Better than Forsberg & Naslund?
Forsberg has the most points in the history of the WJC.
Well that's because Sweden beat a team of Japanese exchange students 15-1, or something equally ridiculous.
Almo, Fedorov and Bure.
Magic.
Gretzky and whoever the hell he played with wasn't too shabby. What did he have, 22 points or something ridiculous as a 16-year-old?
EDIT: Just looked it up. 17 pts in six games.
If Bourque doesn't score 10 points against Switzerland on Monday (as Forsberg did in a 20-1 rout of Japan in '93), his chances of landing the all-time record get a lot lower, because he'll probably have a quiet game somewhere along the way
IIHF has an article about the potential of Forsberg's record falling (a little premature, considering it was one game against a weak opponent):
http://www.iihf.com/channels0910/wm20/news/news-singleview-world-juniors/browse/0/article/could-forsbergs-record-fall.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2954&cHash=00b676f094
I will highlight one section that is worth noting:
So of Forsberg's 31 points in 7 games in 1993, 10 of them came in one game. That means he had 21 points in 6 games, a 3.5 pts/game average. While that is still a lot of points, a couple more routs would get a player past 21. However, I would doubt many guys will score 10 points in a game anytime soon, because the competition is never as bad as that Japanese team was.
It's funny how when a Swede has a record, it's only due to poor competition - but the same poor competition is overlooked when talking about Gretzkys records in the early 80:s where the competition was crap compared to today.
And remember, Lidstrom only won his 7 Norrisses since there weren't any good defenders during his peak.
Well, of all the WJC's that I have seen, nothing comes close to Forsberg/Näslund/Sundström in 93. That line was ridiculously dominant in a way that I don't think we'll ever see again.
The Mogilny/Bure line has better players in it, but they weren't as dominant in the WJC's.
Speaking of good lines in the WJC's; didn't USA have a line with Amonte-Roenick-Modano in 1990 that was "pretty good"? I also remember Finland having a line with Jokinen-Hagman-Somervuori in the year they won the gold (98?).
Didn't everyone else too?
But of that country, how about Kamensky - Bykov - Khomutov?