Revel And Graham Named To Team Pacific

The Saskatoon Blades are extremely proud to announce that forwards Ryan Graham and Matt Revel have been selected to Team Pacific for the upcoming 2013 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.

Hockey Alberta and BC Hockey released their 22-man roster for the event on Thursday, which runs from December 29th, 2012 until January 4th, 2013 in Victoriaville and Drummondville, Quebec.

Both players are first-year Blades with Revel posting a pair of goals and 5 points in 19 games this season.  The native of Abbotsford, BC joined the Blades just before the start of the regular season after signing an education contract with the team.

Ryan Graham has appeared in 11 games this season with Saskatoon after also playing 5 games with the Blades in 2011-12.  Graham, from Calgary, Alberta, was selected 91st overall by the Blades in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft.

The event includes the top players throughout the world who were born in 1996 or later.  The 10-team tournament includes five Canadian teams made up of Quebec, Ontario, Atlantic, West and Pacific.  Team Pacific will be in Group A of the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge with Sweden, Russia, Finland and Team West.

The Blades were represented at this event last year by Nick Zajac and Christian Stockl, both of whom dressed for Team West.