1934 World Ice Hockey Championships

The 1934 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held from February 3 – 11, 1934 in Milan, Italy. Canada, represented by the Saskatoon Quakers, won its seventh world championship, defeating the USA in the final. The World Championship bronze medal and the European Championship title went to Germany. It was the second European Championship title for the Germans.
Like the previous year's World Championship twelve teams participated, with defending champion USA and Canada advancing directly to the second round. The other ten teams split into three preliminary groups for the six remaining second round places. But in the preliminary Group C, there was a stalemate among the three teams – all with two points and the same number of goals for and against. As a result, the organizing committee decided, all three teams in Group C should advance. With nine instead of eight teams in the second round, the format was changed from two groups of four teams to three groups of three teams. The group winners advanced directly to the semi-finals. The fourth semi-final position was decided by an extra qualifying round for the second place finishers.Tournament summary The second and third place teams in the extra qualifying round were awarded fifth and sixth positions. The six teams not advancing to the semi-finals or the extra qualifying round played a round-robin series for positions seven through twelve.
==First round==
===Group A===
Hungary 2 - 0 Great Britain
Great Britain 2 - 1 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 1 - 0 Hungary
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	2:1 	+1 	2:2
2 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	2:2 	0 	2:2
3 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	2:3 	-1 	2:2
===Group B===
Switzerland 20 - 1 Belgium
France 4 - 1 Romania
Romania 3 - 2 Belgium
Switzerland 3 - 0 France
Belgium 2 - 0 France
Switzerland 7 - 2 Romania
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	3 	3 	0 	0 	30: 3	+27 	6:0
2 	 	3 	1 	0 	2 	4: 6 	- 2 	2:4
3 	 	3 	1 	0 	2 	6:13 	- 7 	2:4
4 	 	3 	1 	0 	2 	5:23 	-18 	2:4
===Group C===
Austria 2 - 1 Germany
Germany 3 - 2 Italy
Italy 1 - 0 Austria
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	4:4 	0 	2:2
1 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	3:3 	0 	2:2
1 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	2:2 	0 	2:2
==Second round==
===Group D===
United States 1 - 0 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 4 - 0 Austria
United States 1 - 0 Austria
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	2 	2 	0 	0 	2:0 	+2 	4:0
2 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	4:1 	+3 	2:2
3 	 	2 	0 	0 	2 	0:5 	-5 	0:4
===Group E===
Italy 0 - 0 o.t. Hungary
Switzerland 1 - 0 Hungary
Switzerland 3 - 0 Italy
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	2 	2 	0 	0 	4:0 	+4 	4:0
2 	 	2 	0 	1 	1 	0:1 	-1 	1:3
3 	 	2 	0 	1 	1 	0:3 	-3 	1:3
===Group F===
Canada 9 - 0 France
Canada 6 - 0 Germany
Germany 4 - 0 France
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1 	 	2 	2 	0 	0 	15: 0	+15 	4:0
2 	 	2 	1 	0 	1 	4: 6 	- 2 	2:2
3 	 	2 	0 	0 	2 	0:13 	-13 	0:4
==Third round==
*Hungary withdrew forfeiting their games.Podnieks p.125
Germany 1 - 0 o.t. Czechoslovakia
Standings
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
4 	 	1 	1 	0 	0 	1:0 	+1 	2:0
5 	 	1 	0 	0 	1 	0:1 	-1 	0:2
6 	 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0:0 	0 	0:0
===Consolation round for 7-12 places===
*France withdrew, as did Belgium after one game
Great Britain 3 - 0 Belgium*
Austria 2 - 1 Great Britain
Italy 3 - 0 Romania
Austria 3 - 1 Romania
Great Britain 4 - 1 Italy
Great Britain 2 - 1 Romania
Italy 2 - 2 a.p. Austria
Standings 
Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
7 	 	3 	2 	1 	0 	7:4 	+3 	5:1
8 	 	3 	2 	0 	1 	7:4 	+3 	4:2
9 	 	3 	1 	1 	1 	6:6 	0 	3:3
10 	 	3 	0 	0 	3 	2:8 	-6 	0:6
11 	 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0:0 	0 	0:0
12 	 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0:0 	0 	0:0
==Final round==
Semi-Finals February 10
Canada 2 - 1 o.t. Switzerland
United States 3 - 0 Germany
Third place game February 11
Germany 2 - 1 o.t. Switzerland
Final February 11
Canada 2 - 1 o.t. United States
==Final rankings – World Championship==
Pos.	Team
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1934 World Champion
==Final rankings – European Championship==
Pos.	Team
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1934 European Champion 
==Team rosters==
Place	Team	Player
1 	 	Goaltender: Cooney Woods. Defensemen: Ronald Silver, Harold Wilson, Elmer Piper. Forwards: Leslie Bird, Thomas Dewar, James Dewey, Clifford Lake, Albert Rogers, Bert Scharfe, Ray Watkins, Albert Welsh. Coach: Johnny Walker.
