The 2025-26 IIHF World Junior Championship goes to be performed in Minnesota. On Friday, USA Hockey introduced that the Twin Cities of Minnesota will host the 2025-26 version of the event.
It will likely be the fiftieth version of the IIHF World Junior Championship, and Minneapolis and St. Paul final hosted the event in 1981-82.
“We’re excited to carry this fiftieth anniversary version of the World Juniors to the state of hockey,” USA Hockey government director Pat Kelleher mentioned in a press launch. “We all know the groups and followers are in for a first-class expertise at world-class venues. I might additionally wish to publicly thank the opposite finalists for the numerous time they spent in placing collectively proposals. In the long run, it was a particularly tough determination.”
All 29 video games of the 10-day event are slated to be performed at Xcel Power Heart in St. Paul, which is residence to the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, whereas video games can even be performed at 3M Enviornment at Mariucci in Minneapolis. 3M Enviornment is residence to the College of Minnesota hockey staff.
The IIHF World Junior Championship has solely been hosted by america six occasions up to now — Anchorage, Alaska, in 1989, Boston in 1996, Grand Forks, N.D. in 2005, and Buffalo, N.Y. in each 2011 and 2018.
The announcement was unveiled on the identical day that america is taking up Sweden within the gold-medal sport for the Below-20 annual event. This yr’s event is being held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The 2024-25 installment of the IIHF World Junior Championship is scheduled to be performed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
