Flames World Junior Primer

 

 

The 2013 edition of the IIHF World Junior (U-20) Championship begins on December 26, but there is a lot of hockey to watch this week as teams prepare for the tournament. To provide a handy checklist for hockey-starved Flames fans, here is a quick-and-dirty primer for the games that are coming up.

All of Canada and the United States’ round robin games are televised, so Flames fans will easily get to see a lot of Tyler Wotherspoon, Johnny Gaudreau, Patrick Sieloff and Jon Gillies. Finland has no televised games, outside of the pre-competition games, unfortunately, so Markus Granlund scouting parties won’t be as abundant.

Canada’s round robin games have many, many encores. The USA games have no encores, so set those PVRs carefully.

Depending on where Canada, Russia and the United States finish in the Group B standings, it is possible for there to be a Canada/Russia or Canada/USA gold medal game.

As per the IIHF: D Tyler Wotherspoon wears #26 for Canada, F Johnny Gaudreau wears #13 for the USA, D Patrick Sieloff wears #27 for the USA, G Jon Gillies wears #30 for the USA and F Markus Granlund wears #11 for Finland, if he ever appears on TV.

-TSN, 7:30am MT (live)

-TSN, 5:30pm MT

-TSN2, 10pm MT on Friday, December 21

-TSN, 10:30am MT (live)

-TSN2, 10pm MT

-TSN, 4am MT (live)

-TSN2, 7:30pm MT

-TSN2, 1:30am MT on Sunday, December 23

-TSN, 7am MT (live)

-TSN2, 5pm MT

-TSN2, 4am MT on Sunday, December 23

-TSN, 2am MT (live)

-TSN, 10am MT

-TSN, 5:30pm MT

-TSN, 7am MT (live)

-no encores

– TSN, 2am MT (live)

– TSN, 10am MT

– TSN, 5:30pm MT

– TSN, 7am MT (live)

– no encores

-TSN, 2am MT (live)

-TSN, 10am MT

-TSN2, 6pm MT

-TSN, 3am MT (live)

-no encores

-TSN, 6:30am MT (live)

-TSN, 10am MT

-TSN, 5:30pm MT