Halifax and Moncton, N.B., to host 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship
Halifax and Moncton, N.B., will host the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship at the end of this year.
The tournament will run Dec. 26, 2022, to Jan. 5, 2023, in the two cities, Hockey Canada announced Thursday.
The 2023 world juniors were originally supposed to be hosted by Novosibirsk and Omsk in Russia, but the country lost its hosting rights in February due to the invasion of Ukraine.
The last time the world juniors were hosted in Atlantic Canada was in 2003.
More to come.