The 10 team tournament will take place December 26-Jan. 5 in Ottawa, ON. Four CSSHL alumni will represent Team Canada at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championships.

The four CSSHL alumni selected to represent Team Canada are:

• Carson Bjarnason – Brandon Wheat Kings/WHL (RHA Winnipeg)
• Gavin McKenna – Medicine Hat Tigers/WHL (RHA Kelowna/South Alberta Hockey Academy)
• Tanner Molendyk – Saskatoon Blades/WHL (Yale Hockey Academy)
• Sawyer Mynio – Seattle Thunderbirds/WHL (Yale Hockey Academy)

A first round pick by the Nashville Predators at the 2023 NHL Draft, Molendyk is one of five returning players who represented Canada at the 2024 World Juniors. Bjarnason will represent Team Canada for the third time. The 2023 2nd round NHL Pick by the Philadelphia Flyers won gold at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and Bronze at the 2023 U18 World Championships.

McKenna, who is expected to be the first overall pick at the 2026 NHL Draft, has won gold for Canada at the 2024 IIHF U18 World Championships and the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup. This will be the first time Mynio, a Vancouver Canucks 2023 third round pick, represents Team Canada on the international stage.

The 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship begins on Boxing Day with Canada kicking off its tournament schedule against Finland, while the United States will play Germany. The two teams will meet on Dec. 31 to wrap up preliminary-round action. The knock-out round will begin with the quarter-finals on January 2.

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Komzak joined the Warriors for the 2017/18 麻豆传媒入口 (CSSHL) U16 Prep season. In 33 games the North Vancouver, BC defenseman recorded 4 goals and 7 assists.

In 2021/22 Komzak joined the Whitecourt Wolverines of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). He would finish that season with 2 goals and 6 assists in 58 games.

2022/23 was a breakout season for Komzak as he finished fifth amongst all AJHL defensemen with 52 points in 60 games. His 12 goals were a Wolverines team high among defensemen, while his 52 points were third amongst all Wolverines skaters.

Located in Grand Forks, ND, the University of North Dakota is an NCAA Division I program competing in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC).

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The Whitefish, MT defenseman spent the 2017/18 season with the Edge School U16 Prep team, finishing second among all 麻豆传媒入口 (CSSHL) defensemen with 43 points in 23 games.

Sanderson would spend the next two seasons with the US National U17 and U18 teams, captaining both teams each year. Following the conclusion of the 2019/20 season, the Ottawa Senators would draft Sanderson in the first round, fifth overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.

In 2020/21 he joined NCAA Division I program University of North Dakota, and was named to the NCAA (NCHC) All-Rookie Team, and NCAA (NCHC) All-Tournament Team while winning an NCAA (NCHC) Championship and NCAA (NCHC) Regular Season Championship (Penrose Cup). This season Sanderson recorded 26 points in 23 NCAA games.

Sanderson has represented Team USA on four different occasions, having previously done so at the 2019 U17 Tournament, 2021 and 2022 World Juniors, and most recently at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Sanderson won gold in 2021 and was captain of the 2022 World Juniors team before the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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