IIHF cancels remainder of 2022 world juniors due to COVID-19
The world junior men’s hockey championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta., was cancelled Wednesday in the face of lost games due to COVID-19.
Why?
A third game forfeited in two days left the International Ice Hockey Federation, Hockey Canada and organizing committee with few options to continue a tournament with competitive integrity, and they opted to call off the 11-day, 10-country tournament.
So the woman’s got canceled, the Spenglar Cup got cancelled, and now the junior men’s got cancelled.
And they (the media) gonna complain how unfair it is?
“The ongoing spread of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant forced us to readjust our protocols almost immediately upon arrival to attempt to stay ahead of any potential spread,” IIHF president Luc Tardif said in a statement. “This included daily testing and the team quarantine requirement when positive cases were confirmed.
“We owed it to the participating teams to do our best to create the conditions necessary for this event to work. Unfortunately, this was not enough. We now have to take some time and focus on getting all players and team staff back home safely.”
We already had the pro’s (NHL) cancelling games and their participation in the CCP olympics.
Hopefully they can continue/finish the season/playoffs without a cancelation/stoppage/termination of the season.
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