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1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | IIHF U20 World Championship |
| year | 1999 |
| image | 1999 WJHC logo.png |
| size | 200px |
| country | Canada |
| dates | December 26, 1998 – January 5, 1999 |
| num_teams | 10 |
| venues | 6 |
| cities | 6 |
| type | ihj |
| winners | Russia |
| count | 1 |
| second | Canada |
| third | Slovakia |
| fourth | Sweden |
| games | 31 |
| goals | 225 |
| attendance | 173453 |
| scoring_leader | USA Brian Gionta |
| points | 11 |
| 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:
- was relegated for the 2000 World Juniors*
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
| Rank | Country |
|---|---|
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | |
| 10 |
Scoring leaders
| Player | Country | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Gionta | 6 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 6 | |
| Daniel Tkaczuk | 7 | 6 | 4 | 10 | +1 | 10 | |
| Daniel Sedin | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | +6 | 2 | |
| Scott Gomez | 6 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +2 | 4 | |
| Henrik Sedin | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +7 | 10 | |
| Tomáš Divíšek | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 | +2 | 6 | |
| Simon Gagné | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | +9 | 2 | |
| Christian Berglund | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +5 | 33 | |
| Eero Somervuori | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Niklas Hagman | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +3 | 2 | |
| Nik Antropov | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | –3 | 14 |
Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
| Pos | Player | Country | TOI | GA | GAA | Sv% | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roberto Luongo | 405:13 | 13 | 1.92 | **94.20** | 2 | |
| 2 | Alexei Volkov | 407:27 | 10 | 1.47 | **93.55** | 0 | |
| 3 | Mika Lehto | 206:52 | 8 | 2.32 | **93.28** | 0 | |
| 4 | Ján Lašák | 359:48 | 14 | 2.33 | **92.71** | 1 | |
| 5 | Vlastimil Lakosil | 358:55 | 18 | 3.01 | **90.77** | 0 |
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Tournament awards
| IIHF Directorate Awards | Media All-Star Team | Goaltender | Defencemen | Forwards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Roberto Luongo | CAN Roberto Luongo | |||
| RUS Vitaly Vishnevskiy | CAN Brian Campbell | |||
| RUS Vitaly Vishnevskiy | ||||
| RUS Maxim Afinogenov | CAN 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
Source:
7th place game
- was relegated to Pool D for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.*
5th place game
(OT: 0–1)
3rd place game
1st place game
- was promoted to Pool B for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.*
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
- "1999 IIHF World U20 Championship Pool A statistics".
- "Relegation round results".
- "Playoff round results".
- "Goalies SVS".
- "Relegation round results".
- "Playoff round results".
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