A total of 19 QMJHLers invited to Hockey Canada’s U18 and U20 camps

 

 

Hockey Canada has invited 88 players to participate in Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp and Canada’s National Junior Team summer camp, set to take place this July at the Markin MacPhail Centre at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.

 

• UNDER-18 TEAM

As part of Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp, 44 players will compete for an opportunity to wear the Maple Leaf at the 2022 Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Red Deer, Alta.

The selection camp, which takes place July 20-23, will include a variety of on- and off-ice sessions. Following the selection of the final roster on July 24, Team Canada will play a pair of games against Red and White teams from Canada’s National Junior Team summer camp.

Here are the QMJHL players taking part in the U18 selection camp:

DEFENSEMEN:

• COUGHLIN, Luke | Charlottetown, P.E.I. // Rimouski Océanic
• MacKINNON, Dylan | Riverview, N.B. // Halifax Mooseheads
• MORIN, Étienne | Valleyfield, Que // Moncton Wildcats
• TOURIGNY, Jordan | Victoriaville, Que // Shawinigan Cataractes

FORWARDS:

• CATAFORD, Mathieu | Saint-Constant, Que // Halifax Mooseheads
• COLLARD, Vincent | Chicoutimi, Que // Baie-Comeau Drakkar
• GAUTHIER, Ethan | Drummondville, Que // Sherbrooke Phœnix
• PEDDLE, Tyler | Antigonish, N.S. // Drummondville Voltigeurs

Alan Millar (Tottenham, Ont.), Hockey Canada’s director of player personnel, led the player selection process with assistance from Tyler Dietrich (Vancouver, B.C.), senior manager of hockey operations, and Byron Bonora (Brooks, Alta.), manager of hockey operations and U17 head scout.

The player selection process also included Peter Anholt (Prince Albert, Sask./Lethbridge, WHL) and James Boyd (Mississauga, Ont./Ottawa, OHL) of the Program of Excellence management group, and the Canadian Hockey League general managers committee, made up of Pierre Cloutier (Rouyn-Noranda, Que./Blainville-Boisbriand, QMJHL), Kurt Hill (Winnipeg, Man./Edmonton, WHL), Jim Hulton (Wolfe Island, Ont./Charlottetown, QMJHL), John Paddock (Oak River, Man./Regina, WHL), Barclay Parneta (Saskatoon, Sask./Vancouver, WHL), Cam Russell (Halifax, N.S./Halifax, QMJHL) and Steve Staios (Hamilton, Ont./Hamilton, OHL).

Among the team personnel, you can also find the squad’s Head Coach Stéphane Julien (Shawinigan, Que/Sherbrooke, QMJHL), Video Coach Raphaël-Pier Richer (Gatineau, Que/Gatineau, QMJHL), Equipment Manager Andrew MacNeill (Charlottetown, P.E.I./Charlottetown, QMJHL) and Athletic Therapist Lucie Grandmont (Montréal, Que/Sherbrooke, QMJHL).

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• UNDER-20 TEAM

44 players will also be on the ice in Calgary for Canada’s National Junior Team summer camp, set for July 23-27.

The camp roster features 26 players that have been selected in the NHL Draft, including nine first-round picks: Nolan Allan (CHI), Zachary Bolduc (STL), Brandt Clarke (LAK), Corson Ceulemans (CBJ), Zach Dean (VGK), Wyatt Johnston (DAL), Zachary L’Heureux (NSH), Brennan Othmann (NYR) and Chase Stillman (NJD).

Here are the QMJHL players taking part in the U20 selection camp:

DEFENSEMEN:

• HINDS, Tyson | Gatineau, Que // Sherbrooke Phœnix
• LUNEAU, Tristan | Victoriaville, Que // Gatineau Olympiques
• NAUSE, Evan | Riverview, N.B. // Quebec Remparts

FORWARDS:

• BOLDUC, Zachary | Bécancour, Que // Quebec Remparts
• DEAN, Zach | Mount Pearl, N.L. // Gatineau Olympiques
• GAUCHER, Nathan | Richelieu, Que // Quebec Remparts
• KIDNEY, Riley | Enfield, N.S. // Acadie-Bathurst Titan
• L’HEUREUX, Zachary | Mercier, Que // Halifax Mooseheads
• NADEAU, Olivier | Lac-Etchemin, Que // Shawinigan Cataractes
• ROBIDAS, Justin | Sherbrooke, Que // Val-d’Or Foreurs
• ROY, Joshua | St-Georges-de-Beauce, Que // Sherbrooke Phœnix

Canada’s National Junior Team camp staff will feature six experienced coaches from across the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), including Shaun Clouston (Viking, Alta./Kamloops, WHL), Steve Hartley (Hawkesbury, Ont./Drummondville, QMJHL), Jim Hulton (Kingston, Ont./Charlottetown, QMJHL), Brent Kisio (Calgary, Alta./Lethbridge, WHL), Brad Lauer (Humboldt, Sask./Edmonton, WHL) and Ryan Oulahen (Newmarket, Ont./North Bay, OHL).

Hartley has served as head coach of the Drummondville Voltigeurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for four seasons (2019-22) after serving two seasons (2017-18) as an assistant. Hartley was a camp coach at Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 Team summer development camp last year. He also served as an assistant coach with Team Canada Black at the 2019 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.

Hulton just completed his sixth season as head coach and general manager of the QMJHL’s Charlottetown Islanders, guiding the franchise to its first-ever championship series appearance following a club-record 48-win season. Hulton was an assistant coach with Canada’s National Junior Team at the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship and won silver and gold as an assistant coach at the 2004 and 2005 IIHF World Junior Championships, respectively.

Hockey Canada announced in May that the 2023 IIHF World Junior championship will be held in Halifax, N.S., and Moncton, N.B., Dec. 26, 2022 to Jan. 5, 2023.

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(SOURCE: Hockey Canada)