{"id":376381,"date":"2025-12-30T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376381\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:45:16","slug":"canadas-verhoeff-bear-to-make-world-junior-debuts-vs-denmark-carels-greentree-will-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376381\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Verhoeff, Bear to make World Junior debuts vs. Denmark; Carels, Greentree will sit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Defenceman Keaton Verhoeff and forward Carter Bear will make their World Junior debuts tonight for Canada as they enter the lineup for the first time at this year\u2019s tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both players were registered this morning as forward Liam Greentree and defenceman Carson Carels will sit tonight. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Projected \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 lineup tonight<\/p>\n<p>Iginla &#8211; Misa &#8211; Martone<br \/>McKenna &#8211; Hage &#8211; Martin<br \/>Desnoyers &#8211; Beaudoin &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly<br \/>Luchanko &#8211; Reschny &#8211; Cootes<br \/>Bear<\/p>\n<p>Reid &#8211; Parekh<br \/>MacKenzie &#8211; Brunicke<br \/>Aitcheson &#8211; Danford<br \/>Verhoeff<\/p>\n<p>George starts \ud83c\udd9a\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0<br \/>Ivankovic<\/p>\n<p>Scratches: Greentree, Carels, Ravensbergen<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Masters (@markhmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markhmasters\/status\/2005793365896593739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bear, 19, has 13 goals and 27 points in 23 games this season with the WHL\u2019s Everett Silvertips. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 13th overall pick by the Detroit Red Wings in June\u2019s draft, this will be Bear\u2019s first time playing for Canada in a major international tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Verhoeff, who will start the game as Canada\u2019s seventh defenceman, has four goals and 11 points in 16 games as a freshman this season with the University of North Dakota. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 17-year-old has previously won U17 and U18 titles for Canada and captained his country to bronze at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Per TSN\u2019s Mark Masters, Carter George will be in net for Canada as he makes his second start of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He started the opening game against Czechia on Boxing Day, allowing five goals in a 7-5 win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada is 2-0 to start the 2026 World Juniors and wrap up round robin play on New Year\u2019s Eve against Finland. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenceman Keaton Verhoeff and forward Carter Bear will make their World Junior debuts tonight for Canada as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,132644,44,146516],"class_list":["post-376381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hockey-canada-sports-hockey-hockey-canada","tag-news","tag-world-juniors-sports-hockey-world-juniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}