Sunday night’s slate of 2019 World Juniors hockey wasn’t supposed to be anything special, but it was clear the four teams involved didn’t get that memo. Russia, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Kazahkstan combined to score 22 goals in the two games, and seven players had multi-goal games.
As of today, we now know one of the two teams who will play in relegation, but as always, everything else will be settled tonight.
If you were confused about why Switzerland was awarded two penalty shots on the same play, I went to the official IIHF rulebook to try and figure it out.