WJC and U-17 absences

With most of the rosters or selection camp rosters for the various World Junior teams and U-17 Challenge teams having been announced, I thought I'd put together a list of which WHL teams are looking at missing which players.

Players in bold are definitely selected to those teams. Players not in bold are subject to selection camps for those teams first.

Brandon: Keith Aulie (Canada - WJC), Matt Calvert (Canada - WJC), Brayden Schenn (Canada - WJC), Mark Stone (Western - U-17's)

Calgary: Austin Madaisky (Pacific - U-17's), Brett Sonne (Canada - WJC)

Chilliwack: Carter Berg (Western - U-17's), Kevin Sundher (Pacific - U-17's)

Edmonton: Mark Pysyk (Pacific - U-17's), Tomas Vincour (Czech Republic - WJC)

Everett: Kent Simpson (Pacific - U-17's)

Kamloops: Brendan Ranford (Pacific - U-17's), Michal Siska (Slovakia - WJC)

Kelowna: Jamie Benn (Canada - WJC), Tyler Myers (Canada - WJC), Stepan Novotny (Czech Republic - WJC)

Kootenay: Drew Czerwonka (Western - U-17's), Max Reinhart (Pacific - U-17's)

Lethbridge: Zach Boychuk (Canada - WJC), Alex Theriau (Pacific - U-17's)

Medicine Hat: Tyler Ennis (Canada - WJC), Tomas Kundratek (Czech Republic - WJC), Zdenek Okal (Czech Republic - WJC)

Moose Jaw: Connor Cox (Pacific - U-17's), Travis Hamonic (Canada - WJC), Quinton Howden (Western - U-17's), Tomas Karpov (Czech Republic - WJC), Nathan MacMaster (Pacific - U-17's), Dylan McIlrath (Western - U-17's)

Portland: Keith Hamilton (Pacific - U-17's), Brad Ross (Pacific - U-17's), Troy Rutkowski (Pacific - U-17's), Radim Valchar (Czech Republic - WJC)

Prince Albert: Ryan Harrison (Pacific - U-17's), Igor Revenko (Belarus- b-pool WJC),

Prince George: Brett Connolly (Pacific - U-17's), Dana Tyrell (Canada - WJC), Marek Viedensky (Slovakia - WJC)

Red Deer: Tommi Kivisto (Finland - WJC), Alex Petrovic (Pacific - U-17's)

Regina: Rudolph Cerveny (Czech Republic - WJC), Jordan Eberle (Canada - WJC), Dominick Favreau (Western - U-17's), Colten Teubert (Canada - WJC), Jordan Weal (Pacific - U-17's)

Saskatoon: Charles Inglis (Western - U-17's), Milan Kytnar (Slovakia - WJC), Josh Nicholls (Pacific - U-17's), Jyri Niemi (Finland - WJC)

Seattle: Thomas Hickey (Canada - WJC), Chance Lund (Pacific - U-17's), Jim O'Brien (USA - WJC), Calvin Pickard (Western - U-17's)

Spokane: Drayson Bowman (USA - WJC), Blake Gal (Pacific - U-17's), Tyler Johnson (USA - WJC), Jared Spurgeon (Canada - WJC), Dustin Tokarski (Canada - WJC), Stefan Ulmer (Austria - b-pool WJC), Mitch Wahl (USA - WJC)

Swift Current: Christian Magnus (Western - U-17's)

Tri-City: Justin Feser (Pacific - U-17's), Brooks Macek (Western - U-17's), Chet Pickard (Canada - WJC)

Vancouver: Jonathan Blum (USA - WJC), Brendon Gallagher (Pacific - U-17's), Evander Kane (Canada - WJC), Tyson Sexsmith (Canada - WJC)


One other player who I'm not sure about yet is Calgary's Bostjan Golicic, who will probably be going to play for Slovenia at the B-pool World Juniors like he has the last two years. I just can't find a roster for Slovenia.

Spokane's roster is going to be decimated after Christmas with all those players away, especially if Spurgeon and Tokarski make the Canadian team. And some people actually wanted Jared Cowen there too....did they want the Chiefs to ice a midget team for the post-Christmas games? :)