1955 World Championship

1955 World Champion Penticton V's

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.

POOL A

Games

25. February 1955	Cologne	Czechoslovakia	–	Switzerland		7:0 (1:0,2:0,4:0)
25. February 1955	Dortmund	Canada	–	USA		12:1 (3:0,5:1,4:0)
25. February 1955	Düsseldorf	USSR	–	Finland		10:2 (2:2,5:0,3:0)
25. February 1955	Krefeld	West Germany	–	Sweden		4:5 (1:2,3:2,0:1)
26. February 1955	Cologne	USA	–	Finland		8:1 (1:1,4:0,3:0)
26. February 1955	Dortmund	USSR	–	Sweden		2:1 (1:1,0:0,1:0)
26. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Canada	–	Czechoslovakia		5:3 (1:0,0:1,4:2)
26. February 1955	Krefeld	West Germany	–	Poland		4:5 (3:3,0:1,1:1)
27. February 1955	Cologne	Canada	–	Poland		8:0 (3:0,3:0,2:0)
27. February 1955	Dortmund	West Germany	–	USA		3:6 (0:3,3:3,0:0)
27. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Sweden	–	Switzerland		10:0 (0:0,6:0,4:0)
27. February 1955	Krefeld	USSR	–	Czechoslovakia		4:0 (1:0,1:0,2:0)
28. February 1955	Cologne	USSR	–	Poland		8:2 (2:0,2:1,4:0)
28. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Canada	–	Finland		12:0 (7:0,3:0,2:0)
28. February 1955	Krefeld	USA	–	Switzerland		7:3 (1:1,2:1,4:1)
1. March 1955	Cologne	Czechoslovakia	–	Sweden		6:5 (2:1,2:1,2:3)
1. March 1955	Düsseldorf	Poland	–	Switzerland		2:4 (1:1,0:1,1:2)
1. March 1955	Krefeld	West Germany	–	Finland		7:1 (3:0,3:1,1:0)
2. March 1955	Cologne	Canada	–	Switzerland		11:1 (4:1,3:0,4:0)
2. March 1955	Düsseldorf	Sweden	–	Finland		9:0 (1:0,6:0,2:0)
2. March 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany	–	Czechoslovakia		0:8 (0:0,0:5,0:3)
2. March 1955	Krefeld	USSR	–	USA		3:0 (1:0,2:0,0:0)
3. March 1955	Cologne	Poland	–	Finland		6:3 (1:1,2:1,3:1)
3. March 1955	Krefeld	Canada	–	Sweden		3:0 (0:0,3:0,0:0)
3. March 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany	–	USSR		1:5 (1:0,0:2,0:3)
3. March 1955	Cologne	Czechoslovakia	–	USA		4:4 (1:1,1:1,2:2)
4. March 1955	Cologne	West Germany	–	Canada		1:10 (0:3,1:4,0:3)
4. March 1955	Düsseldorf	USA	–	Poland		6:2 (2:0,3:0,1:2)
4. March 1955	Krefeld	USSR	–	Switzerland		7:2 (2:0,2:1,3:1)
5. March 1955	Cologne	Finland	–	Switzerland		7:2 (2:1,3:1,2:0)
5. March 1955	Düsseldorf	Sweden	–	USA		1:1 (0:0,0:0,1:1)
5. March 1955	Krefeld	Czechoslovakia	–	Poland		17:2 (7:0,3:2,7:0)
6. March 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany	–	Switzerland		8:3 (3:1,1:2,4:0)
6. March 1955	Cologne	Sweden	–	Poland		9:0 (4:0,2:0,3:0)
6. March 1955	Düsseldorf	Czechoslovakia	–	Finland		18:2 (3:1,7:1,8:0)
6. March 1955	Krefeld	Canada	–	USSR		5:0 (1:0,2:0,2:0)

Final Standings -- Pool A

	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Canada	8	8	0	0	66	6	16
2	Soviet Union	8	7	1	0	39	13	14
3	Czechoslovakia	8	5	2	1	63	22	11
4	United States of America	8	4	2	2	33	29	10
5	Sweden	8	4	3	1	40	16	9
6	Federal Republic of Germany	8	2	6	0	28	43	4
7	Poland	8	2	6	0	19	59	4
8	Switzerland	8	1	7	0	15	59	2
9	Finland	8	1	7	0	16	72	2

POOL B

Games

25. February 1955	Dortmund	Austria	–	Yugoslavia		3:2 (1:1,1:1,1:0)
25. February 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Italy		2:2 (1:1,0:1,1:0)
27. February 1955	Dortmund	Netherlands	–	Belgium		6:3 (1:1,1:0,4:2)
27. February 1955	Cologne	West Germany B	–	Austria		3:2 (1:0,2:1,0:1)
28. February 1955	Krefeld	Yugoslavia	–	Belgium		5:2 (0:0,4:1,1:1)
28. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Italy	–	Austria		3:1 (2:1,1:0,0:0)
2. March 1955	Krefeld	Austria	–	Belgium		5:3 (1:0,1:1,3:2)
2. March 1955	Dortmund	Italy	–	Netherlands		10:2 (4:1,2:0,4:1)
2. March 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Yugoslavia		5:1 (4:0,0:0,1:1)
4. March 1955	Cologne	Italy	–	Yugoslavia		9:1 (3:1,4:0,2:0)
4. March 1955	Cologne	West Germany B	–	Netherlands		11:1 (3:1,2:0,6:0)
5. March 1955	Krefeld	Austria	–	Netherlands		6:1 (2:0,2:0,2:1)
5. March 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Belgium		11:1 (1:0,4:0,6:1)
6. March 1955	Krefeld	Italy	–	Belgium		28:0 (7:0,13:0,8:0)
6. March 1955	Krefeld	Netherlands	–	Yugoslavia		9:1 (3:1,2:0,4:0)

Final Standing – Pool B

Pos	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Italy	5	4	1	0	52	6	9
2	West Germany B +	5	4	1	0	30	5	9
3	Austria	5	3	0	2	17	12	6
4	Netherlands	5	2	0	3	19	31	4
5	Yugoslavia	5	1	0	4	10	28	2
6	Belgium	5	0	0	5	9	55	0

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

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

References

• Szemberg, Szymon & Podnieks, Andrew, eds. (2007), World of Hockey: Celebrating a Century of the IIHF, Bolton, Ontario: Fenn Publishing, ISBN 1-55168-307-5