1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1996 WJHC) was the 20th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, hosted in Boston, MA. The tournament was won by Canada – defeating Sweden 4-1 in the gold-medal game – earning Canada their fourth straight gold medal and ninth overall.
Attendance was less than spectacular for the championships in the United States. It would be the last time the US would host the tournament until 2005 in Grand Forks
Among this edition of the tournament's future NHL stars were Milan Hejduk, Miikka Kiprusoff, Chris Drury, and tournament scoring leader Jarome Iginla.
==Round robin==
===Group A===
Team 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada	4 	4	0	0	19	4 	8
 	4 	2	2	0	13	17	4
 	4 	2	2	0	14	10	4
 	4 	1	3	0	10	14	2
 	4 	1	3	0	9 	20	2
===Group B===
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	4 	2	0	2	15	10	6
 	4 	2	1	1	19	12	5
 	4 	2	1	1	14	7 	5
 	4 	0	1	3	11	17	3
 	4 	0	3	1	11	24	1
==Relegation round==
Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	17	10	5
 	3 	1	0	2	12	7 	4
 	3 	1	1	1	11	13	3
 	3 	0	3	0	6 	16	0
 and were relegated for the 1997 World Junior Championships.
==Playoffs==
==Scoring leaders==
Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts
Jarome Iginla 	Canada 	6 	5	7	12
Florian Keller 	 	6 	4	8	12
Marco Sturm 	 	6 	4	6	10
Miika Elomo 	 	6 	4	5	9
Johan Davidsson	 	7 	3	6	9
Ruslan Shafikov	 	7 	5	3	8
Dmitri Nabokov 	 	7 	3	5	8
Markus Nilsson 	 	7 	3	5	8
==Goaltending leaders==
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
Player 	Country	MINS 	GA	GAA 	SO	W	L	T
José Théodore 	Canada 	240 	6 	1.50	0 	4	0	0
Perragnar Bergkvist	 	240 	6 	1.50	1 	2	1	1
Magnust Nilsson 	 	180 	7 	2.33	0 	2	1	1
Alexei Egorov 	 	358.9	17	2.84	0 	3	2	1
Miikka Kiprusoff 	 	159.3	9 	3.39	0 	1	2	0
==Tournament awards==
;All-star team
*Goaltender: José Théodore
*Defencemen: Nolan Baumgartner, Mattias Öhlund
*Forwards: Jarome Iginla, Johan Davidsson, Alexei Morozov
;IIHF best player awards
*Goaltender: José Théodore
*Defenceman: Mattias Öhlund
*Forward: Jarome Iginla
==Final standings==
 	Team
 	Canada
 	
 	
4th 	
5th 	
6th 	
7th 	
8th 	
9th 	
10th	
Category:World Junior Championships
Category:1996 in hockey