Izvestia Cup 1979

Izvestia Cup
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Winner:	Soviet Union

The Izvestia Cup 1979 ( Russian Турнир на приз газеты Известия , German: tournament for the prize of the newspaper " Известия " , German Izvestia , i.e. news ) was the 13th staging of the international ice hockey tournament , which this year took place from the 16th to the on Dec. 21 took place the 1979th In addition to the Soviet Sbornaja , the national teams of Finland , Sweden and Czechoslovakia took part again. This year the Canadian national ice hockey team also took part in the tournament. Again the team from the USSR could win the tournament.

Games

December 16, 1979

USSR Helmuts Balderis Wiktor Schluktow Boris Michailow Alexander Malzew Alexander Golikow

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

Sweden Jan Lundström

Luzhniki Sports Palace , Moscow Spectators: 12,000

December 16, 1979

Czechoslovakia Jiří Novák (2) Bohuslav Ebermann (2) Marián Šťastný František Černík Anton Šťastný Jiří Bubla Vincent Lukáč Milan Nový

10: 1 (5: 1, 1: 0, 4: 0)

Canada John Devaney

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 12,000

17th December 1979

Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Ebermann (2) Miroslav Fryčer Jan Neliba

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

Finland Jukka Koskilahti Markku Kiimalainen Hannu Haapalainen Hannu Koskinen

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 8,000

17th December 1979

Sweden Ove Karlsson (22nd) Lars Molin (24th) Dan Söderström (28th) Per Lundqvist (3) Thomas Eriksson

7: 2 (0: 0, 5: 1, 2: 1)

Canada Steve Tambellini Kevin Primeau

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 7,000

18th December 1979

USSR Sergei Makarov (2) Valeri Kharlamov Vyacheslav Fetissov Helmuts Balderis Sergei Babinow

6: 3 (1: 1, 1: 1, 4: 1)

Finland Timo Susi Jukka Koskilahti Kari Eloranta

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow

19th December 1979

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Martinec (3) František Kaberle Jiří Novák Jaroslav Pouzar

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

Sweden Peter Wallin

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow

19th December 1979

USSR Viktor Schluktow Valery Vasilyev Vladimir Petrov Boris Michailow Alexander Golikow

5: 2 (1: 0, 2: 1, 2: 1)

Canada Wayne Dillon (27th) Chuck Arnason (41st)

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 12,000

20th December 1979

Sweden Dan Söderström Peter Helander

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

Finland Mikko Leinonen Taspio Levo Seppo Suoraniemi Hannu Koskinen

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow

December 21, 1979

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Martinec Anton Šťastný

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

USSR Helmuts Balderis Valeri Kharlamov Alexander Golikow

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 12,000

December 21, 1979

Canada

0: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

Finland

Luzhniki Sports Palace, Moscow Spectators: 8,000

Closing table

space	team	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	Points
	USSR	4th	4th	0	0	19: 08	8th
	Czechoslovakia	4th	2	1	1	22: 09	5
	Finland	4th	1	2	1	11:12	4th
4th	Sweden	4th	1	0	3	11:17	2
5.	Canada	4th	0	1	3	05:22	1

Awards

• The best scorer was Vladimír Martinec with 8 points (4 goals and 4 assists).

Best players

goalkeeper	Antero Kivelä
defender	Vasily Pervuchin
striker	Vladimír Martinec

Web links

• ТУРНИР ПРИЗ ГАЗЕТЫ «ИЗВЕСТИЯ» 1979 on hockeyarchives.ru (Russian)
• Izvestia Cup 1979 on hockeyarchives.info
• Izvestia Cup 1979 on SFRP's Hockey Archive