Canada men's national junior ice hockey team

Is there any concern about that workload on him? Because I don't think he's played that many games in his season, Spencer, you were saying.

No, he's always kind of been a split goalie between Brampton when he played with Jack Ivankovic, who's now obviously gone on to Michigan and will probably be the starting goalie for the Canadian World Junior Team at the U-20s.

And then he went to Brantford and you would have thought that would have meant he would be the starter.

And then David Egaroff, basically, they went, you know, tit for tat most of his two years in Brantford as well.

His allegations by his ex-wife.

Formington's role in the Canadian World Junior Hockey Team scandal.

All of those decisions were at least on some level made with Connor McDavid's sign-off.

It is not just enough to say, well, Connor wants what Connor gets.

What were their perspectives that you got? And how do you think that they have seen the progression of this agreement going so far?

it was uh each each one was a very interesting conversation on its own i'll start with the ohl commissioner brian crawford a guy that really seems to value the the potential partnership in the future of the ncaa uh sees the opportunities celebrating all these kids making the steps he talked about how how good porter martone looked immediately he was very positive about the situation and understood that this is where hockey has to go if you want player development to get better One of the things he said is we've seen the Canadian World Junior Team over the last couple of years really kind of struggle a little bit.

Giving them that opportunity to continue developing and being really good You get a couple of those players coming from the NCAA pipeline for those world junior teams.

Maybe Canada's not losing to Czechia in the quarterfinals.

And I hate to say that because who am I, right? Yeah.

But I've seen in the past two World Junior Canada teams that, like Zach Pareka, I adore.

And look at all the points he put up.

But can he defend and can he use an angle right? That's what I'm trying to talk about.

And, and yeah, when you get a chance to just see his personality, he's got a lot of confidence and loves to talk and, and, you know, be involved with the community and, and obviously a very good goaltender.

Just came off the World Junior camp there as, you know, one of the four invites for Uh, for, for the World Junior Team Canada, which is pretty impressive to his level of play.

And yeah, he's gonna be a great addition to the team and, and again, a really talented young goaltender.

Yeah, and, and you, you mentioned, you know, young kids reaching out, and, and I remember when Riley Tufte, he played at UMD, and he had Type 1 diabetes.

And now he's been the president of the Vegas Golden Knights.

And he just said flat out, because they have Carter Hart, who was also caught up in that 2018 Canada World Junior situation.

And he said, if we're not giving these kids second chances, then what are we doing? The Blues have been an organization that gives second chances.

And I love that about the St. Louis Blues.

Brayden Coutts and Caleb Malhotra both did not register a point in the two games that they played, but I don't really care about that.

Like, we saw Brayden Coutts wearing the C for one of the games, then he was wearing a letter, so he's gonna be an important piece on this Team Canada World Junior roster come December.

Um, and then Caleb Malhotra, I mean, as a, as a 17-year-old, he might have turned 18 by now, but, um, just a first-year drafted player.

Um, I think it's a pretty big nod that he, you know, he was on the team.

FLIR Ultra, PWHL's out now.

Team Canada Junior's out now.

Upper Deck Premier is out now.

I want to read through some of these specifics here on Upper Deck Premier.

And got the giveaway stuff for National Hockey Card Day.

And then there was another item free with a purchase.

Bought a blaster of 2024 Team Canada Juniors that they had there.

Actually pulled a Gavin McKenna parallel that's off at CGC for grading right now.