Too many sporting events to watch does not leave much time for posting. This will be a short post for the same reason, as the Oshawa Generals are currently on the tele. Each year as most Canadians prepare for Christmas, a select few hockey players are preparing to represent their country. Boxing day this year, as always, saw the Canadian Juniors begin play at the IIHF World U20 Hockey Championship and also saw the first game for Canada at the Spengler Cup. While the World Juniors are getting ready for the exciting qualification round the Spengler Cup has already been awarded to Team Canada for the eleventh time.
This year, the World U17 Hockey Challenge is also taking place. It began on December 29 in London, Ontario and surrounding area and will end January 4, 2008, one day prior to the World U20 tournament. Canada has fifty-fifty odds of winning the U17 as it has five teams competing: Pacific, West, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic. Local Rogers stations have some games televised, including the Bronze medal game at 1:00 PM on January 4, while the Gold medal game is being shown live on TSN at 7:30 PM.
To top off the plethora of sports events, the CHL has resumed play after their Christmas break and the NLL season has finally begun. Colorado beat Calgary 10-9 at the Pepsi Center on Saturday night.
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