No doubt, a crew of “brightest and best” hockey thinkers will spend weeks and months dissecting what went wrong in another disappointing and disconcerting early exit by our national team at the world junior hockey championship.

Those are all good questions, and as I tend to do for almost every World Junior tournament, I had predicted this team would win gold and thought it had a roster that could roll over opponents like we’re accustomed to. But that was wrong, and that’s on me for misevaluating the team.

Team Canada was eliminated from the World Juniors in the quarterfinals against Czechia. CZECHIA ELIMINATES CANADA FROM THE #WorldJuniors FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW 😱 pic.twitter.com/K6OK3GjI2k — TSN (@TSN_Sports) January 3,