Stanley Cup of Chowder · Dec 22, 2017
World Junior Championship PRIMER: Everything you need to know
The Place: Buffalo/Orchard Park, New York, USA
The Event: The Under-20 World Junior Championship, popularized in the late 80’s/early 90’s by TSN, and has since been a staple of Canadian sports culture. This has caught on to die-hard hockey fans in other countries as international rivalries are born and reborn at these players’ most formative years.
Defending Champs: USA, Baby!
Place to Watch: TSN in Canada, NHL Network in the US. TSNGO will have an Online Stream.
The Groups:
Group A:
Canada
Denmark
Slovakia
Finland
Group B:
Russia
Sweden
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Belarus
Anything special about this year’s tournament?: Oh boy do we have one thing: