Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1985

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	Winner: Canada

The 1985 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship was the ninth edition of the World Championship in the under-20 age group (U20) by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. Canada became Junior World Champions for the second time since 1982 .

The A World Championship took place from December 23, 1984 to January 1, 1985 in the Finnish cities of Vantaa , Helsinki and Turku . The B World Championship was played from March 15 to 24, 1985. For the first time a tournament of the Junior World Championship took place in Asia, in Sapporo in Japan . Group C was played in Belgium from February 22nd to 27th, 1985 . A total of 21 countries took part in the three tournaments.

World Championship

The World Cup took place in the Finnish cities of Vantaa , Helsinki and Turku . The Canadian team became junior world champions . The team from Poland was relegated and replaced by promoted Switzerland .

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		2: 2	5-0	4: 4	8: 2	7: 5	6-0	12: 1	7th	5	2	0	44:14	12: 2
2.	Czechoslovakia	2: 2		3: 1	1: 1	4: 3	9: 1	7: 3	6: 2	7th	5	2	0	38:17	12: 2
3.	USSR	0: 5	1: 3		6: 5	5: 1	4: 2	12: 1	10-0	7th	5	0	2	38:17	10: 4
4th	Finland	4: 4	1: 1	5: 6		5: 3	7: 4	9-0	11: 2	7th	4th	2	1	42:20	10: 4
5.	Sweden	2: 8	3: 4	1: 5	3: 5		7: 3	5: 1	11: 0	7th	3	0	4th	32:26	06: 8
6th	United States	5: 7	1: 9	2: 4	4: 7	3: 7		2: 1	6: 2	7th	2	0	5	23:37	04:10
7th	BR Germany	0: 6	3: 7	1:12	0: 9	1: 5	1: 2		3: 3	7th	0	1	6th	09:44	01:13
8th.	Poland	1:12	2: 6	0:10	2:11	0:11	2: 6	3: 3		7th	0	1	6th	10:59	01:13

Best scorer

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

player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
Esa Keskinen	Finland	7th	6th	14th	20th	2
Esa Tikkanen	Finland	7th	7th	12	19th	10
Brian Bradley	Canada	7th	9	5	14th	2
Peter Andersson	Sweden	7th	4th	10	14th	20th
Mikko Mäkelä	Finland	7th	11	2	13	6th
Michal Pivoňka	Czechoslovakia	7th	9	4th	13	14th
Adam Creighton	Canada	7th	8th	4th	12	4th
Sergei Novosjolov	USSR	7th	3	9	12	18th
Alexander Semak	USSR	7th	7th	4th	11	12
Rawil Khaidarov	USSR	7th	6th	3	9	8th

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion Canada

Bob Bassen , Yves Beaudoin , Brad Berry , Jeff Beukeboom , Craig Billington , Brian Bradley , Wendel Clark , Shayne Corson , Adam Creighton , Bobby Dollas , Norm Foster , Dan Hodgson , Dan Gratton , Jeff Jackson , Greg Johnston , Claude Lemieux , John Miner , Selmar Odelein , Stéphane Richer , Jim Sandlak Trainers: Terry Simpson

Silver Czechoslovakia

Aleš Flašar , Leo Gudas , Eduard Hartmann , Dominik Hasek , Stanislav Horansky , Marián Horváth , Drahomír Kadlec , Tomáš Kapusta , Kamil Kašťák , Robert Kron , Jiří Kučera , Vojtěch Kučera , Jiří Látal , Ladislav Lubina , Tomáš Mareš , Stanislav Medŕík , Michal Pivoňka , Petr Prajzler , Jaroslav Ševčík , Michal Tomek Coaching staff: František Pospíšil , Július Černický

Bronze USSR

Yevgeny Beloscheikin , Oleg Bratasch , Ravil Khaidarov , Anatoly Fedotov , Alexei Grishchenko , Vladimir Jelowikow , Valeri Kamensky , Igor Kravchuk , Yuri Lynow , Igor Nikitin , Sergei Nowosjolow , Andrei Popugajew , Oleg Posmetjew , Igor Rasko , Alexander Semak , Sergei Swerschow , Mikhail Tatarinow , Pawel Torgajew , Alexander Tschornych , Andrei Wachruschew Coaching staff: Vladimir Kisseljow , Anatoli Bogdanow

Relegated:	Poland
Newcomers:	Switzerland

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Craig Billington	Canada
Best defender	Vesa Salo	Finland
Best striker	Michal Pivoňka	Czechoslovakia

All-Star Team

Attack:	Esa Tikkanen - Michal Pivoňka - Mikko Mäkelä
Defense:	Bobby Dollas - Mikhail Tatarinov
Goal:	Timo Lehkonen

B world championship

in Sapporo, Japan

Games and final table

team	SUI	NED	JPN	AUT	NOR	ITA	ROME	FRA	Gates	Points
1. Switzerland		5: 4	5: 3	20: 7	6: 1	7: 1	8: 6	7-0	58:22	14: 0
2. Netherlands	4: 5		4: 4	8: 1	5: 1	7: 1	7: 1	12: 1	47:14	11: 3
3. Japan	3: 5	4: 4		10: 3	3: 1	5: 2	3: 5	6: 3	34:23	09: 5
4. Austria	7:20	1: 8	3:10		5: 5	3: 2	7: 6	4: 2	30:53	06: 8
5. Norway	1: 6	1: 5	1: 3	5: 5		1: 2	7: 1	7: 6	23:28	05: 9
6. Italy	1: 7	1: 7	2: 5	2: 3	2: 1		5: 3	1: 2	14:28	04:10
7. Romania	6: 8	1: 7	5: 3	6: 7	1: 7	5: 3		5: 5	27:42	03:11
8. France	0: 7	1:12	3: 6	2: 4	6: 7	2: 1	5: 5		19:42	03:11

Moved up and down

Promoted to the A group:	Switzerland
Relegated from the A group:	Poland
Relegated to the C group:	France
Moving up to the B group:	Bulgaria

C world championship

in Brussels a. a., Belgium

Games and final table

team	BUL	HUN	BEL	NED B	GBR	ESP	Gates	Points
1. Bulgaria		3: 2	11: 9	5: 1	4: 1	5: 4	28:17	10-0
2. Hungary	2: 3		6: 1	10: 2	11: 2	6: 4	35:12	08: 2
3. Belgium	9:11	1: 6		5: 5	11: 1	6: 4	32:27	05: 5
4. Netherlands B	1: 5	2:10	5: 5		8: 1	4: 3	20:24	05: 5
5. Great Britain	1: 4	2:11	1:11	1: 8		5: 3	10:37	02: 8
6. Spain	4: 5	4: 6	4: 6	3: 4	3: 5		18:26	00:10

Netherlands B entered out of competition

Moved up and down

Moving up to the B group:	Bulgaria
Relegated from group B:	France

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Ivailo Asenov	Bulgaria
Best defender	Zsolt Heffler	Hungary
Best striker	Bob Moris	Belgium

Web links

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