World Junior Championship

Reports on the 2016 World Juniors hosted in Helsinki, Finland.

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Canada!

The WJC is coming back to Montreal and Toronto for the 2016-17 tournament this December. Get pumped!

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WJC 2016-17

Guess what country is hosting the WJC this December? 

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Listening to the Pens game on the way home! World Cup of Hockey updates to come!

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Team Europe Preliminary Roster - 2016 World Cup of Hockey

Forwards:

Mikkel Boedker (COL) Leon Draisaitl (EDM)     Jannik Hansen (VAN) Marian Hossa (CHI) Anze Kopitar (LAK) Frans Nielsen (NYI) Tomas Tatar (DET) Thomas Vanek (MIN) Mats Zuccarello (NYR)

Defense:

Zdeno Chara (BOS) Roman Josi (NSH) Dennis Seidenberg (BOS) Andrej Sekera (EDM) Mark Streit (PHI)

Goaltenders:

Frederik Andersen (ANA) Jaroslav Halak (NYI)

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Team North America Preliminary Roster - 2016 World Cup of Hockey

Forwards:

Sean Couturier (PHI) Jack Eichel (BUF) Johnny Gaudreau (CGY) Dylan Larkin (DET) Nate MacKinnon (COL)     Connor McDavid (EDM) J.T. Miller (NYR) Sean Monahan (CGY) Brandon Saad (CBJ)

Defense:

Aaron Ekblad (FLA) Seth Jones (CBJ) Ryan Murray (CBJ) Morgan Rielly (TOR)

Goaltenders:

John Gibson (ANA) Connor Hellebuyck (WPG) Matt Murray (PIT)

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Team Canada Preliminary Roster - 2016 World Cup of Roster

Forwards:

Jamie Benn (DAL) Patrice Bergeron (BOS) Jeff Carter (LAK) Sidney Crosby (PIT) Ryan Getzlaf (ANA) Tyler Seguin (DAL) Steven Stamkos (TBL) John Tavares (NYI) Jonathan Toews (CHI)

Defense:

Drew Doughty (LAK) Duncan Keith (CHI) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (SJS) Shea Weber (NSH)

Goaltenders:

Corey Crawford (CHI) Braden Holtby (WSH) Carey Price (MTL)

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Team Canada #WCH2016 preliminary roster: Carey Price is in, Subban still waiting

Hockey Canada released the 16-man preliminary roster that they will ice at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

Winners of the last two Olympic gold medals in men’s hockey, Canada is a likely favourite at the World Cup this September. Naturally, the announcement of their preliminary 16-man roster was not-so-patiently awaited by every Canadian hockey fan.

One of the big questions was whether they would name Carey Price to the roster, given that he has been out for some time with his knee injury.

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Carey Price is in… but Subban may not have made the cut

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Team logos for the 2016 World Cup of hockey

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FINLAND WINS GOLD!

Final score 4-3. A beautiful home ice, OT win for Finland.

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Finland and Russia are playing right now for GOLD! If you missed it, Team USA beat Sweden to win BRONZE!

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Medals

It's time for the games that end in medals. It'll be Russia vs. Finland for gold. And Sweden vs. Team USA for bronze. Note that this is the first tournament in 18 years that Team Canada has not made it to the semi-final round.

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Top players of the tournament for Team Canada are;

Joe Hicketts, Dylan Strome and Matt Barzal completely deserved

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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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The power went out... 2 minutes left in the game and the power goes out!! 😱 Freaking out right now!

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What a shit penalty! Not our fault you have short glass.

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Today's scores so far. The Canada and Finland game is in progress and USA faces the Czech Republic at 1. The winner of the Canada vs Finland game will face Sweden, and the Winner of the USA vs Czech game will face Russia.

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Watching this game through my fingers 🙆🏼 it's not pretty out there.