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.
 
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 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, December 30:
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 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
 
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 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
 
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 GERMANY - USA 3-4 (0-2,1-2,2-0)
 
 Box score missing
 
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 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, January 1:
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 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
 
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 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
 
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 1993 World Junior Hockey Championships Results, January 2:
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 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
 
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 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
 
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 1993 WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
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 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
 
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