{"id":660133,"date":"2026-05-10T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:11:21","slug":"blog-bouchard-nurse-named-to-canadas-roster-for-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660133\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG: Bouchard, Nurse named to Canada&#8217;s roster for Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Oilers defencemen Evan Bouchard and Darnell Nurse have been named to Canada&#8217;s roster for the 2026 IIHF World Championship, set to be hosted later this month from May 15-31 in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Set to make his first Worlds appearance,\u00a0Bouchard is coming off a terrific 95-point season of 21 goals and 74 assists in all 82 games, leading all NHL blueliners\u00a0in scoring by a 14-point margin over Columbus&#8217; Zach Werenski.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third-biggest difference in D scoring in the salary cap era behind Erik Karlsson (2012 and 2023), who\u00a0won the James Norris Trophy in both years, but Bouchard wasn&#8217;t named one of the three finalists this year for the League&#8217;s top defenceman award.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard last represented Canada at the 2019 World Juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Oilers defencemen Evan Bouchard and Darnell Nurse have been named to Canada&#8217;s roster for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-660133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660133","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=660133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}