{"id":388388,"date":"2026-01-03T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:22:27","slug":"kraken-prospects-advance-to-semifinals-at-world-junior-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388388\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken Prospects Advance To Semifinals At World Junior Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semifinals round of the 2026 World Junior Championship is set.\u00a0On January 4th, Finland will face off against Sweden and Canada will meet Czechia.\u00a0 The Kraken have prospects on three of the four semifinal teams.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"January 2, 2026: Julius Miettinen Celebrates photo by Matt Kohn | Imagn\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6fff7c82f134ac624935f749d58314c2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2026: Julius Miettinen Celebrates photo by Matt Kohn | Imagn<\/p>\n<p>Julius Miettinen has 1 goal and 2 assists in 4 games played for Team Finland.\u00a0 He was credited with the secondary assist on the overtime winner that sent Finland to the semifinal round, eliminating two-time gold-winning Team USA.\u00a0 Goaltender Kim Saarinen is also rostered for Team Finland, but he has not yet been called upon to play.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For Czechia, defenceman Jakub Fibigr has contributed 1 goal and 1 assist, and is +2 for the tournament.\u00a0 Both points came in the last ten minutes of Czechia&#8217;s quarterfinal round against Switzerland, with Fibigr&#8217;s goal landing as the final punch in the 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"January 2, 2026: Jakub Fibigr Celebrates Goal photo by Nick Wosika | Imagn\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71e4f7b8f301b1eb95a0b1cc860df010.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2026: Jakub Fibigr Celebrates Goal photo by Nick Wosika | Imagn<\/p>\n<p>Loke Krantz has played a smaller role in Sweden&#8217;s success.\u00a0 While other Kraken prospects are making their second appearances in the tournament, this is Krantz&#8217;s first.\u00a0 The 18-year-old has not played as many minutes, and has not accumulated any points.\u00a0 His last go at international competition was in the U17 tournament in 2023-24 where he had 2 goals and 1 assist in 4 games played.\u00a0 There is still time for him to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>The semifinals round will take place on January 4th.\u00a0 Finland vs. Sweden at 1:30 pacific, and Canada vs. Czechia at 5:30 pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The semifinals round of the 2026 World Junior Championship is set.\u00a0On January 4th, Finland will face off against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2551,4151,8889,5,399,4188,4,2686,234,5318,49754,1718,15233,5576,2059],"class_list":["post-388388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-czechia","tag-finland","tag-games-played","tag-hockey","tag-julius-miettinen","tag-kraken","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken","tag-semifinal-teams","tag-sweden","tag-team-finland","tag-the-kraken","tag-world-junior-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115831383675424818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}