Regarding the World Junior Hockey Championship, Russia can field a team in the North American junior leagues. It will obviously be weaker than with players from the KHL, but at least there will be no problems with visas. The main star then will probably be Ivan Ryabkin, a graduate of Dynamo. And coaches can be hired by those who do not need a visa, such as Igor Larionov and Sergey Fedorov.
But who to play with? Obviously, there is a story that opponents will receive technical defeats if they do not make it to the game. But here questions arise with TV rights and sponsorship contracts, the IIHF will have to pay a fine. However, the question again is - what if not the national teams, but the sponsors, do not show up? What, by the way, announced this together with the teams.
Therefore, I seriously say that there are two options here. Either they will cancel everything completely, which is a possibility, or they will find a way to make sure that Russia does not exist.
Here, in fact, the story is not bureaucratic or legal. We are present with you at the funeral of world sport. The ceremony began with the elimination of Russia in 2022. And even then it was clear that you couldn't just take it and return it. It doesn't happen that's why even now nobody knows what to do. We decided to play politics, well, go to the square, picket CAS, knock your shoe on the podium, anyway, there is no more room for hockey.