The ten team tournament is held annually and features some of the brightest young stars from around the world competing on behalf of their home countries.
Two groups, will each have five teams that will play a round of games to determine the top four teams that move into the quarterfinals. From there, the competition eventually produces a winner from each group, who will then meet for the Championship in the Gold Medal game on January 5th, 2018.
The two groups are:
GROUP A:
United States, Canada, Denmark, Slovakia, Finland...
GROUP B:
Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belarus, Switzerland...
Various "selection camps" will be held over the next few weeks to determine the team's final rosters.
Dayton has a total of thirteen draftees on four of the ten teams. They are...
UNITED STATES:
Joseph Woll - Goaltender - Boston College - NCAA
Jack Badini - Forward - Harvard University - NCAA
Max Jones - Forward - London Knights - OHL
CANADA:
Drake Batherson - F - Cape Breton - QMJHL
Jonah Gadjovoch - F - Owen Sound - OHL
Mike McLeod - F - Mississauga - OHL
Taylor Raddysh - F - Erie - OHL
Dennis Cholowski - D - Prince George - WHL
Dante Fabbro - D - Boston University - NCAA
Cale Makar - D - UMASS - NCAA
FINLAND:
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonnen - G - LeKi - Mestis
Aleksi Heponiemi - F - Swift Current - WHL
SWEDEN:
Jens Looke - F - Tuscon - AHL
The United States is the defending champion and will have a rough path to defend its title. Canada will have an extremely talented team again this year and Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic teams will also bring a lot of skill and talent to the tournament over the Holidays.
Look for updates in this space as the games begin...
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