39 CHL Players at Canada’s Summer U18 Selection Camp
Friday July 31, 2015
Hockey Canada’s ‘Summer Showcase’continues into the weekend in Calgary with Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team Selection Camp.
From July 31-Aug. 4, 43 players – four goaltenders, 15 defencemen and 24 forwards – will participate in practices and three Red-White intrasquad games.
Of the 43 players who have been invited to the selection camp, 22 will be selected for Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team for the 2015 U18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup, Aug. 10-15 in Breclav, Czech Republic and Piestany, Slovakia.
The 43 players includes 39 from across the Canadian Hockey League with 17 from the Western Hockey League, 15 from the Ontario Hockey League, and seven from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Canada has won the summer under-18 tournament seven consecutive years and 10 of the last 11.
Ryan Jankowski, director of player personnel for Hockey Canada, was responsible for all player selection, with input from coaches and general managers from across the Canadian Hockey League.
39 CHL Players at Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team Selection Camp:
Goaltenders (4):
Evan Fitzpatrick (Sherbrooke Phoenix)
Carter Hart (Everett Silvertips)
Stuart Skinner (Lethbridge Hurricanes)
Dylan Wells (Peterborough Petes)
Defence (13):
Josh Anderson (Prince George Cougars)
Jake Bean (Calgary Hitmen)
Jakob Chychrun (Sarnia Sting)
Kale Clague (Brandon Wheat Kings)
Sean Day (Mississauga Steelheads)
Samuel Girard (Shawinigan Cataractes)
Luke Green (Saint John Sea Dogs)
Josh Mahura (Red Deer Rebels)
Ryely McKinstry (Vancouver Giants)
Victor Mete (London Knights)
Keaton Middleton (Saginaw Spirit)
Jacob Neveu (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies)
David Quenneville (Medicine Hat Tigers)
Forwards (22):
Jonathan Ang (Peterborough Petes)
Travis Barron (Ottawa 67’s)
Tyler Benson (Vancouver Giants)
Will Bitten (Flint Firebirds)
Logan Brown (Windsor Spitfires)
Dillon Dube (Kelowna Rockets)
Pierre-Luc Dubois (Cape Breton Screaming Eagles)
Tye Felhaber (Saginaw Spirit)
Brett Howden (Moose Jaw Warriors)
Tanner Kaspick (Brandon Wheat Kings)
Jake Kryski (Kamloops Blazers)
Jordan Kyrou (Sarnia Sting)
Pascal Laberge (Victoriaville Tigres)
Beck Malenstyn (Calgary Hitmen)
Adam Mascherin (Kitchener Rangers)
Michael McLeod (Mississauga Steelheads)
Nolan Patrick (Brandon Wheat Kings)
Miguel Picard (Blainville-Boisbriand Armada)
Zach Poirier (North Bay Battalion)
Brandon Saigeon (Hamilton Bulldogs)
Sam Steel (Regina Pats)
Nolan Volcan (Seattle Thunderbirds)
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Intrasquad games are free and open to the public, and will be webcast by FASTHockey available on the Hockey Canada website at www.hockeycanada.ca/U18Live, and www.hockeycanada.ca/DevLive.
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For more information on the Hockey Canada Program of Excellence, please visit www.hockeycanada.ca, or follow along via social media at www.facebook.com/hockeycanada, www.twitter.com/hockeycanada, and www.twitter.com/hc_men.