The World Junior Hockey Championships in Edmonton are being cancelled by the IIHF. The governing body indicates “the decision comes following a positive case on a player on the Russian national team, which would have necessitated a forfeit of the Russia-Slovakia game scheduled for today. The game is the third to be cancelled due to positive cases, following Switzerland-USA and Finland-Czechia. The Council has determined that with another forfeiture – the third forfeited game in two days – the sportive integrity of the event has been compromised, and the event must be cancelled.”
