Canada will have rarely been represented as well at the World Hockey championship.
Posted at 6:03 p.m.
The leaders of Hockey Canada announced on Thursday the addition of attackers Nathan Mackinnon, Phillip Danault and Brayden Schenn as well as guards Jordan Binnington and Marc-André Fleury to the training.
Earlier this week, defenders Mike Matheson and Jared Spurgeon were also added to the team.
These seven players, who were eliminated in the first round of the NHL qualifying series, are added to a training that was already counting on attackers Sidney Crosby, Macklin Celebrini, Travis Konecny, Bo Horvat, Adam Fantilli, Ryan O’Reilly, Kent Johnson, Will Cuylle and Tyson Foerster.
In defensive, Matheson and Spurgeon will join Travis Sanheim, Mackenzie Weegar, Brandon Montour and Noah Dobson.
Crosby, Mackinnon, Konecny, Sanheim and Binnington won the confrontation of the 4 nations last February, thanks to a 3-2 victory against the United States.
The tournament will start on Friday with four confrontations, but Canada will not play before Saturday, against Slovenia.
Canada is part of group A with Slovakia, Austria, Finland, France, Latvia, Slovenia and Sweden.
