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World Junior Championships cancelled due to COVID-19

As COVID began to quickly rip through the World Junior Championship tournament, consternation began to simmer in as people began to wonder if the teams could actually finish them, as there were apparently some...issues...with the accomodations for Group B, and that contributed to what the IIHF ultimately decided on.

Official Announcement: The 2022 #WorldJuniors have been cancelled due to Covid-19.

Full statement at https://t.co/TNNT2FHecn pic.twitter.com/xnPs9nDWli— IIHF (@IIHFHockey) December 29, 2021

The last game with an official result was Finland-Czechia which was a Finnish win by forfeit (thanks to COVID), and the last ACTUAL game completed was Canada-Austria, which.