Russia hasn't had a lot of success in international hockey tournaments on home ice, but are loaded with talent for this year's IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. Can Grigorenko, Kucherov and Yakupov deliver the home team the gold medal?

Over the past four years, no country has been more decorated at the junior hockey levels than Sweden. See how they rank compared to the other top nations of junior hockey in this world ranking, which includes the two major IIHF junior tournaments.

While the NHL and NHLPA come closer to reaching a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, several national federations could see their top U20 talent removed from the world's top junior hockey tournament.