1987 in Finland - 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Biathlon World Championships 1987, Finnish Parliamentary Election, 1987 (Paperback)

Chapters: 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Biathlon World Championships 1987, Finnish Parliamentary Election, 1987, Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, Mestaruussarja 1987, Aland Legislative Election, 1987. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1987 WJHC) was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Pieany, Trenin, Nitra, and Topoany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia captured the silver, and Sweden the bronze. The tournament though is most remembered, however, for how Sweden ended up with the bronze (and Canada ended up with no medal); see the next section for more details. With 6:07 left in second period of the final game of the tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union, Pavel Kostichkin took a two-handed slash at Theoren Fleury, sparking a fight between the two; the USSR's Evgeny Davydov left the bench to assist Kostichkin in the fight, sparking one of the most infamous bench-clearing brawls in international hockey history. The officials, unable to break up the fight, walked off the ice and eventually tried shutting off the arena lights, but the brawl lasted for 20 minutes before the International Ice Hockey Federation declared the contest null and void. An emergency meeting was held following the brawl that ended with the delegates voting 7-1 to eject both teams from the tournament, with the sole dissenter being Canadian Dennis McDonald. The Canadian team, disgusted at what they perceived to be a conspiracy against them, chose to leave rather than stay for the end-of-tournament dinner, from which the Soviet team were banned. While the Soviets were out of medal contention, C...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1006454