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December 26 - January 5 in Ottawa
 Recap:
Team Canada won their fifth consecutive gold medal at the 2009
IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa, defeating Sweden 5-1 in the
final game. The event hosted 453,282 fans over 11 days, a World Junior
attendance record. The event also set a record for the highest-attended
single game, with 20,380 attending the Gold Medal game. Read
more...
The 2009
IIHF World Junior Championship comes to Ottawa from December 26,
2008 to January 5, 2009. The tournament will feature 10 countries competing
in 31games. Games will take place at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, and
the Ottawa Civic Centre in The Glebe.
The event will set a new World
Junior attendance record. The previous recrod was set in 2006 in
Vancouver-Kamloops, when 374,353 fans attended the games.
See also: Ottawa Events, Ottawa
Hockey, Ottawa Tourism,
Ottawa Hotels
Single game tickets are still available for all quarter-final, semi-final,
and bronze medal games. Over 440,000 tickets -- or 95 per cent capacity
-- have been sold so
far. To get your tickets: visit Hockey
Canada's World Junior web site or CapitalTickets.ca.
TIP: Check out the Ticket
Marketplace on CapitalTickets.ca for access to tickets being re-sold
by package holders.
In the news
Participating teams
Ten teams are participating in the tournament, including:
- Latvia
- Russia
- Germany
- USA
- Finland
- Sweden
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Kazakhstan
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