SO MANY OPTIONS SO LITTLE SPACE

Canada’s talent pool runneth over, so after last year’s disaster, the 2025 roster construction will be about finding the right mix to get back on top

BY RYAN KENNEDY

THN’S ODDS FOR GOLD | 3-1 SURE, CANADA PLAYS ON home ice a lot at the world juniors – basically every two years at this point – but winning gold in front of a Canadian crowd is still a major motivator. Once again, Canada will have a lot of hard decisions to make, but in particular, this group could be younger than usual if the brain trust wants it to be. Gavin McKenna, Porter Martone, Michael Misa and Malcolm Spence are among those yet to be drafted who could make this team on merit. McKenna has been the top scorer in the WHL, while Misa and Martone were 1-2 in the OHL. Spence is top 30 in the OHL, but he’s also a great penalty-killer. Having said that, Team Canada tends to go…

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