{"id":619498,"date":"2026-04-21T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:00:07","slug":"hockey-canada-announces-25-player-roster-for-u18-mens-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619498\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Canada announces 25-player roster for U18 men\u2019s worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hockey Canada has announced the 25-player roster that will represent Canada at the 2026 IIHF U18 men\u2019s world championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The tournament kicks off on Wednesday in Trencin and Bratislava, Slovakia and runs until May 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\">Watch Canada play their opening game of the tournament Wednesday against Slovakia at Noon ET\/9am PT on TSN4. Team USA will face Czechia in the opening game at 10am ET\/7am PT on TSN1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada is the two-time reigning champion and they return three players from last year\u2019s roster in defencemen Keaton Verhoeff and Ryan Lin as well as forward Alessandro Di Iorio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The roster consists of goaltenders, eight defencemen and 14 forwards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Full roster below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goaltenders: Gavin Betts, Patrick Deniger, Carter Esler<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Defencemen: Cameron Chartrand, Carter Hicks, Ryan Lin, Kohyn Eshkawkogan, Callum Croskery, Keaton Verhoeff, Ben MacBeath, Lucas Ambrosio<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forwards: Zach Olsen, Thomas Rousseau, Tynan Lawrence, Ryder Cali, Alexis Joseph, Mathis Preston, Alessandro Di Iorio, Jaxon Jacobson, Adam Valentini, Beckett Hamilton, Jean-Cristoph Lemieux, Thomas Vandenberg, Dima Zhilkin, Maddox Dagenais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockey Canada has announced the 25-player roster that will represent Canada at the 2026 IIHF U18 men\u2019s world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,132644,82],"class_list":["post-619498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hockey-canada-sports-hockey-hockey-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619498","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=619498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}