1955 World Championship



The 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships was the 22nd edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tourmanent was held in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, West Germany from February 25 to March 6, 1955.

A total of 14 nations participated in this World Championship, which was a new record for the postwar era. As a result, the teams were seeded with the strongest 9 teams placed in Pool A (the championship pool)and the remaining 5 nations as well as the West German B team placed in Pool B.

Canada won their sixteenth international title. They were represented by the Penticton V's who had won the Allan Cup the previous season.

Final Standing – Pool B
Game details for Pool A and Pool B results from German version at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eishockey-Weltmeisterschaft_1955

All-Star Team

 * Goaltender: Don Rigazio, United States
 * Defenceman: Kevin Conway, Canada
 * Defenceman: Nikolai Sologubov, USSR
 * Forward: Vladimir Zabrodsky, USSR
 * Forward: Billy Warwick, Canada
 * Forward: Vsevolod Bobrov, USSR

Leading Scorer
Vlastimil Bubník, Czechoslovakia

Canadian Scorers [[canada|🇨🇦]]
Goals-Assists-Points-Penalty minutes

Billy Warwick   14- 8-22 12 Grant Warwick    6-11-17  5 Jack McIntyre    8- 9-17  4 Jack MacDonald   4- 8-12  6 Doug Kilburn     6- 6-12  0 Mike Shabaya     7- 3-10  0 Jim Bairburn     7- 2- 9  2 Dick Warwick     4- 5- 9  4 Hal Tarala       3- 3- 6  2 Barry Middleton  1- 4- 5  4 George McAvoy    2- 2- 4 14 Don Berry        1- 1- 2  2 Bernie Bathgate  1- 1- 2  0 Kevin Conway     1- 1- 2 17 Jack Taggart     0- 1- 1  0