Saturday, December 23, 2017
International Players Compete at WJC
Six countries will feature NCAA players or recruits at the World Junior Championship.
While the United States boasts a roster dominated by NCAA players, college hockey fans will find familiar names throughout the IIHF World Junior Championship when it gets underway Tuesday in Buffalo, N.Y.
19 NCAA Players Named to Team USA
Five other nations feature current or future NCAA players, led by Canada with three: Boston University’s Dante Fabbro, Massachusetts’ Cale Makar and Colgate’s Colton Point. That marks the most NCAA players on the Canadian team since 2007.
Elsewhere, Finland and Slovakia each feature current NCAA players, while Denmark and Sweden’s roster feature NCAA recruits.
Slovakian goaltender David Hrenak, a freshman at St. Cloud State, could face off against his college coach, as Bob Motzko is leading the American team. Those teams meet Thursday, Dec. 28. Hrenak is 5-1-0 for the Huskies with two shutouts this season, ranking second nationally with a .947 save percentage.
Boston University has players on three rosters – Canada, Finland and the U.S. – setting up several meetings of teammates in the preliminary round, including the Dec. 29 U.S. vs. Canada game that will be played outdoors at New Era Field, home of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
| NCAA Players in the World Junior Championship | |
| Canada | |
| Dante Fabbro | Boston University |
| Cale Makar | Massachusetts |
| Colton Point | Colgate |
Denmark |
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| Jacob Schmidt-Svestrup | Maine (2018) |
Finland |
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| Kasper Kotkansalo | Boston University |
| Aapeli Rasanen | Boston College |
Slovakia |
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| David Hrenak | St. Cloud State |
Sweden |
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| Filip Larsson | Denver |
United States |
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| Joey Anderson | Minnesota Duluth |
| Mikey Anderson | Minnesota Duluth |
| Kieffer Bellows | Boston University (former) |
| Adam Fox | Harvard |
| Trent Frederic | Wisconsin |
| Patrick Harper | Boston University |
| Quinn Hughes | Michigan |
| Ryan Lindgren | Minnesota |
| Will Lockwood | Michigan |
| Casey Mittelstadt | Minnesota |
| Josh Norris | Michigan |
| Jake Oettinger | Boston University |
| Andrew Peeke | Notre Dame |
| Scott Perunovich | Minnesota Duluth |
| Ryan Poehling | St. Cloud State |
| Dylan Samberg | Minnesota Duluth |
| Jeremy Swayman | Maine |
| Brady Tkachuk | Boston University |
| Riley Tufte | Minnesota Duluth |
| Joseph Woll | Boston College |