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    Vinnie Parise
    Dec 17, 2025, 22:30
    Updated at: Dec 17, 2025, 22:30

    At 6 PM CT, Sweden will face Canada in a pre-tournament game for the World Junior Championships. Two Blackhawks prospects, Marek Vanacker and Anton Frondell, will participate. 

    These two countries, due to the depth that they have this year, are the favorites to win the whole thing.

    Team USA, which is icing a very different team than the last two years, is looking to three-peat. It will be hard with these two hockey countries in the mix with the rosters that they have.