Eight months after the 2022 World Junior Hockey Championship was cancelled, the slate has been cleared and the tournament will start fresh.
Since December, a lot has changed, and Russia is out of the tournament and have been replaced with Latvia in Group A. The German team, as a result, shifts to Group B.
There will be no relegation for the 2022 tournament which means that the same 10 teams will take part in the 2023 tournament that will start in December like normal. Players born in 2002, and who were eligible for the tournament in December will remain eligible, even if they have since turned 20.