(Calgary) Connor Bedard will be the focus of a field of ten players who will try to win a second title in six months at the World Junior Championship as Hockey Canada’s selection camp begins Friday in Moncton.
Hockey Canada has released the roster of 29 players invited to its selection camp for the tournament, which begins Dec. 26 in Moncton and Halifax.
Nine of the players are from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Bedard, who has 64 points in 28 games with the WHL’s Regina Pats this season, helped Canada win the 2022 tournament. The event was presented in August, in Edmonton, after being moved from its usual time of year due to the Omicron variant.
During the selection camp, Ethan Del Mastro, Nathan Gaucher, Riley Kidney, Carson Lambos, Zack Ostapchuk, Brennan Othmann, Joshua Roy, Logan Stankoven and Olen Zellweger, all gold medalists in 2022, will join Bedard.
Canada’s final roster for the tournament will be known at the end of the selection camp on December 12.
Canada opens the tournament on December 26 against the Czech Republic at the Scotiabank Center in Halifax.