2 	 	Goaltender: Clem Harnedy. Defensemen: Peter Besson, Arthur Smith. Forwards: Walter Bender, Robert Jeremiah, Edward Keating, Richard Maley, Fred McDonell, Robert Nilon, Frank Stubbs, Mayland. Coach: Walter Brown.
3 	 	Goaltenders: Theo Kaufmann, Walter Leinweber. Skaters: Werner George, Gustav Jaenecke, Roman Kessler, Werner Korff, Alois Kuhn, Hans Lang, Horst Orbanowski, Erich Romer, Georg Strobl, Joachim von Bethmann-Hollweg, Toni Wiedemann.
4 	 	Goaltenders: Emil Eberle, Arnold Hirtz. Skaters: Pic Cattini, Hans Cattini, Albert Geromini, Ernst Hug, Charly Kessler, Paul Muller, Thomas Pleisch, Oscar Schmidt, Bar Torriani, Bibi Torriani. Coach: Charles Fasel.
5 	 	Goaltenders: Jan Peka, Antonin Houba. Skaters: Lolek Cetkovsky, Jaroslav Cisar, Wolfgang Dorasil, Wilhelm Heinz, Karel Hromadka, Zdenek Jirotka, Olda Kucera, Josef Malecek, Jan Mattern, Jan Michalek, Jaroslav Pusbauer, Tomas Svihovec, Jiri Tozicka.
6 	 	Goaltenders: Istvan Hircsak, Gyorgy Kramer-Katay. Skaters: Miklos Barcza, Istvan Bethlen, Laszlo Blazejovsky, Gyozo Erdodi, Matyas Farkas, Andras Gergely, Bela Haray, Zoltan Jeney, Gyorgy Margo, Sandor Miklos, Ferenc Szamosi. Coach: John Dewar.
7 	 	Goaltenders: Otto Amenth, Karl Oerdoegh. Skaters: Franz Csöngei, Fritz Demmer, Jacques Dietrichstein, Reinke Egger, Karl Kirchberger, Oskar Nowak, Karl Rammer, Franz Schüßler, Willibald Stanek, Hans Stertin, Kurt Stuchly, Hans Tatzer. Coach: Hans Weinberger.
8 	 	Goaltender: Vic Gardner. Skaters: Jim Borland, Gerry Davey, Frank de Marwicz, Carl Erhardt, Peter Fair, Ted Jackson, Harry Mayes, Nevill Melland, Ivor Nesbitt, Keith Thomson. Coach: John Magwood
9 	 	Goaltenders: Augusto Gerosa, Enrico Calcaterra. Skaters: Gianmario Baroni, Tino de Mazzeri, Ignazio Dionisi, Aldo Marazza, Giampiero Medri, Camillo Mussi, Frank Roncarelli, Franco Rossi, Gianni Scotti, Decio Trovati, Luigi Venosta, Mario Zucchini.
10 	 	Goaltenders: Arthur Vogel, Mircea Ratiu. Skaters: Paul Anastasiu, Alexandru Botez, Dan Bratianu, Gheorghe Buia, Constantin Cantacuzino, Petre Grant, Bob Petrovici, Nicu Polizu, Iuliu Rabinovici, Radu Reineck, Constantin Tico, Lajos Vakar.
11 	 	Goaltenders: Michel Paccard, Jean Despas. Skaters: Andre Bossoney, Jacques Bottenheim, Marcel Claret, Martial Couvert, Jean-Pierre Hagnauer, Albert Hassler, Jacques Lacarriere, Pierre Perreau, Léonhard Quaglia, Pierre Savoye, Gerard Simond.
11 	 	Goaltender: Rene Laloux. Skaters: Jean Barbanson, Jean De Beukelaer, Louis De Ridder, Emile Duvivier, Francois Franck, Louis Franck, Willy Kreitz, Henry Matthysen, Marco Peltzer, Georges Pootmans, Carlos Van den Driessche, Pierre Van Reysschoot.
==Team Photos==
34CAN.jpg|Canada
34Ger.jpg|Germany
==Citations==
==References==
*Complete results
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Men's World Championships
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