Ivar Stenberg (BildbyrÄn) It wouldn't take a particularly avid sports watcher that happens to read my blog posts on occasion to understand that all is not well in Leafs Nation. Regrettably, I've entered a period of NHL apathy that feels vaguely foreign after nine consecutive playoff appearances for my favourite team. Luckily, I'll never fall out of love with hockey and a feast for the junior hockey enjoyers is just around the corner. As the Christmas holidays draw nearer, the World Junior Championship approaches as well. The WJC is a vapid, short, and relentless time of fixtures that tends to dictate scouting reports to an incredibly high degree, but it also happens to be arguably the most fun hockey on the entire calendar, outside of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Given I am only human and thus bound to overreact to the World Juniors for my personal scouting list of the current draft-eligible players, I figured it was an ideal time...