MOSCOW, Aug 16 World Hockey Championship (under 20), which takes place in Edmonton. Group A meeting ended with a score of 6:3 (3:1, 2:0,1:2) in favor of the hosts of the tournament. The winners scored Brennan Othman (7th minute), Tyson Foerster (13), Connor Bedard (18), Ridley Greig (21), Mason McTavish (37) and William Dufour (59). Samuel Helenius (20), Joakim Kemell (44) and Roby Jarventi (57) scored goals for the Finns. The Canadians won all four matches in the group stage of the home tournament, scored 12 points and took first place in Group A, inflicting their first defeat on the Finns ( 8 points). In the quarterfinals, the Canadian team will play with the Swiss team, which became the fourth in quartet B. The Finns will meet with the German team, which in the final match in group B with a score of 2:4 (1:3, 0:0, 1:1) lost to the Swedish team. The remaining quarter-final pairs will be the USA — Czech Republic and Sweden — Latvia. At the end of December 2021, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) stopped the youth world championship, held in Red Deer and Edmonton, Canada, due to the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the tournament. Subsequently, the tournament was rescheduled for August 2022. In March, the IIHF announced the suspension of the national teams of Russia and Belarus from all international tournaments due to the situation in Ukraine. The place of the Russian national team at the World Youth Championship was taken by the Latvian team.
