🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
World Championship Final Round
Zimní stadión Štvanice, Prague 🇨🇿
Wednesday, 11 March 1959
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:00 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Sidorenkov
03:00 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Smrke
09:00 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Boucher (Berenson)
12:05 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Benoit (Brown)
18:30 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hildebrand
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
World Championship Final Round
Jordal Amfi, Oslo 🇳🇴
Sunday, 09 March 1958
Unassuming Connie Broden is the answer to one of the best hockey trivia questions: Who is the only player to win the IIHF World Championship and the Stanley Cup in the same year?
Broden accomplished this unique double in the spring of 1958.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-4 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Final Round
Grand Arena Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Tuesday, 05 March 1957
The Soviet Union shocked the hockey world by winning the 1954 World Championship in their first international appearance. Two years later, the Vsevolod Bobrov-led CCCP team won Olympic Gold in Cortina. The decision to hold the 1957 World Championship in Moscow was made by the IIHF in recognition of the instant success of Soviet hockey.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 2-2 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
World Championship Final Round
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Saturday, 02 March 1957
BOXSCORE
1st Period
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 10-1 Poland 🇵🇱
World Championship Final Round
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 28 February 1957
BOXSCORE
1st Period
09:07 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Pantyukhov (Guryshev)
11:41 – 🇵🇱 PEN – Chmura
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 22-1 Austria 🇦🇹
World Championship Final Round
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Wednesday, 27 February 1957
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:31 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Guryshev (Khlystov)
05:11 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Loktev (Aleksandrov)
07:35 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Bobrov (Babich)
08:07 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Pantyukhov (Sologubov)
11:02 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Tregubov
16:31 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Pantyukhov (Khlystov)
17:40 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Sologubov
18:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Bobrov (Kostarev)
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 11-1 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Final Round
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Monday, 25 February 1957
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:33 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Cherepanov
04:16 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Alexandrov (Cherepanov)
09:33 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Guryshev (Pantyukhov)
14:00 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Niemi
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 16-0 Japan 🇯🇵
World Championship Final Round
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 24 February 1957
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:38 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Cherepanov (Loktev)
11:14 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Loktev
14:20 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Grebennikov (Babich)
16:24 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Pantyukhov (Guryshev)
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Olympic Medal Round
Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio, Cortina d’Ampezzo 🇮🇹
Saturday, 04 February 1956
When the Soviets won the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm, their first ever international tournament, they shocked Canada and the hockey world. But by 1956, there was no shock factor heading to the Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-0 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Medal Round
Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio, Cortina d’Ampezzo 🇮🇹
Friday, 03 February 1956
BOXSCORE
1st Period
14:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Matchefts
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
World Championship Final Round
Rheinlandhalle, Krefeld 🇩🇪
Sunday, 06 March 1955
When the 1955 World Championship started in West Germany in late February of that year, the Penticton Vees, Canada’s representatives, were expected not just to win Gold but to restore pride to a nation that had been humiliated on the international stage the previous year for the first time in 35 years of participation.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Final Round
Rheinlandhalle, Krefeld 🇩🇪
Friday, 04 March 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Ukolov
14:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Babich
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-1 West Germany 🇩🇪
World Championship Final Round
Eisstadion an der Brehmstraße, Düsseldorf 🇩🇪
Thursday, 03 March 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-0 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Final Round
Rheinlandhalle, Krefeld 🇩🇪
Wednesday, 02 March 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Matchefts
04:30 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Christian
05:10 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Grocott
05:30 – 🇷🇺 PP2 GOAL – Ukolov
13:00 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Matchefts
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 8-2 Poland 🇵🇱
World Championship Final Round
Eisstadion an der Lentstraße, Cologne 🇩🇪
Monday, 28 February 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Guryshev
19:50 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Bychkov
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-0 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
World Championship Final Round
Rheinlandhalle, Krefeld 🇩🇪
Sunday, 27 February 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
16:00 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lidral
19:05 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Lidral
19:30 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Tregubov
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 2-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Final Round
Westfalenhalle, Dortmund 🇩🇪
Saturday, 26 February 1955
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:00 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lassas
14:00 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Babich
15:00 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Björn
17:00 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Uvarov (Kuzin)
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 07 March 1954
There is no question that 1954 was the start of the modern era of international hockey. Prior to the World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden, that year, Canada ruled the ice lanes uncontested. Indeed, from 1920 to 1954, it lost only two significant games, one to the United States at the 1933 World Championship and one to Great Britain at the 1936 Olympics.
But in 1954, the Soviet Union made its first appearance in international hockey, and it did so in a blaze of glory. The Soviets had only started playing “Canadian hockey” (as opposed to European bandy) in 1946, and just eight years later that nation’s top players and managers believed they were ready to play against the world – and win.
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