Hockey Canada names selection camp roster for 2017 world junior championship
TORONTO — Hockey Canada’s Scott Salmond feels there will be no shortage of motivation for the Canadian players at the 2017 world junior hockey championship.
Canada didn’t make it past the quarter-finals at the 2016 tournament in Helsinki, falling to eventual champion Finland. Salmond says that disappointing loss has players feeling like they have something to prove at the Dec. 26-Jan. 5 event in Montreal and Toronto.
“I think there was a level of embarrassment to the result last year,” Salmond said Tuesday after the team’s camp roster was announced. “I don’t necessarily think to the performance, but to the result. I think there’s some guys like Dylan Strome, who is very focused on coming back, making an impression and trying to redeem what happened last year.
“I think playing at home lends to that too.”