{"id":29933,"date":"2008-08-21T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/08\/21\/usa-hockey-narrows-2011-site-list-to-three\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:15","slug":"usa-hockey-narrows-2011-site-list-to-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2008\/08\/21\/usa-hockey-narrows-2011-site-list-to-three\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Hockey Narrows 2011 Site List To Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Hockey announced today that it has narrowed the list of potential sites to host the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-20 Championship to (alphabetical order): Buffalo, N.Y., Grand Forks, N.D., and Minneapolis &#8211; Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Under-20 Championship is a spectacular event that we&#8217;re extremely pleased to be hosting again,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We had interest in this event from more than 20 different entities across the country. We&#8217;ve narrowed the field to three very worthy finalists and look forward to reaching a decision before the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 IIHF World Under-20 Championship (otherwise known as the IIHF World Junior Championship) is a 10-nation tournament featuring the top men&#8217;s ice hockey players in the world under the age of 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a real treat for sports fans in our country to have the World Junior Championship back in the United States,&#8221; said Ron DeGregorio, president of USA Hockey. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very special event with an extremely high level of talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last time we hosted the World Junior Championship back in 2005, fans got to see players like Phil Kessel, Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin to name just a few,&#8221; said Jim Johannson, a two-time Olympian who serves as USA Hockey&#8217;s assistant executive director of hockey operations. &#8220;The bottom line for hockey fans is, outside of the Olympics, the World Junior Championship is probably the best international tournament they&#8217;ll ever get to witness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United States has hosted the event four previous times, including in Grand Forks, N.D.\/Thief River Falls, Minn. (2005), Boston (1996), Anchorage, Alaska (1989) and Minneapolis &#8211; St. Paul (1982).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Hockey announced today that it has narrowed the list of potential sites to host the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-20 Championship to (alphabetical order): Buffalo, N.Y., Grand Forks, N.D., and Minneapolis &#8211; Saint Paul. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Under-20 Championship is a spectacular event that we&#8217;re extremely pleased to be hosting again,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USA Hockey Narrows 2011 Site List To Three - 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