The IIHF World Beneath-18 Championships are proper across the nook, with the festivities set to kick off on Thursday, April 19. Together with the pre-season Hlinka Gretzky Match, the U-18s present the most important platform for draft-eligible prospects to point out their ability and compete in opposition to the easiest their draft yr has to supply.
Group Finland, the defending champions from 2018, had been dealt an enormous blow when potential top-five decide Kaapo Kakko introduced he...