1955 World Championship

The 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships was the 22nd edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tourmanent was held in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, West Germany from February 25 to March 6, 1955. 
A total of 14 nations participated in this World Championship, which was a new record for the postwar era. As a result, the teams were seeded with the strongest 9 teams placed in Pool A (the championship pool)and the remaining 5 nations as well as the West German B team placed in Pool B. 
Canada won their sixteenth international title. They were represented by the Penticton V's who had won the Allan Cup the previous season.
== POOL A ==
=== Games ===
25. February 1955	Cologne 	Czechoslovakia	–	Switzerland 		7:0 (1:0,2:0,4:0)
25. February 1955	Dortmund 	Canada 	–	USA 		12:1 (3:0,5:1,4:0)
25. February 1955	Düsseldorf	USSR 	–	Finland 		10:2 (2:2,5:0,3:0)
25. February 1955	Krefeld 	West Germany 	–	Sweden 		4:5 (1:2,3:2,0:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
26. February 1955	Cologne 	USA 	–	Finland 		8:1 (1:1,4:0,3:0)
26. February 1955	Dortmund 	USSR 	–	Sweden 		2:1 (1:1,0:0,1:0)
26. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Canada 	–	Czechoslovakia		5:3 (1:0,0:1,4:2)
26. February 1955	Krefeld 	West Germany 	–	Poland 		4:5 (3:3,0:1,1:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
27. February 1955	Cologne 	Canada 	–	Poland 		8:0 (3:0,3:0,2:0)
27. February 1955	Dortmund 	West Germany 	–	USA 		3:6 (0:3,3:3,0:0)
27. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Sweden 	–	Switzerland 		10:0 (0:0,6:0,4:0)
27. February 1955	Krefeld 	USSR 	–	Czechoslovakia		4:0 (1:0,1:0,2:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
28. February 1955	Cologne 	USSR 	–	Poland 		8:2 (2:0,2:1,4:0)
28. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Canada 	–	Finland 		12:0 (7:0,3:0,2:0)
28. February 1955	Krefeld 	USA 	–	Switzerland 		7:3 (1:1,2:1,4:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
1. March 1955 	Cologne 	Czechoslovakia	–	Sweden 		6:5 (2:1,2:1,2:3)
1. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	Poland 	–	Switzerland 		2:4 (1:1,0:1,1:2)
1. March 1955 	Krefeld 	West Germany 	–	Finland 		7:1 (3:0,3:1,1:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
2. March 1955 	Cologne 	Canada 	–	Switzerland 		11:1 (4:1,3:0,4:0)
2. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	Sweden 	–	Finland 		9:0 (1:0,6:0,2:0)
2. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	West Germany 	–	Czechoslovakia		0:8 (0:0,0:5,0:3)
2. March 1955 	Krefeld 	USSR 	–	USA 		3:0 (1:0,2:0,0:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
3. March 1955 	Cologne 	Poland 	–	Finland 		6:3 (1:1,2:1,3:1)
3. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Canada 	–	Sweden 		3:0 (0:0,3:0,0:0)
3. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	West Germany 	–	USSR 		1:5 (1:0,0:2,0:3)
3. March 1955 	Cologne 	Czechoslovakia	–	USA 		4:4 (1:1,1:1,2:2)
 	 	 	 	 		
