{"id":377587,"date":"2025-12-30T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:24:10","slug":"keaton-verhoeff-to-make-debut-with-team-canada-at-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377587\/","title":{"rendered":"Keaton Verhoeff to make debut with Team Canada at world juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is changing up its lineup for Monday&#8217;s game against Denmark at the world juniors. <\/p>\n<p>Keaton Verhoeff <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEllisHockey\/status\/2005731916578951257\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEllisHockey\/status\/2005731916578951257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has been registered<\/a> and added to Canada&#8217;s 25-man roster, making him eligible to play in the world juniors along with forward Carter Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Verhoeff\u00a0has been a healthy scratch for the first two games of the tournament. The 17-year-old is one of the top prospects heading into the 2026 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>The University of North Dakota defenceman has excelled this season in NCAA hockey, scoring four goals and tallying 11 points in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning their first two games at the world juniors, Canada has not found its dominant form after surviving a near-upset against Latvia and a back-and-forth battle against Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Bear has 13 goals and 27 points in 23 games this season in the WHL with the Everett Silvertips. The 19-year-old was selected 13th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Verhoeff and Bear replace defenceman Carson Carels and forward Liam Greentree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is changing up its lineup for Monday&#8217;s game against Denmark at the world juniors. Keaton Verhoeff has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377587","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=377587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}