Wisborg World Junior Blog

 WIS players represented in WJC-20

Well, the pre tournament festivities are gone (also called X-mas) and now the real fun begin, the WJC-tournament. This year it will extra fun since Corona has made it harder than ever to see the prospects especially if for the younger ones drafted this year. Will there be undrafted players in NHL that are drafted in CCHL? Are CCHL GMs more clever than the NHL GMs?

Well, on to the parade of player sorted by team, for my reference during games. :-)

Austria -none

Canada -none

Czech republic -1 player

    Michal Teplý (F) drafted by Chicago 105 in 2019 and WIS 83/209

Finland -none

Germany -none

Russia -none

Slovakia - 1 player

    Matej Kaslik (F) undrafted in NHL and drafted by WIS 245/2020

Sweden - 6 players

    Hugo Alnefelt (G) drafted by Tampa Bay 71 in 2019 and drafted by WIS 61/2019

    Calle Clang (G) drafted by Pittsburgh 77 in 2020 and drafted by WIS 113/2020

    Gustav Berglund (D) drafted by Detroit 177 in 2019 and drafted by WIS 259/2019

    Zion Nybeck (W/C) drafted by Carolina 115 in 2020 and drafted by WIS 47/2020

    Lucas Raymond (RW) drafted by Detroit 4 in 2020 and drafted by WIS 3/2020

    Elmer Söderblom (RW/LW) drafted by Detroit 159 in 2019 and drafted by WIS 215/2019

Switzerland - 1 player

    Simon Knak (F) undrafted in NHL and by WIS 201/2020

USA -none

So all in all, there will 9 WIS players in this years tournament. Most from Sweden as expected and all from Europe. Interestingly there are 2 undrafted players from WIS, maybe this will be the window for them to show their skills for next year.