Meet the 4 Oil Kings looking to crack Team Canada's World Juniors lineup
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Oil Kings Dylan Guenther, Jake Neighbours, Kaiden Guhle and Sebastian Cossa have been invited to Team Canada's World Juniors selection camp starting Dec. 9 in Calgary.
Edmonton Oil Kings netminder Sebastian Cossa nearly missed the call to represent his country.
A Hockey Canada representative phoned him late last month with the good news, but dialled just as Cossa was about to deliver a speech at the team’s annual Toastmasters event.
“I got the call during that and I texted him and told him I’ll have to call him back later,” he said.
Cossa later returned the call and learned he would be one of four Edmonton Oil Kings – along with teammates Dylan Guenther, Jake Neighbours and Kaiden Guhle – invited to Team Canada’s World Juniors selection camp starting in Calgary today.
“You watch it every year growing up and you wish you could be in it one day, but it’s reality now,” he said of the World Juniors.
Thirty-five players, including seven Albertans, were invited to try out. Twenty-five will make the team, with camp concluding on Dec. 12 ahead of the tournament’s Boxing Day start.
Cossa, 19, was one of three goaltenders named to the camp roster and with COVID-19 still a concern, Team Canada will carry all three netminders into the tournament.
