1934 World Ice Hockey Championships

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The 1934 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held between February 3 and February 11, 1934 in Milan, Italy.

Like the previous year's World Championship twelve teams participated, with defending champion USA record 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 among the second place finishers. The second and third place teams in the extra qualifying round were awarded 5th and 6th positions. The six teams not advancing to the semifinals or the extra qualifying round played a round-robin for positions 7 through 12.

Canada won its seventh world championship, defeating the USA in the final After winning the title picked up in this year's championship. The World Championship bronze medal and the European Championship title went to Germany. It was the second European Championship title for the Germans.

1 Games
- 1.1 Final Rankings – World Championship
  - 1.1.1 Team Members
- 1.2 Final Rankings – European Championship
2 Notes

[edit] Games

First round February 3

Group A

Hungary 2 - 0 Great Britain
Great Britain 2 - 1 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 1 - 0 Hungary

Standings – Group A

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Hungary	2	1	1	2:1	+1	2:2
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	1	2:2	0	2:2
3	Great Britain	2	1	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 – Group B

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Switzerland	3	3	0	30: 3	+27	6:0
2	France	3	1	2	4: 6	- 2	2:4
3	Romania	3	1	2	6:13	- 7	2:4
4	Belgium	3	1	2	5:23	-18	2:4

Group C

Austria 2 - 1 Germany
Germany 3 - 2 Italy
Italy 1 - 0 Austria

Standings – Group C

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Losses	Goals	Points
1	Germany	2	1	1	4:4	2:2
1	Italy	2	1	1	3:3	2:2
1	Austria	2	1	1	2:2	2:2

Second round February 6

Group D

United States 1 - 0 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 4 - 0 Austria
United States 1 - 0 Austria

Standings – Group D

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	USA	2	2	0	2:0	+2	4:0
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	1	4:1	+3	2:2
3	Austria	2	0	2	0:5	-5	0:4

Group E

Italy 0 - 0 a.p. Hungary
Switzerland 1 - 0 Hungary
Switzerland 3 - 0 Italy

Standings – Group E

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Switzerland	2	2	0	0	4:0	+4	4:0
2	Hungary	2	0	1	1	0:1	-1	1:3
3	Italy	2	0	1	1	0:3	-3	1:3

Group F

Canada 9 - 0 France
Canada 6 - 0 Germany
Germany 4 - 0 France

Standings – Group F

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Canada	2	2	0	15: 0	+15	4:0
2	Germany	2	1	1	4: 6	- 2	2:2
3	France	2	0	2	0:13	-13	0:4

Extra Qualifying Round Game
Germany 1 - 0 a.p. Czechoslovakia

Standings –Extra Qualifying Round

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Germany	1	1	0	0	1:0	+1	2:0
2	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1	0:1	-1	0:2
3	Hungary	withdrew

Positions 7th to 12th February 9
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

Belgium only played one match

Standings – Positions 7th to 12th

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
1	Austria	3	2	1	0	7:4	+3	5:1
2	Great Britain	3	2	0	1	7:4	+3	4:2
3	Italy	3	1	1	1	6:6	0	3:3
4	Romania	3	0	0	3	2:8	-6	0:6
5	France	withdrew
5	Belgium	withdrew

Semi-Finals February 10
Canada 2 - 1 a.p. Switzerland
United States 3 - 0 Germany

Third place Game February 11
Germany 2 - 1 a.p. Switzerland

Final February 11
Canada 2 - 1 a.p. United States

[edit] Final Rankings – World Championship

RF	Team
1	Canada
2	USA
3	Germany
4	Switzerland
5	Czechoslovakia
6	Hungary
7	Austria
8	Great Britain
9	Italy
10	Romania
11	France
11	Belgium

1934 World Champion
Canada

[edit] Team Members

Pos.	Team	Spieler
1	CAN	Tommy Dewar, Ab Welsh, Cooney Woods, Les Bird, Ray Watkins, Jim Dewey, Ab Rogers, Bert Scharfe, Elmer Piper, Ron Silver, Cliff Lake, Hobb Wilson; Trainer: Johnny Walker