MC World Junior Coverage

Moose Country, your home for Halifax Mooseheads team news and game day posts, will be covering the 2014 IIHF World Juniors. Main posts will be about our very own Herd players on their quest to help Team Canada get back to winning gold. Here`s the info:

News: I will provide you with news from the World Juniors including final roster announcements, suspensions, injuries, etc.

Pre-tournament coverage: As this tournement is quite early in the day, for the pre-tournament schedule I will post news and scores from each day. I will possibly do post game articles after supper.

Team Canada pre-tournament games:
Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 – Canada Vs. Finland – 10 a.m. (EST)
Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 – Canada Vs. Sweden – 11 a.m. (EST)
Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 – Canada Vs. Switzerland – 12 p.m. (EST)

Game Articles: I will try my hardest to provide you with pregame and postgame stories for the Team Canada games. More articles may come in the New Year depending on how far Canada goes but I will do a preview and post game article of both the Bronze and Gold Medal games.

Tweets: I will live tweet three of the four Team Canada games, mostly score updates but will have game plays too. Look below for the full tweeting schedule.
Thursday December 26th at 8:30am AT
Saturday December 28th at 12:30pm AT
Tuesday December 31st at 12:30pm AT

Score Updates: At the end of the day, which will be around suppertime this year, I will post the final scores of the day from both groups.

*Note: All info will be on the blog twitter at @MC_MooseCountry as the Moose have two players on the team as long as Jo Drouin returns from his concussion.

Full Team Canada schedule in Group A
Thursday Dec 26th - Germany vs. Canada - 8:30am/AT
Saturday Dec 28th - Canada vs. Czech Republic - 12:30pm/AT
Monday Dec 30th - Canada vs. Slovakia - 12:30pm/AT
Tuesday Dec 31st - United States vs. Canada - 12:30/AT



Ehlers in Poland playing for Danes
Rookie forward Nikolaj Ehlers was named to Team Denmark for their Division 1 Group A tournament that began on Sunday and will continue until Saturday. This is a 6 team tournament where each team plays the other 5 teams in the group, there are no medal games just regular games with the top team in the standings being promoted to the Top Division for next year.

Nikolaj and his Danish teammates have already played two games on Sunday and Monday with today being an off day in the tournament. Ehlers was held pointless in a 3-1 win on the weekend over Austria. He than scored on Monday and was given a helper on the first goal for two points in Denmark`s 4-2 win over host Poland. Latvia; who dominated Slovenia yesterday winning 10-0; Belarus and Denmark have 2 wins each and 0 losses while Austria, Poland and Slovenia have 0 wins and 2 losses each.