CORNWALL, Ontario – An excited crowd packed into the Royal Bank of Canada branch on Pitt Street in Cornwall to hear the announcement from former Maple Leaf and Team Canada-alumni Wendel Clark that Cornwall would host an IIHF World Junior Championship pre-competition game.
The game will be on Dec. 19 and will see Sweden faceoff against Slovakia at the Ed Lumley Arena.
In addition to the game one team will be spending eight days training in Cornwall.
Cornwall is just one of eight cities across Ontario and Quebec that will host 10 pre-competition games for this year’s World Juniors tournament.
Wendel Clark himself is a former World Junior hockey player in addition to his long tenure with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He told the crowd that the World Junior tournament was a showcase of great hockey and said that the standards to make the team were so stringent, that in the year he played, two current NHL Hall of Famers did not make the cut.
RBC also took the time to announce its Canada 150 initiative. RBC will be giving 100 young Cornwallites $150 with the only caveat being that they use the money to do something good for their community. Canada 150 is RBC’s way of marking the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada.
