SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Summerside’s Noah Dobson has been invited back to Team Canada’s world junior development camp.
The 19-year-old defenceman is one of six players who were part of Canada’s team in Vancouver in January. Canada lost 2-1 in overtime to Finland in the quarter-final and Finland went on to win the championship by beating the United States 3-2.
Dobson has won back-to-back Memorial Cups with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan and the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and was a first-round pick of the New York Islanders at the 2018 NHL draft.
The development camp will take place July 27-Aug. 4 in Plymouth, Mich.
Of the 43 players invited to the camp, 12 are from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
That list includes four of the five goalies in Rimouski’s Colten Ellis, Rouyn-Noranda’s Zachary Emond, Halifax’s Alexis Gravel and Moncton’s Olivier Rodrigue.
Halifax’s Justin Barron is the only other rearguard from the league while the forwards include Halifax teammates Benoit-Oliver Groulx and Raphael Lavoie, Baie-Comeau’s Gabriel Fortier, Cape Breton’s Mathias Laferriere, Rimouski’s Alexis Lafreniere and Drummondville’s Joe Veleno.
The Canadians will play four games in Michigan, two against the United States and one each with Finland and Sweden.
The 2020 championship will take place in the Czech Republic.
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