Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope your celebration is going well and that you made enough Nice Lists to get everything your heart desired this holiday season! Thanks to my local government’s mandate of no gatherings, I am not celebrating Christmas with family or friends as I want, but I’ll take a healthy country over my...
The Hockey Show, Canada’s only campus-produced radio show that strictly talks hockey, is back on Christmas Eve as Teebz and Jenna settle into the holidays with a show that’s more fun than it has been in recent weeks with all the pandemic talk and the business-over-humanity talk. Being that it’s the holiday season, Teebz does...
It would appear that at least one nation’s hopes for a World Junior Championship have already been dashed following the news out of Edmonton today. Germany, as per reports, had eight players test positive for coronavirus, essentially derailing any chance of them being a factor in this tournament. Despite the positive tests, Germany says that...
The Hockey Show, Canada’s only campus-produced radio show that strictly talks hockey, returns with its full roster back as Teebz and Jenna really put the business of hockey during this pandemic under a microscope. Lots of people and lots of businesses are hurting right, and we both understand that sports is a way out of...
After accepting that the 2021 World Junior Championship will happen, I shouldn’t have been as shocked as I was today when news broke that six European teams were struggling to board two charter planes arranged by the IIHF due to space and weight restrictions. You would think that cutting corners on costs after the IIHF...
For all the complaining I’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks regarding the IIHF’s handling of the 2021 World Junior Championship, it would appear that nine countries are set to arrive in Edmonton tomorrow barring any last unforeseen circumstances. Testing has been done, the players and staff who have plane tickets booked are...
The young man to the left proudly wearing the Brandon Wheat Kings colours while being an alternate captain for the team is Ridly Greig. The Ottawa Senators prospect is supposed to be in Red Deer, Alberta right now as part of the Team Canada World Junior Championship selection camp, buthe’s been forced to quarantine at...
One day after writing about how it would be good to have all of the teams participating in the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship arrive early in Edmonton to quarantine, Hockey Canada makes an announcement tonight that should really tip the scales in the direction of early quarantining as they have isolated two assistant coaches,...
I’m going to be honest: I’m not very happy tonight. Frankly, I hate writing about COVID-19 every second day and the impact it’s having on hockey in this great country. We should be knee-deep in hockey right now, but we’re forced to watch Premiers of provinces do their best at screwing up everyone’s lives because...
If the IIHF had been listening to suggestions I made back on November 20, all the countries participating in the 2021 World Junior Championship would have already arrived in Edmonton by today for three weeks of quarantining and practicing. Instead, no one has assembled in the Alberta capital, and news broke today that Sweden will...
