The 2022 Men’s IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships are set to begin on Boxing Day. The preliminary games fired up yesterday and the action will continue on Sunday. All the games can be seen on the NHL Network in the US or on TSN in Canada.
Team USA are the defending champions, but Team Canada brought in 16-year-old phenom Connor Bedard. The last time Canada brought in a kid more likely to fit in a grade 11 class than in a U20 hockey tournament, it was Connor McDavid. Russia is bringing a phenom of their own in Matvei Michkov, who only just turned 17.