
Hockey Canada announces world junior hockey team selection camp roster
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Hockey Canada will choose its 25-player roster following selection camp Dec. 9-12 in Calgary. Canada opens the IIHF men's under-20 tournament Dec. 26 in Edmonton.
Forwards Ridly Greig and defencemen Owen Power and Kaiden Guhle headline Canada’s 35-player selection camp roster for the 2022 world junior men’s hockey championship.
Hockey Canada will choose its 25-player roster following selection camp Dec. 9-12 in Calgary.
Canada opens the IIHF men’s under-20 tournament Dec. 26 versus the Czech Republic in Edmonton.
Red Deer, Alta., is a co-host city. Austria, Germany and Finland are also in Canada’s pool.
The selection camp roster was chosen by Hockey Canada director of player personnel Alan Millar and under-20 management group lead James Boyd.
Canada will take three goaltenders to Edmonton, so Brett Brochu of the London Knights, Dylan Garand of the Kamloops Blazers and Sebastian Cossa of the Edmonton Oil Kings will represent Canada.
Guhle of the Prince Albert Raiders was a member of the Canadian squad that lost 2-0 to the United States in the 2021 world junior final in Edmonton. Manitoba Moose centre Cole Perfetti, who was named to this year’s selection camp roster, was also on that team.
Power, a University of Michigan defenceman, has already won world men’s championship gold with Canada in June in Riga, Latvia.