🇸🇪 Sweden 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
World Junior Championship Final Round
Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, Augsburg 🇩🇪
Friday, 02 January 1981
Sweden defeated the defending champion Soviet Union, 3-2, Friday to win the ice hockey World Junior Championships.
In the third minute, Sergei Svetlov opened the scoring for the Soviets, but Sweden bounced back with two fast goals by Håkan Nordin and Roger Hägglund in the 16th and 19th minutes respectively for a 2-1 after one period.
In the second, Peter Sundström scored for a 3-1 Swedish edge but, one minute later, Ramil Yuldashev scored the Soviets’ second goal. The Soviets, however, were unable to pull any closer.
Finland had helped Sweden dethrone the defending champion by inflicting on the Soviets their first ever junior world hockey defeat, 6-3, on Wednesday.
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Svetlov
08:51 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kudryavtsev
14:40 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Tyurikov
15:17 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kudyashov
16:18 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Nordin (Hägglund)
17:31 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Pe. Sundström
18:47 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Panin
19:19 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Hägglund (Pa. Sundström)
2nd Period
23:13 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hägglund
23:13 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Semyonov
30:21 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Pe. Sundström
31:23 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Yuldashev (Zemchenko)
3rd Period
45:18 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Petersson
56:38 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zahkarov
GOALTENDERS
W: 🇸🇪 Eriksson
L: 🇷🇺 Nikitin
ROSTERS
🇸🇪 Goaltenders: Lars Eriksson, Peter Åslin. Defence: Peter Andersson, Roger Hägglund, Dan Niklasson, Håkan Nordin, Robert Nordmark, Ove Pettersson, Michael Thelvén. Forwards: Anders Björklund, Jan Erixon, Michael Granstedt, Jan Ingman, Anders Johnson, Peter Madach, Peter Nilsson, Martin Pettersson, Patrik Sundström, Peter Sundström, Jens Öhling.
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Sergei Kostyukhin, Yuri Nikitin. Defence: Oleg Kudryavtsev, Konstantin Kurashev, Alexander Ledovskikh, Andrei Ovchinnikov, Igor Stelnov, Vladimir Tyurikov. Forwards: Andrei Khomutov, Sergei Kudyashov, Sergei Odintsov, Mikhail Panin, Anatoli Semyonov, Yuri Shipitsyn, Sergei Svetlov, Sergei Yashin, Ramil Yuldashev, Mikhail Zakharov, Sergei Zemchenko, Andrei Zemko.
| 🇸🇪 SWEDEN (C) | vs. | SOVIET UNION 🇷🇺 |
| current champion (since 30 Dec 1980) |
Last Title | 12 Sep 1979 |
| 12 | All-Time Wins |
32 |
| 4 wins | Head-To-Head (+ 1 tie) |
8 wins |
| First IHLC Meeting (SWE vs. URS) 🇷🇺 URS 5-4 SWE 🇸🇪 – 01 Jan 1974 – WJT – Leningrad 🇷🇺 |
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| Previous IHLC Meeting (SWE vs. URS) 🇸🇪 SWE 5-3 URS 🇷🇺 – 12 Sep 1979 – FNC – Norrköping 🇸🇪 |
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| Last IHLC Game 🇸🇪 SWE 3-3 TCH 🇨🇿 – 31 Dec 1980 – WJC – Oberstdorf 🇩🇪 |
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| Next IHLC Game 🇷🇺 URS 7-2 SWE 🇸🇪 – 06 Sep 1981 – FNC – Kharkiv 🇷🇺🇺🇦 |
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Article Credit: UPI
Photo Credit: Hockey Sverige – IIHF – HHOF – IOC
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