The 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1999 WJC) was held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada from December 26, 1998, to January 5, 1999. In the gold medal match at Winnipeg Arena, Russia defeated Canada 3–2 on Artem Chubarov's overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.
The playoff round reverted to six teams qualifying, with group leaders getting a bye to the semifinals.
Pool A Group A
Group B
Relegation round
Source:
was relegated for the 2000 World Juniors
Final round Source:
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
5th place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final standings RankCountry 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Scoring leaders PlayerCountryGPGA Pts +/-PIM Brian Gionta 6 6 5 11 −1 6 Daniel Tkaczuk 7 6 4 10 +1 10 Daniel Sedin 6 5 5 10 +6 2 Scott Gomez 6 3 7 10 +2 4 Henrik Sedin 6 3 6 9 +7 10 Tomáš Divíšek 6 2 7 9 +2 6 Simon Gagné 7 7 1 8 +9 2 Christian Berglund 6 4 4 8 +5 33 Eero Somervuori 6 4 4 8 0 2 Niklas Hagman 6 3 5 8 +3 2 Nik Antropov 6 3 5 8 −3 14
Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time)
PosPlayerCountryTOIGAGAASv%SO 1 Roberto Luongo 405:13 13 1.92 94.20 2 2 Alexei Volkov 407:27 10 1.47 93.55 0 3 Mika Lehto 206:52 8 2.32 93.28 0 4 Ján Lašák 359:48 14 2.33 92.71 1 5 Vlastimil Lakosil 358:55 18 3.01 90.77 0
Tournament awards IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team Goaltender Roberto Luongo Roberto Luongo Defencemen Vitaly Vishnevskiy Brian Campbell Vitaly Vishnevskiy Forwards Maxim Afinogenov Daniel Tkaczuk Brian Gionta Maxim Balmochnykh
Pool B The Pool B tournament was played in Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros, Hungary from December 27, 1998, to January 3, 1999. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group.
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Medal round
was promoted to Pool A for 2000.
Relegation round Source:
lost two games to none and was relegated to Pool C for 2000.
Pool C The Pool C tournament was played in Kaunas and Elektrėnai, Lithuania from December 30, 1998, to January 3, 1999.
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Placement games Source:
7th place game
was relegated to Pool D for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
5th place game
3rd place game
1st place game
was promoted to Pool B for the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
Pool D The Pool D tournament was played in Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia from December 29, 1998, to January 4, 1999.
Group A
Group B
Group C
1st–3rd place group
was promoted to Pool C for 2000.
4th–6th place group
7th–9th place group
References
External links Official website of IIHF 1999 World Junior Championship results at the Hockeyarchives.info