1988 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	December 26, 1987 – January 4, 1988
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (3rd title)
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Games played	28
Goals scored	247 (8.82 per game)
Attendance	46,220 (1,651 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Alexander Mogilny (18 points)
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The 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 12th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Canada and the Soviet Union won the gold and silver medals respectively as the two nations redeemed themselves following their mutual disqualification in the 1987 tournament as a result of the Punch-up in Piestany. Finland won the bronze medal.

The 1988 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	6	0	1	37	16	+21	13
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	44	18	+26	12
3	Finland	7	5	1	1	36	20	+16	11
4	Czechoslovakia	7	3	3	1	36	23	+13	7
5	Sweden	7	3	3	1	36	24	+12	7
6	United States	7	1	6	0	28	46	−18	2
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	18	47	−29	2
8	Poland	7	1	6	0	12	53	−41	2

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1989.

December 26, 1987

Canada

4 – 2

Sweden

December 26, 1987

Soviet Union

6 – 4

Czechoslovakia

December 26, 1987

Finland

6 – 0

West Germany

December 26, 1987

Poland

4 – 3

United States

December 28, 1987

Canada

4 – 2

Czechoslovakia

December 28, 1987

Sweden

13 – 0

Poland

December 28, 1987

Soviet Union

6 – 2

Finland

December 28, 1987

United States

6 – 4

West Germany

December 29, 1987

Finland

4 – 4

Canada

December 29, 1987

Sweden

5 – 1

West Germany

December 29, 1987

Czechoslovakia

6 – 1

Poland

December 29, 1987

Soviet Union

7 – 3

United States

December 31, 1987

Canada

5 – 4

United States

December 31, 1987

Czechoslovakia

7 – 4

West Germany

December 31, 1987

Soviet Union

4 – 2

Sweden

December 31, 1987

Finland

9 – 1

Poland

January 1, 1988

Canada

3 – 2

Soviet Union

January 1, 1988

West Germany

6 – 3

Poland

January 1, 1988

Czechoslovakia

5 – 5

Sweden

January 1, 1988

Finland

8 – 6

United States

January 3, 1988

Canada

8 – 1

West Germany

January 3, 1988

Finland

5 – 2

Sweden

January 3, 1988

Soviet Union

7 – 2

Poland

January 3, 1988

Czechoslovakia

11 – 1

United States

January 4, 1988

Canada

9 – 1

Poland

January 4, 1988

Soviet Union

12 – 2

West Germany

January 4, 1988

Finland

2 – 1

Czechoslovakia

January 4, 1988

Sweden

7 – 5

United States

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Alexander Mogilny	Soviet Union	9	9	18
2	Thomas Sjögren	Sweden	6	9	15
3	Ola Rosander	Sweden	9	5	14
3	Sergei Fedorov	Soviet Union	6	6	12
5	Janne Ojanen	Finland	6	5	11
6	Robert Reichel	Czechoslovakia	3	8	11
6	Tero Toivola	Finland	3	8	11
8	Jeremy Roenick	United States	5	4	9
9	Petr Pavlas	Czechoslovakia	4	5	9
10	Greg Hawgood	Canada	1	8	9

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Jimmy Waite	Jimmy Waite
Defencemen	Teppo Numminen	Greg Hawgood Teppo Numminen
Forwards	Alexander Mogilny	Alexander Mogilny Theoren Fleury Petr Hrbek

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 12 to 21. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Norway	7	5	2	0	38	18	+20	10			8–0	3–2	3–4	8–2	6–7	5–1	5–2
2	Romania	7	5	2	0	24	27	−3	10		0–8		4–2	3–2	3–6	5–4	3–1	6–4
3	Switzerland	7	4	2	1	34	23	+11	9		2–3	2–4		1–1	6–5	6–5	9–2	8–3
4	Japan	7	3	2	2	34	27	+7	8		4–3	2–3	1–1		7–1	6–8	4–4	10–7
5	France	7	4	3	0	31	36	−5	8		2–8	6–3	5–6	1–7		7–6	7–5	3–1
6	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	37	36	+1	7		7–6	4–5	5–6	8–6	6–7		2–2	5–4
7	Netherlands	7	0	4	3	20	35	−15	3		1–5	1–3	2–9	4–4	5–7	2–2		5–5
8	Austria	7	0	6	1	26	42	−16	1		2–5	4–6	3–8	7–10	1–3	4–5	5–5

Norway was promoted to Pool A and Austria was relegated to Pool C for 1989.

Eight teams contested the third tier this year in Belluno and Feltre, Italy from March 18 to 27. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. The North Korean juniors debuted this year.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Denmark	7	7	0	0	59	11	+48	14			6–2	3–2	9–2	19–0	4–2	5–3	13–0
2	Italy	7	6	1	0	27	17	+10	12		2–6		4–1	6–4	4–2	3–2	3–2	5–0
3	Bulgaria	7	5	2	0	39	16	+23	10		2–3	1–4		7–3	8–1	10–0	8–4	3–1
4	Great Britain	7	3	3	1	21	27	−6	7		2–9	4–6	3–7		4–1	3–1	2–2	3–1
5	Spain	7	2	4	1	19	45	−26	5		0–19	2–4	1–8	1–4		6–2	5–5	4–3
6	Hungary	7	2	5	0	14	28	−14	4		2–4	2–3	0–10	1–3	2–6		4–1	3–1
7	North Korea	7	1	4	2	20	29	−9	4		3–5	2–3	4–8	2–2	5–5	1–4		3–2
8	Belgium	7	0	7	0	8	34	−26	0		0–13	0–5	1–3	1–3	3–4	1–3	2–3

Denmark was initially promoted to Pool B for 1989, however because they used an ineligible player, a challenge series with Italy was played the following December to determine promotion. ^[1]