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TORONTO — Team CHL is complete for the 2026 CHL USA Prospects Challenge, with the Canadian Hockey League announcing the final nine selections on Thursday.
The final nine are goaltender Andrei Nikolaev of the Victoriaville Tigres, defencemen Filip Kovalčík of the Drummondville Voltigeurs, Vladimir Shtyrkhunov of the Shawinigan Cataractes and Odin Vauhkonen of the Victoria Royals, and forwards Jamie Glance of the Saint John Sea Dogs, Ben Harvey of the Prince Albert Raiders, James Scantlebury of the Québec Remparts, Camryn Warren of the North Bay Battalion and Bogdan Yakushevsky of the Windsor Spitfires.
The 22-player roster is made up of 13 forwards, seven defencemen and two goaltenders from 18 CHL clubs — nine players from the OHL, eight from the QMJHL and five from the WHL. All 22 players appear on NHL Central Scouting's preliminary players to watch list for the 2027 NHL Draft, and 15 of them carry an A rating as first-round candidates.
Harvey, an Edmonton native, has 16 points in 18 games this season with Prince Albert. He joins a roster that already includes Edmonton Oil Kings forward Kayden Stroeder, with Oil Kings assistant coach Kyle Chipchura serving as one of Team CHL's assistant coaches under head coach Ryan Oulahen of North Bay.
Harvey and Warren take the number of players from Canada's 2026 Hlinka Gretzky Cup championship team on the roster to 11. That group includes Stroeder, and the five coaches from that gold-medal team are also back together for this event.
The two-game series against the U.S. National Under-18 Team opens Tuesday, December 1 at the Georges-Vézina Centre in Chicoutimi and concludes Wednesday, December 2 at the Vidéotron Centre in Québec City. Both games start at 7 p.m. ET and air on TSN and RDS. It is the third edition of the event and the first staged in Québec and in QMJHL markets.
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