Canada Announces 2025 World Juniors Roster Featuring Gavin McKenna – FloHockey

Canada has its roster for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. Four returning players will be looking to improve on a disappointing quarterfinal finish from last year’s event as they take to home ice in Sweden. They’ll get some help from a trio of highly-regarded prospects yet to be drafted including No. 1 candidates in 2025, Matthew Schaefer and Porter Martone, and the consensus No. 1 pick for 2026, Gavin McKenna.

Canada will enter the tournament as one of the favorites, having the benefit of home ice and a roster chock full of future NHL standouts. It is one of the hardest teams to make every year, and as usual, there were several notable cuts.

Canada’s Final Roster For The 2025 World Junior Championship

Forwards

• Cole Beaudoin (UTA)
• Mathieu Cataford (VGK)
• Berkly Catton (SEA)
• Easton Cowan (TOR)
• Ethan Gauthier (TBL)
• Tanner Howe (PIT)
• Jett Luchanko (PHI)
• Porter Martone (2025)
• Gavin McKenna (2026)
• Bradly Nadeau (CAR)
• Luca Pinelli (CBJ)
• Carson Rehkopf (SEA)
• Calum Ritchie (COL)
• Brayden Yager (PIT)

Defensemen

• Beau Akey (EDM)
• Oliver Bonk (PHI)
• Sam Dickinson (SJS)
• Andrew Gibson (NSH)
• Tanner Molendyk (NSH)
• Sawyer Mynio (VAN)
• Caden Price (SEA)
• Matthew Schaefer (2025)

Goaltenders

• Carson Bjarnason (PHI)
• Carter George (LAK)
• Jack Ivankovic (2025)

Players Cut From Team Canada Selection Camp

• F, Denver Barkey (PHI)
• F, Andrew Cristall (WSH)
• F, Riley Heidt (MIN)
• F, Beckett Sennecke (ANA)
• F, Matthew Wood (NSH)
• D, Cameron Allen (WSH)
• D, Zayne Parekh (CGY)
• G, Scott Ratzlaff (BUF)

Canada Schedule For The 2025 World Juniors

• Dec. 26: Canada vs. Finland, 7:30 p.m. ET
• Dec. 27: Canada vs. Latvia, 7:30 p.m. ET
• Dec. 29: Canada vs. Germany, 7:30 p.m. ET
• Dec. 31: Canada vs. USA, 8 p.m. ET
• Jan. 2: Quarterfinals, TBD
• Jan. 4: Semifinals, TBD
• Jan. 5: Gold-Medal Game, 7:30 p.m. ET

How To Watch The World Junior Championship 2025

TSN will carry the World Junior Championship English broadcasts in Canada. RDS is the French-language television network for the World Juniors in Canada. TSN+ is set to stream all games from the event in Canada.

In the United States, NHL Network is slated to carry all Team USA games and many others during the tournament.

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