From Canada’s team to Team Canada… Our friends at the @BlueJays lent us their home run horn for the #WorldJuniors! 🇨🇦 From Team Canada to Team Canada… Our friends, the Blue Jays, lent us their home run siren for the #GlobalJunior! 🇨🇦
I have frequently commented that the Martin home run is one of my favorite sports moments in history. You can also add a few home runs during the 2025 postseason, namely Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s grand slam. in Game 2 of the ALDS and the aforementioned Springer home run. However, another of my favorite sporting memories came from a Team Canada goal in the World Juniors.
Unfortunately, Team Canada has been goldless for a number of tournaments, as Team USA took home the gold medal in both the 2024 and 2025 tournaments. Team Canada’s 20 gold medals in tournament history rank as the most, 13 more than the next best team in Team USA (Team Russia has not competed since the 2021 tournament, they have 13).
After losing in the quarter-finals last year in Ottawa, the tournament will shift to Minneapolis/Saint Paul in 2026. Team Canada is in a group with Team Finland, Team Latvia, Team Denmark and Team Czech Republic, against the latter on Friday evening.
The round robin portion of the tournament runs from Boxing Day to New Year’s Eve, before moving to the play-off stages. There are three rounds, the quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches, and the tournament ends on January 5.
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