USA Hockey has named the 29 players invited to try out for their 22-player World Junior team today. Camp roster can be found here
There are only two WHLers on the invitation list - forwards Emerson Etem of the Medicine Hat Tigers and Mitch Callahan of the Kelowna Rockets. Tyler Pitlick of the Tigers was not invited.
There's a huge number of WHL list players invited as well though:
F Nick Bjugstad (Everett)
F Chris Brown (Calgary)
D Justin Faulk (Tri-City)
D Derek Forbort (Everett)
F Rocco Grimaldi (Portland)
D Nick Leddy (Tri-City)
F Brock Nelson (Tri-City)
F Matt Nieto (Tri-City)
D Philip Samuelsson (Edmonton)
F Drew Shore (Chilliwack)
F Jason Zucker (Seattle)
Those guys are all NCAA players (or AHL, in Leddy's case) though and we'll probably never see them in the WHL....
2 comments:
Its no surprise politics come into play even for the US team.
Pitlick would surely have even made the team if he was still on the college route.
Not necessarily, watched most of his games with Tigers, not as much of a stand out as he needed to be to make that team.
Glad he is a Tiger, still think he is just getting up to speed and has room for more improvement this year.
More responsiblity now with Vey and Etem gone for awhile. Will be good for him.
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