2022 World Junior Championship has been cancelled (MOD: Stay on topic)

[Le Magnifique 66]

Send WJC teams to the Olympics.

Even that's going to get canceled, people will have small coughs and it will force to shut down the world again....

 

[cc]

How is it on the province of Alberta to set up the bubble? Seems like something that the IIHF would be in charge of, logistically speaking.

I had the impression that the hosting cities/provinces worked with the IIHF to assist with setting up the living arrangements and work out the terms of the tourny. If that is incorrect, I stand to be corrected.

 

[chauron]

Send WJC teams to the Olympics.

They will be destroyed by KHL players

 

[tmlmatus]

This wedding reception?

such is the tradition

 

[Cellee]

Send WJC teams to the Olympics.

That would be hilarious. Also a far better idea than whatever shit show beer leaguer rosters will be going for a second time.

 

[Static]

We have to account for the fact that a large percentage of people struggled/got pushed through the public education/baby sitting system so they can struggle with stuff like this.

And there is a significant portion of the world leveraging information for nefarious reasons. The amount of misinformation quoted as fact is incredible.

 

[chauron]

No worries. I'm back under my bed, boosted to the max, triple-masked, with my Grub Hub order on the way, perusing the latest Netflix offerings.

Things are getting back to normal.

It's not about you, but nice that you are doing your part.

 

[LJ7]

Have a full out taxi squad, or put them in a real bubble, or both. Or set up an impossible to finish tournament and just waste everyone's time and fly these kids/staff in to Red Deer, Alberta to miss the holidays with their families just to get sent home on the 30th.

 

[Budddy]

Canceled over 4 covid cases?

Surely they could have foreseen some covid issues, you're telling me the go to plan was "cancel it"?

Yep..Plan B was to nuke the tourney..brilliant

 

[AB13]

They will be destroyed by KHL players

Not if all teams have to send U20 teams. Won’t happen, and denying KHL/SHL/NLA/Liiga/DEL stars a chance at the Olympics in favor of juniors would be strange. But more entertaining.

 

[Patrik Barkov]

What the hell was their plan in the first place??? That no one would test positive at any point??? Why not do a proper bubble for a short tournament???

"Just a few more weeks hold on there buddy"

I'm so tired. Feels like this will never end. I know it sounds petty to complain about not getting to watch a kids sport tournament while people are dying but it really hurts going one step forward and eight steps back constantly with this pandemic.

And don't lecture me about why everything is happening. Just let me be sad.

 

[johan f]

Overreaction. Typical Canada.

 

[5 Minute Major]

What was the point of the IIHF mandating players to be in Red Deer by Dec 15th to quarantine for 48 hours, only to place the teams into hotels with the general public?

We live in a clown world.

We live in a world where those in power can make up rules on the fly.

 

[Whiston532]

It’s the government MAAAAAAAN. None of this makes sense, it doesn’t add up. Sure I barely passed high school but I’m the smartest guy I know.

 

[holy]

The world ya’ll have made. Permanent fear mongering and paranoia.

Revenge of the Nerds irl.

 

[BigBadBoar]

Reasonable decision under current circumstances. I still think they should postpone the Winter Olympics Games for the next year and hope that countries' approach to COVID will change until that.

 

[ello]

Stop testing asymptomatic players. We don’t test asymptomatic people in the general population anyways.

 

[Budddy]

Overreaction. Typical Canada.

Yep.

 

[NotProkofievian]

This is a f***ing joke.

 

[chauron]

Strategically speaking, they should have moved the tournament to spring even if stanley cup playoffs or alternatively olympics would happen simultaneously. That would have given them enough time to organize a proper bubble. Also in the real world the current spike would be over.

 

[Church Hill]

I blame Canada and I blame the politics of Covid

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Five and a half million people are dead

I know people in North America literally don't give a shit about anyone except themselves but holy shit

Young, healthy, vaccinated, asymptomatic athletes should have the choice to play or not. This is lunacy.

 

[19VJ17]

I guess the players get NO VOTE on this...

 

[BLNY]

True, wasn’t blaming the attendance for this, more just implying that the whole thing happening at all was taking a chance

Understood.

I feel for the players, stuck in the middle of incredibly inept event management and planning by the organizers.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Silver lining is that TSN will lose a lot of money.