COVID-19 outbreaks within Group B have caused the 2022 IIHF Men’s World Junior Championships to be cancelled in Edmonton and Red Deer, Canada. This comes days after the Women’s WJC that was scheduled in January was cancelled due to COVID-19 risks.
Teams from the USA, Russia, and Czechia all had positive cases and were forced to forfeit their games. With the highly compressed nature of the tournament, there was no time to make up any of the games. There was also no way to do it fairly.
The IIHF is hoping to revive the 2022 tournament in the summer.