The Washington Capitals will be well represented at the 2026 World Junior Championship, as two more of the team\u2019s prospects were announced to be joining their nation\u2019s rosters.<\/p>\n
Milton Gastrin, the team\u2019s second-round pick in the 2o25 NHL Draft, was named to Sweden\u2019s roster for the tournament earlier this month. Gastrin, 18, signed his three-year, entry-level contract with the Capitals this past July<\/a> and is playing the 2025-26 season in the second tier of Swedish pro hockey, the HockeyAllsvenskan, with MoDo Hockey.<\/p>\n In 25 games for Modo, Gastrin has recorded 17 points (8g, 9a). He is the league\u2019s highest-scoring under-19 forward. The Ornskoldsvik, Sweden native was the captain of Team Sweden at last year\u2019s Under-18 World Junior Championship, notching 10 points (3g, 7a) in seven games en route to a silver medal.<\/p>\n Leon Muggli, one of the Capitals\u2019 second-round picks from the 2024 NHL Draft, was named to Switzerland\u2019s roster for the tournament. Muggli, 19, played two games for the AHL\u2019s Hershey Bears this season, recording one assist, before suffering an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n The Capitals\u00a0signed Muggli to a three-year, entry-level contract<\/a> after he attended his first development camp in 2024. Muggli will be participating in his third World Junior Championship for Switzerland, having served as an alternate captain at the 2025 tournament. In nine total World Juniors games, he has recorded four assists.<\/p>\n Hershey announced that the young defenseman had been re-assigned to his national team on Monday afternoon. Muggli has been a healthy scratch for the past two Bears games after missing almost the entirety of the fall schedule with his injury.<\/p>\n Gastrin and Muggli will join fellow Capitals prospects Cole Hutson (USA), Nick Kempf (USA)<\/a>, Petr Sikora (Czechia), and Maxim Schafer (Germany)<\/a> at the tournament in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n The first game is set for December 26, and the gold medal game is scheduled for January 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will be well represented at the 2026 World Junior Championship, as two more of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}