Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1991

The games of the 15th Junior A World Championship in 1991 were held from December 26, 1990 to January 4, 1991 in Saskatchewan , Canada . The B group was played in Tychy and Oświęcim , Poland , and the C group in Belgrade , Yugoslavia .

The tournaments took place this year at the following locations and dates:

Junior A World Championship: December 26, 1990 to January 4, 1991 in Saskatoon a . a. ( Canada )

Junior B World Championship: December 27, 1990 to January 5, 1991 in Tychy , Oświęcim ( Poland )

Junior C World Championship: December 27, 1990 to January 5, 1991 in Belgrade ( Yugoslavia )

A total of 24 teams took part, Canada became Junior World Champion for the fifth time.

A world championship

The world championship took place in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . The Canadian team became junior world champions . The team from Norway was relegated and replaced by promoted Germany .

mode

Players under 20 years of age (U-20) were allowed. Eight teams took part, each of whom competed once against each group opponent in a joint 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: 2	5: 6	4: 4	5: 1	7: 4	6-0	10: 1	7th	5	1	1	40:18	11: 3
2.	USSR	2: 3		5: 3	4: 2	5: 5	5: 1	10: 1	13: 0	7th	5	1	1	44:15	11: 3
3.	Czechoslovakia	6: 5	3: 5		5: 1	6: 1	3: 4	10-0	11: 3	7th	5	0	2	44:19	10: 4
4th	United States	4: 4	2: 4	1: 5		6: 3	5: 2	8-0	19: 1	7th	4th	1	2	45:19	09: 5
5.	Finland	1: 5	5: 5	1: 6	3: 6		8: 5	7: 1	10: 2	7th	3	1	3	35:30	07: 7
6th	Sweden	4: 7	1: 5	4: 3	2: 5	5: 8		6: 1	10-0	7th	3	0	4th	32:29	06: 8
7th	Switzerland	0: 6	1:10	0:10	0: 8	1: 7	1: 6		2: 1	7th	1	0	6th	05:48	02:12
8th.	Norway	1:10	0:13	3:11	1:19	2:10	0:10	1: 2		7th	0	0	7th	08:75	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
Doug Weight	United States	7th	5	14th	19th	4th
Eric Lindros	Canada	7th	6th	11	17th	6th
Pavel Bure	USSR	7th	12	3	15th	31
Martin Ručínský	Czechoslovakia	7th	9	5	14th	2
Žigmund Pálffy	Czechoslovakia	7th	7th	6th	13	2
Marko Jantunen	Finland	7th	3	10	13	12
Trent Klatt	United States	7th	6th	6th	12	6th
Ted Drury	United States	7th	5	7th	12	2
Vyacheslav Kozlov	USSR	7th	3	9	12	12
Michael Nylander	Sweden	7th	6th	5	11	8th
Mike Craig	Canada	7th	6th	5	11	8th
Vesa Viitakoski	Finland	7th	6th	5	11	2

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion Canada

Patrice Brisebois , Mike Craig , Dale Craigwell , Kris Draper , Karl Dykhuis , Pat Falloon , David Harlock , Greg Johnson , Trevor Kidd , Martin Lapointe , Eric Lindros , Kent Manderville , Jason Marshall , Brad May , Scott Niedermayer , Félix Potvin , Steven Rice , Pierre Sévigny , Mike Sillinger , John Slaney , Chris Snell , Scott Thornton Trainers: Dick Todd

Silver USSR

Yegor Baschkatow , Sergei Berezin , Pavel Bure , Dmitri Yushkevich , January Kaminski , Valeri Karpov , Darius Kasparaitis , Konstantin Korotkov , Vyacheslav Kozlov , Alexei Kudaschow , Sergei Martyniuk , Boris Mironov , Dmitry Motkow , Yevgeny Namestnikow , Sandis Ozoliņš , Oleg Petrov , Alexei Schitnik , Sergei Solotov , Sergei Svyagin , Serhij Tkachenko , Mikhail Volkov , Sergejs Žoltok's coaching staff: Robert Cherenkov , Alexander Biryukov

