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Team Canada recently announced its training camp roster and 3 Habs prospects will be amongst those hoping to take part in the tournament in late December, Owen Beck, Joshua Roy and Riley Kidney. Some might have been hoping to see defenseman Logan Mailloux get an invite be he isn’t one of the 9 invited blueliner. To be fair, with the current climate around Team Canada, I would have been surprised to see Mailloux get an invite considering his past. Furthermore, there are quite a few good defenders on the Canadian roster and not everyone is as taken with Mailloux as some Habs fans are. La Presse’ Mathias Brunet believes that there are some deficiencies in his defensive game that will need to be addressed if he hopes to play in the NHL one day.
It was announced today that Filip Mesar would be loaned to Team Slovakia for the tournament, but it doesn’t seem like a decision has been made about Juraj Slafkovsky so far. To be fair, if he keeps a top-6 role in the line-up, I’d rather he stayed in Montreal. If the plan is to put him back on the 4th line once the injured players return though, I hope they’ll allow him to go to the tournament. That being said, he’s been playing against men for the last two years and probably wouldn’t have much to gain by playing against junior players. Slafkovsky is not in the same situation as Shane Wright who has been scratched more often than not by the Kraken and needs to get a confidence boost.
As for the USA, defenseman Lane Hutson is on their preliminary roaster and will no doubt be hoping to make the team. Personally, I’ve not had the chance to see him play much and I sure hope he makes it. Right now, there are 10 defensemen on their preliminary roster and unsurprisingly, Hutson is the smallest of them all at 5’9’’. Fellow 2022 draftees Adam Engstrom and Vinzenz Rohrer have also been named by their respective countries, Sweden and Austria.
The tournament will kick off on December 26 in Halifax Nova Scotia and wrap up on January 5.
In other news, both Jonathan Drouin and Mike Hoffman joined the team at practice today, although they were both wearing no contact jerseys. After practice, the players went to visit sick kids at Montreal’s Children’s Hospital and the CHU Ste-Justine. Considering what those kids are going through, this will have no doubt made their day.
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