World Junior Hockey Championships (WJHC 2013)

[hockeyfan1]

Soon, it'll be that time of year again when the best junior players in the world will participate in the 2013 WJHC,  to be played in Ufa, Russia.

From Dec. 11 to Dec. 19, Hockey Canada will be selecting players from a list of all the participants currently set for training camp.  Here are the 37 invitees:

GOALIES
Jordan Binnington
Laurent Brossoit
Malcolm Subban
Jake Paterson

DEFENSE
Frank Corrado
Matthew Dumba
Dougie Hamilton
Scott Harrington
Ryan Murphy
Xavier Ouellet
Adam Pelech
Derrick Pouliot
Griffin Reinhart
Morgan Rielly
Ryan Sproule
Tyler Wotherspoon

FORWARDS
Francis Beauvillier
Anthony Camara
Daniel Catenacci
Phillip Danault
Jonathan Drouin
Tyler Graovac
Jonathan Huberdeau
Charles Hudon
Boone Jenner
J.C. Lipon
Nathan MacKinnon
Mark McNeill
Sean Monahan
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Ty Rattie
Brett Ritchie
Mark Scheifele
Hunter Shinkaruk
Colton Sissons
Ryan Strome
Tom Wilson

Source: THN

 

[Redleaf]

Disappointed Percy was left off that list.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Team USA  WJHC training camp invitees: 27 players

GOALIES
John Gibson
Jon Gillies
Garret Sparks

DEFENSE
Shane Gostisbehere
Matt Grzelcyk
Seth Jones
Jake McCane
Connor Murphy
Mike Reilly
Patrick Sieloff
Brady Skjei
Jacob Trouba

FORWARDS
Cole Bardreau
Riley Barber
Tyler Biggs
Alex Galchenyuk
John Gaudreau
Rocco Grimaldi
Ryan Hartman
Sean Kuraly
Mario Lucia
Stefan Matteau
J.T. Miller
Stefan Noesen
Blake Pietila
Vince Trocheck
Jim Vesey

Source: THN

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

He has a record of 15 wins and 7 losses(plus 3 shootout losses) with a GAA of 2.87 and a SV% of .916.

The GAA leaves something to be desired but isn't that horrible in the OHL. Good enough for 5th in wins, 9th in the league in GAA and 6th in SV%.

 

[seahawk]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

He played quite well tonight against Kitchener. He's probably going to be #2 behind Kitchener's (and Anaheim's) John Gibson.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

He has a record of 15 wins and 7 losses(plus 3 shootout losses) with a GAA of 2.87 and a SV% of .916.

The GAA leaves something to be desired but isn't that horrible in the OHL. Good enough for 5th in wins, 9th in the league in GAA and 6th in SV%.

Make that 16 and 7.

 

[Redleaf]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

He has a record of 15 wins and 7 losses(plus 3 shootout losses) with a GAA of 2.87 and a SV% of .916.

The GAA leaves something to be desired but isn't that horrible in the OHL. Good enough for 5th in wins, 9th in the league in GAA and 6th in SV%.

Make that 16 and 7.

Don't know much about Sparks. Is that record reflective of the team in front of him or his play in net?

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

I was a little unfair to him, I haven't really been following his progress recently, I just recall being underwhelmed by what I had previously seen from him.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

The U.S. must be hurting for goalies if Sparks got an invite.

He has a record of 15 wins and 7 losses(plus 3 shootout losses) with a GAA of 2.87 and a SV% of .916.

The GAA leaves something to be desired but isn't that horrible in the OHL. Good enough for 5th in wins, 9th in the league in GAA and 6th in SV%.

Make that 16 and 7.

Don't know much about Sparks. Is that record reflective of the team in front of him or his play in net?

I don't know a bunch about him either. I was just looking at his record and numbers to justify him being invited to the Camp.

But from what I have seen this year he's looked pretty damn good.

