Silver Finland

Ari Haanpää , Erik Hämäläinen , Raimo Helminen , Iiro Järvi , Janne Karelius , Esa Keskinen , Pekka Laksola , Harri Laurila , Reijo Mikkolainen , Mikko Mäkelä , Jarmo Myllys , Joel Paunio , Tommi Pohja , Christian Ruuttu , Vesa Salo , Ville Sirén , Ari Suutari , Esa Tikkanen , Jari Torkki , Jarmo Uronen Trainer:

Bronze Czechoslovakia

Petr Briza , Libor Dolana , Petr Holubář , Ernest Hornák , Miloš Hrubeš , Jiří Jiroutek , Vladimír Kames , Kamil Kašťák , Petr Klima , Lumír Kotala , Frantisek Musil , Jiří Paška , Stanislav Pavelec , Ivo Pešat , Jozef Pethö , Michal Pivoňka , Petr Rosol , Martin Střída , Petr Svoboda , Igor Talpaš Coaching staff: František Pospíšil , Václav Červený

Relegated:	Switzerland
Newcomers:	Poland

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Allan Perry	United States
Best defender	Alexei Gussarov	USSR
Best striker	Raimo Helminen	Finland

All-Star Team

Attack:	Petr Rosol - Raimo Helminen - Nikolai Borschtschewski
Defense:	František Musil - Alexei Gussarow
Goal:	Yevgeny Belosheikin

B world championship

in Caen, France

Preliminary round

Group A team AUT NOR FRA ROME Gates Pt. 1. Austria  6: 4 5: 4 4: 2 15:10 6-0 2. Norway  4: 6 7: 3 11: 2 22:11 4: 2 3. France  4: 5 3: 7 12: 5 19:17 2: 4 4. Romania  2: 4 2:11 5:12 9:27 0: 6

Group B team POLE JPN NED DAN Gates Pt. 1. Poland  6: 6 8: 4 6: 2 20:12 5: 1 2. Japan  6: 6 6: 6 10: 1 22:13 4: 2 3. Netherlands  4: 8 6: 6 3: 1 13:15 3: 3 4. Denmark  2: 6 1:10 1: 3 4:19 0: 6

Championship and relegation round

Championship round for places 1–4 team POLE AUT JPN NOR Gates Pt. 1. Poland 4: 2 (6: 6) 5: 4 15:12 5: 1 2. Austria 2: 4 5: 3 (6: 4) 13:11 4: 2 3. Japan (6: 6) 3: 5 5: 3 14:14 3: 3 4. Norway 4: 5 (4: 6) 3: 5 11:16 0: 6

Relegation round to place 5-8 team NED FRA ROME DAN Gates Pt. 1. Netherlands 6: 4 3: 1 (3: 1) 12: 6 6-0 2. France 4: 6 (12: 5) 5: 2 21:13 4: 2 3. Romania 1: 3 (5:12) 5: 3 11:18 2: 4 4. Denmark (1: 3) 2: 5 3: 5 6:13 0: 6

Final placement

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

Moved up and down

Promoted to the A group:	Poland
Relegated from the A group:	Switzerland
Relegated to the C group:	Denmark
Moving up to the B group:	Italy

C world championship

in Varese, Italy

Preliminary round

Group A team HUN BUL BEL ITA B Gates Pt. 1. Hungary  3: 3 6: 2 10: 1 19: 6 5: 1 2. Bulgaria  3: 3 5: 3 5-0 13: 6 5: 1 3. Belgium  2: 6 3: 5 4: 2 9:13 2: 4 4. Italy B  1:10 0: 5 2: 4 3:19 0: 6

Group B team ITA ESP GBR OUT Gates Pt. 1. Italy  2: 2 12: 4 16: 2 30: 8 5: 1 2. Spain  2: 2 7: 3 5: 4 14: 9 5: 1 3. Great Britain  4:12 3: 7 7: 5 14:24 2: 4 4. Australia  2:16 4: 5 5: 7 11:28 0: 6

Masters and placement round

Championship round for places 1–4 team ITA BUL HUN ESP Gates Pt. 1. Italy 3: 1 8: 5 (2: 2) 13: 8 5: 1 2. Bulgaria 1: 3 (3: 3) 10: 3 14: 9 3: 3 3. Hungary 5: 8 (3: 3) 10: 4 18:15 3: 3 4. Spain (2: 2) 3:10 4:10 9:22 1: 5

Placement round for places 5-8 team BEL GBR OUT ITA B Gates Pt. 1. Belgium 9: 2 8: 3 (4: 2) 21: 7 6-0 2. Great Britain 2: 9 (7: 5) 6: 3 15:17 4: 2 3. Australia 3: 8 (5: 7) 5: 1 13:16 2: 4 4. Italy B (2: 4) 3: 6 1: 5 6:15 0: 6

Italy B played out of competition

Final placement

Pl.	team
1	Italy
2	Bulgaria
3	Hungary
4th	Spain
5	Belgium
6th	Great Britain
7th	Australia
8th	Italy B

Moved up and down

Moving up to the B group:	Italy
Relegated from group B:	Denmark

Web links

• 1983 - 1984 WJC-20 Player Statistics at eliteprospects.com
• 1984 - Nykoping, Sweden at tsn.ca