The United States, Canada and Russia — and the teams’ respective Kings prospects — are back in action today in pool-play games in the World Junior Championships. Brayden Schenn and Canada take on the Czech Republic at 1 p.m. Pacific time, followed by Maxim Kitsyn and Russia against Sweden at 4 p.m. and Derek Forbort and the United States against Slovakia at 5 p.m. Canada is coming off Sunday’s 6-3 victory over Russia — Schenn had one goal and one assist while Kitsyn had a goal — while the United States is coming off a 3-2 overtime win over Finland.
The current members of the Kings who once played in the top level of the World Juniors are Jonathan Bernier (Canada), Dustin Brown (USA), Drew Doughty (Canada), Matt Greene (USA), Michal Handzus (Slovakia), Jack Johnson (USA), Trevor Lewis (USA), Wayne Simmonds (Canada), Ryan Smyth (Canada), Jarret Stoll (Canada) and Marco Sturm (Germany).
There’s also alot of Prospects that have competed too.
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Really almost all top players in the nhl have played this tourny its just like most canadian born players go through juniors and most US born players go through college hockey to get to the pros its like a right of passage.
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Dominick Reply:
December 28th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
@kevin, Agreed, but in Canada, and the U.S. less than 1% of hockey players make it too the worlds. The percentage is higher for some other countries, but not by much.
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Here are the team rosters if you are so inclined…
United States: http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/236/IHM2360USA_33_1_0.pdf
Canada: http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/236/IHM2360CAN_33_1_0.pdf
Russia: http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/236/IHM2360RUS_33_1_0.pdf
IIHF website: http://www.iihf.com/
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What number is Forbert and was he a scratch on Sunday?
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kingeleven Reply:
December 28th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
@jayhay, no, he played, I belive his number is 7
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USHA#17 Reply:
December 28th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@kingeleven,
He played well.
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I assume no TV…
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mash-ola Reply:
December 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
@PRMan, NHL Network…
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1 goal and 4 assists for Schenn today!!!!
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RLane420 Reply:
December 28th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
@tantrum4, Insane! I cant wait for this kid to be NHL ready.
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