The 1934 Ice Hockey World Championships were held from February 3–11, 1934, at the Palazzo del Ghiaccio in Milan, Italy. Canada won its seventh world championship, defeating the United States in the final. The World Championship bronze medal and the European Championship title went to Germany. It was the second European Championship title for the Germans.
Like the previous year's World Championship twelve teams participated, with defending champions United States and Canada advancing directly to the second-round. The other ten teams split into three preliminary groups for the six remaining second round places. In the preliminary Group C, there was a stalemate among the three teams; all three earned two points with equal goal differentials. As a result, the organizing committee decided that all three teams in Group C should advance. With nine instead of eight teams in the second round, the format was changed from two groups of four teams to three groups of three teams. The group winners advanced directly to the semi-finals, while the fourth semifinal position was decided by an extra qualifying round for the second-place finishers.Tournament summary The second and third place teams in the extra qualifying round were awarded fifth and sixth positions, and the six teams not advancing to the semifinals or semifinal qualification round played a round-robin series for positions seven through twelve.
First round Group A
February 3 to February 5 2–0 2–1 1–0
Group B
February 3 to February 5 20–1 4–1 3–2 3–0 2–0 7–2
Group C
February 3 to February 5 2–1 3–2 1–0
Second round Group A
February 6 to February 8 1–0 4–0 1–0
Group B
February 6 to February 8 1–0 (OT) 1–0 3–0
Group C
February 6 to February 8 9–0 6–0 4–0
Third round Semifinal qualifying round
February 8 1–0 (OT)
Consolation round—7th to 12th places As the bottom finishers in their respective preliminary groups (group C qualified all its teams for the second round), Great Britain and Belgium played a qualification match to determine which of them joined the round robin; the loser (Belgium) finished the tournament in 12th place. February 8 3–0
February 9 to February 11 2–1 3–0 3–0 4–1 2–1 2–2 (OT)
Semifinal and final rounds
Final rankings—World Championship RF Team1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1934 World Champion
Team members Pos. Team Roster 1 CAN Tommy Dewar, Ab Welsh, Cooney Woods, Les Bird, Ray Watkins, Jim Dewey, Ab Rogers, Bert Scharfe, Elmer Piper, Ron Silver, Cliff Lake, Hobb Wilson; Coach: Johnny Walker
Final rankings—European Championship RF Team1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1934 European Champion
Citations
References Complete results