The CHL and NHL Central Scouting have announced the rosters for the 2019 Sherwin-Williams CHL/NHL Top Prospects game which will take place in Red Deer on Wednesday, January 23rd. 40 players have been selected from all three of the CHL’s leagues. Out of those 40 players, one Blades player has been selected to play for Team Orr in the game and that would be centre Kirby Dach. The Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta native has 16 goals and 30 assists in 39 games played so far this season. Dach won’t be the only player on Team Orr from a Saskatchewan WHL franchise, Prince Albert Raider Brett Leason has also been selected to play for Team Orr which will be coached by Hockey Night in Canada analyst and former NHL goaltender Kelly Hrudey, Robyn Regehr and Marc Habscheid. Team Orr’s opposing team for the 23rd of January will be Team Cherry coached by Ron MacLean of Hockey Night in Canada, Dave Hunter and Brent Sutter. The 40 players were selected by NHL clubs to compete in the annual showcase of draft eligible players. This will be the 24th year the showcase has run. Below are the rosters of the two teams.
Team Cherry:
Goaltenders:
Taylor Gauthier (Prince George Cougars)
Mads Sogaard (Medicine Hat Tigers)
Defencemen:
Samuel Bolduc (Blainville-Boisbriand Armada)
Bowen Byram (Vancouver Giants)
Billy Constantinou (Kingston Frontenacs)
Thomas Harley (Mississauga Steelheads)
Matthew Robertson (Edmonton Oil Kings)
Michael Vukojevic (Kitchener Rangers)
Forwards:
Maxim Cajkovic (Saint John Sea Dogs)
Dylan Cozens (Lethbridge Hurricanes)
Nolan Foote (Kelowna Rockets)
Arthur Kaliyev (Hamilton Bulldogs)
Peyton Krebs (Kootenay ICE)
Raphaël Lavoie (Halifax Mooseheads)
Nathan Légaré (Baie-Comeau Drakkar)
Valentin Nussbaumer (Shawinigan Cataractes)
Samuel Poulin (Sherbrooke Phoenix)
Jamieson Rees (Sarnia Sting)
Nick Robertson (Peterborough Petes)
Oleg Zaytsev (Red Deer Rebels)
Team Orr:
Goaltenders:
Colten Ellis (Rimouski Océanic)
Hunter Jones (Peterborough Petes)
Defencemen:
Artemi Kniazev (Chicoutimi Saguenéens)
Vladislav Kolyachonok (Flint Firebirds)
Kaedan Korczak (Kelowna Rockets)
Jake Lee (Seattle Thunderbirds)
Nikita Okhotyuk (Ottawa 67’s)
Lassi Thomson (Kelowna Rockets)
Forwards:
Nikita Alexandrov (Charlottetown Islanders)
Joe Carroll (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds)
Graeme Clarke (Ottawa 67’s)
Kirby Dach (Saskatoon Blades)
Matvey Guskov (London Knights)
Brett Leason (Prince Albert Raiders)
Connor McMichael (London Knights)
Sasha Mutala (Tri-City Americans)
Jakob Pelletier (Moncton Wildcats)
Ryan Suzuki (Barrie Colts)
Philip Tomasino (Niagara IceDogs)
Josh Williams (Medicine Hat Tigers)
