How can Hockey Canada host the next two World Juniors?
After the debacle the organization brought on itself by its handling of an alleged 2018 gang rape involving members of the World Junior team, Hockey Canada has lost everyone's confidence
In less than three weeks, Edmonton will host the 2022 World Junior Championship for 12 days and just over four months after that, Halifax and Moncton will do the same for the 2023 tournament. Hockey Canada will receive 50 percent of whatever profits are made on the events. Thirty-five percent goes to the Canadian Hockey League, while the remaining 15 percent is split among the host organizing committees, amateur hockey associations in Alberta, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and the International Ice Hockey Federation. As always, none of that money will go to the players.
Those profits will undoubtedly be trimmed significantly with some of Hockey Canada’s biggest-name sponsors pulling out of their involvement with the tournament, but there will still be some money to go around. So, think about this: From the next two World Junior tournaments, 85 percent of the profits will go to hockey organizations that currently find themselves in the middle of an untenable situation that is largely of their own making. Hockey Canada will reap the rewards of holding the tournament, despite the fact that it paid out what is believed to be a $3.55 million settlement to the victim of an alleged sexual assault involving some members of the 2018 World Junior team. And those players, whether they played for that team or not, were also players or recent graduates of the CHL at the time.
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