• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?

Facts on topics related to 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

IIHF World U20 Championship

• with 14 goals, Jordan Eberle (pictured) is the highest scoring Canadian to participate in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-20 Championships?

Ice hockey

• Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
• Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?
• Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
• ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships, one World Championship, and one Olympic gold medal?
• ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
• ice hockey goaltender Paddy Moran (pictured) aggressively defended the area in front of his net by using his stick to slash opposing players near his net and exhaling at them while chewing tobacco?
• ice hockey referee Marcus Vinnerborg has officiated two Ice Hockey World Championship finals in row?
• ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning?
• ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy?
• ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony?

Punch-up in Piestany

• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?