1976 IIHF World Junior Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Dates	December 26, 1975 – January 1, 1976
Teams	5
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played	10
Goals scored	78 (7.8 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Valeri Evstifeev (8 points)
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The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975, and January 1, 1976, in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Rauma Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record. ^[1] This was the third edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records. ^[2] Canada was represented by a club team, the Sherbrooke Castors, while the other four nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players. ^[3] The United States did not participate in this tournament, after having competed in the 1974 and 1975 tournaments.

Final standings

The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other four teams once each.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Soviet Union	4	4	0	0	19	10	+9	8
2	Canada	4	2	2	0	12	27	−15	4
3	Czechoslovakia	4	2	2	0	12	10	+2	4
4	Finland	4	1	3	0	12	14	−2	2
5	Sweden	4	1	3	0	23	17	+6	2

Results

Finland

1 – 4 (1–1, 0–2, 0–1)

Canada

Soviet Union

3 – 2 (0–2, 2–0, 1–0)

Czechoslovakia

Sweden

17 – 1 (3–1, 9–0, 5–0)

Canada

Sweden

2 – 5 (2–2, 0–2, 0–1)

Soviet Union

Finland

0 – 2 (0–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Czechoslovakia

Finland

4 – 6 (0–4, 0–0, 4–2)

Soviet Union

Canada

5 – 4 (0–1, 1–2, 4–1)

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

4 – 2 (3–0, 0–2, 1–0)

Sweden

Finland

7 – 2 (2–0, 1–2, 4–0)

Sweden

Soviet Union

5 – 2 (1–0, 1–0, 3–2)

Canada

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Valeri Evstifeev	Soviet Union	4	4	8
2	Karel Holý	Czechoslovakia	5	2	7
3	Valeri Bragin	Soviet Union	4	2	6
4	Sergei Prdgortsev	Soviet Union	2	4	6
5	Matti Forss	Finland	4	1	5
6	Björn Johansson	Sweden	3	2	5
7	Josef Lukác	Czechoslovakia	2	3	5
8	Peter Marsh	Canada	4	0	4
9	Thomas Gradin	Sweden	3	1	4
	Hannu Helander	Finland	3	1	4
	Anders Håkansson	Sweden	3	1	4

Tournament awards

	Best Players	All-Star Team
Goaltender	Sergei Babariko	Pavol Švárny
Defencemen	Vasili Pervukhin	Vassili Pervukhin Björn Johansson
Forwards	Valeri Evstifeev	Peter Marsh Karel Holý Valeri Evstifeev

References

• "Matches internationaux des moins de 20 ans 1975/76". Retrieved 2011-10-18.