1989 Ice Hockey World Championships


The 1989 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Sweden from 15 April – 1 May. The games were played in Södertälje and Stockholm, in the newly built arena Globen. Eight teams took part, and each team played each other once. The four best teams then played each other again. This was the 53rd World Championships, and also the 64th European Championships. The Soviet Union became world champions for the 21st time, and also European champions for the 26th time.
The tournament was marred by positive drug tests. Only the goal totals of the Americans were affected in the end. Their losses against the Czechoslovaks and the Canadians were ruled as shutouts because of Corey Millen's high testosterone levels. Canadian Randy Carlyle also came under suspicion, but his A and B samples did not match, and he was cleared of wrongdoing. The Soviet team won all ten of their games.
At the end of the tournament, Soviet star Alexander Mogilny defected to the United States by getting on a plane with two Buffalo Sabres executives. The Sabres had drafted Mogilny the year before. He joined the team and went on to score 1032 points in his NHL career.

World Championship Group A (Sweden)

First Round

Final Round

Consolation Round

Poland was relegated to Group B.

World Championship Group B (Norway)

Played in Oslo and Lillehammer 30 March to 9 April. The 5 April game between Norway and Austria was officially adjusted to 8-0 for Norway because of Siegfried Haberl's positive drug test. Standard procedure, since 1969, had been for Group B and Group C to exchange two teams, but that stopped this year.
TeamGamesWonDrawnLostPoints differencePoints
9751128 - 1611
10751137 - 1611
11742129 - 1810
12750240 - 2110
13730422 - 296
14720525 - 324
15720520 - 344
16700709 - 440

Norway was promoted to Group A and Denmark was relegated to Group C.

World Championship Group C (Australia)

Played in Sydney 18–27 March.
TeamGamesWonDrawnLostPoints differencePoints
17770048 - 1514
18760155 - 1512
19741231 - 299
20731332 - 307
21731335 - 357
22720526 - 404
23711527 - 463
24700714 - 580

The Netherlands were promoted to Group B, and Australia was relegated to Group D.

World Championship Group D (Belgium)

Played in Geel and Heist-op-den-Berg 16–21 March.
Positive drug tests wiped out the results of the first day: both games were officially rendered scoreless, and were counted as losses for all four teams.
TeamGamesWonDrawnLostPoints differencePoints
25430135 - 096
26421169 - 075
27411219 - 163
28410329 - 272
29400403 - 960

Both Belgium and Romania were promoted to Group C.

Ranking and statistics

Tournament Awards

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
4
5
6
7
8

European championships final standings

The final standings of the European Championship were determined by the points earned in games played solely between European teams.
4
5
6

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player
Brian Bellows108614+122F
Vladimír Růžička107714+112F
Kari Jalonen105914+140F
Kent Nilsson1031114+70F
Vyacheslav Bykov106612+92F
Steve Yzerman85712+52F
Dale Hawerchuk104812+106F
Kirk Muller96410+126F
Jukka Vilander10641000F
Vladimír Svitek104610+100F
Source:

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 50% of their team's minutes are included in this list.
Player
Sergei Mylnikov420111.57.9221
Sean Burke275102.18.9181
Jukka Tammi520232.65.9162
Dominik Hašek600212.10.9152
Peter Lindmark299153.01.9000
Source:

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