1954 Ice Hockey World Championships

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Template:Infobox tournament seasonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 1954 Ice Hockey World Championships, were the 21st World Championships and 32nd European ice hockey championships were held from 26 February to 7 March 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden. Every team played each other once with the top three finishers receiving medals at the end. The USSR won in its first attempt, led by Vsevolod Bobrov who was recognized as the best forward of the tournament in the first ever presentation of Directorate Awards.

Description

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Soviet Union–Canada match. The Soviets, playing in their first World Championships, defeated Canada 7–2 in the final game to win the gold medal.

The USSR won their first five games before meeting up with the host, and defending champion, Sweden. Sweden, having already lost 8-0 to Canada, desperately needed to beat the Soviets, but settled for a 1–1 tie. The final game of the tournament pitted the East York Lyndhursts, representing Canada, against the USSR, both teams being undefeated. Tournament organizers believed the Canadians would cruise to their seventh straight win and had begun to sell tickets for a planned tie-breaking game between the Soviets and Swedes to determine the European Championship.[1][2] However the Soviets "appeared to pass too much, check too little, and skate too fast"[1] and "thoroughly dominated" in a 7–2 win before 16,000 fans.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) president W. B. George stated that the final game was the worst he had seen the Lyndhursts play and that they seemed afraid of being penalized.[3] The CAHA was heavily criticized by media in Canada for the failure to win the World Championships, and writer Michael McKinley stated the loss was a "day of reckoning" and a symbol of what went wrong with the CAHA's international strategy, and the beginning of a hockey rivalry with the Soviet Union.[4]

Beginning with this year the IIHF began giving out official awards (known as the "directorate awards") to the best forward, defensemen, and goaltender, of the tournament.[5]

In 2013, the Soviet national team was awarded the IIHF Milestone Award for winning the gold medal,[6] which was their country's first appearance at the World Championships and the beginning of a rivalry versus Canada.[4]

Final round

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Standings

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Trophy awarded for the 1954 World Championships

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Team members

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Tournament awards

European Championships final rankings

  1. File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936 – 1955).svg Soviet Union
  2. File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
  3. File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia
  4. File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
  5. File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
  6. File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
  7. File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway

Citations

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  1. ↑ a b Duplacey P. 503
  2. ↑ Tournament summary
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  5. ↑ Podnieks p.30
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References

  • Complete results
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External links

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