The 2020 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in the Czech Republic will mark 20 years for Rita and I hosting groups of fans from all over Canada at the most intense and exciting hockey event on the planet. Our young elite hockey players entering their prime, chosen to represent their country sets the stage. When our boys hit the ice the energy from the sea of red in the stands turns up the volume to the point where it just doesn’t get anymore patriotic than this. But wait… surely this must be somewhere in Canada. Not this time… this all happens in Europe!

Other travel companies have tried to copy us over the past few years which is to be expected, but we were the first - starting this program from scratch in cooperation with Hockey Canada before it was a thing. We worked very hard in the early years listening to what people wanted, slowly building up a following yet thinking that this would just be one-shot bucket-list trip for most. But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. As more people joined us for their first time, they kept coming back - bringing more people with them. Now most are like our extended family.

Over the past 20 years we’ve supported our National Junior Team numerous times in Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, USA and of course here at home. We have cheered them to victory and cried with them through heartbreaking defeats (even though there is officially no crying in hockey). Regardless of the outcome, we are proud of how well our boys represent us and we will always be there for them.