Looking for our 5th straight Gold medal at the World Juniors Under-20 Tournament, this December, in Ottawa, it looks like Canada is set to ice another fantastic lineup of young up-and-coming NHL superstars. I cannot wait for this to get underway. This may be the only annual sporting event, that I enjoy more than the Stanley Cup playoffs. That said, I still love watch our Under-18 team too, who are also going be very very good this year.

Team Canada Development Camp Roster: (* - returning player from gold medal squads)

Forwards:
Josh Bailey, Jamie Benn, Zach Boychuk*, Paul Byron, Patrice Cormier, Logan Couture*, Nicolas Deschamps, Chris Didomenico, Jordan Eberle, Tyler Ennis, Colton Gillies*, Cody Hodgson, Nazem Kadri, Riley Nash, Greg Nemisz, Maxime Suave, Steven Stamkos*, Brandon Sutter*, Jon Tavares*, Chris Terry, Kelsey Tessier, Corey Trivino, Kyle Turris*, Dana Tyrell*

As strong as our forwards are, our defense is even better:
Drew Doughty*, Luke Schenn*, Thomas Hickey*, Alex Pietrangelo, Tyler Myers, Colten Teubert, PK Subban*, Tyler Cuma, Keith Aulie, Cody Goloubef, Alex Grant, Travis Harmonic, Mark Katic, Kevin Marshall, Yann Suave, Brendan Smith, Jared Spurgeon

Goaltenders are awesome too. Some people have even gone as far as to say, this could be our best goaltender battle in years:
Chet Picard, Tyson Sexsmith, Dustin Tokarski, Jake Allen

So, we could ice a lineup like:

Tavares - Turris - Eberle
Hodgson - Stamkos - Boychuk
Kadri - Sutter - Giroux
Couture - Gillies - Tyrell

Doughty - Pietrangelo
Schenn - Hickey
Myers - Subban

Tokarski
Picard

That is nasty good team... Even scarier is the fact that so many Canadians players weren't even able to go. This isn't even the best list we could put together. LOL

Prepare for a thrashing. LOL

what are you talking about again? honestly, I love me some hockey, but I've never even heard of this.

Dear lord. The World Juniors. It's an international tournament, for player under the age of 20. There is a 18-20 Squad, and an under 18 squad. They play for hockey glory. It's only the best annual sporting event, evar.

does it air on espn8 "the ocho"

Fucking rofl.

When you say 'World Juniors', does that mean that every country fields a team? Or is it like baseball's 'World Series' where there's about 2 countries?

International. Every country fields a team. It's organized by the IIHF. It happens to be in Ottawa this year, and I am going.

WHOA Sypher is a Ducks fan shocking because I am to

Ducks fan?

ducks fan as in your avatar is a Ducks player so i thought you were an Anahiem Ducks fan or mighty Ducks as i still what to call them

Pittsburgh Penguins, actually. The player in question is Sidney Crosby.

lol, I always enjoy watching the world juniors after coming back from an early boxing day outing. This time i'll be at the arena =D

LOL Canadians. luff ya rly sypher.