The Christmas season means one thing in the minds of hockey fans – the IIHF World Junior Championship.
Preliminary games get underway on Boxing Day – Dec. 26 – as Canada will look to Germany.
This year’s championships will take place in Sweden.
Due to the time differences, the majority of Canada’s games will be viewed early in the day.
The Red and White will kick-start the tournament with their match up against Germany at 7:30 a.m.
Four other games will take place on Thursday; Russia vs Norway, USA vs Czech Republic, and Sweden vs Switzerland.
Canada will match up against the Czech on Saturday for their second game in the Preliminary action.
The game is scheduled to be aired at 11:30 a.m.
Canada’s third Preliminary game will be against Slovakia – also aired at 11:30 a.m.
An interesting game to watch will be the NYE contest.
Canada and the USA will face-off in the fourth round of Preliminary games.
It’s another 11:30 a.m. viewing, so there will be plenty of time to celebrate into the day and night.
One regulation game and the quarter finals are slated to start Jan. 2 with the second regulation game going the next day.
Jan. 4 will mark the Semi Final action while the Finals will be held the next day.
Roster
The closest player to Flin Flon on this year’s Team Canada roster is Josh Morrissey.
The blueliner dresses for Prince Albert in the WHL.
Standing 6 ft., Morrissey is of average height for this year’s team.
