The USSR youth hockey team is the hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international hockey competitions. The managing organization of the team was the USSR Hockey Federation .
| USSR Youth Ice Hockey Team | |
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| Federation | USSR Hockey Federation |
| IIHF code | URS |
| A country | the USSR |
| Team colors | |
| The form | |
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| Ch. trainer |  Robert Cherenkov (last) |
| Best bombardier (goal + pass) | Alexander Mogilny (18 points - 8 + 10) 1988 |
The first game Finland 2: 6 USSR ( Leningrad , USSR , December 27, 1973 ) Last game USSR 2: 3 Canada  ( Saskatchewan , Canada ; November 10, 1991 ) | |
Biggest win USSR 19: 1 Austria  ( Augsburg , Germany ; December 27, 1980 ) | |
| Biggest defeat USSR 0: 7 Canada ( USA , Canada ; December 26, 1981 ) | |
| Youth Hockey World Championship | |
| Participation | 18 ( First Time 1974 ) |
| Progress |  ( 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 , 1983 , 1984 , 1986 , 1989 1988 , 1990 , 1991 1981 , 1985 ) |
Officially, as part of the IIHF , the team lasted from 1973 to 1991 .
Content
History
World Championships
Conducted by the IIHF at the initiative of the USSR Hockey Federation and the Czechoslovak Hockey Union. Youth teams made up of hockey players under the age of 20 are allowed to participate in the championship. Until 1977, 3 tournaments with the status of unofficial world championships took place; since 1977, the world championship has the status of an official tournament. The USSR national team debuted at the world championships in 1974 in Leningrad . The first medal was the gold won in the debut championship. Over the next six years, the USSR team invariably mined gold medals. In 1981, the team could not defend the title and took only third place, becoming a bronze medalist. In the 1982 World Cup, the team remained outside the top three winners, contented with only 4th place. The youth team was able to fully rehabilitate for the previous tournament the very next year, having won gold at the home tournament in 1983 in Leningrad . Gold was also won in 1984, 1986, 1989. In 1985, the Soviet youth team, as in 1981, was content with bronze medals; in 1988, 1990 and 1991 - silver, and the 1987 championship was the most disastrous for her. At that championship, the USSR team was disqualified for a fight in the last round match with the Canadians, but even if that fight did not happen, our hockey players would take only 6th place. The youth team of the USSR held the last world championship in 1991 and took only second place. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a team called the CIS won gold medals in the 1992 World Cup.
International Hockey Tournament for the Prize of the Leningradskaya Pravda Newspaper
The tournament was attended by the second national teams of the leading European countries, so the tournament was also called the unofficial World Championship for the second national teams. The tournament was held on the eve of the World Cup, which allowed you to view the closest reserve of leading national teams. In 1989, for the first time in Leningrad, eight teams gathered. In the final, the national team of the USSR met with the youth team of the USSR. The match ended with a score of 8: 2 (2: 0, 5: 0, 1: 2) in favor of the national team. The goals in the national team of the USSR were scored by I. Chibirev - 2, S. Kharin - 2, V. Zelepukin, N. Borschevsky, V. Malakhov, G. Titov. The youth team includes V. Litvinenko, A. Kovalenko.
USSR Youth Team Awards
Youth Ice Hockey World Championship [1]
- gold: 11 - ( 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 , 1983 , 1984 , 1986 , 1989 )
- silver: 3 - ( 1988 , 1990 , 1991 )
- bronze: 2 - ( 1981 , 1985 )
International Hockey Tournaments
- Ahern Cup
- silver: 1 - (1965)
- Tournament prize of the newspaper "Leningradskaya Pravda"
- silver: 1 - (1989)
Team coaches
| Years | Trainer | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 1974-1975 | Yuri Morozov | 2 times world champions |
| 1976 | Igor Tuzik | 1 time world champions |
| 1977-1979 | Vitaly Davydov | 3 times world champions |
| 1980-1981 | Yuri Morozov | 1 time world champions |
| 1982 | Igor Tuzik | - |
| 1983 | Anatoly Kostryukov | 1 time world champions |
| 1984 | Igor Dmitriev | 1 time world champions |
| 1985 | Vladimir Kiselev | 1 time World Cup bronze |
| 1986-1987 | Vladimir Vasiliev | 1 time world champions |
| 1988 | Anatoly Kostryukov | 1 time World Cup silver |
| 1989-1991 | Robert Cherenkov | 1 time world champions, 2 times world championship silver |
Notes
See also
- Hockey fight in Piestany - a massive fight between the national teams of the USSR and Canada during the 1987 World Youth Championships.
- Russian Youth Ice Hockey Team