1934 World Ice Hockey Championships

1934 World Ice Hockey Championships

Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Dates	3–11 February
Teams	12
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (7th title)
Runner-up	United States
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	127 (3.85 per match)
← 1933 1935 →

The 1934 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held from February 3 – 11, 1934 in Milan, Italy. Canada 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.^[1] 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	Hungary	2	1	0	1	2:1	+1	2:2
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	0	1	2:2	0	2:2
3	Great Britain	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	Switzerland	3	3	0	0	30: 3	+27	6:0
2	France	3	1	0	2	4: 6	−2	2:4
3	Romania	3	1	0	2	6:13	−7	2:4
4	Belgium	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	Germany	2	1	0	1	4:4	0	2:2
1	Italy	2	1	0	1	3:3	0	2:2
1	Austria	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	United States	2	2	0	0	2:0	+2	4:0
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	0	1	4:1	+3	2:2
3	Austria	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	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

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

Third round

• Hungary withdrew forfeiting their games.^[2]

Germany 1 - 0 o.t. Czechoslovakia

Standings

Pos.	Team	GP	Wins	Ties	Losses	Goals	Goal Diff.	Points
4	Germany	1	1	0	0	1:0	+1	2:0
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1	0:1	−1	0:2
6	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0:0	0	0:0

Consolation round for 7-12 places

• France withdrew, as did Belgium after one game^[1]

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	Austria	3	2	1	0	7:4	+3	5:1
8	Great Britain	3	2	0	1	7:4	+3	4:2
9	Italy	3	1	1	1	6:6	0	3:3
10	Romania	3	0	0	3	2:8	-6	0:6
11	France	0	0	0	0	0:0	0	0:0
12	Belgium	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
1	Canada
2	United States
3	Germany
4	Switzerland
5	Czechoslovakia
6	Hungary
7	Austria
8	Great Britain
9	Italy
10	Romania
11	France
12	Belgium

1934 World Champion
 Canada

Team members

Pos.	Team	Roster
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; Coach: Johnny Walker

Final rankings – European Championship

Pos.	Team
1	Germany
2	Switzerland
3	Czechoslovakia
4	Hungary
5	Austria
6	Great Britain
7	Italy
8	Romania
9	France
10	Belgium

1934 European Champion
 Germany

Citations

1. Tournament summary
2. Podnieks p.125

References

• Complete results
• Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. pp. 498–528. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.
• Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press. pp. 125–6.