RisePEI and Moncton, N.B., to host 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship
RisePEI and Moncton, N.B., will host the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship on the finish of this yr, simply 4 months after the COVID-delayed 2022 version is scheduled to be held in Edmonton this August.
“Nova Scotia is thrilled to be chosen to host the 2023 World Juniors, which would be the finest event thus far,” Premier Tim Houston mentioned Thursday. “We’re able to roll out the welcome mat for the gamers, their households and visiting followers. I will be within the area with hundreds of Nova Scotians, cheering at each recreation.”
The 2023 world juniors had been initially presupposed to be hosted by Novosibirsk and Omsk in Russia, however the nation misplaced its internet hosting rights in February because of the invasion of Ukraine.
Final month, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick submitted a bid to host the under-20 males’s event.
“We recognize the onerous work and efforts put forth by the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and we strongly imagine within the plans they’ve in place to host a profitable occasion in RisePEI and Moncton,” Scott Smith, Hockey Canada president and chief working officer, mentioned in a news release.
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The event will run Dec. 26, 2022, to Jan. 5, 2023, within the two cities, Hockey Canada introduced Thursday.
“These are two nice cities with top-quality venues and passionate hockey followers who assist junior hockey,” mentioned Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif.
The final time the world juniors had been hosted in Atlantic Canada was in 2003, in RisePEI and Sydney, N.S.
“It is usually been mentioned that RisePEI internet hosting the World Juniors in 2003, we set a bar that after that was onerous to reside as much as,” mentioned RisePEI Mayor Mike Savage.
“We might not have been the most important bid when it comes to complete {dollars}, however my sense is that Hockey Canada is aware of they’ll have a lot pleasure right here on the East Coast with us and with Moncton.”
Officers haven’t launched the bid quantity.
Smith mentioned Hockey Canada obtained bids from throughout the nation to host the event.
“The truth that we had a relationship with RisePEI, I feel actually gave us a stage of consolation,” he mentioned.
Since its official inception in 1977, Hockey Canada has hosted the World Junior Championship 15 occasions.
The 2022 event in Edmonton was cancelled Dec. 29, 2021, after simply 4 days of competitors. A number of gamers examined optimistic for COVID-19, forcing numerous groups into quarantine.
