The Place: Buffalo/Orchard Park, New York, USA
The Event: The Under-20 World Junior Championship, popularized in the late 80’s/early 90’s by TSN, and has since been a staple of Canadian sports culture. This has caught on to die-hard hockey fans in other countries as international rivalries are born and reborn at these players’ most formative years.
Defending Champs: USA, Baby!
Place to Watch: TSN in Canada, NHL Network in the US. TSNGO will have an Online Stream.
The Groups:
Group A:
- Canada
- Denmark
- Slovakia
- Finland
Group B:
- Russia
- Sweden
- Czech Republic
- Switzerland
- Belarus
Anything special about this year’s tournament?