With just a few weeks left before the World Junior Championship gets underway in Vancouver, preliminary and selection camp rosters have been released for almost every participating country. One of the last to join the party is USA Hockey, who waited to reveal their group on the NHL Network.
The American group is one of the gold medal contenders again this year, and should be one of the most interesting groups to watch in the tournament. Littered with already drafted NHL prospects, they also will have potential first-overall pick Jack Hughes on the roster. The full group can be found below:
G Kyle Keyser (BOS)
G Spencer Knight (2019 eligible)
G Cayden Primeau (MTL)
D Mikey Anderson (LAK)
D Michael Callahan (ARI)
D Ty Emberson (ARI)
D Quinn Hughes (VAN)
D Joey Keane (NYR)
D Philip Kemp (EDM)
D K’Andre Miller (NYR)
D Dylan Samberg (WPG)
D Mattias Samuelsson (BUF)
D Jack St. Ivany (PHI)
F Evan Barratt (CHI)
F Noah Cates (PHI)
F Alexander Chmelevski (SJS)
F Logan Cockerill (NYI)
F Cole Coskey (undrafted)
F Sean Dhooghe (undrafted)
F Jack Drury (CAR)
F Joel Farabee (PHI)
F Jack Hughes (2019 eligible)
F Tyler Madden (VAN)
F Josh Norris (OTT)
F Jay O’Brien (PHI)
F Ryan Poehling (MTL)
F Jason Robertson (DAL)
F Oliver Wahlstrom (NYI)
F Sammy Walker (TBL)
Slightly undersized forward group with a pretty good sized D corps. As dynamic as Jack Hughes is, 17 year olds don’t tend to do well in this tournament. I think they’ll lean on Ryan Poehling to be the primary shutdown C which could open things up for the offence. Primeau is probably the favourite to land the #1 spot and he’s been very good since last year. Definitely some potential in this group but they will have some hurdles to overcome.
Really hope kings get hughes we need a rebuild fast.
We?
Don’t be one of those people