Now the IIHF World Junior Championship is over, the dust has settled and the Swedish team have returned home to a royal reception. tPB thought it would have take a closer look at the United States challenge or subsequent lack of it. There is no denying that a team that came in to the tournament [...]

The holiday season has been kind to hockey fans everywhere this year with the NHL Winter Classic, Spengler Cup and the IIHF World Junior Championships (WJC) all taking place and all having considerable television exposure. thePuckBurger has followed all very closely, much to the frustration of their better half. Before the WJC we confidently predicted that [...]

The IIHF World Junior Championship has started and the thePuckBurger can only apologise about it’s shocking updates. Canada has had a massive word and Russia too. The holiday season has taken the tPB’s IHHF Jr correspondent to such an extent that they have not seen them since. We’d be sad but to be honest they’ve [...]

Next in our 2012 IIHF World Junior Championship preview is Sweden. The underachievers in many peoples’ eyes with only one gold medal, the last being in 1981. Sweden are hoping to deliver a year (or twenty), after many people expected them to, this time in Alberta, Canada. Max Friberg the Swedish forward, has already spoken about [...]