1977 World Junior Championship

The 1977 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1977 WJHC) were held between December 22, 1976 and January 2, 1977 in Banská Bystrica and Zvolen, Czechoslovakia.

The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 7–0 record.

This was the fourth edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the first to be included in official IIHF records.

Canada was represented by a club team, the St. Catherines Fincups (as the 1976 Memorial Cup champions), but the other seven nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.

The tournament was expanded to eight teams, with West Germany and Poland making their debut appearance.

Tournament results

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

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
	Soviet Union	7	7	0	0	51	19	14		—	6–4	4–0	10–6	4–2	2–1	15–5	10–1
	Canada	7	5	1	1	50	20	11		4–6	—	4–4	6–4	5–3	9–1	8–2	14–0
	Czechoslovakia	7	4	2	1	32	17	9		0–4	4–4	—	2–3	4–2	8–2	5–2	9–0
4	Finland	7	4	3	0	35	29	8		6–10	4–6	3–2	—	4–5	4–1	6–3	8–2
5	Sweden	7	3	4	0	28	30	6		2–4	3–5	2–4	5–4	—	5–0	5–8	6–5
6	West Germany	7	2	5	0	18	33	4		1–2	1–9	2–8	1–4	0–5	—	4–3	9–2
7	United States	7	1	5	1	25	45	3		5–15	2–8	2–5	3–6	8–5	3–4	—	2–2
8	Poland	7	0	6	1	12	58	1		1–10	0–14	0–9	2–8	5–6	2–9	2–2	—

Scoring leaders

Player	Team	G	A	Pts
Dale McCourt	Canada	10	8	18
John Anderson	Canada	11	5	16
Igor Romashin	Soviet Union	6	6	12
Juha Jurkkio	Finland	7	4	11
Alexei Frolikov	Soviet Union	6	5	11
Sergei Makarov	Soviet Union	4	7	11

All-star team

Goaltender

Alexander Tyzhunyk

Defencemen

Viacheslav Fetisov

Risto Siltanen

Forwards

Dale McCourt

Igor Romashin

Bengt-Åke Gustafsson

References

• IIHF World Junior Championship All-Star Teams. Hockey Canada. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
• WJHC History - 1977–1981. TSN.ca. CTVglobemedia. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.

Preceded by 1976 World Juniors

World Junior Ice Hockey Championships See also: 1977 World Championships

Succeeded by 1978 World Juniors