Calgary, Edmonton to host 2012 worlds

Published Friday August 29th, 2008

CALGARY - The cities of Calgary and Edmonton, usually the most bitter of rivals, are teaming up to host the 2012 world junior hockey championship.

Hockey Canada announced yesterday that the event is returning to Alberta for the first time since Red Deer hosted the 1995 tournament.

Calgary and Edmonton won out over a bid by Toronto.

"The business plan was absolutely unbelievable and the connection from grassroots hockey in this province, Hockey Alberta, the Western Hockey League to the two NHL teams was as good as we've ever seen," said Bob Nicholson, the president of Hockey Canada.

"It will be the first time that every player in this event will get to play in an NHL arena and that is special for European players as well as Canadian players." However, fans in the two rival cities are going to have to be patient since Canada can only play its games out of one city.

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