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The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1987 WJHC) was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Piešťany, Trenčin, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia captured the silver, and Sweden the bronze.

Punch-up in Piestany[]

Main article: Punch-up in Piestany

This tournament featured one of the most infamous brawl in international hockey history as Canada and the Soviet Union engaged in a wild melee after both benches cleared in the second period of the final game of the tournament.

It began when Pavel Kostichkin took a two-handed slash at Theoren Fleury, sparking a fight between the two. The benches cleared after the USSR's Evgeny Davydov left his bench to join the melee. The officials, unable to break up the fight, walked off the ice and eventually tried shutting off the arena lights, but the brawl lasted for 20 minutes before the International Ice Hockey Federation abandoned the contest. An emergency meeting was held following the brawl that ended with the delegates voting 7–1 to disqualify Canada and USSR from the tournament, the sole dissenter being Canadian Dennis McDonald. The Canadian team, disgusted at what they perceived to be a conspiracy against them, chose to leave rather than stay for the end-of-tournament dinner, from which the Soviet team were banned.

While the Soviets were out of medal contention, Canada was playing for the gold medal, and were leading 4–2 at the time of the brawl (they needed to win by at least five goals to claim the gold). Even had they lost the game, they were assured at least the bronze medal. Afterwards, Soviet hockey official Anatoly Kastriukov claimed that the hostilities were fueled by a Canadian trainer, alleging that he assaulted one of the Soviet assistant coaches. Some Canadians maintained that the Soviets had started the brawl by leaving their bench first, and had done so with the intention of getting Canada disqualified and lose a medal.

Canada and USSR being disqualified had the retroactive effect of making the Finland-Czechoslovakia game (played earlier the same day) the gold medal game, while the Sweden-United States game became the bronze medal contest, and the Poland-Switzerland game determined who placed fifth. The loser of the latter game (Switzerland) was relegated, just as they would have been had the brawl not occurred.

Final standings[]

Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
Gold medal icon Flag of Finland Finland 7 5 1 1 45 23 11
Silver medal icon Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 5 2 0 36 23 10
Bronze medal icon Flag of Sweden Sweden 7 4 2 1 45 11 9
4 Flag of the United States United States of America 7 4 3 0 42 30 8
5 Flag of Poland Poland 7 1 6 0 21 80 2
6 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 7 0 7 0 15 62 0
DSQ Flag of Canada Canada 6 5 1 1 41 23 11
DSQ Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 6 2 4 1 27 18 5

Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for 1988.

The game between Flag of Canada Canada and the Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union was declared null and void, and is excluded from the final standings.

Results[]

December 26, 1986
Flag of Canada Canada 6 – 4 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
December 26, 1986
Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union 7 – 1 Flag of Poland Poland
December 26, 1986
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 4 – 1 Flag of Sweden Sweden
December 26, 1986
Flag of Finland Finland 4 – 1 Flag of the United States United States
December 27, 1986
Flag of Canada Canada 6 – 6 Flag of Finland Finland
December 27, 1986
Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union 8 – 0 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
December 27, 1986
Flag of Sweden Sweden 15 – 0 Flag of Poland Poland
December 27, 1986
Flag of the United States United States 8 – 2 Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
December 29, 1986
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 – 1 Flag of Canada Canada
December 29, 1986
Flag of Sweden Sweden 8 – 0 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
December 29, 1986
Flag of the United States United States 15 – 2 Flag of Poland Poland
December 29, 1986
Flag of Finland Finland 5 – 4 Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union
December 30, 1986
Flag of Canada Canada 18 – 3 Flag of Poland Poland
December 30, 1986
Flag of Sweden Sweden 5 – 0 Flag of Finland Finland
December 30, 1986
Flag of the United States United States 12 – 6 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
December 30, 1986
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 – 3 Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union
January 1, 1987
Flag of Canada Canada 6 – 2 Flag of the United States United States
January 1, 1987
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 9 – 2 Flag of Poland Poland
January 1, 1987
Flag of Finland Finland 12 – 1 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
January 1, 1987
Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 – 3 Flag of Sweden Sweden
January 2, 1987
Flag of Canada Canada 4 – 3 Flag of Sweden Sweden
January 2, 1987
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 8 – 1 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
January 2, 1987
Flag of Finland Finland 13 – 3 Flag of Poland Poland
January 2, 1987
Flag of the United States United States 4 – 2 Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union
January 4, 1987
Flag of Finland Finland 5 – 3 Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
January 4, 1987
Flag of Poland Poland 8 – 3 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
January 4, 1987
Flag of Sweden Sweden 8 – 0 Flag of the United States United States
January 4, 1987
Flag of Canada Canada Game declared null and void Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union

Leading scorers[]

Rank Player Country G A Pts
2 Teppo Kivelä Finland 6 7 13
1 Ulf Dahlen Flag of Sweden Sweden 7 8 15
2 Teppo Kivelä Finland 6 7 13
3 Janne Ojanen Finland 3 9 12
3 Jukka Seppo Finland 3 9 12
5 Scott Young Flag of the United States 7 4 11
6 Pär Edlund Sweden 5 6 11
7 Roger Öhman Sweden 5 6 11
8 Sami Wahlsten Finland 4 7 11
9 Bo Svanberg Sweden 7 3 10
9 Martin Hosták Czechoslovakia 7 3 10
  • Canada and the USSR disqualified from final scoring standings. (Canada's Pat Elynuik had 11 points and David Latta had 10.)

Tournament all-stars[]

References[]

Preceded by
1986 World Juniors
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

See also: 1987 World Championships
Succeeded by
1988 World Juniors


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