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WJC must be rescheduled for the summer

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GKJ said:
your last point, not really, the Olympics are what they are. They run when they run and none really has much to do with the other unless you watch an event that bridges one Olympics to another. All that ‘growing the audience’ stuff is a myth.

as for your scheduling, you gonna whisk these players off the ice in time to start another game? You got all the ceremonials to go through? That’s supposed to be the payoff. Not cramming it all in and giving it their space.
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Ok....its truly for the TV audience....make the games on those times, from four different venues or two venues....men in Toronto and Women in Montreal. Broadcast all day
 
I wouldn't be surprised if something was organized but it wouldn't just be the same thing. For one thing I don't think that you'd get the same rosters. Some guys will be NHLers by the summer and I doubt that they participate while I wouldn't blame others for not wanting to show up to a make-up event after this.
 
Finishing the tournament instead of the summer showcase they usually do for the next year camp teams could be something they might do. I agree there's too much money in it that they won't do what they can to try to make it happen.

It will feel different during summer though
 
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Players drafted, some looking to make the NHL roster, Some preparing to leave home. You'll see some bow out.
 
Jakub1904 said:
Why? Replaying in the summer seems like a much better option to me than having no tournament at all for the 2002-born players.
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Because it’s the off-season? And the tournament wouldn’t even be u20 anymore. And how would the procedure go? Would it all start over or would it be picked up from where it left off?
 
A new tournament in the same place in the summer? Well, the year 2002 get a chance to say good bye tob junior hockey. But leave the results valid, the Germans defeated the Czechs, the Swedes won twice, so they have six points. Slovakia lost both matches, so they have zero points. Don't punish the Swedes taking the points they earned on the ice. The Czechs will get back a healthy Jiricek, the Finns will not get Räty..
 
Nothing will change by the summer, so the only possibility for the summer tournament running smoothly is the IIHF growing a pair and not cancelling a tournament for a single digit number of asymptomatic cases. Good luck with that one. Would also like to see it in a more sane country. Sweden handled things great for the first while in 2020, but I don't know if that has continued.
 
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It won't be the same not at Christmas. I'm not sure if it should happen I love the world junior but would we get all the players back will the Sabres let us bring in Power or will Wright's team let him play I kind of doubt it.
 
Of course the tournament should be replayed later in 2022. Preferably not in Canada, as they failed miserably as organizers. The US could be OK.

(No, it's not entirely on the IIHF. The city of Red Deer and/or the hotel proprietor, for example, should have had more sense than to allow a wedding, open to the general public, to take place in the hotel where the teams were accommodated.)

Life is never completely ideal. You can only try and get as close to the ideal as possible.

Therefore, replaying the tournament later in 2022 is much, much better and fairer to everyone concerned than to have no completed tournament at all. (Also applies to the women's tournament.)

The games played in the cancelled tournament will have been friendly preparation matches, in retrospect. Unfair to Bedard, Power, Michkov and others who excelled in them, but what can you do? No solution would completely satisfy everyone, but replaying the tourney later in 2022 would hurt the least, out of all unfavorable options available right now.

(If they decided to let the results from the games actually played in the cancelled tournament stand, I'd be fine with that, too.)
 
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Dominance said:
As one who is entirely pro-vaccination and pro-COVID regulations, this is a complete and utter embarrassment for the IIHF. Beyond words. That they could hold the tournament last year pre-vaccines and choose to cancel this one is unacceptable.

The IIHF has to reschedule the WJC for this summer; this isn’t the Olympics but their own goddamn tournament - the only one we have. They can’t just say, “Oops, we f***ed up,” and then move on while continuing to act as the organizing body for international hockey. Reschedule or resign.
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Last year had a bubble.
This year didn't.
 
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Dominance said:
Canada has the rights for this year’s tournament. It’s all politics and dollar signs.

Also not sure Hockey Canada entirely deserves your vitriol after pulling off last year’s bubble tournament without any serious hiccoughs.
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So what has Canada changed for this year? You say that the past WJCs were well organized, so why don't they have the same rules for this tournament?
 
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Antiillafire said:
Because it’s the off-season? And the tournament wouldn’t even be u20 anymore. And how would the procedure go? Would it all start over or would it be picked up from where it left off?
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I know it's off-season and I'm not saying it's ideal, but I don't think having no tournament with 2002-born players is a better option. What's the issue with the tournament technically not being U20 anymore? Just allow those players who were eligible for the original tournament. And of course it would all start over.
 
Antiillafire said:
Not going to happen, and it would no longer be a u20 tournament, unless the 2002 borns are excluded
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In my opinion it would still be a U20 tournament. Normally players could turn 20 during WJC if they are born on January 1st - 6th. And U18 tournament is played every year in spring when a lot of the players have already turned 18.
 
Summer? Your optimism is cute. We'll be lucky if we even get the Olympics in 2026.
 
You can run a junior tournament in the summer, but I'd be shocked if they could get the same rosters to show up. Would seem a bit off to me if the teams showed up to redo the tournament with different rosters. Tardif was on TSN talking about June theoretically.

Dominance said:
Canada has the rights for this year’s tournament. It’s all politics and dollar signs.

Also not sure Hockey Canada entirely deserves your vitriol after pulling off last year’s bubble tournament without any serious hiccoughs.
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Some posters are embarrassing themselves and showing their ass. Let's leave it at that for now.
 
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