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The IIHF confirmed on Friday that the next edition of the World Junior Hockey Championship to be played outside Canada will include an outdoor game between the United States and Canada.

The game, at New Era Field in Orchard Park — normally the Buffalo Bills’ sadness factory — could have as many as 70,000 fans in attendance, making massive piles of money for the tournament organizers.

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As is custom in junior hockey, none of that will be shared with the players.

News about the latest way to increase the take from the World Juniors comes a week after the Vancouver Sun reported that the B.C. government last year exempted the province’s six major-junior hockey teams from minimum-wage laws after lobbying from the Western Hockey League. That decision comes amid ongoing class-action lawsuits that demand better compensation for junior players who make a small monthly stipend and little else.

And in the latest development in that case, an Alberta judge on Friday ruled that the WHL and the Ontario Hockey League must hand over financial details about its franchises, which have long insisted that any attempt to fundamentally change the way its players are compensated would bankrupt most of them and cripple the leagues.