World Junior Hockey Championship in Alberta still going ahead with fans in arenas
Global News
“There’s no plan right now to limit fans. We continue to move forward with the plan for full buildings.”
There are no plans yet to limit spectators at the world junior men’s hockey championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta.
Ontario cut capacity at sports venues to 50 per cent and the Montreal Canadiens played in an empty Bell Centre on Thursday in an effort slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
The 10-country men’s world under-20 championship opens Dec. 26.
“We speak daily with the province, with Alberta Health and with Alberta Health Services,” said Dean McIntosh, Hockey Canada’s vice-president of events, on Friday.
“They’re monitoring closely what’s going on in other provinces. We’ve had conversations around what that could look like, but at this point, nothing more than that.
“There’s no plan right now to limit fans. We continue to move forward with the plan for full buildings.”
The 2021 world junior championship in Edmonton was held minus fans in Rogers Place because of the pandemic.
