Chip Kelly has been fired as the Philadelphia Eagles head coach. Kelly had an overall record of 26-21 during his three seasons as head coach.

The timing of the firing is a surprise considering there’s still one game left in the season. It shows just how ready the Eagles were to move on from Kelly.

Kelly was hired by the Eagles in 2013 after 4 years as the head football coach at the University of Oregon, where he had tremendous success with his unusual high powered offense. The Eagles hired him in hopes that his offense will also work at the NFL level. He led the Eagles to a record of 10-6 in each of his first two seasons, making the playoffs in his first season.

Before this season he was promoted to general manager to go along with his head coaching duties. He traded away several key Eagle players, like quarterback Nick Foles and running back Leshean McCoy, for players who he thought would better fit his system. The Eagles struggled this year, and they currently have a record of 6-9. The moves, along with how the season turned out, angered many Philadelphians and executives in the Eagles organization. Today, they decided they had enough of Kelly.

What happens to Kelly now will be interesting. He’s always been thought of as a college coach. Many people say he will take a job with a high-profile college team. Others say he might take the Tenessee Titans head coaching job and reunite with his old college quarterback, Marcus Mariota.

On December 26, 2015, the USA national junior hockey team defeated the Canadian national junior team by a score of 4-2. The game was the first for both teams in the annual World Junior Hockey Championships.

The WJC begins every year the day after Christmas and lasts until January 5 and features the best amateur hockey players in the world competing for their respective countries. Ten countries are split into two groups, Group A and Group B. Each team plays four preliminary round games against the other four teams in their respective groups. The top four teams in each group advance to the quarterfinals, the bottom two teams get relegated.

Group A consists of USA, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, and Denmark. Group B consists of Russia, Finland, Belarus, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The quarterfinal matchups are determined by the final group standings. The highest ranked team in Group A plays the lowest ranked team in Group B, the second highest ranked team in Group A playes the second lowest ranked team in Group B, and so on and so forth.

Each country holds a selection camp during the summer before the tournament to decide who to pick to be on the team. Each team consists of the top junior players from the country. In order to be eligible to play in the 2016 WJC, a player has to be born between the year 1996 at the earliest and the year 2001 at the latest. Team Canada won the WJC last year and has won the tournament more times than any other country.

Many of the players in the tournament have been drafted by NHL teams and many others are expected to be drafted in the future. The World Juniors is a great way for hockey fans to watch the future superstars of the NHL before they make it to the league. Some notable names that have competed in the WJC in the past years include Jonathan Toews, Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Zach Parise, Patrick Kane, Tyler Seguin, Taylor Hall, Drew Doughty, Carey Price, Alex Gachenyuk, Seth Jones, Nathan Mackinnon, Connor McDavid, and Jack Eichel.

The World Juniors is one of the best annual international sports tournaments for any sport and I would highly recommend any hockey fan to watch some of the upcoming games that will happen this week. Most of the games can be found on NHL Network.