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Schedules, Groups Announced for 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship

By IIHF.com, 02/04/13, 4:45PM EST

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2013 World Junior champions USA headline Group A along with the Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovakia.

ZURICH – The schedule for the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship in Malmö, Sweden has been announced. Both groups are now set along with all the preliminary round games. The first tickets for the 2013 World Juniors will be released on Thursday, Feb. 7.

Click here for the 2014 World Junior Championship schedule and groups.

2013 World Junior champions USA headline Group A along with the Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovakia. Silver medallists and 2014 hosts Sweden are seeded in Group B along with bronze medalist Russia, as well as Switzerland, Finland and Norway.

Some of the game highlights include a match between rivals Sweden and Finland on Dec. 28th, while the last day of the preliminary round will see Canada play the USA and Sweden take on Russia in two big New Year’s Eve games on Dec. 31. The semi-finals will take place on January 4th with the bronze and gold medal games on Jan. 5.

In Malmö, the world junior tournament format will also include two more quarter-final games, as the bye to the semi-final for the top seeded teams in each group has been eliminated. Instead, the top four teams in each pool will advance to the quarter-finals. The relegation format has been changed as well – to a best-of-three between the two 5th place finishers.

This will be the sixth time that Sweden will host the event, and the first since Leksand and Mora in 2007.

Tickets will be available on ticnet.se as of Feb. 7 at 9 a.m. (CET).

Group A Group B
USA Sweden
Canada Russia
Czech Republic Switzerland
Slovakia Finland
Germany Norway

Team USA Group Schedule

Date Opponent
Dec. 26 Czech Republic
Dec. 28 Slovakia
Dec. 29 Germany
Dec. 31 Canada