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1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


FieldValue
tourney_nameIIHF U20 World Championship
year1999
image1999 WJHC logo.png
size200px
countryCanada
datesDecember 26, 1998 – January 5, 1999
num_teams10
venues6
cities6
typeihj
winnersRussia
count1
secondCanada
thirdSlovakia
fourthSweden
games31
goals225
attendance173453
scoring_leaderUSA Brian Gionta
points11
prevseason[1998](1998-world-junior-ice-hockey-championships)
nextseason[2000](2000-world-junior-ice-hockey-championships)

The 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1999 WJC) was held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada from December 26, 1998, to January 5, 1999. In the gold medal match at Winnipeg Arena, Russia defeated Canada 3–2 on Artem Chubarov's overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.

The playoff round reverted back to six teams qualifying, with group leaders getting a bye to the semifinals.

Pool A

Group A

Chimera (Allen) - 2:37 Fata (Tkaczuk) - 13:13 Chimera (Leeb, Druken) - 30:59 Tkaczuk (Calder) - 46:54 Gagné (EN) - 59:50 30:14 - Ahonen (Laatikainen, Somervuori) 49:18 - Kauppinen (Koskela, Hagman) (PP) 59:43 - Valtonen (Kauppinen, Väänänen) (PP) Tkaczuk (Fata, Chimera) - 54:25 Murphy (Gionta, Gomez) - 26:23 Heisten (Gomez, Mara) (PP) - 28:03 Gionta (Murphy, Gomez) - 30:33 Gomez (Mara, Blackburn) (PP) - 41:15 37:21 - Tkaczuk (A. Ference, Calder) (PP)

Group B

Relegation round

Source:

Final round

Source:

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Quarterfinals

Gagné (Morrow, B. Ference) - 5:39 Tkaczuk (Fata, Calder - 15:20 Gagné (Morrow, Leeb) - 21:05 Ward - 33:25 Tkaczuk (Calder) - 34:22 Gagné (Leeb, Morrow) - 34:52 Leeb (Morrow, Van Ryn) - 35:08 Morrow (Leeb) - 42:30 Druken (McDonell, Chimera) - 43:24 Morrow - 46:39 Gagné (Leeb, Morrow) - 58:45 47:27 - Zarzhytsky (Yakovlev, Antropov)

Kirilenko (Vishnevski) - 53:41 Denis Arkhipov (Dobryshkin) (PP) - 67:33 24:33 - Elomo (Väänänen, Virkkunen)

Semifinals

23:18 - Gagné (SH) 35:41 - Tkaczuk (Calder, Fata) (PP) 41:49 - Leeb (Morrow) 43:58 - A. Ference (PP) 48:35 - Calder (Tkaczuk) Dobryshkin (Vishnevski, Nikitenko) - 15:04 Verenikin (Lyashenko, Donika) (PP) - 23:22 32:03 - Hudec (Hujsa)

5th place game

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

(OT: 0-1) 1-1 1-2 2-2 2-3

34:23 - Balmochnykh (Zevakhin, Maslennikov)

65:13 - Chubarov (Afinogenov, Kirilenko) Simon Gagné (Campbell, Luongo) - 29:59

Bryan Allen - 53:52

Final standings

RankCountry
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Scoring leaders

PlayerCountryGPGAPts+/-PIM
Brian Gionta66511-16
Daniel Tkaczuk76410+110
Daniel Sedin65510+62
Scott Gomez63710+24
Henrik Sedin6369+710
Tomáš Divíšek6279+26
Simon Gagné7718+92
Christian Berglund6448+533
Eero Somervuori644802
Niklas Hagman6358+32
Nik Antropov6358–314

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGAGAASv%SO
1Roberto Luongo405:13131.92**94.20**2
2Alexei Volkov407:27101.47**93.55**0
3Mika Lehto206:5282.32**93.28**0
4Ján Lašák359:48142.33**92.71**1
5Vlastimil Lakosil358:55183.01**90.77**0

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Tournament awards

IIHF Directorate AwardsMedia All-Star TeamGoaltenderDefencemenForwards
CAN Roberto LuongoCAN Roberto Luongo
RUS Vitaly VishnevskiyCAN Brian Campbell
RUS Vitaly Vishnevskiy
RUS Maxim AfinogenovCAN Daniel Tkaczuk
USA Brian Gionta
RUS Maxim Balmochnykh

Pool B

The Pool B tournament was played in Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros, Hungary from December 27, 1998, to January 3, 1999. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Medal round

  • was promoted to Pool A for 2000.*

Relegation round

Source:

  • lost two games to none and was relegated to Pool C for 2000.*

Pool C

The Pool C tournament was played in Kaunas and Elektrėnai, Lithuania from December 30, 1998, to January 3, 1999.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Placement games

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7th place game

5th place game

(OT: 0–1)

3rd place game

1st place game

Pool D

The Pool D tournament was played in Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia from December 29, 1998, to January 4, 1999.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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1st–3rd place group

  • was promoted to Pool C for 2000.*

4th–6th place group

7th–9th place group

References

References

  1. "1999 IIHF World U20 Championship Pool A statistics".
  2. "Relegation round results".
  3. "Playoff round results".
  4. "Goalies SVS".
  5. "Relegation round results".
  6. "Playoff round results".
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