The Canadian world junior selection camp has been forced to suspend activity after two players tested positive for COVID-19.
Hockey Canada’s Scott Salmond made the announcement on Tuesday, stating that both national team hopefuls have been placed under quarantine at the team’s hotel in Red Deer, Alberta.
The situation will wipe a scheduled intrasquad game from the schedule, as well as all practices and workouts until players and staff go through — and presumably pass — an additional phase of testing. Hockey Canada will enlist provincial health authorities to determine those safe next steps.
While the world junior tournament will be secured inside the Edmonton bubble — which successfully eliminated the threat of the virus in the summer’s Stanley Cup playoffs — Hockey Canada’s four-week training camp in neighbouring Red Deer was not secured to the same degree.