Izvestia Cup 1977

Izvestia Cup
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Winner:	Soviet Union

The Izvestia Cup 1977 ( Russian Турнир на приз газеты Известия , German: tournament for the prize of the newspaper “ Izvestia ” , German Izvestia , ie. News ) was the 11th edition of the international ice hockey tournament , which this year from 16. to on Dec. 21 took place the 1977th In addition to the Soviet Sbornaja , the national teams of Finland , Sweden and Czechoslovakia took part again. Also this year, the Canadian Nordiques de Québec , the winner of the WHA , a non-European team was invited.

Games

December 16, 1977

Czechoslovakia Ivan Hlinka (1st) Ivan Hlinka (41st) Eduard Novák (55th)

3: 3 (1: 2, 0: 0, 2: 1) game report

Finland Esa Peltonen (10th) Matti Rautiainen (14th) Jukka Porvari (59th)

Lenin Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 10,000

December 16, 1977

USSR Alexander Malzew (3rd) Vyacheslav Anissin (8th, 19th) Gennady Zygankow (33rd) Vyacheslav Anissin (48th)

5: 3 (2: 0, 2: 2, 1: 1) game report

Nordiques de Québec Réal Cloutier (31st) Matti Hagman (34th, 57th)

Lenin Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 14,000

17th December 1977

Sweden Olsson Leif Holmgren Stig Östling Ericsson

4: 1 (1: 1, 1: 0, 2: 0) game report

Finland Seppo Repo

Moscow spectators: 10,000

18th December 1977

Sweden Lars-Gunnar Lundberg (2) Thomas Gradin Per Lundqvist Bengt Lundholm Lars-Erik Esbjörs

6: 2 (0: 0, 4: 0, 2: 2) game report

Nordiques de Québec Jean-Claude Tremblay Garry Lariviere

Moscow spectators: 14,000

18th December 1977

USSR Boris Mikhailov (2) Valery Kharlamov

3: 8 (0: 2, 0: 3, 3: 3) game report

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Martinec (2) Jiří Bubla Marián Šťastný Ivan Hlinka Jaroslav Pouzar Jiří Novák Josef Augusta

Moscow spectators: 14,000

19th December 1977

Finland Seppo Repo (2) Esa Peltonen Matti Rautiainen Juhani Tamminen Pertti Koivulahti

6: 6 (2: 1, 2: 5, 2: 0) game report

Nordiques de Québec Matti Hagman (2) Jean Bernier Bob Fitchner Réal Cloutier Jean-Claude Tremblay

Moscow spectators: 13,500

20th December 1977

USSR Yuri Feodorov (2) Valery Kharlamov Vladimir Petrov Gennady Zygankov Vyacheslav Anissin Vasily Pervukhin

7: 3 (3: 0, 2: 0, 2: 3) game report

Finland Hannu Kapanen Seppo Suoraniemi Jukka Alkula

Moscow spectators: 13,000

20th December 1977

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Martinec Bohuslav Ebermann

2: 1 (1: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0) game report

Sweden Lennart Norberg

Moscow spectators: 14,000

December 21, 1977

USSR Valeri Kharlamov (2) Helmuts Balderis (2) Sergei Kapustin Alexander Malzew Sergei Babinow Viktor Shalimov Valery Vasiliev

9: 2 (2: 1, 4: 0, 3: 1)

Sweden Ericsson (2)

Moscow spectators: 14,000

December 21, 1977

Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Ebermann Milan Kajkl Marián Šťastný Peter Šťastný Eduard Novák Vladimír Martinec

6: 2 (3: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1)

Nordiques de Québec Réal Cloutier Marc Tardif

Moscow spectators: 13,500

Closing table

space	team	Games	S.	U	N	T	P
	Czechoslovakia	4th	3	1	0	19: 09	7th
	USSR	4th	3	0	1	24:16	6th
	Sweden	4th	2	0	2	13:14	4th
4th	Finland	4th	0	2	2	13:20	2
5.	Nordiques de Québec	4th	0	1	3	13:23	1

Awards

The best players

Best player	Ivan Hlinka
Best referee	Ron Harris
Best scorer	Vyacheslav Anisin and Valery Kharlamov each 6 points (4 goals and 2 assists)

All-Star Team

goalkeeper	Jiří Holeček
defender	Pekka Marjamäaki - Jean Bernier
striker	Thomas Gradin - Ivan Hlinka - Boris Michailow

Web links

• ТУРНИР ПРИЗ ГАЗЕТЫ «ИЗВЕСТИЯ» 1977 on hockeyarchives.ru (Russian)
• Izvestia Cup 1977 on hockeyarchives.info
• Izvestia Cup 1977 on SFRP's Hockey Archive