Calamity at the World Junior Championship!

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Calamity at the World Junior Championship!

 

          An event somewhat overshadowed by the larger and more skilled World Cup, the Season 88 WJC recently concluded with Europe taking home another gold medal. But the events that preceded this final between Europe and Team World were pretty crazy and it hasn't caused the conversation that it probably should have.

          Heading into the playoffs, Team World geared up and got ready to play the tournament-favourite USA squad and after a huge upset, the underdog World roster advanced to the finals. That's when some news came out, the Team World GM, in all his talk about corrupt organizers, had broken the rules.

          In the group stage, every team had to play both their goalie for the same number of games, 5 each, Team World snuck around this rule and started their preferred starter, Olivier Gauthier, 7 times! Following a great playoff run where no further infractions were made, GMs were made aware of what had happened and to make up for this situation the Team World GM, Ron Johnson, sent his backup goalie out on the ice for the gold medal game.

          The rest is history, Team Europe dominated that game and won another gold medal while Team World had to be satisfied with silver in what could have been a miracle run if Ron Johnson had been more competent.

 

- Non-ball Sports News, NSN, reports.