Blues at the WJC

We would first like to start this off with our biggest congratulations to Dominik Bokk for leading the WJC DIV 1 in scoring and helping his Germany squad make their way into the World Junior Tournament in the 2020 season, we had a feeling he would dominate this tournament and that is exactly what he did.

A look at a few Blues prospects on their way to the tourney, or at least on the bubble to make a Countries squad.

Forwards
Matej Pekar - 18 Yrs Old - Barrie Colts

Will be in the shadows of Kaut, Zadina, Necas, Lauko, Safin up front and will most likely start quite deep on the Czech depth chart.  It will be a solid experience for him as an 18 year old as he will be one of the best returning players going into next season.  With Skarek in net and the firepower the Czechs have up front, if their D can play average they will be in one of the Medal games for sure if no the Gold medal game.

Aleksi Heponiemi - 19 Yrs Old - Karpat

Had a medicore 2 pts in his 5 WJC games last year as a depth player.  He will be coming into this tournamet being leaned heavy on to distribute to the likes of Tolvanen just leaned by Nashville, Vesalainen and Kupari.  It would not shock me to see him lead this tourney is assists and maybe even points.  If the Bruins decide if they are letting Vaakanainen go to the tourney this Finland team has a very good chance at a Gold Medal they are dangerous all over the ice.

Defence

Jared McIsaac - 18 Yrs Old - Halifax

Solid puck moving defencman that I fully expect to be Canada's 6th or 7th guy on the back end.  Will get his feet wet on the 2nd PP unit quite possibly and will be a great learning experience for his going in to next year.  Canada is a deep team but do they have enough scoring to compete with some heavy weights this year?

Dmitri Samourokov - 19 Yrs Old - Guelph

Great mix of size, speed, physicality and puck movement.  If you want to mix it up keep you head up, if you want to play the puck possesion game he is just as good doing that.  A very underrated OHL D man in my opinion. They currently have him slotted in to play alongside Alexander Alexeyev as their potential shutdown pair.  Russia this year is on the fringe of medal contention but I just do not think they have the hordes.

Very Bold Predictions

Gold - FInland

Silver - Czech Republic

Bronze - Canada

4th - USA

5th - Russia

6th - Sweden

7th- Slovakia

8th- Swiss

9th- Denmark

10th- Kazakhstan