Edmonton to be sole host of rescheduled 2022 world junior men’s hockey championship

Edmonton would be the sole host of the 2022 males’s world junior championship and the Hlinka Gretzky Cup will probably be held in Crimson Deer, Alta., this summer time.

Hockey Canada introduced the brand new areas of the 2 marquee worldwide occasions on Tuesday.

The world juniors in Crimson Deer, Alta., and Edmonton have been cancelled in December after COVID-19 outbreaks sidelined a number of groups on the event.

Edmonton’s Rogers Place will host the world juniors once more from Aug. 9-20, in partnership with the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers.

Hockey Canada mentioned that the outcomes of December’s video games won’t be carried over to this summer time’s world juniors.

Gamers born in 2002 or later will stay eligible to signify their respective nations.

Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA will kind Group A, with Canada, Czechia, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia competing in Group B.

The 2022 Hlinka Gretzky Cup will probably be held on the Peavey Mart Centrium in Crimson Deer, Alta., from July 31-Aug. 6 in partnership with the Western Hockey League’s Crimson Deer Rebels.

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It’s the primary time the best-on-best under-18 males’s event has been hosted in Canada by one group.

Canada’s nationwide males’s summer time U18s will play its preliminary-round video games in Group A in opposition to Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, whereas Czechia, Finland, Germany and the USA in Group B.

Since its inception in 1991, the occasion has featured premier under-18 gamers from a few of the world’s biggest hockey nations and has seen Canada win a tournament-record 22 gold medals.