1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1995 WJHC) was the 19th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was hosted in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia won silver, and Sweden the bronze.

Final standings

The 1995 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. It was the last tournament, to use this round-robin format.

No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996.

Results

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Marty Murray	Template:Ihj	6	9	15
2	Jason Allison	Template:Ihj	3	12	15
3	Bryan McCabe	Template:Ihj	3	9	12
4	Alexander Serikow	Template:Ihj	2	9	11
5	Éric Dazé	Template:Ihj	8	2	10
5	Alexander Korolyuk	Template:Ihj	8	2	10
7	Adam Deadmarsh	Template:Ihj	6	4	10
7	Václav Varaďa	Template:Ihj	6	4	10
9	Josef Marha	Template:Ihj	5	5	10
10	Vadim Sharifyanov	Template:Ihj	4	6	10

Tournament awards

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Template:Flagicon Yevgeni Tarasov	Template:Flagicon Igor Karpenko
Defencemen	Template:Flagicon Bryan McCabe	Template:Flagicon Bryan McCabe Template:Flagicon Anders Eriksson
Forwards	Template:Flagicon Marty Murray	Template:Flagicon Jason Allison Template:Flagicon Éric Dazé Template:Flagicon Marty Murray

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Caen, Rouen, Le Havre, and Louviers France from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.

Standings

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Qualification for Pool C1

This would be the final year for a pre-tournament qualification. The winner of this tournament would participate in the C1 pool, second and third would participate in C2. It was played from September 3 to 5, in Minsk, Belarus.

Pool C1

Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). Because there were to be two teams promoted, each group winner secured promotion before the placement games. The tournament took place from December 29 to January 3, in Puigcerda Spain.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Placement Games

• 7th place:Template:Ihj 4 - 3(ot) Template:Ihj
• 5th place:Template:Ihj 3 - 2 Template:Ihj
• 3rd place:Template:Ihj 3 - 2 Template:Ihj
• 1st Place:Template:Ihj 5 - 2 Template:Ihj

Pool C2

Six teams played a round robin, with the top two gain promotion for the following year's Pool C, the remaining teams would be placed in Pool D. It was played from December 31 to January 6, in Tallinn Estonia.

Standings

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References

• 1995 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
• http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1995.htm at Passionhockey.com