Here is the World Junior Hockey update thanks to Staffan. The US- Germany boxscore is missing but I included the Sweden-Japan boxscore. My intent is not too sleight the Japanese but to highlight the incredible shots-on-goal stat 98-9! Big day for the US team today. The US must beat Finland and Canada must beat Czechoslavakia for the US to grab the bronze. ******************************************************************* 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, December 30: ============================================================ CANADA - FINLAND 3-2 (2-0,0-1,1-1) 1st - CAN 1-0 Martin Gendron 4 (Alexandre Daigle) 6:55 CAN 2-0 Jason Smith 1 (Paul Kariya,Martin Lapointe) 19:44 2nd - FIN 2-1 Ville Peltonen 3 (Jere Lehtinen,Saku Koivu) 15:24 3rd - CAN 3-1 Tyler Wright 2 (Ralph Intranuovo,Brent Tully) 4:04 FIN 3-2 Jere Lehtinen 3 (Ville Peltonen,Saku Koivu) 7:01 Penalties: Canada 7*2min, Finland 5*2min Attendance: 765 --- SWEDEN - JAPAN 20-1 (3-1,9-0,8-0) 1st - SWE 1-0 Andreas Johansson 1 2:05 SWE 2-0 Markus Naslund 4 (Peter Forsberg,Niklas Sundstrom) 11:39 JAP 2-1 Mitsuaki Nitta 1 (Akira Ihara) 16:21 SWE 3-1 Markus Naslund 5 (Peter Forsberg) 19:08 (pp) 2nd - SWE 4-1 Niklas Sundstrom 5 (Peter Forsberg,Markus Naslund) 1:02 (pp) SWE 5-1 Daniel Johansson 2 (Andreas Salomonsson,Clas Eriksson) 3:44 SWE 6-1 Peter Forsberg 2 3:57 SWE 7-1 Niklas Sundstrom 6 (Peter Forsberg) 9:13 SWE 8-1 Reine Rauhala 2 (Mikael Magnusson) 10:40 (pp) SWE 9-1 Daniel Johansson 3 (Mikael Hakansson,A Salomonsson) 12:16 (pp) SWE 10-1 Markus Naslund 6 16:03 SWE 11-1 Magnus Wernblom 1 17:19 SWE 12-1 Johan Tornberg 1 (Andreas Johansson,Hans Jonsson) 18:26 3rd - SWE 13-1 Peter Forsberg 3 (Markus Naslund) 0:26 SWE 14-1 Markus Naslund 7 (Peter Forsberg) 3:37 SWE 15-1 Peter Forsberg 4 (Daniel Johansson,Kenny Jonsson) 8:03 (pp) SWE 16-1 Mats Lindgren 1 (Mikael Magnusson,Niklas Sundblad) 9:55 SWE 17-1 Reine Rauhala 3 (Kenny Jonsson,Magnus Wernblom) 10:24 SWE 18-1 Markus Naslund 8 (Peter Forsberg,Niklas Sundstrom) 10:40 SWE 19-1 Niklas Sundstrom 7 (Peter Forsberg,Mikael Magnusson) 14:38 SWE 20-1 Magnus Wernblom 2 (Mikael Magnusson) 19:17 Penalties: Sweden 5*2min, Japan 11*2min Shots on goal: Sweden 30 39 29 - 98 ! (*) New WJHC record Japan 4 1 4 - 9 ! Attendance: 1,448 --- GERMANY - USA 3-4 (0-2,1-2,2-0) Box score missing --- 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, January 1: ========================================================== CANADA - GERMANY 5-2 (2-1,2-1,1-0) 1st - GER 0-1 Norbert Zabel (Fabian Brannstrom,Alexander Serikow) 6:04 CAN 1-1 Mike Rathje 2 (Nathan Lafayette) 8:17 CAN 2-1 Brent Tully 1 (Chris Pronger) 8:54 2nd - CAN 3-1 Nathan Lafayette 2 (Jeff Shantz) 7:11 CAN 4-1 Paul Kariya 2 (Chris Gratton) 9:55 GER 4-2 Robert Hock (Fabian Brannstrom,Matthias Mosebach) 