World Juniors: Edmonton sole host, Red Deer to hold Hlinka Gretzky Cup
CALGARY —
Edmonton would be the sole host of the 2022 males’s world junior championship and the Hlinka Gretzky Cup shall be held in Pink Deer, Alta., this summer season.
Hockey Canada introduced the brand new areas of the 2 marquee worldwide occasions on Tuesday.
The world juniors in Pink Deer, Alta., and Edmonton have been cancelled in December after COVID-19 outbreaks sidelined a number of groups on the match.
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 stated that the outcomes of December’s video games is not going to be carried over to this summer season’s world juniors.
Gamers born in 2002 or later will stay eligible to symbolize their respective international locations.
Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA will type Group A, with Canada, Czechia, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia competing in Group B.
The 2022 Hlinka Gretzky Cup shall be held on the Peavey Mart Centrium in Pink Deer, Alta., from July 31-Aug. 6 in partnership with the Western Hockey League’s Pink Deer Rebels.
It is the primary time the best-on-best under-18 males’s match has been hosted in Canada by one group.
Canada’s nationwide males’s summer season 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 number of the world’s best hockey nations and has seen Canada win a tournament-record 22 gold medals.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 19, 2022.