 

[seahawk]

Sparks looked very solid in the Storm's win against Kitchener on Tuesday night, aside from the 1st goal. He has also benefited from playing in all but 1 game so far this season. The test of him being worth the selection will come when we see how Guelph plays without him.

 

[Redleaf]

So let me vent a bit here...

Not only does the NHL screw us with this 3 month lock out, but they will most likely return to play just in time to also screw us out of the consolation prize. I was looking forward to, at the very least, watching the best world junior tournament in 8 years.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

whoah, waitaminit. Did I miss a news story that was optimistic about the nhl strike being over soon? The WJC tryout invitees are already in Calgary. With no talks scheduled, Christmas break coming up, I don't see how the NHL would return before  Jan 5-6 ish at the earliest. And the gold medal game is Jan 6.

 

[Rebel_1812]

Disappointed Percy was left off that list.

If it wasn't for the lockout he would have been invited.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

whoah, waitaminit. Did I miss a news story that was optimistic about the nhl strike being over soon? The WJC tryout invitees are already in Calgary. With no talks scheduled, Christmas break coming up, I don't see how the NHL would return before  Jan 5-6 ish at the earliest. And the gold medal game is Jan 6.

Training camps would be before that if a season started in the first week of January.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Oh I get that, the training camps would be ASAP.....but I don't see how they could have an agreement in place before Jan 3 right now. Even if there were talks NOW, by the time they get them settled, and sent out to the membership for a vote, and you let the Christmas break go through, it's still gonna be Jan 2 before anything could get set. If training camp was announced Jan 2, the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mark Scheifele types would already be in Russia and playing. Besides, they've been playing since October, they're already IN game shape. No reason they couldn't just come back ASAP after the gold medal game Jan 6. Won't be any NHL games before that anyway.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Burke at least has said if a deal is reached and Rielly has gone over he wouldn't call him back.

 

[bustaheims]

Oh I get that, the training camps would be ASAP.....but I don't see how they could have an agreement in place before Jan 3 right now. Even if there were talks NOW, by the time they get them settled, and sent out to the membership for a vote, and you let the Christmas break go through, it's still gonna be Jan 2 before anything could get set. If training camp was announced Jan 2, the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mark Scheifele types would already be in Russia and playing. Besides, they've been playing since October, they're already IN game shape. No reason they couldn't just come back ASAP after the gold medal game Jan 6. Won't be any NHL games before that anyway.

Yeah, that's sort of the timeline I'd expect. Even if they come to an agreement in principle tomorrow, you have to figure 10-14 days to hammer out the finer points, draft the thing, get both sides to vote on it, get everyone playing in various European leagues back to North America, etc. Realistically, the earliest the first games of the season would likely fall is around the same time as the gold medal game.

 

[Deebo]

Oh I get that, the training camps would be ASAP.....but I don't see how they could have an agreement in place before Jan 3 right now. Even if there were talks NOW, by the time they get them settled, and sent out to the membership for a vote, and you let the Christmas break go through, it's still gonna be Jan 2 before anything could get set. If training camp was announced Jan 2, the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mark Scheifele types would already be in Russia and playing. Besides, they've been playing since October, they're already IN game shape. No reason they couldn't just come back ASAP after the gold medal game Jan 6. Won't be any NHL games before that anyway.

Yeah, that's sort of the timeline I'd expect. Even if they come to an agreement in principle tomorrow, you have to figure 10-14 days to hammer out the finer points, draft the thing, get both sides to vote on it, get everyone playing in various European leagues back to North America, etc. Realistically, the earliest the first games of the season would likely fall is around the same time as the gold medal game.

I don't remember all the specifics about 94/95 but I did read that 9 days after the lockout ended, the games started.

 

[bustaheims]

I don't remember all the specifics about 94/95 but I did read that 9 days after the lockout ended, the games started.

Maybe, but the lockout doesn't actually end until the CBA is drafted, finalized, voted on and approved by both sides. Even if an agreement is reached in principle tomorrow, it could take 2 weeks for that to happen.