Bronze Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Brabec , Roman Čechmánek , Ivan Droppa , Martin Hamrlik , Milan Hnilička , Miloš Holaň , Branislav Jánoš , Jiří Kuntoš , Jaromír Kverka , Patrik Luza , Martin Madový , Jiří Malinský , Roman Meluzín , Tomáš Mikolášek , Jaroslav Modry , Žigmund Pálffy , Martin Procházka , Martin Ručínský , Jiří Šlégr , Martin Straka , Jozef Stümpel , Marián Uharček Coaching staff: Josef Vimmer , Július Šupler

Relegated:	Norway
Newcomers:	Germany

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Pauli Jaks	Switzerland
Best defender	Jiří Šlégr	Czechoslovakia
Best striker	Eric Lindros	Canada

All-Star Team

Attack:	Martin Ručínský - Eric Lindros - Mike Craig
Defense:	Scott Lachance - Dmitri Yushkevich
Goal:	Pauli Jaks

B world championship

in Tychy and Oświęcim, Poland

Games and final table

team	GER	POLE	FRA	JPN	ROME	NED	AUT	DAN	Gates	Points
1. Germany		5: 3	2: 2	7: 4	9: 1	8: 1	11: 2	7: 2	49:15	13: 1
2. Poland	3: 5		5: 4	7: 2	6: 3	10-0	14: 0	8: 3	53:17	12: 2
3. France	2: 2	4: 5		4: 4	13: 3	7: 1	5: 1	7: 3	42:19	10: 4
4. Japan	4: 7	2: 7	4: 4		7-0	4: 2	6: 1	7: 1	34:22	9: 5
5. Romania	1: 9	3: 6	3:13	0: 7		3: 3	4: 2	9: 3	23:43	5: 9
6. Netherlands	1: 8	0:10	1: 7	2: 4	3: 3		6: 3	3: 8	16:43	3:11
7. Austria	2:11	0:14	1: 5	1: 6	2: 4	3: 6		4: 2	13:48	2:12
8. Denmark	2: 7	3: 8	3: 7	1: 7	3: 9	8: 3	2: 4		22:45	2:12

Ascent and descent

Promoted to the A group:	Germany
Relegated from the A group:	Norway
Relegated to the C group:	Denmark
Newcomers from the C group:	North Korea

Top scorer

player	country	Gates	Assists	Points
Mariusz Czerkawski	Poland	12	3	15th
Thorsten Rau	Germany	6th	8th	14th
Csaba Csiki	Romania	5	7th	12
Yannick Charlet	France	2	10	12
Ronny Larsen	Denmark	9	2	11
Stéphane Barin	France	8th	3	11
Eric Legon	France	8th	3	11
Michał Garbocz	Poland	6th	5	11
Attila Balla	Romania	6th	5	11
Lionel Orsolini	France	6th	4th	10

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Christian Künast	Germany
Best defender	Andrzej Gretka	Poland
Best striker	Thorsten Rau	Germany

C world championship

in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Games and final table

team	PRK	ITA	YUG	GBR	COR	BUL	HUN	GRE	Gates	Points
1. North Korea		4: 3	1: 9	4: 2	5: 2	10: 1	6: 1	20: 0	50:18	12: 2
2. Italy	3: 4		6: 2	5: 2	5: 1	8: 1	9-0	21: 1	57:11	12: 2
3. Yugoslavia	9: 1	2: 6		5: 2	7: 7	13: 2	8: 2	33: 1	77:21	11: 3
4. Great Britain	2: 4	2: 5	2: 5		3: 2	5: 1	9: 3	22: 0	48:21	8: 6
5. South Korea	2: 5	1: 5	7: 7	2: 3		8: 2	9: 5	26: 1	56:28	7: 7
6. Bulgaria	1:10	1: 8	2:13	1: 5	2: 8		5: 3	22: 1	34:48	4:10
7. Hungary	1: 6	0: 9	2: 8	3: 9	5: 9	3: 5		14: 0	28:46	2:12
8. Greece	0:20	1:21	1:33	0:22	1:26	1:22	0:14		4: 158	0:14

Ascent and descent

Moving up to the B group:	North Korea
Relegated from group B:	Denmark

Top scorer

player	country	Gates	Assists	Points
Anthony Payne	Great Britain	10	7th	17th
Aleksandar Košić	Yugoslavia	10	7th	17th
Lino de Toni	Italy	10	5	15th
Woo-Sam Shin	South Korea	6th	9	15th
Markus Brunner	Italy	10	4th	14th

Web links

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