BOSTON – Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, December 18, that the team has assigned forward Matt Poitras to Team Canada for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship. Poitras, 19, has appeared in 27 games with Boston this season, r
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Five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior team have taken a leave of absence from their current clubs in recent days.
Disappointing. Disaster. Failure. No matter how you cook it up, it’s hard to look back at the team’s 2024 World Junior Championship effort with any sort of happiness if you’re a Canadian hockey fan. Canada was eliminated from the tournament with a crushing 3-2 loss to Czechia, with ...
OAKVILLE, Ontario --The biggest surprise during Hockey Canada’s roster announcement for the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship on Wednesday wasn’t necessarily a player who made the team, but one who didn’t. Jagger Firkus, selected by the Seattle Kraken with the No. 35 pick in the 2022 ...
Team Canada cruised to a 6-1 win over Slovakia in their second pre-tournament game of the World Junior Hockey Championships Friday night at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria. The Canadian club scored four goals in the first period and were on their way to a convincing shutout...
Seven players with B.C. roots have a shot at making Canada’s World Junior hockey team. A 35-player“selection camp” rosterwas announced by Hockey Canada on Wednesday (Dec. 1), more than three weeks ahead of the Boxing Day start of the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, this ...
Seven players with B.C. roots have a shot at making Canada’s World Junior hockey team. A 35-player“selection camp” rosterwas announced by Hockey Canada on Wednesday (Dec. 1), more than three weeks ahead of the Boxing Day start of the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, this year pl...
Canada’s under-20 men’s hockey team got to know adversity intimately over the past year-and-a-half. The trials and tribulations paid off Saturday night as the team won gold at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton. After going up 2-0 midway through the second period, th...
Think you know sports?PointsBet Canada is live in Ontario! ___ Switzerland’s history at the World Junior Championship is an intriguing one. After the team won gold at 2009’s Division I tournament to earn promotion the next year, they came up just short in the bronze medal game after...