With the top European leagues on a break for the week, the Champions Hockey League played their round of 16 games, and several tournaments were held for various levels of National teams.
Age 20 or so is a transitional time for a hockey player. Depending on your birth date and your development curve, you might be a junior, a professional men’s player, a member of a men’s national team or the junior team, or sometimes a strange combination of all of those things.
For professional players at high levels, stepping back to junior hockey is easier, usually, than stepping up to the national men’s team.