World Junior Hockey Championship to be re-played in Alberta in August

A re-scheduled 2022 World Junior Hockey Championships will be played in Alberta this summer.

The tournament was cancelled on Dec. 29, 2021 due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant in Edmonton and Red Deer.

On Thursday, the IIHF announced it will be replayed from start to finish “in the middle of August.”

“It will be a new competition, which means we forget the results (in December),” IIHF President Luc Tardif said.

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Tardiff confirmed it will be the same age category as in the original tournament, namely players born in 2002 or younger.

Countries are also able to re-select their participating teams.

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The annual event is a competition for under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world.