CALGARY, Alta. — The Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), in partnership with the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) and Hockey Canada, today announced the Team AJHL roster for the 2019 Junior Club World Cup in Sochi, Russia.
The AJHL roster is composed of 22 returning AJHL players, which will complete in an eight-team international tournament August 23-31, 2019.
Players and team staff members will travel to Moscow for a pre-tournament camp from August 16-22 prior to the event.
Goaltenders | YOB | AJHL Team |
Griffin Bowerman | 2000 | Camrose Kodiaks |
Matthew Davis | 2001 | Spruce Grove Saints |
Carter Gylander | 2001 | Sherwood Park Crusaders |
Defence | ||
Michael Benning | 2002 | Sherwood Park Crusaders |
Lane Brockhoff | 2000 | Camrose Kodiaks |
Ryan Conroy | 2001 | Fort McMurray Oil Barons |
Jeremy Gervais | 1999 | Bonnyville Pontiacs |
Robert Kincaid | 2002 | Camrose Kodiaks |
Josh Kroon | 2000 | Bonnyville Pontiacs |
Eric Parker | 2001 | Okotoks Oilers |
Forwards | ||
Marc-Antoine Benoit | 1999 | Bonnyville Pontiacs |
Jordan Biro | 2000 | Spruce Grove Saints |
Daine Dubois | 1999 | Bonnyville Pontiacs |
Kaleb Ergang | 2000 | Whitecourt Wolverines |
Max Giangualano | 2000 | Canmore Eagles |
Zane Kindrachuk | 2000 | Okotoks Oilers |
Cam Mitchell | 2001 | Spruce Grove Saints |
Brady Risk | 1999 | Drumheller Dragons |
Carter Savoie | 2002 | Sherwood Park Crusaders |
Roc Truman | 2001 | Drumheller Dragons |
Alex Young | 2001 | Canmore Eagles |
William Zapernick | 1999 | Sherwood Park Crusaders |
HC |
Boris Rybalka |
Camrose Kodiaks | |
HC |
Rick Swan |
Bonnyville Pontiacs | |
AT |
Josh Armstrong |
Sherwood Park Crusaders | |
AT |
Megan Hansen |
Canmore Eagles |
AJHL Commissioner Ryan Bartoshyk recognizes the unique advantage the Junior Club World Cup will provide Team AJHL, “International competition and travel will afford experiences and benefits to our athletes that are impossible to duplicate. We are thrilled to offer our athletes this opportunity and know the influence it can have on their futures.”
Teams from Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and USA will dispute the 2019 trophy. North America will delegate two teams to the tournament for the first time since 2014. The only Canadian team to win the tournament in its nine-year history is the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2013.