It’s a strange time for the world juniors championship.
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has also been opened into an alleged assault at the Halifax world junior hockey championships in 2003, and a London, Ont., police probe has also been reopened into an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 team. The International Ice Hockey Federation runs the world juniors championship, and there aren’t allegations of wrongdoing against members of Canada’s 2022 word junior team.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“It definitely wouldn’t surprise me if it’s having some impact. To what extent, sitting here in early August, is hard to say,” he said.
“The ones that are going because they think it’s something fun to do, they might be second guessing whether they should or not, whereas the diehard fans are going to be much more likely to still follow the games, watch them on TV and go to the games themselves.” The world juniors run in Edmonton from Aug. 9-20, and the final results of ticket sales have yet to be seen. Soebbing said it could be tough to assess how hockey fans are reacting until this tournament is over — and maybe even until it returns to its regular Christmas schedule.
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