The 21st

Ice Hockey World Championships The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annua ...

and 32nd European ice hockey championships were held from 26 February to 7 March 1954 in

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. Every team played each other once with the top three finishers receiving medals at the end. The USSR won in its first attempt, led by

Vsevolod Bobrov Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov ( rus, Все́волод Миха́йлович Бобро́в, p=ˈfsʲevələd bɐˈbrof; 1 December 1922 – 1 July 1979) was a Soviet Union, Soviet athlete, who excelled in football (soccer), football, ban ...

who was recognized as the best forward of the tournament in the first ever presentation of Directorate Awards.

Description

1954 World Ice Hockey Championships Canada vs Soviet

The USSR won their first five games before meeting up with the host, and defending champion, Sweden. Sweden, having already lost 8-0 to Canada, desperately needed to beat the Soviets, but settled for a 1–1 tie. The final game of the tournament pitted the

East York Lyndhursts The East York Lyndhursts were an amateur senior ice hockey team based in East York, Ontario, Canada. The team was sponsored by Lyndhurst Motors, played in the Toronto Ice Hockey League as part of the Ontario Hockey Association, and represented ...

, representing Canada, against the USSR, both teams being undefeated. Tournament organizers believed the Canadians would cruise to their seventh straight win and had begun to sell tickets for a planned tie-breaking game between the Soviets and Swedes to determine the European Championship.Duplacey P. 503Tournament summary
/ref> However the Soviets "appeared to pass too much, check too little, and skate too fast" and "thoroughly dominated" in a 7–2 win before 16,000 fans.

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(CAHA) president

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stated that the final game was the worst he had seen the Lyndhursts play and that they seemed afraid of being penalized. The CAHA was heavily criticized by media in Canada for the failure to win the World Championships, and writer Michael McKinley stated the loss was a "day of reckoning" and a symbol of what went wrong with the CAHA's international strategy, and the beginning of a hockey rivalry with the Soviet Union. Beginning with this year the

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began giving out official awards (known as the "directorate awards") to the best forward, defensemen, and goaltender, of the tournament.Podnieks p.30

Final round

Standings

Team members

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Nikolai Puchkov Nikolai Georgievich Puchkov (russian: Николай Георгиевич Пучков, 30 January 1930 – 8 August 2005) was a Russian ice hockey goaltender. He was part of the Soviet teams that won two Olympic and seven world championship medal ...

* Grigori Mkrtychan *

Alfred Kuchevsky Alfred Iosifovich Kuchevsky (russian: Альфред Иосифович Кучевский; 17 May 1931 – 15 May 2000) was a Soviet professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the HC Krylya Sovetov Moscow of the Soviet Championship League a ...

* Dmitri Ukolov * Alexander Vinogradov *

Genrikh Sidorenkov Genrikh Ivanovich Sidorenkov (russian: Генрих Иванович Сидоренков, August 11, 1931 – January 5, 1990) was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. ...

Viktor Shuvalov Viktor Grigoryevich Shuvalov (russian: Виктор Григорьевич Шувалов; 15 December 1923 – 19 April 2021) was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in the Republic of Mordovia, Russian ...

Alexei Guryshev Alexei Mikhailovich Guryshev (russian: Алексей Михайлович Гурышев; b. March 14, 1925 - December 16, 1983) was a Russian ice hockey center. A four-time Soviet all-star, he was the top goal scorer in the Soviet Union five tim ...

Yuri Krylov Yuri Nikolaevich Krylov (b. March 11, 1930 in Krasnogorsk, Soviet Union - d. November 4, 1979) was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Dynamo Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey H ...

Mikhail Bychkov Mikhail Ivanovich Bychkov (russian: Михаил Иванович Бычков, May 22, 1926 – May 17, 1997) was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Lyubertsy, Soviet Union. Bychkov p ...

Alexander Uvarov Alexander Nikolaevich Uvarov (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ува́ров; March 7, 1922 – December 24, 1994) was a Russian ice hockey player, who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Odoyev, Tula reg ...

* Valentin Kusin * Yevgeni Babich * Nikolai Khlystov * Alexander Komarov

Tournament awards

* Best players selected by the directorate: ** Best

Goaltender In ice hockey, the goaltender (commonly referred to as the goalie) is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender mostly plays in or near t ...

: Don Lockhart **Best

Defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the la ...

Lars Björn Lars Gunnar Raldo "Lasse" Björn (born 16 December 1931) is a retired ice hockey defenceman who played 217 games for the national team Tre Kronor. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won nine Swedish ice hockey championships with Djurgården ...

**Best

Forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

European Championships final rankings

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Citations

References

Complete results
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External links

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