Victoria, Vancouver to co-host 2019 world junior hockey championship
Vancouver and Victoria will welcome the world’s top under-20 hockey players in 2019 when the cities co-host the world junior hockey championship.
Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League announced the tournament’s return to British Columbia on Thursday during a press conference at Rogers Arena.
“What it does is it puts everybody united and supporting something,” said Ron Toigo, majority owner of the WHL’s Vancouver Giants and co-chair of the 2019 host committee. “You put on an international event of this magnitude, everybody’s wearing Canadian jerseys, everybody’s proud about being a Canadian. It’s a real good event for the community and the economy.”
The tournament in Vancouver and Victoria will mark the 13th time Canada has hosted the world juniors.