1975 IIHF World Junior Championship

Tournament details
Host countries	Canada   United States
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Dates	December 27, 1974 – January 5, 1975
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Games played	15
Goals scored	95 (6.33 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Boris Chuchin Dag Bredberg (8 points)
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The 1975 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1974, and January 5, 1975, in several venues in Winnipeg and Brandon in Canada and in Minneapolis, Bloomington, and Fargo in the United States. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record. ^[1] This was the second edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records. ^[2] Canada was represented by an all-star team from just the Western Canada Hockey League, while the other five nations were represented by teams of all their top under-20 players. ^[3]

Final standings

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	22	8	+14	10
2	Canada	5	4	1	0	27	10	+17	8
3	Sweden	5	2	2	1	18	24	−6	5
4	Czechoslovakia	5	1	2	2	9	11	−2	4
5	Finland	5	1	3	1	10	14	−4	3
6	United States	5	0	5	0	9	28	−19	0

Results

Finland

1 – 4

Soviet Union

Canada

10 – 2 (2–0, 6–1, 2–1)

Sweden

Czechoslovakia

1 – 1

Finland

Canada

9 – 3

United States

Soviet Union

5 – 1 (2–0, 3–1, 0–0)

Czechoslovakia

Sweden

7 – 3 (2–0, 1–1, 4–2)

United States

Canada

2 – 1

Finland

Canada

3 – 0 (2–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Czechoslovakia

Soviet Union

3 – 1 (1–0, 2–1, 0–0)

United States

Sweden

5 – 3 (3–2, 0–0, 2–1)

Finland

Soviet Union

6 – 2 (0–0, 2–2, 4–0)

Sweden

United States

0 – 5

Czechoslovakia

Canada

3 – 4 (1–2, 0–2, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Finland

4 – 2

United States

Sweden

2 – 2 (1–1, 0–1, 1–0)

Czechoslovakia

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Boris Chuchin	Soviet Union	4	4	8
	Dag Bredberg	Sweden	4	4	8
3	Dale McMullin	Canada	3	5	8
4	Vladimir Kucherenko	Soviet Union	0	8	8
5	Emil Meszáros	Sweden	4	3	7
6	Kent Nilsson	Sweden	4	2	6
	Bryan Trottier	Canada	4	2	6
8	Mel Bridgman	Canada	4	1	5
	Viktor Khatulev	Soviet Union	4	1	5
10	Mark Davidson	Canada	3	2	5
	Peter Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	3	2	5
	Matti Hagman	Finland	3	2	5

Tournament awards

	Best Players	All-Star Team
Goaltender	Ed Staniowski	Vladimir Myshkin
Defencemen	Sergei Babinov	Richard Lapointe Viktor Kucherenko
Forwards	Viktor Khatulev	Dale McMullin Viktor Khatulev Boris Alexandrov

References

• "Matches internationaux des moins de 20 ans 1974/75". Retrieved 2011-10-18.