Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Canadian World Junior team picked

Team Canada made its final cuts from the 35 players remaining in camp this morning. Gone are six more WHLers: goaltender Tyler Bunz (Medicine Hat), defencemen Joe Morrow (Portland) and Alex Petrovic (Red Deer), and forwards Brett Bulmer (Kelowna), Ty Rattie (Portand) and Brad Ross (Portland).

The final roster can be found here. Of the 22 players, 10 are from the OHL, five from the WHL, four from the QMJHL, one from the NCAA, and two from the NHL. (The two NHL players are one each originally from the WHL and OHL)

The five WHLers on the team are:

F Quinton Howden (Moose Jaw)
F Brendan Gallagher (Vancouver)
D Ryan Murray (Everett)
D Mark Pysyk (Edmonton)
F Mark Stone (Brandon)


And of course F Brett Connolly is a Prince George Cougar grad on loan to Canada from the NHL. The NCAA player, F Jaden Schwartz, is also a WHL prospect (Tri-City) though he has never played in the WHL and probably won't.

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