Morning Flurries: Division re-alignment and World Junior updates

Handout Photo-USA TODAY Sports As the NHL works towards finalizing their plan to return to the ice for the 2021 season, more news leaked Wedensday afternoon. This time it was confirmation that the league intends to re-align their divisions for the year. Thanks to the quarantine laws of the Canadian Government - the same laws that forced the Toronto Raptors and Blue Jays to play their seasons in the United States - the NHL is being forced to schedule a season without having teams cross the border. In order to accomplish this, the Canadian Division will be created.

As the name suggests, the Canadian Division will be made up of the seven teams that make their home above the 49th parallel. As a…