4. March 1955 	Cologne 	West Germany 	–	Canada 		1:10 (0:3,1:4,0:3)
4. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	USA 	–	Poland 		6:2 (2:0,3:0,1:2)
4. March 1955 	Krefeld 	USSR 	–	Switzerland 		7:2 (2:0,2:1,3:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
5. March 1955 	Cologne 	Finland 	–	Switzerland 		7:2 (2:1,3:1,2:0)
5. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	Sweden 	–	USA 		1:1 (0:0,0:0,1:1)
5. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Czechoslovakia	–	Poland 		17:2 (7:0,3:2,7:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
6. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	West Germany 	–	Switzerland 		8:3 (3:1,1:2,4:0)
6. March 1955 	Cologne 	Sweden 	–	Poland 		9:0 (4:0,2:0,3:0)
6. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	Czechoslovakia	–	Finland 		18:2 (3:1,7:1,8:0)
6. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Canada 	–	USSR 		5:0 (1:0,2:0,2:0)
===Final Standings -- Pool A===
 	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	 	8 	8	0	0	66	6 	16
2	 	8 	7	1	0	39	13	14
3	 	8 	5	2	1	63	22	11
4	 	8 	4	2	2	33	29	10
5	 	8 	4	3	1	40	16	9
6	 	8 	2	6	0	28	43	4
7	 	8 	2	6	0	19	59	4
8	 	8 	1	7	0	15	59	2
9	 	8 	1	7	0	16	72	2
== POOL B ==
=== Games ===
25. February 1955	Dortmund 	Austria 	–	Yugoslavia 		3:2 (1:1,1:1,1:0)
25. February 1955	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Italy 		2:2 (1:1,0:1,1:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
27. February 1955	Dortmund 	Netherlands 	–	Belgium 		6:3 (1:1,1:0,4:2)
27. February 1955	Cologne 	West Germany B	–	Austria 		3:2 (1:0,2:1,0:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
28. February 1955	Krefeld 	Yugoslavia 	–	Belgium 		5:2 (0:0,4:1,1:1)
28. February 1955	Düsseldorf	Italy 	–	Austria 		3:1 (2:1,1:0,0:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
2. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Austria 	–	Belgium 		5:3 (1:0,1:1,3:2)
2. March 1955 	Dortmund 	Italy 	–	Netherlands		10:2 (4:1,2:0,4:1)
2. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Yugoslavia 		5:1 (4:0,0:0,1:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
4. March 1955 	Cologne 	Italy 	–	Yugoslavia 		9:1 (3:1,4:0,2:0)
4. March 1955 	Cologne 	West Germany B	–	Netherlands		11:1 (3:1,2:0,6:0)
 	 	 	 	 		
5. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Austria 	–	Netherlands		6:1 (2:0,2:0,2:1)
5. March 1955 	Düsseldorf	West Germany B	–	Belgium 		11:1 (1:0,4:0,6:1)
 	 	 	 	 		
6. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Italy 	–	Belgium 		28:0 (7:0,13:0,8:0)
6. March 1955 	Krefeld 	Netherlands 	–	Yugoslavia 		9:1 (3:1,2:0,4:0)
=== Final Standing – Pool B ===
Pos	Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Pts
1 	Italy 	5 	4	1	0	52	6 	9
2 	West Germany B +	5 	4	1	0	30	5 	9
3 	Austria 	5 	3	0	2	17	12	6
4 	Netherlands 	5 	2	0	3	19	31	4
5 	Yugoslavia 	5 	1	0	4	10	28	2
6 	Belgium 	5 	0	0	5	9 	55	0
Game details for Pool A and Pool B results from German version at 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eishockey-Weltmeisterschaft_1955
==All-Star Team==
*Goaltender: Don Rigazio, United States
*Defenceman: Kevin Conway, Canada
*Defenceman: Nikolai Sologubov, USSR
*Forward: Vladimir Zabrodsky, USSR
*Forward: Billy Warwick, Canada
*Forward: Vsevolod Bobrov, USSR
==Leading Scorer==
Vlastimil Bubník, Czechoslovakia
==Canadian Scorers ==
Goals-Assists-Points-Penalty minutes
 Billy Warwick 14- 8-22 12
 Grant Warwick 6-11-17 5
 Jack McIntyre 8- 9-17 4
 Jack MacDonald 4- 8-12 6
 Doug Kilburn 6- 6-12 0
 Mike Shabaya 7- 3-10 0
 Jim Bairburn 7- 2- 9 2
 Dick Warwick 4- 5- 9 4
 Hal Tarala 3- 3- 6 2
 Barry Middleton 1- 4- 5 4
 George McAvoy 2- 2- 4 14
 Don Berry 1- 1- 2 2
 Bernie Bathgate 1- 1- 2 0
 Kevin Conway 1- 1- 2 17
 Jack Taggart 0- 1- 1 0
==References==
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