Canadian junior hockey team scheduled to resume selection camp after quarantine

RED DEER, Alta. — The Canadian junior hockey team says it will resume its selection camp on Tuesday after completing a 14-day quarantine.

The camp was suspended on Nov. 26 after two players and one non-core staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

The world junior hockey championship is scheduled to start on Dec. 25.

The nine other international teams are scheduled to arrive by charter flight Dec. 13. Exhibition games are planned for Dec. 20-23.

Hockey Canada's vice-president of events, Dean McIntosh, insists stringent protocols and testing required for international players to enter Edmonton's "bubble" will make the world junior championship safe to proceed.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2020.

The Canadian Press

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