13:43 3rd - CAN 5-2 Darcy Werenka 1 (Jeff Shantz,Tyler Wright) 10:01 Penalties: Canada 10*2min, Germany 5*2min Attendance: 523 --- SWEDEN - USA 4-2 (3-2,0-0,1-0) 1st - USA 0-1 Pat Peake (Chris Ferraro,Peter Ferraro) 1:34 SWE 1-1 Fredrik Lindqvist 3 (Niklas Sundblad) 5:43 USA 1-2 Peter Ferraro (Chris Ferraro) 10:07 (pp) SWE 2-2 Markus Naslund 9 (Peter Forsberg) 13:33 (pp) SWE 3-2 Reine Rauhala 4 (Andreas Johansson) 18:57 2nd - 3rd - SWE 4-2 Markus Naslund 10 (Peter Forsberg,Reine Rauhala) 3:35 Penalties: Sweden 6*2min, USA 7*2min Attendance: 2,209 --- 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, January 2: ========================================================== JAPAN - CANADA 1-8 (1-5,0-1,0-2) 1st - CAN 0-1 Martin Lapointe 3 (Jeff Bes) 1:38 JAP 1-1 Daisuke Sasoya 2 (Mitsuaki Nitta,Yutaka Kawagushi) 11:14 CAN 1-2 Jason Dawe 2 (Martin Gendron,Alexandre Daigle) 12:11 CAN 1-3 Martin Lapointe 4 (Jeff Bes,Jason Smith) 14:48 CAN 1-4 Nathan Lafayette 3 (Jeff Shantz) 16:35 CAN 1-5 Jeff Bes 2 (Paul Kariya) 18:10 2nd - CAN 1-6 Jeff Bes 3 (Martin Lapointe,Paul Kariya) 16:01 3rd - CAN 1-7 Tyler Wright 3 (Ralph Intranouvo,Rob Niedermayer) 8:06 CAN 1-8 Jason Dawe 3 (Martin Gendron) 8:37 Penalties: Japan 9*2min, Canada 5*2min Attendance: 625 --- USA - RUSSIA 4-2 (1-1,2-0,1-1) 1st - RUS 0-1 Victor Kozlov 1 0:46 USA 1-1 Peter Ferraro (Adam Bartell) 6:27 2nd - USA 2-1 Pat Peake (Brian Rafalski) 0:28 USA 3-1 Brian Rolston (Brady Kramer) 15:21 3rd - RUS 3-2 Alexei Yashin 1 0:36 USA 4-2 Todd Marchant (Pat Peake) 15:15 Penalties: USA 5*2min, Russia 3*2min Attendance: 515 --- 1993 WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS ====================================== Standings, January 3: GP W T L GF-GA P 1. Canada 6 6 0 0 33-10 12 2. Sweden 6 5 0 1 48-14 10 3. Finland 6 3 1 2 28-15 7 4. Czechoslovakia 6 3 1 2 31-23 7 5. USA 6 3 0 3 27-20 6 6. Russia 6 2 2 2 25-15 6 7. Germany 6 0 0 6 10-34 0 8. Japan 6 0 0 6 6-77 0 Saturday, December 26: USA - Canada 0-3 Sweden - Germany 4-2 Russia - Japan 16-0 Finland - Czechoslovakia 5-2 Sunday, December 27: Canada - Sweden 5-4 Finland - Japan 7-0 Germany - Russia 0-4 Czechoslovakia - USA 6-5 Tuesday, December 29: Russia - Canada 1-9 Sweden - Czechoslovakia 7-2 Finland - Germany 11-0 USA - Japan 12-2 Wednesday, December 30: Czechoslovakia - Russia 1-1 Sweden - Japan 20-1 Germany - USA 3-4 Canada - Finland 3-2 Friday, January 1: Canada - Germany 5-2 Russia - Finland 1-1 Japan - Czechoslovakia 2-14 Sweden - USA 4-2 Saturday, January 2: Finland - Sweden 2-9 USA - Russia 4-2 Japan - Canada 1-8 Germany - Czechoslovakia 3-6 Monday, January 4: USA - Finland Gavle Czechoslovakia - Canada Gavle Russia - Sweden Gavle Germany - Japan Hofors -- > ((\\ //| Staffan Axelsson > \\ //|| [log in to unmask] >\\_))//-|| contact for Swedish hockey