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The 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship is set to run from December 26th through January 5th and the Habs will be very well represented with six prospects named to the original rosters plus a seventh joining mid-tournament.  As usual, we’ll keep track of their stats here.

Owen Beck (Canada)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Jan. 2 Slovakia 0 0 0 E 1 1:41
Jan. 4 USA 0 1 0 +1 0 8:42
Jan. 5 Czechia 0 0 0 -1 0 2:46
Totals 0 1 0 E 1 13:09

Beck was added to Canada’s roster on January 1st, taking the place of Colton Dach who was injured in the preliminary round.

Adam Engstrom (Sweden)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 26 Austria 0 2 0 +4 2 15:37
Dec. 27 Germany 1 0 0 +1 1 17:08
Dec. 29 Czechia 0 0 0 +1 1 18:35
Dec. 31 Canada 0 0 0 E 2 17:52
Jan. 2 Finland 0 0 0 E 1 20:32
Jan. 4 Czechia 0 0 2 E 2 19:01
Jan. 5 USA 0 0 0 E 2 20:49
Totals 1 2 2 +6 11 129:34

Lane Hutson (USA)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 26 Latvia 0 0 0 E 0 14:07
Dec. 28 Slovakia 0 1 2 -2 0 14:35
Dec. 29 Switzerland 0 0 0 E 1 17:43
Dec. 31 Finland 1 0 0 +3 3 15:24
Jan. 2 Germany 0 1 0 +1 3 16:08
Jan. 4 Canada 0 0 0 -1 0 16:31
Jan. 5 Sweden 0 1 0 E 2 16:01
Totals 1 3 2 +1 9 95:54

Oliver Kapanen (Finland)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 26 Switzerland 0 0 0 -1 1 14:02
Dec. 27 Slovakia 1 1 0 +2 3 16:25
Dec. 29 Latvia 0 0 0 E 2 19:40
Dec. 31 USA 0 0 0 -1 3 18:19
Jan. 2 Sweden 1 0 0 -1 4 19:32
Totals 2 1 0 -1 13 88:38

Filip Mesar (Slovakia)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 27 Finland 0 0 0 -1 2 20:12
Dec. 28 USA 1 0 0 +1 5 20:49
Dec. 30 Latvia 1 1 2 +2 1 19:56
Dec. 31 Switzerland 0 2 0 +2 3 19:15
Jan. 2 Canada 0 1 0 E 2 19:37
Totals 2 4 2 +4 13 99:49

Vincenz Rohrer (Austria)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 26 Sweden DNP – illness
Dec. 27 Czechia 0 0 0 E 1 19:55
Dec. 29 Canada 0 0 0 -3 0 19:20
Dec. 30 Germany 0 1 0 -2 0 27:26
Jan. 2 Latvia 1 0 0 +1 1 23:31
Jan. 4 Latvia 0 1 0 +1 8 27:16
Totals 1 2 0 +3 10 117:28

Joshua Roy (Canada)

Date Opponent G A PIMS +/- SOG TOI
Dec. 26 Czechia 0 0 0 E 3 13:13
Dec. 28 Germany 1 1 0 +2 3 13:20
Dec. 29 Austria 1 2 0 +5 2 15:55
Dec. 31 Sweden 1 0 0 +3 4 19:35
Jan. 2 Slovakia 0 0 0 E 3 20:24
Jan. 4 USA 2 2 0 +3 2 14:26
Jan. 5 Czechia 0 1 0 +1 3 19:07
Totals 5 6 0 +14 20 125:57

Over the years, many of the Habs and their prospects have played in this tournament.  Here is a look at how each of those players performed.  Points from the original attempt to play the 2022 tournament are not included here.

Goalies

Player Year(s) Country Record GAA SV% SO
Carey Price 2007 Canada 6-0-0 1.14 .961 2
Cayden Primeau 2019 USA 4-1-0 1.61 .937 0
Jake Allen 2010 Canada 4-0-0 2.06 .902 2

Samuel Montembeault was named to Canada’s entry for the 2016 tournament but didn’t play.

Defence

Player Year(s) Country GP G A PTS PIMS
Madison Bowey 2015 Canada 7 1 3 4 2
Kaiden Guhle 2021 Canada 7 2 1 3 4
Justin Barron 2021 Canada 7 0 2 2 0
Jordan Harris 2020 USA 5 1 0 1 2
Petteri Nurmi 2022 Finland 2 0 0 0 2
Mattias Norlinder 2020 Sweden 7 0 0 0 4

Forwards

Player Year(s) Country GP G A PTS PIMS
Joel Armia 2011-2013 Finland 19 11 9 20 30
Jonathan Drouin 2013/14 Canada 13 5 8 13 24
Jan Mysak 2020-2022 Czechia 17 7 6 13 2
Christian Dvorak 2016 USA 7 3 5 8 0
Joshua Roy 2022 Canada 7 3 5 8 2
Mitchell Stephens 2015/16 Canada 10 3 4 7 2
Cole Caufield 2020/21 USA 12 3 4 7 2
Evgenii Dadonov 2008/09 Russia 14 2 5 7 6
Brendan Gallagher 2012 Canada 6 3 3 6 12
Jesse Ylonen 2019 Finland 7 3 3 6 0
Nick Suzuki 2019 Canada 5 0 3 3 2
Oliver Kapanen 2022 Finland 7 1 1 2 0
Emil Heineman 2021 Sweden 5 1 0 1 4
Josh Anderson 2014 Canada 7 1 0 1 0
Riley Kidney 2022 Canada 3 0 0 0 0
Juraj Slafkovsky 2021 Slovakia 5 0 0 0 2