{"id":786470,"date":"2026-07-07T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:08:10","slug":"two-calgary-flames-predicted-to-represent-team-canada-at-the-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786470\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Calgary Flames Predicted to Represent Team Canada at the World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">It&#8217;s still only summer, with the 2026\/27 hockey season still months away, but when things get going, the massive games and big time tournaments will get started rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">Perhaps the most important for the future of the <a href=\"https:\/\/flameforthought.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> will be the 2027 World Juniors, hosted by Edmonton and Red Deer, and with a growing prospect pool, there will be a strong presence for Flames at the tournament. With arguably the greatest prospect pool in franchise history, the Flames should have at least six players featuring in the tournament, making it a must-see tournament for Flames fans.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">It&#8217;s going to be a few months until we see teams for the event, but for Team Canada, there should be a heavy presence of Flames prospects, with Cole Reschny (1C) and Carson Carels (1LD) predicted to feature for Canada at the event by WJCRankings.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first of my early lineup projections for the 2027 World Juniors\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>The hosts should be well-equipped to win their first gold medal since 2023.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/WorldJuniors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#WorldJuniors<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JFS3Y2etIT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JFS3Y2etIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WJCrankings (@WJCrankings) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJCrankings\/status\/2074238456197230824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">Last year, it was Reschny, Zayne Parekh and (at that time future Flame) Carson Carels representing Canada, and while there will be many more Flames featuring at the tournament, two playing for Canada would give Flames fans something more to look for at the event. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Obviously, this is no official account with insider information, but given how important this tournament can be to the development of a player, to see several player represent Canada with many others expected to feature for other countries would show just how far this prospect group has come under GM Craig Conroy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow flameforthought.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=flameforthought.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still only summer, with the 2026\/27 hockey season still months away, but when things get going, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-786470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786470","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=786470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}